Masking/Erasing Portions of a shape

[veraFWC]

Good Evening,

I'm almost dirt new to SFML, but I couldn't find any mention of what I wanted to do in the documentation, So I though I'd put it out here to see if it can actually be done.

I'm trying to used an object (preferably an sf::drawable derived object) to hide part of another. Specifically, I have a circle, and I'm trying to hide a sector of the circle, so that only the background is visible.

Intuitive I tried placing a transparent triangle over the circle, but it simply rendered an invisible triangle over top of the triangle as it was ment to. Is their any way I can subtract one shape from another, or erase part of a shape before drawing it?

[Laurent]

Rendering masks are still to be implemented (see issue #1 on github), but there's a workaround. Draw your background on a sf::RenderTexture, then draw the mask with a transparent color (anything with alpha = 0) on top of it with the sf::BlendNone blending mode. The result is a masked image that you can then draw on your regular scene.