Mask or absorb object

how can I absorb or mask lines like in the picture:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/macvideofannr1/352779578/
it is like light hits a rotating obstical (rectangle) and so the shadow size on the other side changes according to the rotation
G5 dual 2GHz / MacBook Pro Core Duo 2.16GHz Mac OS X (10.4.8)

AFAIK, you would have to do this the old fashioned way - by hand drawing a mask for a shadow... Not too hard - at least for your example... If the rotation is regular, you could use the Oscillate behavior to alter the size and time it with your object rotation...
Patrick

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Did you realize that? Hot to work as usually when I want to add a mask to an object?

I think you are trying to draw a mask on a shape layer. If that is the case and you are using AE CS6 or later then look carefully at the tool bar. You will see a little pair of icons. One is a star the other is a little rectangle:
Click on the little rectangle to the right of the star and the tool will then create a mask on a shape layer. In earlier versions the icon's are differentlittle different. They are only visible when the shape tools are selected.

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Hi all,
This is my first post, so please excuse me if I do something wrong
For a couple of months I run an iWeb09 (3.0.4)-created website www.definiteaquascape.tv. The site serves mostly for embedding my videos about aquariums, which I upload to my YouTube channel "DefiniteAquascapeTV" (www.youtube.com/User/DefiniteAquascapeTV). I use iWeb SEO Tool for adding titles, meta tags etc. I try to optimize the website for keyword (phrase) "aquarium ideas". All was working fine, and my website appeared in 3-4th page of Google search, but some time ago the main page (homepage) dissapeared from Google when searching for "aquarium ideas". It IS still indexed, because when I search for "definite aquascape tv" it shows up in the first place. BUT it has dissapeared from the "aquarium ideas" search results. Instead, one of the subpages is showing up, on 2-3 page of Google results.
When I search for "definite aquascape tv", and display a preview of the found "www.definiteaquascape.tv" website homepage (a preview = you know, those two arrows ">>" allowing you to get a small preview of the site without actually visiting it), the homepage is diplaying without the text. All pictures and graphics (I used rectangular "frames" around the text) are in place, but the text is not visible. It looks like this ONLY in the preview, because when one loads my page in the browser, everything looks normal (I tried IE, Opera, Firefox - all are OK). So, my wild guess was that maybe those rectanglar objects I have used as "frames" are on top of the text, and Googlebot recognizes them as solid graphical objects, and not "empty", transparent frames. Because of this my homepage would be almost text-less for Googlebot, hence - not "worth" showing in the search results. BUT the text is visible in the browser - after displaing the page, I can mark (highlight) the text with the mouse coursor, and copy it to the clipboard, so the text seems NOT to be masked, and it's not an image (I use Arial, so no need for iWeb converting fonts to graphic)... Moreover, if you look closer on the small preview, you will notice that there ARE some parts of homepage text visible - namely, two blue links, which are in the text box on the bottom of the page. The links ARE part of the text, and yet, the text is not visible in the small preview, but links are visible... Does iWeb create a separate layer for text-links embedded in text-body...?
I edited the homepage several times, making sure that the textboxes are on top of all other objects on the site ("Bring Forward" in context menu greyed out) - but still, there are no changes in the small preview, nor does my homepage appear in "aquarium ideas" search results... I have also noticed that the homepage displayed in the preview is an older version of my homepage - about a month ago I switched the location of Menu and Google AdSense 160px wide Skyscraper - now Menu is on the right side, and Skyscraper on the left side, but in the preview the location is opposite = the old one. Maybe I should clear the Google cache = I mean, erase the site map from Google, and let Googlebot do its job from the beginning, to allow for correct indexing?
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OK, I think that's it for now... I'll appreciate any answers / suggestions / comments.
Below I attach the screenshot of the small preview of my homepage. Please visit my site www.definiteaquascape.tv if you want to see how it really looks now...
Cheers, and thanks in advance,
Piotr K.

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Hi again.
I have simplified my script to tell more about the problem.
I'm creating Sprite which holds other Sprites with graphics. The whole Sprite is used to mask MovieClip.
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Wow thanks for the quick reply, Ok, I created a new layer,
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Thanks A Ton Arun.it works for me.
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