Any work around for alpha during a mask?

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

I have a scene in a storyboard that I mask, so items offstage that animate in won’t show during a swipe (change of page). If you swipe the page while they are coming in from off stage you might see an overlap on of the image on the next page. To combat this I set up a mask on the page, so no overlap. All was great until I realized that it killed all my alpha effects.

I read somewhere on here that alphas don’t work on “Masked” groups, so anyone have any ideas?

Thanks in advance. [import]uid: 142103 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 327180[/import]

#2

I am struggling with very much the same issue - and it’s a dealbreaker for the project I’m working on so I’m waiting for input on this from Ansca. Unfortunately I have not had a response so far.

Thomas [import]uid: 70134 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 110414[/import]

#3

Do you guys have a case number logged? [import]uid: 84637 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 110436[/import]

#4

Hi Danny,

Just received an email with the case number: 14769

I have included a very very simple code example that demonstrates the issue at hand.

Kind regards,
Thomas [import]uid: 70134 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 110445[/import]

#5

Thanks guys, if you can keep me in the loop that would be great. I am currently on the road and have spotty wifi. [import]uid: 142103 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 110576[/import]

#6

Danny, I can’t see or search the case number in FogBugz. Is it still under moderation or something like that, or is something wrong? I did get confirmation by email for case 14769.

Thanks,
Thomas [import]uid: 70134 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 110613[/import]

#7

Gah +1 on this as well… I’m using director and masking localGroup in a specific scene, because I’ve got a big group containing slideShow images, and I don’t want them to be seen from outside the screen boundaries when switching scenes… However when applying the mask to localGroup all my images disappear… Don’t know if it’s really an alpha issue or not since I’m not modifying any alpha values in that scene, yet all my images don’t show… [import]uid: 14018 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 111134[/import]

#8

Solved… I noticed I was adding rects with a fillColor of (0, 0, 0, 0) into the localGroup, modifying that fillColor to (0, 0, 0, 255) and setting isVisible to false instead solved it [import]uid: 14018 topic_id: 27180 reply_id: 111138[/import]