# Onion skin question

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-question/183584>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [March 28, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-question/183584 "2006-03-28T15:23:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![o111](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/o111/32/2123_2.png) [@o111](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/o111)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-question/183584/1 "2006-03-28T15:23:49Z")

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Is there a way to have the onion skin visible in your .swf? Is it a way to do this with actionscript?  
Im making a stickmen fight animation, and I want to make a cool slowmotion effect.

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**Author:** ![serkios](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/serkios/32/608_2.png) [@serkios](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/serkios)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-question/183584/2 "2006-03-28T15:39:18Z")

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Haha I dont think you can script that with AS. There is a way of building your movieclips to get the effect you want however. Animate your stickmen and put them into a movieclip. On your timeline place your stickman animation on the timeline, then duplicate it on a new layer and space the starting keyframes out one frame at a time. You can give those repeated clips alpha tweens in ordrer to get the onion skin look. Hope that helps!

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**Author:** ![o111](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/o111/32/2123_2.png) [@o111](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/o111)\
**Post date:** [March 28, 2006, 7:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/onion-skin-question/183584/3 "2006-03-28T19:25:54Z")

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I thought I could do something like that:)  
But if it was an easier way to do it with AS, I just wanted to know that;)