Anyone know of a way to re-create a clipping mask in Aseprite?

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I’m currently making a tileset for the flooring of a game, and I come from a CLIPSTUDIO/Photoshop background so I’m quite used to using clipping masks for drawing on layers while preserving the original shape of the layer underneath it.

Currently, I have a layout done in a black layer for the actual ground path, but I need to take my already made dirt tiles and clip them down to the black layer.

I couldn’t find it while searching online and ripping my eyeballs out looking through documentation, so I was wondering if there is a similar tool to the one in Photoshop for clipping masks? It would make my workflow 500000% faster if anyone could point me in the right direction :')

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Hi @fawndering, currently Aseprite doesn’t have mask layers, but you might find useful the “Lock Alpha” ink:

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In this way you can paint but only on non-transparent pixels.

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That’s unfortunate, but thank you for the reply! Hoping there’s the possibility of mask layers being added in the future, since my normal workflow outside of this program involves using a fair amount of mask layers before reducing everything down.

Lock Alpha is just what we’ve had to use since we couldn’t find anything else yet :slight_smile: