# Break appart movie clip/change color

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/break-appart-movie-clip-change-color/332554
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 21, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/break-appart-movie-clip-change-color/332554 "2014-07-21T23:52:57Z")
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### Author: ![cupz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cupz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cupz)
#### Post date: [July 21, 2014, 11:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/break-appart-movie-clip-change-color/332554/1 "2014-07-21T23:52:57Z")

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So I’m making a weird little dungeon generator and I was wondering if the following was in any way possible:  
all the walls are duplicated movieclips and are _basically_ generated like this:

```auto
_root.wallPrefab.duplicateMovieClip(_root["walls.wall"+i], depthwhatever);
var changecolor = new Color(_root.walls.wall0);
changecolor.setRGB("0xFF0000");

```

which seems to create \_root.walls.wall0 and up perfectly, but the colour stays black, as if setRGB doesn’t work in parented movieclips (or does it?).  
if this is the case, is there a way to “ctrl-b” wall 0 t/m 40 inside the walls object in as2 after generating and leave behind the vectors? This could save some resources hittesting as I’d only have to check the single walls parent object and not check every single wall with a for loop, and give better control over the colour.