[zer04c]

Hi ,

been trying to put some animation effects over poster artwork, and want to limited what animation is shown by making a matte/alpha outside of that artwork so you only see what moves over the actual artwork.

Code:

                                <control type="image">
                                    <left>750</left>
                                    <top>0</top>
                                    <width>538</width>
                                    <height>772</height>
                                    <texture>special://skin/extras/backgrounds/Dark/animated_poster.png</texture>
                                    <animation effect="slide" start="-2000,0" time="7000" loop="true" condition="True">Conditional</animation>    
                                </control>

This ^ works for the animation over the artwork.
I was trying to add the matte by using the diffuse command like this :

Code:

                                <control type="image">
                                    <left>750</left>
                                    <top>0</top>
                                    <width>538</width>
                                    <height>772</height>
                                    <texture diffuse="special://skin/extras/backgrounds/Dark/shine_filter.png">special://skin/extras/backgrounds/Dark/animated_poster.png</texture>
                                    <aspectratio align="center" scalediffuse="false">scale</aspectratio>
                                    <animation effect="slide" start="-2000,0" time="7000" loop="true" condition="True">Conditional</animation>    
                                </control>

but the matte is stuck to the image i'm animating , is there any way of moving the image but locking the matte , so the image is only shown at certain points of its' animation ?


thanks for any help

[Hitcher]

Not possible unfortunately.

[zer04c]

Ok thanks,
Is there a way to limit the area of the screen that a texture is drawn ? Sort of a bounding box type thing ? I could get something working with that. Long shot probably

[jurialmunkey]

Not really. Masks are one of those long wanted skinning features alongside blur and desaturate.

[zer04c]

Thanks , good to know its on the wish list.

Is it going to be an upcoming feature of a new release ? The ability to use mattes seems like such a fundamental ability.

[Hitcher]

Just a wish at the moment.