# Partial Transform Color of Movie Clip

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partial-transform-color-of-movie-clip/323900>\
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**Created:** [July 23, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partial-transform-color-of-movie-clip/323900 "2011-07-23T01:25:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![ColinDavies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@ColinDavies](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ColinDavies)\
**Post date:** [July 23, 2011, 1:25am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/partial-transform-color-of-movie-clip/323900/1 "2011-07-23T01:25:49Z")

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## I have a series of movieclips animations where the user can choose select a certain color. Eg with a building the user can select the roof and recolor the roof. As it is an animation I have needed to seeprate the colored area eg roof out in to a separate movie clip. and use transform color on the child animation instance. The glitch with this is that next I have to oiverride the gotoAndPlay and gotoAndStop, in the main movieclip, to alter the child instance.

=\> My question is, is there a better way of doing this, eg simpler.