Movie clips as masks

I'm trying to use a movie clip as a mask layer. The movie
clip contains both lines and fills. The fill areas are working
perfectly but the lines are appearing all weird and streaked (it's
actually quite cool looking but not what I'm ideally after). The
masked layer is just a block of plain colour fill. Has anyone had
the same problem as me and if so is there a work around? Do lines
and fills need to be on seperate layers or something?
I seem to remember reading something about declaring movie
clips as mask layers using actionscript but I've searched and found
nothing.
Any help or advice on this much appreciated.
Cheers,
Minky.
:)

Luxury Mince Pie wrote:
> I'm trying to use a movie clip as a mask layer. The
movie clip contains both
> lines and fills. The fill areas are working perfectly
but the lines are
> appearing all weird and streaked (it's actually quite
cool looking but not what
> I'm ideally after). The masked layer is just a block of
plain colour fill. Has
> anyone had the same problem as me and if so is there a
work around? Do lines
> and fills need to be on seperate layers or something?
Outlines can't be use as mask, they simply won't show up at
all. Outlines need to
be converted to solid fills.
> I seem to remember reading something about declaring
movie clips as mask
> layers using actionscript but I've searched and found
nothing.
search for setMask in your help files.
Best Regards
Urami
"Never play Leap-Frog with a Unicorn."
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If you want to mail me - DO NOT LAUGH AT MY ADDRESS
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dkmiles wrote:
> I've created a movie clip with a mask that I'm using in
a main scene. The mask
> looks fine while editing/working the movie clip, but
does not show up in the
> scene.
>
> The really strange thing is that it was working, but
suddenly now it won't
> show up in the scene any longer. I've tried replacing
it, making a new layer
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>
> Does anyone have an idea of why this would be?
>
> Any help GREATLY appreciated!
>
> dm
>

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I have made an application where a movie clip (map_mc) is
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... because "map_window_mc" is in quotes. Yes, the
ActionScript Language
Reference says the parameter of setMask() may be a string,
but leave the
quotes out and see what happens. In any case,
David
stiller (at) quip (dot) net
Dev essays:
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http://www.steamandclean.com/Index_w_1.html
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