Re: FLASH: masking to a layer containing just an mc does not seem to work

[John Croteau]

Hi rasheed,


> I am trying to apply masking to a layer which has just a movie clip.

> But this does not seem to work...is there something that i am doing

> wrong...?

Only one 'object' will be used as a mask (in the Mask Layer), the lowest

object in the layer. If you have more than one symbol in a mask layer

the lowest one will be used. If you have drawn elements on a mask layer

they will be lower thus used instead of any symbol, text or bitmap in

the layer. Even a single stray dot or line will take precedence over a

symbol in a mask layer. Cut your movie clip and make sure the keyframe

goes blank. After moving or removing the culprit(s) paste the MC back in

place (using paste in place).


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