Sprite2D Create a Clipping Effect for Sprite2D

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Godot Version

4.2.1

Question

I want to create a sinking ship effect by talking my base ship sprite (step 0) rotating it 30-60 degrees at random and then move it down until the entire image is moved below its original position. All that I can handle, the part I can’t figure out is that I want any part of the image that is below the plane of bottom of the original position to disappear so that it appears like its sinking under the water. This feels like something that should be easy but I can’t figure out how to do it. Can anyone help?

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use this:
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clip children (Clip Only) on the parent node (ShipMask) of the ship sprite that’s going to be rotated

the structure of the masking looks like this:
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what you also need is to have a mask that covers the area that’s visible or not, by making a texture that has alpha of 0 and 1, you can even apply a fade on texture making to make it looks smooth on the edge:
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