What about a snapshot?
Or display.save?
This seems like a use for a display.newSnapshot(): https://docs.coronalabs.com/api/library/display/newSnapshot.html
Draw your circle & rectangle, make a snapShot and use our fill features to color it.: https://docs.coronalabs.com/guide/graphics/path.html
Rob
Thanks - I’ll give it a try 
Tried it, but filling the snapshot doesn’t work; is there anything I’m missing?
Here’s the code:
local color1 = {0.17,0.1,0.24} local color2 = {0.57,0.5,0.54} local gradient = { type="gradient", color1=color1, color2=color2, direction="up"} local snapshot = display.newSnapshot( 100,200 ) local circle = display.newCircle (0, 0, 50) local rectangle = display.newRect (0, 0, 100,100) rectangle.anchorX = 0.5 rectangle.anchorY = 0 snapshot.group:insert( circle ) snapshot.group:insert( rectangle ) snapshot:setFillColor(gradient) snapshot:invalidate() snapshot:translate( display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY )I don’t think that’s how you fill an object - you need to call snapshot.fill = gradient.
I tried both… unfortunately still not working. Weird thing is that setting the alpha value (e.g. snapshot.alpha = 0.5) works fine, but setting the fill-color doesn’t.
Yeah, I can confirm that calling snapshot.fill doesn’t seem to do anything, even after calling :invalidate().
Could you use display.capture instead, this should return a normal display object unlike snapshot which seemingly has different behaviour?
Just tried it as well - doesn’t work either; only the rectangle gets filled then… 
Is that creating a display group, insert the rectangle and circle to that, and then using display.capture on the group?
Exactly - here’s the code:
local color1 = {0.17,0.1,0.24} local color2 = {0.57,0.5,0.54} local gradient = { type="gradient", color1=color1, color2=color2, direction="up"} local group = display.newGroup() local circle = display.newCircle (0, 0, 50) local rectangle = display.newRect (0, 0, 100,100) rectangle.anchorX = 0.5 rectangle.anchorY = 0 group:insert(rectangle) group:insert(circle) local capture = display.capture( group, { saveToPhotoLibrary=false, captureOffscreenArea=false } ) capture.fill = gradient capture:translate( display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY )I’m stumped then, my last suggestion is display.save, then use that to create a display.newImageRect, but really the above two approaches *should* work :huh:
I’ve now downloaded the latest build and tried again. Still not working…
Filling the snapshot with a solid color works now, but using a gradient still doesn’t.
Looks like I have to look for a completely different solution (like e.g. using a picture).
But thanks for all your help, nick_sherman, rob, roaminggamer & horacebury!
I would say the best solution is still the new polygon() route - there’s no limit on how many points you can specify so the resulting top bit could certainly be modelled accurately with a bit of math.
Well, it might be a little late, but if anyone comes across the same problem:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- -- main.lua -- -- Example on how to fill combined objects using snapshots -- 2017-08-27 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- local color1 = {0.17,0.1,0.24} local color2 = {0.57,0.5,0.54} local gradient = { type="gradient", color1=color1, color2=color2, direction="up"} -- create a background local bg = display.newRect( display.contentCenterX, display.contentCenterY, display.actualContentWidth, display.actualContentHeight ) bg.fill = { 0.5, 0.7, 0.9, 1} -- create empty snapshot local snap = display.newSnapshot(40,100) -- create objects local filler = display.newRect(0,30,40,100) -- set this to the size of your snapshot to cover all objects. filler.fill = gradient filler.alpha = 0 -- this is for the tint() function. set to 1 under normal conditions filler.blendMode = "srcIn" -- this is way to drop a texture (gradient here) on multiple objects local circle = display.newCircle ( 0, 0, 20 ) circle.fill={1,0,0,1} local rectangle = display.newRect ( 0, 40, 40, 80 ) rectangle.fill = {0,1,0,1} snap.group:insert(rectangle) snap.group:insert(circle) snap.group:insert(filler) -- last in to be top-most -- just for fun. tinting and transitioning is not required for the gradient effect function tint() filler.alpha = 1 snap:invalidate() end transition.to(snap,{time=1500, alpha=1, x=display.contentCenterX, y=display.contentCenterY, onComplete=tint})I think chris used a simple example to describe his needs. Of course, such a simple object can be created from a polygon, with some minor flaws and lots of work. But try to poly this:
