# Going crazy with the mask!

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**Created:** [August 12, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/going-crazy-with-the-mask/312789 "2010-08-12T15:29:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![szox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/77aa72/32.png) [@szox](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/szox)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2010, 3:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/going-crazy-with-the-mask/312789/1 "2010-08-12T15:29:36Z")

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hi

im going crazy with the simple matherfather task. i want to make a mask and applay it to a picture but i need to do it in actionsript.  
so what i do is create all necessery objs. at stage, acces them in class.  
set movie’s clip mask and it’s working but not the way i want.

i want to have empty hole inside of mask which is a movie clip. that is not possible until i make a empty hole connected to the edge of mask with empty space. only then its showin the empty hole (and the connecting empty space aswell and )

aarrrr! please help me im going crazy with it. you can see examples below

[http://www.4shared.com/file/ubQfRWQf/ok\_online.html](http://www.4shared.com/file/ubQfRWQf/ok_online.html)  
[http://www.4shared.com/file/6rAPRSJf/baaad.html](http://www.4shared.com/file/6rAPRSJf/baaad.html)