# Lighting-Mask

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-mask/26588>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [July 24, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-mask/26588 "2003-07-24T13:39:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![Nelo\_Angelo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/e495f1/32.png) [@Nelo\_Angelo](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Nelo_Angelo)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 1:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-mask/26588/1 "2003-07-24T13:39:23Z")

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Hi there,

I’m a newbie to Flash MX, and was going through the tutorials and came across the lighting mask tutorial for Flash 5.

I tried doing it in MX but failed not sure why!!

:sigh:

I got the gradient right for the light that travells left to right and the breaking up of the text but for Some reason I can’t get the gradient thing going on the text itself and am confussed as to why??

All help would be appreciated!!!  
:thumb:

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [July 24, 2003, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/lighting-mask/26588/2 "2003-07-24T17:16:08Z")

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Are your layers in the proper order? If so, post your .fla (-: