Adding texture to raster layers.

[stuyk]

I'm working on an animation with a very specific hand-drawn style and I'm having a lot of trouble with one aspect of it.

basically I have a texture I want to mask to one layer on a character. as the character moves one way, I'd like the texture underneath to move another, but to only be visible as a 'fill', if you know what I mean. I know this is possible on after effects as long as the layer is all one colour, but I don't have access to the software.

thanks in advance.

[synthsin75]

You'd need to mask in the texture image layer with a fill only shape. Then you'd probably need a duplicate layer for your outlines above all this.

[stuyk]

how would I go about doing that?

[synthsin75]

Group layer (or bone layer) (set as hide all masking)
--Outline layer/s (duplicate of layer that need this texture masked in. (do not mask)
--Image layer with the texture
--Fill only shapes that need the texture (set as add to mask)

[slowtiger]

synth, you forgot to mention one setting:

Group layer (or bone layer) (hide all)
- Outline layer/s (duplicate of layer that need this texture masked in. (do not mask)
- Image layer with the texture (mask this layer)
- Fill only shapes that need the texture (add to mask)

I think you should set the texture layer to multiply to get the best effect. Experiment a bit with the opacity of the texture layer, and with the contrast of its bitmap.

Remember that you'll see effects only after rendering.

[synthsin75]

ST,

Well that's the default setting of any layer, but it couldn't hurt to mention it.