# Possible to distort movieclip? **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 26, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-distort-movieclip/58815 "2004-07-26T13:10:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GuidonTBee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/58f4c7/32.png) [@GuidonTBee](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/GuidonTBee)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 1:10pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-distort-movieclip/58815/1 "2004-07-26T13:10:11Z")
Cant figure out if this should even be possible, but here goes … I have a movieclip that I load a jpg image into. I can rotate the movieclip & scale it in x & y directions which is great BUT has anyone got any ideas how I could distort it into a trapezium using actionscript ? i.e. [font=Courier New] -----[/font] [font=Courier New] / [/font] [font=Courier New]/ [/font] [font=Courier New]---------[/font] [font=Courier New][/font] Scaling the y is fine, but I effectively want to scale the x dimension by different amounts depending on what the y position is & the more I think about it the more my brain hurts ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2004, 4:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-distort-movieclip/58815/2 "2004-07-26T16:47:28Z")
There’s no way I’m aware of. Which is a shame, really. I’ve a few effects that would do well from a bit of scripted skewing. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 7:28am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-distort-movieclip/58815/3 "2004-07-28T07:28:29Z")
Ah Well - At least I know I’m not just being a dullard now … Thanks for letting me know anyhow - If I ever figure out a way of doing this, I’ll post it, but I’ll not hold me breath … Guidon :beard: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 28, 2004, 11:10am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/possible-to-distort-movieclip/58815/4 "2004-07-28T11:10:37Z")
nope, not really. The best you can do is create two skewed masked triangles and put them together to give the appearance of a taper like that, however the image shifts and will not match up perfectly (as the image itself is still not being tapered, just skewed in two pieces in a tapered shape).