# Alpha fade on shape tweens?!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 10, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254 "2003-07-10T22:28:06Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![Alucard\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@Alucard\_X](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alucard_X)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 10:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/1 "2003-07-10T22:28:06Z")

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I wish to have a flicker effect on something i am shape tweening. Usually i do alpha fade by converting to a symbol.

Can you do alpha fade on shape tweens without converting to symbol, or can you somehow shape tween symbols?!

Please help, i’m working on a cool effect 🙂

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/2 "2003-07-10T22:33:24Z")

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Create a movie clip, and make a shape tween inside the movie clip. Drag it to main stage and alpha fade it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 10:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/3 "2003-07-10T22:35:46Z")

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Lets say my timeline is 100 frames long and that is the length it takes to tween my shape.

I want to fade in and in quickly every 5 frames or so.

If the tween was inside the movie clip, i would be alpha fading the ENTIRE tween as opposed to one bit.

Or am i talking nonsense?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/4 "2003-07-10T23:10:39Z")

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you càn do an alpha-tween on shapes, you have to change the alpha of the fill and line-color and use a shape-tween

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/5 "2003-07-10T23:35:39Z")

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seticus rocks!!! :pope:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 11:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-on-shape-tweens/25254/6 "2003-07-10T23:46:58Z")

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:rock: hey, i’ll draw a pixel character about that 🙂 thanks for the idea… 😛 , glad I could help