# Can one mc setMask multiple mcs?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-one-mc-setmask-multiple-mcs/63687
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [September 9, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-one-mc-setmask-multiple-mcs/63687 "2004-09-09T05:01:06Z")
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### Author:  [@mariachi77](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mariachi77)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 5:01am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-one-mc-setmask-multiple-mcs/63687/1 "2004-09-09T05:01:06Z")
Hello,
Can anyone tell me if you can apply more than one mask to a movieclip. I’m not sure if I’m using the correct grammar here, so I’ll try to explain it very clearly.
I have a picture, but I want to show only sections of it, so I decide to apply a mask to it using setMask(). However, the sections I want to show are not contiguous, so I want to apply setMask() to more than one mask movieclip in order to be able to show separate sections of the same picture.
Now, I’ve seen it done by duplicating the picture and applying a mask to each duplicate, but I was hoping there was a way to apply more than one mask to an movieclip.
Does anyone know if it’s possible?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [September 9, 2004, 10:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/can-one-mc-setmask-multiple-mcs/63687/2 "2004-09-09T10:33:08Z")
no that is (as much as a know) not possible !!