DARA’S GUIDE: Overlays

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You have the flag at layer 3 and your characters at layer 1, that’s why the flag is in front of them. Change the flag’s layer to 0 or your characters to layer 4.

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oh ok thanks lol

what is T?

Time

ohh how do you use that?

You can shift/scale/rotate/opacity something and you can time your action for example:

@overlay OVERLAY shifts to -394 -113 in 5.0

(means overlay will shift to the spot in 5 seconds)

You can adjust the time to whenever you want it can be less than a second as well.

How do you use shift commands?

How would I have multiple overlays be at the same layer?

I have a desk layer and a desk chair layer.

This is what I have now:

INT. GRANDMAS HOUSE BEDROOM - DAY
@cut to zone 2
@overlay DESK create
@overlay DESK shifts to -68 165 in 0 in zone 2
@overlay DESK scales to 0.899 0.899 in 0
@overlay DESK opacity 1 in 0
@overlay DESK to layer 0

@overlay DESK CHAIR create
@overlay DESK CHAIR shifts to -11 84 in 0 in zone 2
@overlay DESK CHAIR scales to 0.809 0.809 in 0
@overlay DESK CHAIR opacity 1 in 0
@overlay DESK CHAIR at layer 0
@SISTER spot 0.902 250 278 AND SISTER is react_sit_checkphone_bored AND SISTER faces right
@SISTER at layer 4

I would like for my character to sit on the chair. Right now she is in front of the desk, like I would like, but I need her to sit on the chair and she is not.

INT. GRANDMAS HOUSE BEDROOM - DAY
@cut to zone 2
@overlay DESK create
@overlay DESK shifts to -68 165 in 0 in zone 2
@overlay DESK scales to 0.899 0.899 in 0
@overlay DESK opacity 1 in 0
@overlay DESK to layer 2

@overlay DESK CHAIR create
@overlay DESK CHAIR shifts to -11 84 in 0 in zone 2
@overlay DESK CHAIR scales to 0.809 0.809 in 0
@overlay DESK CHAIR opacity 1 in 0
@overlay DESK CHAIR at layer 0
@SISTER spot 0.902 250 278 AND SISTER is react_sit_checkphone_bored AND SISTER faces right
@SISTER at layer 1

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Ok. I did what you changed.

Now she can sit on the chair, but the desk is in front of her.

Should I try messing around with layer number?

Thank you for responding as well.

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I actually just figured it out

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Ha Ha.
I LOVE HIM.

I’ve literally tried everything, but with some of my overlays they just pop up on screen into place when it gets to the scene. I have it in the correct layer, opacity, coordinates, everything-I just don’t understand why it keeps popping up and shifting into place super quick. Do you know why it’s doing this? And it’s doing this in the app.

Did you place your overlays at the beginning of the scene before anything else?

No I didn’t, I put them after some stuff.

That’s what you need to do. Before cutting to a zone, transitioning or anything you need to place them at the very beginning of the scene


This is what I have and it’s still doing it. I tried changing the last &overlay to @overlay and the scene went to zone 1 and then to zone 2 instead of straight to zone 2.

Add it to the background name instead of using the overlay commands

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