problems with an animated mask

[roreyf]

here's the deal i have a movie clip of a horizontal line that i motion tweened to go up and down the side of the screen of the main movie, easy enough works great. then i decided that it would be nice if i put the title of the screen written
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and stationary under the begining of the line, again easy enough, then i decided to create a mask that would follow the motion tween of the line so i created a layer inbetween the line layer and the text layer, put a filed rectangle over the text and masked the layer. i motioned tweened the mask layer to ride just above the line has it goes up and down revealing the text each time it runs over it. now this movie clip works fine in the small window above the library but when i put it in the movie and test the scene or publish it all that shows up is the line moving up and down no text? what have i done wrong is there some way to fix it or do it that i am not aware of.

[azizur_rahman]

Are your text colour different then the colour of the main stage? could see the text when not playing?

[roreyf]

yes the text color is different than the main stage, in fact it does work in the symbol preview on the library window, but not when i test the symbol or the scene or movie.

[azizur_rahman]

1) check to see your object is not set to opacity of 0 in your action script.

2) check any action script that you have on the main timeline.

3) possibly when you put the symbol on stage the text goes out side the stage

upload the file some where so we can see what wong.

[RelandR]

did you double check that your text is not selected as "dynamic" ?

[roreyf]

no i sure did not, what should it be if not dynamic
and where would i post the file so that others can see

[roreyf]

i checked the text and it is static, but i did change it to a graphic

[RelandR]

Static text would be right....did that work ?
If not - is your 'masked' layer:: modified>layers>Masked ???
(your layer icons will tell if this is done right as they'll be different from the rest)

to attatch a file use the advanced reply button and then hit the "manage attatchments" button within the reply window, browse to the file then click OK or open....Zip it First - (I don't see ".fla" as a valid attatchable extension)

[roreyf]

Here is the file the only thing on it is the movie clip of the animated mask i am having a problem with, if you can find a problem please let me know

[RelandR]

got it to work

[RelandR]

At first glance I thought it might be the mask not being animated within its' own clip (which is the preferred way)

... but it really boiled down to the text being a graphic (which doesn't make sense to me either) so I replaced it with just text on the main timeline.

The "lineMC" and the "maskMC" are each independent.... you may want to sync their positions to each other better

CheerZ ...<>R<>

[roreyf]

Thank you very much i appreciate it

[RelandR]

noProblemo =)