I've read a bunch of posts regarding masking and there's some great ones. I didn't see any that tried to accomplish this same idea, other than some 5+ yo posts.
Is the only way to accomplish this gradient reveal of text (which is actually an image) on top of a non-solid colored background still to manually code with CSS inside Hype?
Oh hey this is rad! In my particular case, there is no motion of elements, only the reveal of the type. So I moved a few things around in your sample file and voila! mask-image-no-motion.hype.zip (2.9 MB)