How to achieve "Clipping Mask" effect? Dynamic gradient?

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I want to apply for example a gradient to a layeredimage, but not everything else. The layeredimage is on its own layer, is there a way to "clip mask" the gradient to only effect the pixels on a specific layer? My sprites have many different outfits, and there are 40 characters, so manually making a gradient for each possible combination is not feasible. For example, on a late afternoon I want to tint the sprites slightly orange without affecting bg with full screen tint. Surely many games have this feature, yet I cannot find any solutions. Thank you.

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I want to apply for example a gradient to a layeredimage, but not everything else. The layeredimage is on its own layer, is there a way to "clip mask" the gradient to only effect the pixels on a specific layer? My sprites have many different outfits, and there are 40 characters, so manually making a gradient for each possible combination is not feasible. For example, on a late afternoon I want to tint the sprites slightly orange without affecting bg with full screen tint. Surely many games have this feature, yet I cannot find any solutions. Thank you.

One option is to use detached layer. It is pretty close to "clipping mask" effect. This way you can apply transform to the images displayed on the detached layer. For example, tint the sprite/sprites without affecting bg:

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define config.detached_layers += [ "stage" ]
image the_stage = Layer("stage")

label late_afternoon:
    scene bg_scene
    show the_stage:
        matrixcolor TintMatrix("#fa0")
    show eileen onlayer stage

2) Another option is to use LayeredImageProxy(). You can apply different transform for each proxy image

3)You can also use attributes or conditionswitch to apply transform to particular elements of the layered image depending on the attribute/variable.