How do I cut a hole in a sprite using the drawing canvas object?

The object that "cuts a hole" into the drawing canvas, must have the blend mode "destination out" set on it.

When you set this, it won't always look how you're expecting in layout view, but once you paste, it will do exactly what you hope.

If you still need a visual sprite to show the area you're about to make a hole, then I'd suggest 2 sprites, one with destination out, one without. (you could do 1 sprite and "set blend mode to destination out, paste, set blend mode to Normal, but it will change it's appearance during the paste).

If you used many layers with Force Own Texture, just for this hole system, you may not need all of this - even 1 layer, without Force Texture, will still punch a hole when you paste a Destination Out sprite.

Hope this helps!

Not sure what I'm doing wrong but I just can't get this to work.

Here's basically what I'm trying to do. If anyone sees an issue with any of these steps, please let me know.

- Player clicks on sprite

- Make sprite invisible

- Create instance of sprite on "Effects" layer (texture draw = true)

- Make new instance invisible

- Copy new instance to canvas (also on "Effects" layer)

- Wait for events (give time for draw to happen)

- Set canvas blend mode to Destination Out

- Paste hole sprite to canvas

When I do this my sprite image turns black. Any ideas?

One of the issues you’re encountering is the object’s blend mode and the “drawing blend mode” are two different things. You’d want to set the drawing blend mode to destination-out before filling the ellipse, but you should leave the object’s blend mode as normal.

So roughly this would create a canvas over the sprite, draw the sprite to the canvas, and erase a circle out of it. What you do with the sprite after is up to you, but I destroyed it here.

On clicked sprite
— create canvas at sprite position
— set canvas size to sprite size
— canvas: paste sprite
— sprite: destroy
— canvas: set drawing blend mode to destination-out
— canvas: fill ellipse at mouse

On sprite clicked
— create: circleSprite on layer: sprite.layer at mouse.x, mouse.y
— circleSprite: set blend mode to destination-out

Thanks for trying to help everyone! I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here, but it's still not working.

Layer 1 is set to force own texture.

+ Mouse: On Left button Clicked on Sprite2

-> System: Create object canvas on layer 1 at (Sprite2.X, Sprite2.Y), create hierarchy: False, template: ""

-> canvas: Set size to (Sprite2.Width, Sprite2.Height)

-> canvas: Paste object Sprite2 with effects

-> Sprite2: Destroy

-> canvas: Set drawing blend mode to Destination out

-> canvas: Fill ellipse at (Mouse.X, Mouse.Y) radius (15, 15) with rgba(0, 0, 0, 100) (Smooth edge)

When I click on the sprite it just disappears.

I think I'm going to just do this with art. That should still work well!

You cant destroy the sprite immediately, since the drawing canvas requires the next tick to update, so the sprite is being destroyed i think before it gets a chance to be pasted.

You may need to add a wait 0.1 seconds before you destroy it.

Thanks, mOOnpunk! I'll give that a try.