Moving a mask over stationary object/text

[highrise955]

I've searched this forum and tutorials for help on this but not having much luck.

I want to move an object across the screen and I want stationary text to appear as the object moves over it. I tried making a mask but can't figure out how to keep the text stationary as the object and its mask moves over it. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

[Droxon]

Just animate the layers individually, don't animate the group(mask) or the text layer.

Here is an example hopefully this can help you:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/miuggq3qeqvep7r/mask.anme

[highrise955]

Thanks for the example but that isn't what I was looking for. I need the object to move over the text (say from left to right). As the object passes over, the text appears.

For example:


As the witch flies across the screen the words appear behind her. (The above was a cheat. I still haven't figured it out yet. ) The only thing that is moving is the witch, the text is stationary.

[slowtiger]

Move the witch layer, then move the mask layer the same way.

[Víctor Paredes]

To avoid animating the character and the mask separately, you can bind both to an overall bone. That way, you only need to translate that bone to move both the character and the mask.

Here is an anme file with an example
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/544 ... er_v9.anme

The mask setup is this:

All (Reveal All)
__Character (Don't mask this layer)
____Vector layer (there's no need to setup a mask)
__Text (Mask this layer)
__Mask (Subtract from mask)
__Yellow (Don't mask this layer)


The subtracting layer must be under the layer you want to mask. In this case, since you want to hide the text layer with a mask, the vector layer with the mask shape must be under the text layer. All the other layers don't need to mask or be masked, so you just setup all them to "Don't mask this layer".