How to Mask the Snow effect?

programming flash
1

I implemented the falling snow tutorial from this site, but I have a problem. Is there any way I can mask the snow flakes falling? I only want them visible in a certain area of the swf. Every time I try to mask it, it doesn’t work. Please, help me out.:-\

2

Hopefully this will help u:

http://search.atomz.com/search/?sp-a=00040c2f-sp00000000&sp-f=iso-8859-1&sp-q=Mask

3

Thanks for the link, but the problem is you can’t mask this. It sounds strange I know, but it’s true. I’ve even created the snow in a stand alone swf and referenced it in my movie, but it only allows 2 flakes to fall and then it stops.

When I preview just the swf, it works great, but stick it in a movie and it doesn’t. Any ideas?

4

Glad to see I’m not the only one, I was (and am) going crazy trying to get a mask on these snowflakes… Anyone suggest anything? Thanks

5

don´t mask them, if you want them in a retalgle area just add some if´s like that:

(the snow flakes will be only visible from 0 -> 100 px on the X axis, and, 50 -> 150 px on the y axis)

if (this._x>101){
   this._x=0
}
if (this._x<-1){
   this._x=100
}
if (this._y>151){
   this._y=50
}
if (this._y<49){
   this._y=150
}

=)