Flash: Damn Masked Layers!

[marshmellow1328]

I have no idea why the hell masked layers won't work for me. I know I've talked to you about this before. There is some minor detail that is off when I try to make a masked layer. It's not like they're a hard concept, but they just refuse to work for me. The moment I touch one it seems to break. Hopefully we can try to figure out what the hell I'm doing wrong sometime.

What I want to do with a masked layer is simply make some vertically scrolling text. I was going to have my text block start out of the picture then incrementally move up under a mask and then once it has moved off the top, jump back to the bottom and start again. Unfortunately, it just never shows up when I have the mask layer there. The text block is moving fine. The moment I add the mask layer, the text block doesn't show up at all.

[BlazingGamer]

I have no clue what you're talking about?! Is this some kind of secret language?!?! All I want to learn is Sprite animation!!!!

[Bnick]

^^^^ have fun blazing but keep in mind sprites are limited to whatever they were animated to do in whatever game/...whatever you stole them from. They hire many an artist to do the frame by frame motion, so creating your own is practicaly impossible.

[BlazingGamer]

That may be true but I've seen many sprite animations and they seem pretty fine to me. Like the Flash video of Super Mario Bros. Z. Alvin-Earthworm did a pretty good job of getting the Mario sprites and Sonic sprites together.

[BlazingGamer]

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