# Gradiant Fill direction

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradiant-fill-direction/298940>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 27, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradiant-fill-direction/298940 "2009-10-27T14:54:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![jik\_ff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bc79bd/32.png) [@jik\_ff](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jik_ff)\
**Post date:** [October 27, 2009, 2:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradiant-fill-direction/298940/1 "2009-10-27T14:54:41Z")

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I can’t say that I have played with it much, but I was looking to use a gradiant fill in one of my Sprite objects I created in flash. Seems that the gradiant fill always goes left to right… how can I make it go up and down? I know I can rotate the object, but then I would mess with the x and y scales that would mess me up later down the road.

is there a way to change it to vertical fill?