Mask with other movieclip

Question

HiI have already made a mask. I want it to look like a magnifying glass. How can I make the handle and the mask move together?

Colin Holgate · Accepted Answer

I tried that but the bigger picture inside is a still picture when I put the movieclip in the scene

You would select the bigger picture, convert to symbol as MovieClip (F8), then give the movieclip a name that can be used to control it with code.

Are you able to upload what you have so far? It might be quicker to fix what's wrong than to make a whole demo file for you.

Colin Holgate · Answer

One tricky part would be the moving around of the close up version of the image. It too would be in the same movieclip, and masked by the mask layer. As you move the whole movieclip around the stage you could make the close up image also be a movieclip, and you would move that in the opposite direction. The illusion would be that the close up isn't moving.

There are a lot of YouTube videos on how to make a magnifier effect. Do a search for:

how to do a magnifier in flash

that will show up quite a few.

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