How Do I... Mask strokes only?

[styrofoamhead]

Is there a way to mask only the stroke?

For instance, a character whose outlines only show up when elements are crossed as illustrated in my (crappy) demo.



The demo was made using two layers for the arm (one with a stroke, one without) with the body masking the with layer.

Thanks!

[Lukas]

Not really possible, unless you do it the way you're already doing it.

You could use a white layer shadow instead of lines and enable 'Clip shadow to group' to get a similar effect, you'll have less layers that way.

[sillyanimate]

I am not sure this is what you are looking for but this might help

1. Clicking "Exclude Strokes" keeps the lines from the masked object.
2. Unclicking "Exclude Stokes" also masks the lines of the masked object.

[styrofoamhead]

I am not sure this is what you are looking for but this might help

Thanks for the help, sillyanimate , but that feature isn't quite what I'm looking for.

Not really possible, unless you do it the way you're already doing it.

You could use a white layer shadow instead of lines and enable 'Clip shadow to group' to get a similar effect, you'll have less layers that way.

I'm still on v10, but that looks to be exactly what I want!

[styrofoamhead]

Correction: I was on v10.

[styrofoamhead]

The drop shadow method sort of works. Here's my first trial with it:



It looks like the shadow is still visible as a distortion outside of the circle when the mask isn't activated.

Thoughts?