Is there a way to make transparency sensitive nodes?

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Godot Version

4.3-5

Question

I have an animated Ninepatchrect in my project to display dialogue (which, AnimatedTexture is now a deprecated class, which works, but do tell me if this is a bad idea) , and i can’t seem to find any way to make its child nodes transparency sensitive, becoming visible as the sprite comes in. Any ideas?

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What do you mean by transparency sensitive?

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i really couldn’t think of a better way to describe it, but this is what i mean

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I think you are looking for sprite masking or clipping mask? You can search it on YouTube.

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oh my god, it was right there all along under CanvasItem and i skimmed over it.
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Hi, I see you’re talking about sprite masking, which seems like a good solution. I have a similar issue too, but I’m also wondering if there’s a way to make the sprite slowly fade in, instead of just appearing all at once. Any ideas?

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By appearing all at once… you mean the alpha value?