Unity MASKING - Ultimate Guide | Unity UI & Sprite Tutorial

This tutorial will show you how to mask Unity UI and sprite elements very easily. I'm also using a wonderful asset from mob Sakai that allows us to easily soft mask UI in Unity. I'll show you everything based on these examples:

- Basic Unity Rect Mask 2D
- Unity Mask (Using a custom sprite shape)
- SoftMask to create smooth corners (With a custom shape)
- SoftMask to create UI scrolling (Using ScrollRect)
- Sprite Masks

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[SpeedTutor]

Sometimes you don't have to wear a mask to make this work in Unity, I'll show you how today! :D

[theterminator]

I'M BACK TO UNITY BABY!! boy, I sure have missed a lot of your videos after a busy month! Time to binge watch them all!!

[deadbroadcastpc]

You have a great way of explaining your process man, always enjoy these tutorials.

[agroxk]

First comment :) and I love your videos!

[rohitvishwakarma]

In the cutout mask, how to make clicks to work on the cutout area and not work on the remaining area ?

[Javi-Aledo]

Hi, is it possible apply soft mask in a Sprite masking? thanks.

[leonardocafissi]

I have a problem, I have to create a smart glasses, I want to show ui wordspace of some people only in the glasses, I try to use sprite mask (but it works only with objects not with ui element) and ui mask (but it hides only the children), how can I do this?

[himtortons]

Thank you! So with this, it will be possible to create an ink transition like Frost Punk UI then play a video inside the mask for instance?

[murilojonesarruda]

Hey Thanks for the tutorial. very nice explained. What if I wanted to use a material instead of a background image (a sprite unlit image, for UI elements) Because I notice that if you, for example, write something in text mesh pro, create a mask component in it, and assign a UI image as a children, it will be masked fine. But if instead of a texture image, I want to use a material for the image component, the mask doesnt work anymore.

[BlueHat]

Thank you for the tutorial. I use a sprite mask in my game, but no matter what I do it doesn't show up after I press play. Could you please help?

[Koreyite]

When I try to add the soft mask from the git url, it doesn't seem to register. I then did the manual installation of the package but it isn't working, the maskable object component can't be added to anything because it's abstract.

EDIT: I actually think I got it working now, somehow.

EDIT 2: It works, sort of. The masking graphic has a weird partial edge in it so the underneath object is only partially masked.

EDIT 3: So the visual kerfuffle is actually an editor rendering problem, but looks normal in game.

[Capskiy]

Any reason why all the elements inside this softmask appear purple, as if they are not rendering?

[Koreyite]

The soft mask would be a lot more convenient to use if I didn't have to use just images and nest the children. I think I do have a workaround. Since I can't detach the children without breaking the script, instead I can set the children to have a foster parent then after I'm done doing transforms, I reunite the children with the original parents.

[Exmain]

Hello, great thanks !
And a question)
Can we hide video behind the mask ?

[aleksandrkuziakov]

Looking forward for Super Ultimate Guide with Custom Range covered

[Koreyite]

My goal is to create a few soft masks to cut out of a black screen, and reveal the game as the player goes. I have done this by making a few cascading soft circles with the black rectangle as the child of those cascading circles. I am not sure how to implement this in code though (YET).

[akash_the_phenomenal]

I want to mask UI, but don't want the parent to contain the mask component,
that is, I want a mask component on a free object not on parent coz I will be changing the size of parent and this is causing me to change in masking area,
What can I do, Please help.

Sprite mask is perfect, in that I am not forced to attach it to only parent, can't this type of thing done for UI ?

[darrylblake]

I'm a beginner and finding answers for what I want to do in Unity is just as hard as figuring it what I want to do it seems. But I am working with UI elements, animating with animation track.,
I have 2 scenes - I want one scene to star wipe to the scene behind it. But I can't find anything specific to what I need to do. Any ideas? Thanks

[PhazonBlaxor]

"Ultimate" guide, I came here looking how to use sprite masks to make them affect only certain gameobjects, but this ultimate guide really omitted sorting groups totally. -_-

[Lyserg]

It's almost 2022 and we still can't have soft mask without using external assets. I hate this engine.