Re: import gradient alpha

I dont think i have ever reallyhad this problem but, you could also just do the gradient mask in flash? as of flash 8 gradient masks have been supported. You need to do something like this.

make a movieclip to be masked (maskee)
make a movieclip that is the mask (theMask)

in theMask make your shape and fill it with a gradient that has 0 alpha on one end and 100% on the other, or whatever combination you need,

then you need to do the rest in code, this is a AS3 example

maskee.cacheAsBitmap = true;
theMask.cacheAsBitmap = true;
maskee.mask = theMask;

AS2 would be the same except it would be
maskee.setMask() instead of maskee.mask


yay!
-ross