# Gradually moving the y position of a movieclip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradually-moving-the-y-position-of-a-movieclip/316831>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [December 3, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradually-moving-the-y-position-of-a-movieclip/316831 "2010-12-03T14:07:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![BenBen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a587f6/32.png) [@BenBen](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/BenBen)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2010, 2:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/gradually-moving-the-y-position-of-a-movieclip/316831/1 "2010-12-03T14:07:34Z")

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hey,

I’m totally new to ActionScript and don’t really know what I’m doing yet! I have an assignment due Thursday and one of the things I’m currently stuck on is: I’m trying to get the water in a beach scene to gradually move down the screen until it fills the screen (and then the game will be over). At the moment I’m trying to do this using a timer event, is this right?

If anyone can help that would be amazing! 🙂

thanks