Re: FLASH: masking? animated gradients

[Marc Hoffman (Dart Frog Media)]

At 10:18 PM 10/6/99 , you wrote:

>Hi I did a flash movie with text in gradients and was wondering if there is

>a way I can animate the gradients to look as if they are moving.



Rework your flash this way:  make the text solid and make its layer a mask 

layer. In the layer below, create tweening gradients. Set this layer to 

"masked." This is automatic in Flash3 and an option in Flash4. The gradient 

will show through only where the text occurs.




Marc Hoffman

marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com (mailto:marcdartfrogmedia [dot] com)

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