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Tom7777 ·
Hi i made an experimental GUI thingy and want only to show the area of an Ellipse, is it possible to show only certain areas using shapes, like a mask type thing i guess, there is of course the workaround of me making a .png overlay with the area i want to show set to transparent but i was just wondering if its actually possible in SM, if not i think this type of module would be great for the GUI side of things so i would like to request 2 new modules Visible Area Rectangle and Visible Area Ellipse and module to add or subtract them so we could make complex shapes.
oddson ·
Why not just put an ellipse inside another module with the 'G'raphics turned on and use that module to clip to whatever part of the ellipse you want to show?
jobro ·
That would work if he want to show a horizontal alligned elips part. What about if he wants to develope elipse formed knobs showing a different angle elips fraction?
oddson ·
What about if he wants to develope elipse formed knobs showing a different angle elips fraction?
Then one more level of abstraction... another module and a rotate component.
Tom7777 ·
Is that not just a ellipse in a rotated rectangle though? Im not looking to make complex shapes using the GUI shapes available, What i want to do is to use a shape to show a certain area, is that what you have done? if yes then how? thanks
Tom7777 ·
An example of what i mean was say you have a page of text, what i want is to set a ellipse area thats the only area visible so say the Visible Area Ellipse was 10 by 10 you would only see the text in the 10 by 10 area and it would no longer be a whole page of text visible just the text that was in the set area.
I guess what i mean would be the inverted version of a subtract view module (which we also need) another example would be like in a paint program, lets say the ellipse was black, its not but just for example (black = alpha 255, white = alpha 0) and the rest was white i would only want to show whats in the black ellipse but anything in the white would now be cut/transparent and only the stuff that was in the black ellipse would be visible, i don't think this is currently possible yet other than standard rectangle areas but i may be wrong. Sorry for being confusing, this is quite hard to describe but hopefully you get what i mean now 😀
oddson ·
You want to have something like the Clip component for complex shapes?
There's lots of graphics stuff missing in SM but I never looked at it as a vector graphics program.
BTW - I didn't use the Clip component above because I forgot about it.
Tom7777 ·
Sorta i guess 😉
There's lots of graphics stuff missing in SM but I never looked at it as a vector graphics program.
Yeah i have been using the vector stuff alot recently this is something i think the program needs 😀
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