Masking a Static Texture

[willmotil]

You might have a look here.

stenciling if you just need a mask im not to practiced with using the stencil buffer myself.

Masking Texture2D without shaders?

Hello again I’m trying to create mask for textures, but so far no luck. The last answer in this page is close to what I’d like to have, but for some reason it won’t work. Here’s my code uploaded to Pastebin, and Textures uploaded to Postimage I’m I doing something wrong or is it a bug? I 'm using VS2015 with DesktopGL Project.

using a shader this shader maybe overkill here because there is also doing transparency and blending but i obviously favor using shaders.
However a full example project is included, its old you might have to rebuild it into a new project.

[Shader] SpriteBatch Alpha Based Stenciling and Texture Scrolling.

Im not sure this is the best name for the effect not sure what its called but i saw it done in another game and wanted to reproduce it as its really cool and pretty simple the method i made that goes with it is also super cool. I had planed to make this about 10x over and never got around to it. Today i did and i figured i would share. As it also serves as a good example of the power of using shaders with spritebatch. So this is a shader that you give to spritebatch begin(, effect,) to draw …

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