Setting an arbitrary shape as the current clip is back, and what's more now any shape/outline operation can be used as the basis for texturePaint, not just images. The following pictures show a texturePaint using a blue-based gradient painted rectangle rotated 45 degrees (oh yes, rotate now works with degrees, not radians), applied on a rectangle that is drawn over a red-based gradient painted circle. The second image uses the same circle as the current clip



As always, the code follows
renderingHint( key: 'antialiasing', value: 'antialias on' ) rect( width: 20, height: 20, borderColor: false, asShape: true, id: 'r' ){ gradientPaint( y2: 50, color2: 'blue' ) transformations { rotate(angle:45) } } circle( cx: 125, cy: 125, radius: 70, asShape: true, id: 'c' ) clip( c ) // comment this out to get the 1st image draw( shape: c ){ gradientPaint( color2: 'red' ) } rect( x:20, y: 20, width: 200, height: 200 ){ texturePaint( image: r ) }
You may notice that the tiled blue rectangles do not start at the corner of the textured rectangle, but at the corner of the "world origin", this is something I have to figure out how to fix. The code is already on svn (0.4.3-SNAPSHOT) for anyone who wants to play with it.

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