{"id":39,"date":"2008-04-11T21:51:24","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T19:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2008\/04\/11\/masks\/"},"modified":"2008-04-12T18:05:18","modified_gmt":"2008-04-12T16:05:18","slug":"masks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/2008\/04\/11\/masks\/","title":{"rendered":"Masks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The other day I was trying to animate a mask on a Sprite. It was working only very jerkily or not all. After a lot of trial and error I decided to re-read the docs on masking a Sprite. It turns out you need to add the mask to the the Stage before you can animate it. Quite strange when you are used to just setting the mask in ActionScript 2.<\/p>\n

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ActionScript<\/div>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t
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  1. var<\/span> mc:Sprite = new<\/span> Sprite(<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/div><\/li>\n
  2. \/\/ ... fill mc with something<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  3. var<\/span> myMask:Sprite = new<\/span> Sprite(<\/span>)<\/span>;<\/div><\/li>\n
  4. \/\/ ... draw the mask<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n
  5. addChild(<\/span>mc)<\/span>;<\/div><\/li>\n
  6. addChild(<\/span>mask)<\/span>;<\/div><\/li>\n
  7. mc.mask<\/span> = myMask;<\/div><\/li>\n
  8. \/\/ .. now animate away!!! :)<\/span><\/div><\/li>\n<\/ol>\t<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The other day I was trying to animate a mask on a Sprite. It was working only very jerkily or not all. After a lot of trial and error I decided to re-read the docs on masking a Sprite. It … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[139],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-actionscript-30","tag-actionscript-30"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.ansuz.nl\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}