Masking issues
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- CyBrain
publishing for flash 8 / as2
I have a bunch of expanding black shapes, all in movie clips on the same layer of the movie clip I'm using as my mask. My mask is masking question 2.http://www.talesfromthehead.com/…
Answer B: 15 puppies for question 1 and submit.
What's wrong with Flash and masking? What's wrong with me?
- fyoucher10
hard to tell w/o the fla but maybe try enabling bitmap caching to the mask mc (comprised of ur masks shapes expanding). Or try using setMask. question2_mc.setMask(maskShapes...
- lvl_130
are you using setMask?
http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/…
- lvl_130
one second too late per usual...
- grunttt0
sorry. back to topic.
- fyoucher10
Also, make sure all of your mc's used as masks (parent and nested mc's) have instance names...what might be happening is that they're resetting themselves when you get to another KF...might be the reason why it works at first and when it gets to another KF towards the end of the mask animation, they disappear (each mc starting at the first frame again). Maybe try giving that a shot as well.
- CyBrain0
setMask seems to have worked. Before, I had the movie clip masked manually in the layers. Thanks for the tips.