How do you hide stuff underneath a transparent texture?

GlassJarGames

I have many sprites, all of which are mostly transparent, except for the edges. I want to overlap them, but I don't want to show what's underneath the top one - Here are some examples of what I mean:

Notice that the parts of the red squares that are inside the green ones aren't shown, yet the background still is. Assume that if the red squares were on top, they would mask the green ones instead. I would only want this to occur between instances that have the same texture. How can I achieve this effect in Godot?

DaveTheCoder

I was just reading about the Node2D.z_index property, that controls the rendering level of objects. Maybe that would help. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node2d.html#class-node2d-property-z-index

GlassJarGames

@DaveTheCoder said: I was just reading about the Node2D.z_index property, that controls the rendering level of objects. Maybe that would help. https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_node2d.html#class-node2d-property-z-index

Thanks, but I'm not trying to change the z-order of the sprites - I just don't want to render any part of a texture that's underneath something else with the same texture.

Megalomaniak

remove the alpha transparency from them, fill them with black for an example. No need to make it any more complicated than it needs to be.