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Asked: 2026-05-23T12:13:26+00:00

I assign a mask to a simple MovieClip with a square Bitmap in it.

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I assign a mask to a simple MovieClip with a square Bitmap in it. The mask is fairly complex shape drawn by an artist. The resulting masked bitmap looks correct inside Flash CS5, but when I run the SWF in Flash Player 10.2, the mask is corrupted. Let me try and describe it:

The shape itself is mostly visible, but certain scan lines (horizontal lines) of the resulting image “leak” to the right of the mask shape, all the way to the right border of the square bitmap. Some lines are also missing.
Here’s an image:

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The shape on the left is the mask used for the cracked bitmap, which you can see on the right, masked, with flaws.

Are there some limitations that we should be aware of when using masks? Does flash only handle simple shapes for masking?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I ended up just creating a Pixel Bender shader filter to do it instead, because then you can just copy the alpha from the source pixel to the destination pixel, and blend another texture into the source image however you see fit. Performance is not bad, as you can cache it all as a bitmap.

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