# setRGB on Symbol in Animation causes stop?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setrgb-on-symbol-in-animation-causes-stop/186901
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [April 25, 2006, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setrgb-on-symbol-in-animation-causes-stop/186901 "2006-04-25T10:19:17Z")
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### Author:  [@CEOofAEP](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CEOofAEP)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 10:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setrgb-on-symbol-in-animation-causes-stop/186901/1 "2006-04-25T10:19:17Z")
Greetings, all ^^;
I have a problem (again)…
See, I have a Symbol- in’s an animation of a “Cycler” (bicycle driver) seen from above and I want to use a function to duplicate it with actionscript as needed.
So far so good, has been done before.
But in this Symbol I have “sub-Symbols” on the timeline (within the Cycler’s animation)… how would I do it to use a setRGB on one of them for each duplicated driver individually?
The way I tried it now (see attached files) makes the animation stop for the sub-Symbols I use setRGB on (in my example the shirt of the left Cycler and the helmet of the right Cycler).
Why does the animation stop? I had a similar problem before and I solved it by coloring a fixed simple square on a layer and the animation for the motion was really a mask, ontop of it… but why doesn’t it work like this?
Feel free to test is yourself- I am open to suggestions. The Cyclers are called “Biker\_1” and “Biker\_2” and the sub-Symbols are called “Helm”, “Koerper” and “Rumpf”, for the Helmet, the Body and the “Rump” of the Cycler.
Thanks in advance! 🙂
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### Author:  [@CEOofAEP](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/CEOofAEP)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2006, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/setrgb-on-symbol-in-animation-causes-stop/186901/2 "2006-04-25T13:27:32Z")
Hm. well- I solved it with the same solution I mentioned about coloring things before ^^;