Scrolling Text Demo

Scrolling text area with a masked visible portion using the mask effect on a layer with "force own texture" selected.

<img src="http://pictures.kdesmo.com/ScrollTextDemo.jpg">

Nice trick

That's a nice trick indeed. I didn't notice the mask shader. I was wondering if Construct had masking capabilities..

It really puzzled me that, even though the mask had no semitransparent areas, the edge of the masking was kind of fuzzy (3 pixels of progressively stronger alpha before it becomes fully opaque).

Finally worked it out: the mask image is smaller than the mask sprite, and Construct blurs the edges when it resizes. Which is perfect, for a scrolling text mask.

[quote:3satd8pe]the edge of the masking was kind of fuzzy

I was actually wondering how to get rid of that - now I wish I had done it on purpose

[quote:3satd8pe]if Construct had masking capabilities

even cooler is blur mask,

<img src="http://www.pictures.kdesmo.com/blurMask.jpg">

but that's pixel shader 2.0.

Where did the tutorial link go?