# Masking multiple clips with setMask and duplicateMC

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-multiple-clips-with-setmask-and-duplicatemc/172309
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 13, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-multiple-clips-with-setmask-and-duplicatemc/172309 "2005-12-13T06:49:36Z")
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### Author: ![daleth](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/daleth/32/1096_2.png) [@daleth](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/daleth)
#### Post date: [December 13, 2005, 6:49am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/masking-multiple-clips-with-setmask-and-duplicatemc/172309/1 "2005-12-13T06:49:36Z")

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Hi guys. Since setMask can’t be used to mask multiple clips (as you can do easily with masking layers), I figured I’d just duplicate the original mask and do an additional setMask. So I thought:

```auto
text_mask_mc.duplicateMovieClip(text_mask2_mc, text_mask_mc.getDepth());
shine_mc.setMask(text_mask_mc);
solid_mc.setMask(text_mask2_mc);

```

But that does nothing, the maskees just sit there and so does the original mask-to-be.

Maybe I’m just sleepy, but I’m missing something. Thanks for your help!