# My background animation loop restarts itself when moving inside its parents timeline

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-background-animation-loop-restarts-itself-when-moving-inside-its-parents-timeline/188583>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-background-animation-loop-restarts-itself-when-moving-inside-its-parents-timeline/188583 "2006-05-09T07:13:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![messlah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c37758/32.png) [@messlah](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/messlah)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2006, 7:13am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-background-animation-loop-restarts-itself-when-moving-inside-its-parents-timeline/188583/1 "2006-05-09T07:13:36Z")

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Hi all,

I have a background animation that I want to run continously its (images\_about.img\_mwe1). I have animated its loop so that when it reaches its end frame it goes back to frame one and is seamless.

My problem is that in (images\_about) mc’s loop when it gets to its own end frame and goes back to its first frame for its loop, my background animation (images\_about.img\_mwe1) also goes back to its own first frame which causes animation to not be seamless.

And unfortunatley I cannot just extend the amount of frames in (images\_about) to match (images\_about.img\_mwe1)

My file is posted here

[http://users.ncable.net.au/~timfrancis/bgloopingmx.fla](http://users.ncable.net.au/%7Etimfrancis/bgloopingmx.fla)

This is really getting to me,

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I can be emailed at [messlah@hotmail.com](mailto:messlah@hotmail.com)