It's also important to clarify something Zeh mentioned when he used the phrases "container children" and "precomposition." (Zeh said it well, but I've seen lots of folks not quite get this idea the first time they hear about it, so this is just a bit of overkill.)
The Layer blend mode will not work if applied to a lone, childless movie clip on the stage. Instead, it works on a movie clip within which the children are overlapping. For example, if your character is in the root timeline, it's not possible to apply Layer to all the body parts and correct the problem. If the character is in a movie clip (as it likely is/should probably be), you apply Layer to the parent clip, not the body parts within. The default tool behavior for applying the alpha is to go into the parent and apply it to all the children. This yields the result you're seeing. Layer was introduced with Flash 8 to prevent that. It precomposes everything in the clip so the alpha is applied to one thing as a whole. Rich _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
