# How to Leave Blurry Trail Behind Ship/Character?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-leave-blurry-trail-behind-ship-character/266281
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 18, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-leave-blurry-trail-behind-ship-character/266281 "2008-07-18T01:16:14Z")
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### Author: ![DrRobot](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/drrobot/32/3907_2.png) [@DrRobot](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/DrRobot)
#### Post date: [July 18, 2008, 1:16am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-leave-blurry-trail-behind-ship-character/266281/1 "2008-07-18T01:16:14Z")

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i was reading another thread about bitmapdata, and i saw something like this:  
[http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vectorwarszh4.swf](http://img170.imageshack.us/my.php?image=vectorwarszh4.swf)

i thought it was very cool how when everything moves in the game it leaves a blurry trail behind. But, i am unsure how to do this. obviously with bitmapdata, and filters… i’m not exactly sure what to do.

lets say i start with a movieclip from my library

```auto

var box:Box = new Box();
var filter:BlurFilter = new BlurFilter(6,6);
box.filters = [filter];
//...then what?

```

i’m not even sure if that’s right… what do i do?