# How to do alpha effect on movie clip whos colour is set by actionscript?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-alpha-effect-on-movie-clip-whos-colour-is-set-by-actionscript/252793>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 23, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-alpha-effect-on-movie-clip-whos-colour-is-set-by-actionscript/252793 "2008-02-23T17:59:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![Divardo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6bbea6/32.png) [@Divardo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Divardo)\
**Post date:** [February 23, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-do-alpha-effect-on-movie-clip-whos-colour-is-set-by-actionscript/252793/1 "2008-02-23T17:59:51Z")

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I have uploaded the file so you can see what I mean. In the actual file, I am working on, there are animations between frame 2-19. When it gets to frame 20 the alpha effect on Symbol 2 does not work due to the actionscript colour change.

[http://www.mediafire.com/upload\_complete.php?id=brywlsvbbcd](http://www.mediafire.com/upload_complete.php?id=brywlsvbbcd)

Any ideas how to fix this?