# Duplicating movie clip problem
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589 "2008-07-10T15:18:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@Brian\_McGovern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brian_McGovern)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/1 "2008-07-10T15:18:39Z")
Help Anybody,
I followed kirupa’s tutorial on duplicating movieclips [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/duplicate.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/actionscript/duplicate.htm)
Now I have to fade the object I am duplicating in the timeline. I thought placing a object over it as a layer would work…but it doesn’t.
Can anybody help?
Thank you, Brian
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### Author:  [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 3:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/2 "2008-07-10T15:43:02Z")
Have a play around with the alpha value of the duplicated clip…in the tutorial this is done automatically using a random value:
this.\_alpha = random(100);
You’ll probably have to place the alpha code into the button handler and reference the previous duplicate. Something like this might work:
```auto
on (press) {
i = i + 1;
duplicateMovieClip(_root.circle, "circle" + i, i);
_root["circle" + (i - 1)]._alpha = 10;
}
```
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### Author:  [@Brian\_McGovern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brian_McGovern)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/3 "2008-07-10T16:06:34Z")
Im sorry, i forgot im not using a button, do I just write a frame script to make the the clip disappear?
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### Author:  [@glosrfc](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glosrfc)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/4 "2008-07-10T16:33:07Z")
Sure…you could address the mc directly using the \_alpha or \_visible properties, e.g.
mc\_I\_want\_to\_vanish.\_visible = “false”;
or
mc\_I\_want\_to\_vanish.\_alpha = xxx;
where xxx is a value between 0 and 100.
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### Author:  [@nathan99](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/nathan99)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 4:35pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/5 "2008-07-10T16:35:07Z")
Your query is very vague though :x
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### Author:  [@Brian\_McGovern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brian_McGovern)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/6 "2008-07-10T16:48:53Z")
don’t know why but neither works.
thanks anyways
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### Author:  [@Brian\_McGovern](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Brian_McGovern)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 5:22pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/duplicating-movie-clip-problem/265589/7 "2008-07-10T17:22:09Z")
i figured it out.
onClipEvent (load) {
scale = (random(100)+50);
```
this._x = 522;
this._y = random(50);
this._alpha = random(100);
this._xscale = scale;
this._yscale = scale;
```
}
onClipEvent(enterFrame){
this.\_alpha-=.5;
if (this.\_alpha\<=0){
}
}