Gradiant Mask

programming flash
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I want to have a Gradiant Mask animate over an image. So i made a square and filled it with white. I added a liner gradiant and Alpha faded on of the colors to 0. SO i have my nice faded square which to make a mask out of.

Problem when i make the gradiant square layer a mask it just makes a big square the size of the whole gradiant square. It doesn’t apear faded at all. Does anyone know how i can do this effect?

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you can’t make a mask a gradient. it uses vectors… and it doesn’t work…

in real fancy ultra high tech speak…

:smiley:

ya’ll can’t have a gradient mask… (now watch that snot-nosed Ahmed come in here and make me look silly)…

Rev

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I hope he does.

Not to make u look bad but i Just want to see what the mind of his comes up with.

Well maybe to make you look bad too:beam:

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it’s okay to revel in the upstaging of others…

:smiley:

Rev

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You can’t. Masks go by shape and shape only, so alpha settings don’t count for anything. Your best bet is to (as you did in the first place) make a fading gradient that is the same color as your background color, of course however, this won’t work well with non-solid bg colors.

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Nobody ahs any good news for me today huh. I guess i should get on learing affter effects.

Thanks a lot guys…thanks for nothing lol:D

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Hey, thank Macromedia for their picky masks :stuck_out_tongue:

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What about if you made a gradient mask from vectors, what I mean is start with a solid block then ‘recreate’ the pixels in vector line by drawing tiny square boxes line by line and removing some the ‘pixels’ as you go, like a chessboard. Which is essentially what a gradiend mask in Photoshop is.

It would be crude and make your eyes hurt but might work depending on what kind of effect you want.

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I see someone here has never done pixel art in Flash :trout:

Besides, I don’t really think that will portray an accurate fade.

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Yay!!!

You can’t do it… I mean I was right!

that’s twice this year…

:smiley:

Rev

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the only way to do it is how lsot says and have your background the same color as the fade starting color otherwise your f@c<ed sorry :frowning:

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I have seen work arounds for this, something along the lines of creating multiple instances of the mask, what you end up with is a huge file, for something that doesn’t look that great.
But there isn’t a way to do it in one click.

I will see if I can find that file on how this is done.