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How Do I... Mask strokes only?

Posted: Thu Feb 18, 2016 4:25 am
by styrofoamhead
Is there a way to mask only the stroke?

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 :D
Image
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 :D
Thanks for the help, sillyanimate :D , 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.

:shock:

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.

Thoughts?