# Idiotic masks : )

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/idiotic-masks/284741>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 23, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/idiotic-masks/284741 "2009-03-23T06:55:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![sekasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@sekasi](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/sekasi)\
**Post date:** [March 23, 2009, 6:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/idiotic-masks/284741/1 "2009-03-23T06:55:44Z")

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Look, this has annoyed me for a while and I don’t really know what the deal is. Anyone that knows the answer will defo be on my favorite people list for a while.

In the Flash IDE, you can easily mask two layers with another layer, effectively masking multiple sprites with the same sprite.

Is this really not possible with actionscript? And no, I **don’t** want to create a holder sprite with all of those inside and then mask that holder sprite. And no, I **don’t** want to have two masks.

Seriously what’s the deal, this has annoyed me so many times and I swear to god there’s a ridiculously easy answer but I can’t see it. :whistle2: