For instance, a character whose outlines only show up when elements are crossed as illustrated in my (crappy) demo.
The demo was made using two layers for the arm (one with a stroke, one without) with the body masking the with layer.
Thanks!
Re: How Do I... Mask strokes only?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 11:41 am
by Lukas
Not really possible, unless you do it the way you're already doing it.
You could use a white layer shadow instead of lines and enable 'Clip shadow to group' to get a similar effect, you'll have less layers that way.
Re: How Do I... Mask strokes only?
Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 10:49 pm
by sillyanimate
I am not sure this is what you are looking for but this might help
1. Clicking "Exclude Strokes" keeps the lines from the masked object.
2. Unclicking "Exclude Stokes" also masks the lines of the masked object.
Re: How Do I... Mask strokes only?
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 1:46 am
by styrofoamhead
sillyanimate wrote:I am not sure this is what you are looking for but this might help
Thanks for the help, sillyanimate , but that feature isn't quite what I'm looking for.
Lukas wrote:Not really possible, unless you do it the way you're already doing it.
You could use a white layer shadow instead of lines and enable 'Clip shadow to group' to get a similar effect, you'll have less layers that way.
I'm still on v10, but that looks to be exactly what I want!
Re: How Do I... Mask strokes only?
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 2:47 am
by styrofoamhead
Correction: I was on v10.
Re: How Do I... Mask strokes only?
Posted: Fri Feb 19, 2016 4:42 am
by styrofoamhead
The drop shadow method sort of works. Here's my first trial with it:
It looks like the shadow is still visible as a distortion outside of the circle when the mask isn't activated.