# Multiple masks help? **URL:** \ **Category:** flash\ **Created:** [December 15, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-masks-help/277623 "2008-12-15T01:28:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![whispers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/858c86/32.png) [@whispers](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/whispers)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2008, 1:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/multiple-masks-help/277623/1 "2008-12-15T01:28:36Z")
I am trying to use this method here: [http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=288&threadid=1410897&CFID=13151180&CFTOKEN=5df21005bb1feb31-2CD5FFB4-F67E-56DC-E1E8B1280EE0B55C&jsessionid=4830966da44a4398c212f6359546a572e3e3](http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?forumid=15&catid=288&threadid=1410897&CFID=13151180&CFTOKEN=5df21005bb1feb31-2CD5FFB4-F67E-56DC-E1E8B1280EE0B55C&jsessionid=4830966da44a4398c212f6359546a572e3e3) to create an inversed mask of the shape I have drawn (lineTo) inside a movieClip… my clip layout/nesting is as follows: parent.parent clip (contentContainer) —parent clip (faceContainer)– -----lineContainer (holds the shape/object Im using for my source of the inverse mask -----maskContainer (empty clip to hold the dynamically created clip from the inverse mask method above) -----imageContainer (the place where the dynamically loaded image gets loaded into, and is ‘masked’ by the inversedMask method) now this all works fine… except I want to add a mask to the parent clip thats holding these 3 nested clips…(faceContainer)… or even to the parent clip of that (contentContainer)… but when I do so… and then invoke the inversedMask() method from above,…the whole imageContainer goes blank… now since the only REAL masking is the maskContainer, masking the imageContainer… why cant I add a mask manualy or through AS to the faceContainer or the contentContainer clips? I cant seem to figure it out… any ideas or suggestion is helpful… this ‘IS’ AS2 by the way… thanks