The Animate flash Screen

[Homer_Simpson01]

I'm trying to figure out how to create the effect seen on the lower right corner of the animate flash screen that pops up when animate first opens.  I want to create one with a black screen and a circle, kind of like a flashlight in the night, and when a child moves the circle around a jungle scene with animals is seen in the circle.  Thanks for any help.

[kglad]

that's an animated mask over whatever display you want to reveal under the mask.

[Myra Ferguson]

When you say, "child," do you mean the child is the subject of your animation or the user who will be exploring with a flashlight effect by moving the cursor over the jungle scene? If it's interactive, you'll need to use code to attach the mask to the cursor. Here's a previous thread that addresses that Make a mask follow cursor / mouse movement

[Colin Holgate]

Pretty sure he meant the child who is using the application.

[Myra Ferguson]

https://forums.adobe.com/people/Colin+Holgate  wrote

Pretty sure he meant the child who is using the application.

I figured as much, but I wanted to make sure to address the difference between animating the mask and making it interactive by attaching it to the cursor.

[Nick Gioia · Accepted solution]

Try this tutorial AS3 Masking. or this one How to create a Mask Effect in Flash - YouTube

Hope this helps!

[Homer_Simpson01]

Exactly what I'm looking for.  Thank you everyone here is awesome.  This is my first Animate project.  My school tasked me with it.  Two issues:  How do I turn the final mask to black(to similate night), and there seems to be a coding issue. 

[Homer_Simpson01]

Awesome! Great!  Got it working.  But how to change the color of the final mask to black or any other color?  Or perhaps use another image?

[kglad]

correct, change the masked image to appear to be a night image.  or overlay a semi-transparent layer (and add it to the masked layers) over your image to give it the appearance you want.

[Nick Gioia]

Here are the tutorials it links too. Animate tutorials | Learn how to use Animate CC

But I didn't see a tutorial for the child. There is tutorials on how to use the camera though.

[Homer_Simpson01]

Lol.  No.  But I was talking about the animated mask effect shown there.  The children being my students.