# Looping in Layers **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [April 5, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-in-layers/17449 "2003-04-05T11:21:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Alucard\_X](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7993a0/32.png) [@Alucard\_X](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Alucard_X)\ **Post date:** [April 5, 2003, 11:21am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-in-layers/17449/1 "2003-04-05T11:21:40Z")
Hey, I would be much obliged if someone could help me with this: I have made a movie in flash, with seperate animations. All of them stop at a certain frame, however, how do i make one loop (continue) and never stop? I have a bit of text which fades in and out, i want that to keep doing that, even when the other complex animations finish!! I think i may have to “repeat” frames “a-b” but don’t know how :q: It is basically one layer i want to repeat. Can the wise wisen the unwise? 🙂 ---
**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:** [April 5, 2003, 11:24am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-in-layers/17449/2 "2003-04-05T11:24:03Z")
The best method would be to use movieclips and place that text fading animation inside a movieclip without any stop actions so that it will loop. ---
**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:** [April 5, 2003, 11:44am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/looping-in-layers/17449/3 "2003-04-05T11:44:46Z")
Thanks 🙂 What i actually need, is to make the animation loop from the start. There are like 10 keyframes in the layer, maybe more. I need it to go back to the very first one. Is that done via active scripting, or by converting all of the graphics to movie clips? Much appreciated 🙂