# EAsy way to make horizontal text fade

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**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [October 19, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-make-horizontal-text-fade/3695 "2001-10-19T01:46:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 1:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-make-horizontal-text-fade/3695/1 "2001-10-19T01:46:11Z")

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don’t know if this topic’s been discussed  
but I was wondering if there’s an easy way to do  
a horizontal text fade without doing it letter by letter  
maybe with some sort of action script?

what I meant by an horz. text fade is when each  
char appears right after one another

thanks

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-make-horizontal-text-fade/3695/2 "2001-10-19T02:17:27Z")

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easiest way i can think of (although this may not be quite what you want) is to make a movie of a bar that fades from solid to transparent, make it a MC, and then tween it from covering the text to not \* c\*overing the text.

good luck!

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:22am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-make-horizontal-text-fade/3695/3 "2001-10-19T02:22:49Z")

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Or… if you simply want the letters to apear, and you don’t care if they “fade” in or out… you can use a mask layer to uncover them.

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**Post date:** [October 19, 2001, 2:34am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/easy-way-to-make-horizontal-text-fade/3695/4 "2001-10-19T02:34:55Z")

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DO it the way i did, letter by letter! Upuat saw the screen shot. i did one for AYUMI HAMASAKI tons of letters took freaking for ever but the expirence gained from it was good.