masking attached movie clips

Published by: webmaster 2009-01-08

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Hi there -

i am trying to apply a mask to some attached movieclips.

i am having some problems, i am assuming due to the depth difference between the mask (placed on stage hence with a negative depth) and the attached movie clips (positive depth).

i have tried swapping depths and also assigning a higher depth to the mask (using getNextHighestDepth), but nothing seems to work.

does anybody know of any way around this?

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If I place the video in a movie clip and attach a Drop Shadow filter to the mask , the shadow will move and change shape in conjunction with the changing
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(btw...is it possible to attach a mask?)

Try putting your mask on the attached movie itself, not on the main .fla that is doing the attaching (ie "the stage"). I have been successful with this method and have never had a 'depth' issue.

If all of your elements on are on the stage of your attached movie -
make them a movie symbol and then mask them on the stage of the attached movie.

Essentially - you are masking at the source.

use setMask()
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