I have created a short movie clip that contains two layers
One layer has a static text box and the other a mask.
The mask’s alpha value varies during the movie clip so that when I play it the text appears to fade in and then fades out.
When I play the clip in symbol editing mode it works as intended.
(the length of the clip is 50 frames)
When I insert the clip in the main scene the text just stays there for 50 frames but there is no fade in or fade out.
What’s happening? Are masks in movieclips ignored in the main scene? Am I doing something else wrong?
what are you trying to do have the text fade in and out??? if thats the case all you need to do is make a motion tween of the text with diffrent alpha values between each 10 frames or so thats if you just want the text to fade in like a blinking fade basically
I don’t think that you’re allowed to alpha tween something inside of a mask layer or not. By definition, the pixel is either full, or empty. If it’s full, what ever is below shows through, if it is empty, then those layers do not show through.
You can do what you origionaly intended, but have two layers under the mask. The bottem layer containing the text, and the layer above it containing a tweened fill, ranging from 0 to 100 alpha. Then have a single mask layer masking both of those layers. If you want the mask to absolutely only show the letters, select the text, break it apart and use those fills as the mask layer content.
There are a couple of instances where I found that I needed this set up rather than an alpha’d instance of a clip containing the text.
