2D Mask that does nothing but hide content

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:bust_in_silhouette: Asked By Nathan R.

Is there a way to make a mask, perhaps as a child of a 2d image/sprite, that does nothing but hide portions of it? either through making an entire node used as a shader, or using a singular node.
I tried the SpriteMask.zip here and it is not what I’m looking for. I also tried finding tutorials on this subject but came up blank.
The SpriteMask.zip’s shader applies a global shape to an image, while I just want to manipulate images/sprites while under a mask.
I tried demonstrating it with basic polygons and shapes:
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The image isnt being hidden, more like the pixels of the viewport or the parent, the red being the mask, hiding the orange bar.

I feel like this would be incredibly useful in the long term, so if there is a way to do this, that’d be wonderful.

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:bust_in_silhouette: Reply From: Gluon

I dont know if there is a mask to hide part of a node but I can suggest another alternative. You could create a scene of the polygon shape made up of several different polygons. Then you can control it but turning the visibility of the specific parts of the polygon shape off.

If i wanted to be non-flexible with how the mask is represented, that is definitely an alternative. I’m thinking more along the lines of how a control’s rect size + clip content can be used to obscure it’s content when outside the bounds. Though, obviously, instead of a control it is a polygon/image that can be changed to the user’s will, as a square won’t help much in the grand scheme of things.
Perhaps a polygon container of sorts?
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Nathan R. | 2021-11-28 21:54