Masking help

[thebloodpoolkid]

I have been working on masking. I am a beginner so I am trying to follow many tutorials. I found a few that were quite interesting.
below is one:
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Text_Effects/Strobe_W-Kevin_Fo-530/index.php


I follow each instruction very closely. When ever I play back the mc by pressing enter once the layers are locked everything seems to work out perfectly. the problem is when I go to test movie the text does not appear but the images do. When I publish (file publish) and open the .swf file I get the same thing images playing through their sequence but no text (mask). This has happened each and every turtorial I have gone through that teaches masking. Why is this happening?. I indeed follow each and every instruction.

[Billy T]

you can't mask device fonts (generally associated with dynamic text) - is that what you're doing?

if not, upload the fla

cheers

[thebloodpoolkid]

Just followed the directions in the tutorial above. everything he/she used/did is what I did. Let me double check and see whats going on. If need be I will upload it.

[thebloodpoolkid]

Nevermind...that was it. It was dynamic. Thansk for pointing that out or I would have never known. Thank you

[thebloodpoolkid]

I have the same trouble with this tutorial as well.
http://www.flashkit.com/tutorials/Special_Effects/Create_C-Mimi_Wid-856/more3.php

Mask wont work. Eventually what I want to do once I have got it to work is make the mask a sniper scope with hair lines that displays the text once it move over it.

Is there a way to have the end user to be able to control the scope with their mouse and where ever they move it the text/image then displays.

any help at all would be great. Thanks

[Billy T]

yep

what version of flash are you using?

[thebloodpoolkid]

MX

[Billy T]

see attached

cheers

[thebloodpoolkid]

Thanks that helpd big time. Nice pic BTW lol

here is my next task. I am trying to make it so the text appears very small on the mc but when you roll the scope over it the text magnify's...any idea how that would work?

[Billy T]

just make a copy of the bg mc, put it behind the bg mc and scale it down a bit

make sure you change its instance name

cheers