Mask Animation

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Hey guys, I just popped in to ask a few questions so that I can improve my animation.

Ok, so I’m making an animation based around a stickfigure that is invisible, but I want to have it so that a viewer can move a shape dragged by the mouse over anywhere on the screen and see the invisible dude. Kind of like an “Un-Invisible machine thingy.” Heh.

I was awondering how to do this, should I have the guy (in visible mode) on a layer which is masked by another layer which contains the viewer?

And could people please post all of the AS (including drag mouse and hide mouse and stuff, as I am no good with AS)

Thanx guys-
Spazmik;)

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Hello there,

Ok that´s the way…
Make your figure visible on one layer and then make the shape that is going to be the mask…
Then after put the shape on stage, select the shape and put this AS:

    on (press) {
      startDrag(" ");

}

    on (release) {
       stopDrag ();

}

In this case you don´t want to hide the mouse cursor cos people need to see
it to click and start drag the shape…
:wink: