# How do I expand the area around the stage?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-expand-the-area-around-the-stage/327224>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 14, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-expand-the-area-around-the-stage/327224 "2012-02-14T02:53:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![mow966](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/48db29/32.png) [@mow966](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mow966)\
**Post date:** [February 14, 2012, 2:53am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-do-i-expand-the-area-around-the-stage/327224/1 "2012-02-14T02:53:06Z")

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I just can’t figure it out. How do I expand the grey area around the stage so I can ad more graphics to my platformer game. I know how to expand the stage itself… but not the grey area around it. I use vcam so the screen follows my character, so all graphics are on the first frame. the character keeps moving to the side so I need to keep ading graphics for a long way to the right, but the way it is now, I run out of room.