# Papervision Question: scrollable text causing movie material to shrink :(

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**Created:** [August 12, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/papervision-question-scrollable-text-causing-movie-material-to-shrink/268332 "2008-08-12T17:54:09Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 12, 2008, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/papervision-question-scrollable-text-causing-movie-material-to-shrink/268332/1 "2008-08-12T17:54:09Z")

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Hi all,

For some reason when I try to add scrollable text inside of a MovieMaterial, the material takes into account the height of the text being masked.

Heres an example \>\> [http://www.p-m-b.net/mocap/v2](http://www.p-m-b.net/mocap/v2)  
It’s the 4th plane called “Workshops & Seminars”, don’t mind the error message, just continue.

The plane should not be that small, the extra space at the bottom is the text hidden by the mask. A similar example is the 3rd plane, since the photo is larger than the background i created, it shrinks down the background to accomodate the entire photo.

When its applied to a plane, it causes my MovieMaterial to be scaled down vertically to fit within the size of the plane.

I’ve tried putting the scrollable text inside of a movie clip to act as a container, that still caused problems. I’ve tried putting the scrollable text into a external swf, and then load it into a movie clip, still no good.

I tried to mimic the steps BlitzAgency took to create this  
( [http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=315](http://labs.blitzagency.com/?p=315) ) but I still have the same problem

Can anyone please help me figure out a workaround for this problem??