Maskalicious
Lately we’ve been posting about new features coming in Degrafa Beta 3.2, but some of these have been in the development branch codebase for a while. One of those features is masks, which have been in the codebase in various forms since late last year and were extended to cover 4 main masking modes mid-year.
Some of the features of masks in Degrafa go beyond what is offered as regular masking support in the Flash Player. With masks in Degrafa you can define a shape via Degrafa MXML and mask another Degrafa object with a few interesting mask types:
svgMask – Luminosity+Alpha: Takes into account the color, alpha and shape of the mask shape to define the mask.
alpha – Uses the alpha of the mask shape to define the mask. This is equivalent to Flash Player native alpha masking
svgClip – Uses the defined path of a shape of a mask shape to define the mask. Does not take into account things like strokes.
clip – this takes into account the filled region of the mask only to clip the maskee and is equivalent to the flash player native clipping mask
unMask – Removes any applied masks to show the mask fully rendered
You can see a simple example of Degrafa mask here. This feature will also be packaged as part of the Beta 3.2 release of Degrafa.