ActionScript 3.0 :: Flash Animated Masks & Resizing Movieclips
Aug 22, 2010
I am an intermediate/moderately experienced AS3 programmer - however, I am having a few issues with resizing my background mc (mcBG), that contains a mask with bounds which go beyond the dimensions of the stage, to display correctly.
I know my script works (well, at least this much) so that if a static image of 1000px * 800px is placed inside the mcBG movieclip, the background fills the screen as intended.
However, if I change that static image (inside mcBG) to be either: a movieclip (mcAnimMask) which contains an animated mask (which has elements larger than the 1000px * 800px bounds, eg: 4500px * 3000px) or,2 layers (mask, and animated layer (dimensions: eg 4500px * 3000px) - framed tweening)...the resize script resizes mcBG to be the greatest dimensions of the files contained within it - ie: it does not fit the screen correctly, in fact it appears to be about 60% smaller than the original (which should be 1000px * 800px).
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