Masking problems in Affinity Designer

[Zuzug]

I'm following a tutorial for making a seamless pattern and at the end it says to mask the pattern by dragging/dropping to the vector shape below but when I do that it puts the vector color over my whole pattern. If I remove the vector color then the pattern doesn't show at all. I've also tried putting the vector shape onto the pattern which keeps the pattern colors but adds a haze. Idk why it's doing this, especially when I was able to mask other elements in the pattern.

The ultimate image is supposed to look like the top photo but masked.

Edited March 3, 2021 by Zuzug

[firstdefence]

Welcome to the forum @Zuzug

What you are doing is creating a mask, you need to drag the pattern layer over the rectangle shape and make sure the cursor is about half way over the name of the rectangle layer, you will see a horizontal bar slightly indented once you see that left go of the mouse button and it will nest the pattern layer under the rectangle layer.

Like this.

 

[Alfred]

3 hours ago, Zuzug said:

it says to mask the pattern by dragging/dropping to the vector shape below

 

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

What you are doing is creating a mask

That seems to be what the tutorial said to do!

 

1 hour ago, firstdefence said:

you need to drag the pattern layer over the rectangle shape and make sure the cursor is about half way over the name of the rectangle layer, you will see a horizontal bar slightly indented

That’s (clip-)nesting, not masking. It really would be helpful if people making tutorials didn’t ignore the important difference between these terms.

[Zuzug]

@firstdefence I am trying to create a mask so that when I copy the final image and paste it into a new document, I can create a seamless pattern. I've done it before on a previous design, it's just not working the same for this one. Also when I tried doing what you said it wouldn't let me do that. Maybe because yours are both layers and one of mine is a group? 

[Zuzug]

Ok I managed to figure it out. I don't know if there's a better way to do this but I copied the square mask, made it white then masked the pattern with that. Took the original square with color and put it as the bottom layer of the pattern.

 

 

[firstdefence]

8 minutes ago, Zuzug said:

@firstdefence I am trying to create a mask so that when I copy the final image and paste it into a new document, I can create a seamless pattern. I've done it before on a previous design, it's just not working the same for this one. Also when I tried doing what you said it wouldn't let me do that. Maybe because yours are both layers and one of mine is a group? 

Nesting doesn't discriminate between groups and layers. You need to nudge your brolly over on the left.