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Making in Animate 2017

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February 10, 2017
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Hi, I've been learning Animate 2017 and masks don't seem to work. Instead of showing whats wishing the mask, nothing on the layers within the mask are showing. Any ideas. I'm using a tutorial that is based in Animate so wondering if this is a problem with the 2017 version.

Thanks!

Steve

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just.emma

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Is the mask an animated movie clip or graphic symbol?

If you're working in HTML5 canvas, masks with nested animation won't work, so I'm guessing that might be your problem. You can, however, animate your mask on the main timeline if you want an animated mask.

steved9129129Author

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Its a graphic symbol

Colin Holgate

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Does the graphic symbol have more than one frame? If it does, you would want to copy its frames and use them in the mask layer. If the tween is to reveal the masked text, change how you are doing that to be a shape tween instead of a classic or motion tween.

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Nick Gioia

Community Expert

I did a mask test and it worked fine for me. Send a pic of your timeline and stage.

Will see if I can see whats happening.

Community Expert

Community Expert

Hi Steve,

These tutorials should help you.

How to use mask layers in Adobe Animate CC

Create animated masks | Adobe Animate CC tutorials

Colin Holgate

Inspiring

To see the effect of a mask you need to have made that layer be Mask, and also make sure the layers to be masked are indented, as if they are children of the mask layer. Also, the layers need to be locked to see the effect.

steved9129129Author

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Hi, and thanks of the reply. I've followed this tutorial here:

https://www.lynda.com/Flash-Professional-tutorials/Creating-movie-clip-remaining-products/473879/488032-4.html

and I have indeed made the layer a mask and the layer is locked and the layer below is indented. Im 99% sure I have followed the tutorial correctly and yet the mask is not working. Are there any other settings to be considered?

Thanks

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