You are on the right path with the mask ink. I'll try to explain how you
should do it, it's pretty simple, you just have to reverse the way you
are thinking about the mask...it's not the mask you should move it's the
map.
You need to change the regpoint of the map...so the mask box will act
as a
Forgot to mention, when you put the black box on the stage make its ink
mask
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Movie Generation issues
I found and corrected the setScriptList problem I mentioned in a DirectL
post about such, but have two issues still open in this
movie-generating-a-movie attempt. Im posting them to see if anyone has
had any confirming experience, or can see what is wrong with the
Diego Landro wrote:
... i have two maps, onw with roads and onw without and i thought Director
should have some sort of masking like after effects, but the only mask
effect i could find was mask ink which i cant vary through time.
You want to work with the alpha channel of whichever map is on
thanks for your answers, i decided to go the frame by frame animation, as
carl suggested. I resisted to do it because i thought it ought to be a
better way, but finally decided to take the easy -not that easy really- way
and do it frame by frame.
Thanks anyway your ideas helped decide which way
