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I have a vector layer of buildings:

and a polygon layer coloured by some quantity:

and I want to mask one by the other to produce this:

This can be done by setting the blend mode to "Multiply" with the building polygons on top as long as the polygons are white and the background of that layer is black.

One way of doing that is to use an "Inverted Polygons" fill but that is very slow at low zoom levels since all the buildings are in view and that's a lot of inverted polygons.

The other way I thought I'd cracked this was to create a "Group" layer with the buildings filled in white and a virtual layer consisting of the bounding box of the buldings filled in black. On its own it looks right:

but QGIS (3.6) doesn't let you blend grouped layers (Gimp and Photoshop probably do) so it doesn't work.

I really want to do it in the canvas so solutions involving processing intersections and creating new layers and so on aren't going to work either.

I'm not sure if I'm missing a trick to create a style for a layer to have a black background, or if there's something else in the blending modes that will do this...

qgis cartography masking

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I have a vector layer of buildings:

and a polygon layer coloured by some quantity:

and I want to mask one by the other to produce this:

This can be done by setting the blend mode to "Multiply" with the building polygons on top as long as the polygons are white and the background of that layer is black.

One way of doing that is to use an "Inverted Polygons" fill but that is very slow at low zoom levels since all the buildings are in view and that's a lot of inverted polygons.

The other way I thought I'd cracked this was to create a "Group" layer with the buildings filled in white and a virtual layer consisting of the bounding box of the buldings filled in black. On its own it looks right:

but QGIS (3.6) doesn't let you blend grouped layers (Gimp and Photoshop probably do) so it doesn't work.

I really want to do it in the canvas so solutions involving processing intersections and creating new layers and so on aren't going to work either.

I'm not sure if I'm missing a trick to create a style for a layer to have a black background, or if there's something else in the blending modes that will do this...

qgis cartography masking

share|improve this question

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I have a vector layer of buildings:

and a polygon layer coloured by some quantity:

and I want to mask one by the other to produce this:

This can be done by setting the blend mode to "Multiply" with the building polygons on top as long as the polygons are white and the background of that layer is black.

One way of doing that is to use an "Inverted Polygons" fill but that is very slow at low zoom levels since all the buildings are in view and that's a lot of inverted polygons.

The other way I thought I'd cracked this was to create a "Group" layer with the buildings filled in white and a virtual layer consisting of the bounding box of the buldings filled in black. On its own it looks right:

but QGIS (3.6) doesn't let you blend grouped layers (Gimp and Photoshop probably do) so it doesn't work.

I really want to do it in the canvas so solutions involving processing intersections and creating new layers and so on aren't going to work either.

I'm not sure if I'm missing a trick to create a style for a layer to have a black background, or if there's something else in the blending modes that will do this...

qgis cartography masking

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You can put the colored polygons on top, with a layer blending mode set to darken

Below, have the building layer with the polygon fill in white.

At the bottom, add a new layer containing one large black polygon.

---

Without the black background:

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answered 2 days ago

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  Bingo. Polygons on top just didn't occur to me! I can use my virtual bounding box layer as the black background.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

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Here's an alternate method for coloring the colored buildings to match the underlying zones.

With Geometry Generator styling, create a separate symbol layer of buildings that intersect each of the zones.

intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 1)))
intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 2)))
etc.

Change the color of each symbol layer to match the zone color. Create a black background, eg by setting the map canvas background color to black, or by changing the zone layer style to black-filled simple polygons.

Disclaimer: My test dataset was very small, so I have no idea if this will render faster than the inverted polygon method.

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answered 2 days ago

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  That looks a bit long-winded for general use, but possibly useful in some instances... thanks.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

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5

You can put the colored polygons on top, with a layer blending mode set to darken

Below, have the building layer with the polygon fill in white.

At the bottom, add a new layer containing one large black polygon.

---

Without the black background:

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

13.5k21139

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Bingo. Polygons on top just didn't occur to me! I can use my virtual bounding box layer as the black background.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

5

You can put the colored polygons on top, with a layer blending mode set to darken

Below, have the building layer with the polygon fill in white.

At the bottom, add a new layer containing one large black polygon.

---

Without the black background:

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

13.5k21139

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  Bingo. Polygons on top just didn't occur to me! I can use my virtual bounding box layer as the black background.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

You can put the colored polygons on top, with a layer blending mode set to darken

Below, have the building layer with the polygon fill in white.

At the bottom, add a new layer containing one large black polygon.

---

Without the black background:

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

13.5k21139

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

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answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

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answered 2 days ago

JGHJGH

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2

Here's an alternate method for coloring the colored buildings to match the underlying zones.

With Geometry Generator styling, create a separate symbol layer of buildings that intersect each of the zones.

intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 1)))
intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 2)))
etc.

Change the color of each symbol layer to match the zone color. Create a black background, eg by setting the map canvas background color to black, or by changing the zone layer style to black-filled simple polygons.

Disclaimer: My test dataset was very small, so I have no idea if this will render faster than the inverted polygon method.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

9,6301035

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  That looks a bit long-winded for general use, but possibly useful in some instances... thanks.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

2

Here's an alternate method for coloring the colored buildings to match the underlying zones.

With Geometry Generator styling, create a separate symbol layer of buildings that intersect each of the zones.

intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 1)))
intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 2)))
etc.

Change the color of each symbol layer to match the zone color. Create a black background, eg by setting the map canvas background color to black, or by changing the zone layer style to black-filled simple polygons.

Disclaimer: My test dataset was very small, so I have no idea if this will render faster than the inverted polygon method.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

9,6301035

• 
  
  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  
  
  That looks a bit long-winded for general use, but possibly useful in some instances... thanks.
  
  – Spacedman
  2 days ago
  

  
  
  
  

add a comment | 

Here's an alternate method for coloring the colored buildings to match the underlying zones.

With Geometry Generator styling, create a separate symbol layer of buildings that intersect each of the zones.

intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 1)))
intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 2)))
etc.

Change the color of each symbol layer to match the zone color. Create a black background, eg by setting the map canvas background color to black, or by changing the zone layer style to black-filled simple polygons.

Disclaimer: My test dataset was very small, so I have no idea if this will render faster than the inverted polygon method.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

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intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 1)))
intersection($geometry, geometry(get_feature( 'zones', 'zoneNo', 2)))
etc.

share|improve this answer

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

9,6301035

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

9,6301035

answered 2 days ago

cskcsk

9,6301035