Hi all. I ran into an odd problem a week ago that I haven’t been able to fix. I’m new to Flash so sorry if this has been discussed but my research has turned up nothing. I’m using Flash Develop. I managed to duplicate the problem in a simple program:
I set up one large bitmap for the background, not transparent. I then add another large bitmap on top of that, the second layer background, as a child of the main bg. This layer has transparency so you can see the bg through the trees and such. Then I stack a lot of sprites on top of each other, all with transparency. They can be children of the main bg or the second layer bg, doesn’t matter. Where the transparency of the sprites overlap the second layer background disappears completely to reveal the main background (like a window around the sprite stack.) The bitmaps I’m using are from embedded png files.
I found that 23 transparent objects causes the 24th object and beyond to disappear. And it only happens when I have a mask set to the main background (a simple filled square for clipping the child sprites that move off-screen.) Also the problem goes away while the background is moving.
My project features many objects near each other so the chance of this problem occurring is pretty high. Its not game-breaking but I’m new to flash and my project is nearly complete (and large) so I’m hoping there is something simple I can do to fix this.
Thanks in advance for any help!
