# Doing the unmasked

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doing-the-unmasked/205871>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 2, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doing-the-unmasked/205871 "2006-11-02T20:08:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![voxecho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/278dde/32.png) [@voxecho](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/voxecho)\
**Post date:** [November 2, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/doing-the-unmasked/205871/1 "2006-11-02T20:08:58Z")

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is there a way to make a mask which does it’s normal thing where the mask sites but doesn’t completely hide the content where the mask object isn’t?

e.x.

mask\_mc coords x:100, y:100, w:100, h:100  
stage coords w:300 h:300

so between x100 and x200 the content will be completely visible but between 0-99 and 201-300 the item will have a mask with 30% alpha over it?

clear as mud?