# Tinting MC's With Action Script?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 12, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700 "2003-05-12T15:00:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 7
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### Author:  [@iamapathy](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/iamapathy)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/1 "2003-05-12T15:00:12Z")
Is it possible to use the tint effect through action scripting?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/2 "2003-05-12T15:04:14Z")
you can change the colour of a clip with as like this:
```auto
Col = new Color(myClip);
Col.setRGB(0xff0000);
```
that simulates a tint with 100% opacity, but I don’t know how you’d do it if you wanted say 50% transparency
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/3 "2003-05-12T15:12:01Z")
Actually, 50% transparency is exactly what i needed. (-:
Isn’t there some sort of property that can change this?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/4 "2003-05-12T15:14:48Z")
you can set the movieclips’ transparency to 50% by putting this in its first frame:
\_alpha = 50;
but thats not the same as giving a movieclip a tint in flash and then setting the alpha of that tint to 50%. Which one are you after?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/5 "2003-05-12T15:18:23Z")
Sorry, i meant a tint with 50% transparency… like having the image darkened(if the tint was black).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/6 "2003-05-12T15:31:12Z")
[http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615)
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 13, 2003, 2:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/tinting-mcs-with-action-script/20700/7 "2003-05-13T02:41:31Z")
> \*Originally posted by senocular \*
> \*\*[http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615](http://proto.layer51.com/d.aspx?f=615) \*\*
> interesting prototype, senocular… i only wish i knew what was goin on… 😛