Comments on: Make Your Flash Logo Bling with Alpha Gradient Masking

By: saura

saura — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 10:27:38 +0000

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By: Bloggerzbible

Bloggerzbible — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 00:46:46 +0000

logo is beautiful

By: metu_yal

metu_yal — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 07:47:00 +0000

thank you very much especially let me know about alpha gradient masking. i was about to be crazy while trying to achieve an alpha masking

By: EKLIPz

EKLIPz — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 05:25:32 +0000

Great Tutorial. Thanks.

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By: Rob

Rob — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 14:19:59 +0000

Thanks Karl

I did some digging after what you said and found the AS2 solution:

maskee.cacheAsBitmap = true;
maskMC.cacheAsBitmap = true;
maskee.setMask(maskMC);

You were right to cache everything and I have it working now. Also, I found the AS needs to be executed at the same time as the MCs appear.

Rob

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 06:50:06 +0000

Wow, thanks a bunch! And thanks for including the CS3 version! For people trying to create this effect without following the tutorial exactly, note that you can do everything right, but without applying the blur filter on the instance being masked, this effect will not work! I discovered this after about 3 hours of hair pulling.

By: Karl Macklin

Karl Macklin — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:11:52 +0000

I rarely code any AS2 so I can’t really help you there, other than advise you to take the basic approach that I use in this tutorial and make sure you cache whatever you’re masking, plus the mask, ask bitmaps (if they’re not already).

In AS2, a MovieClip also has the cacheAsBitmap property. A MovieClip also has setMask as a function which takes the desired mask MovieClip as parameter.
Shouldn’t be hard to sort out the rest I think, just try it!

By: Himanshu Sharma

Himanshu Sharma — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 11:09:11 +0000

hi I learn from this tutorial How can I mask a simpalel tecnic.
I save time.
From- Himanshu
VNS(U.P.)

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:13:08 +0000

I’m in the same boat as scott, works fine in AS3 but need an AS2 version for work.

Can anyone help wth this?