Creating Trails after Moving Objects

[juls034]

I've created a ball in Flash that bounces off the inside of a cell. I'd like to create a trail that traces the path the ball makes while its still in motion. Can anyone give me some pointers on some Action scripting or masking that would make this possible? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks in Advance, juls034

[Ghastly]

Don't really use Flash at the moment but from what little experience I do have with it...would not a simple solution just be to create a number of instances of your ball, with size and opacity attenuating to zero. Then just copy and offset by one frame the time line for each instance?

[juls034]

Thanks Ghastly:

I actually figured out a way to create a mask to give the illusion of a trail. Basically I made a different layer for each path/ line the ball takes across screen and than created a mask layer above it duplicating the graphic below it. Than simply create a shape tween on the mask layer. Than lock the mask layer and masked layer to see how the animation looks. Hope that helps anyone else looking to make a trail.