# Changing transparency

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-transparency/84446>\
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**Created:** [March 27, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-transparency/84446 "2005-03-27T20:46:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![VoS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@VoS](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/VoS)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2005, 8:46pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/changing-transparency/84446/1 "2005-03-27T20:46:14Z")

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hey…  
i was wondering how i would go about making a sort of increasing transparency layer…

say i have a movieclip which is scrolling back and forth horizontally …  
as it reaches its extremes ( were i want it to start being hidden) i do not want it to be completly hidden right away … but i want it to look more and more hidden the further into the extreme it goes , so it looks as if its fading when it scrolls to the side… thank you 😉

//VoS

i know it could be done by slicing the mc up into smaller bits and changing \_alpha of it as it goes further away from my center … but im to lazy to do all the work to make that look good =P