Masks and Animated GIF's

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Hello,

First time Flasher here. :slight_smile: I have been playing around with Flash, and I must say it is very neat.

I was playing around with some of the tutorials here (very nice site btw, Kirupa). I did the Lightning Mask successfully. Very cool.

However, I played around with exporting and found that when exporting to an animated GIF the effect was not what I expected.

I think I am correct in saying this, but wanted a more expert opinion on the matter.

GIF’s are single layer, but can contain multiple frames within them. Thus animated GIF’s, however, masks will not work with them because of this “limitation”? Is this correct?

If I am incorrect, please explain how a mask can be exported with an animated GIF.

Thanks much. :slight_smile:

[Edit]

Well it seems something is a miss. The above was done in Flash MX, when I export the flash to an animated GIF, the mask is not present. However, if I do the same export in Flash 5, it works. Bizarre. So ignore my previous question. :slight_smile: I will figure out what I am missing in Flash MX when exporting.

Thanks.