I want to display a crowd of people… I have a tiny MC that looks like 3 people standing together- the thing is, I don’t want to duplicate them because then they’d be ontop of everything else and they’re not supposed to be.
I have a predefined area on which those people will appear and I was thinking to just do the following:
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[]prepare the area with instances of the 3-people-MC for the “maximum amount of people” case (covering the whole area).
[]have a shape in their midst, filled with a transparent fill (or have it be invisible, if that would still work with a hittest).
[]resize the shape mentioned in “2.” according to how many people I really want displayed (change width and height).
[]have a function nested in each 3-people-MC that checks whether or not that MC is hit by the shape from “2.”.
[*]make the 3-people-MC visible or invisible according to “4.”.
[/list]Is that doable? how would you write that? Before, I was just working with a mask- but I am having trouble checking if the mask hits the people MCs or not 
How would you trigger this test just once when the whole fla is started (and not on every “enterFrame” or such)?
Thanks in advance for your time and effort 
~Marcel
