# Alpha fade with createEmptyMovieClip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-with-createemptymovieclip/127877>\
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**Created:** [November 7, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-with-createemptymovieclip/127877 "2004-11-07T16:34:56Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2004, 4:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/alpha-fade-with-createemptymovieclip/127877/1 "2004-11-07T16:34:56Z")

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I having difficulty viewing the alpha fade for mc’s I’ve created with createEmptyMovieClip. In tracing the fade, I can watch it progress from 0 to 100, and the image finally appears when it hits 100.

The createEmptyMovieClip mc’s are a child of an actual empty movieclip on stage with the instance name of lMc. I use a for loop to create empty mc’s that are children of it. I then set the \_alpha to zero for each child mc.

Then, I preload the images into the empty mc’s, and once loaded, I try to increase the alpha. Again, I can see the alpha increase, but it doesn’t show until it hits 100. Ideas?