Can somebody help me make my mouth overlays move at the same time as the speechbubble

[RyannCJgirl]

Hi, so I have it where I’m making my character talk with mouth overlays, but the problem is I cant get the speech bubble to appear at the same time as the mouth overlays are moving,
heres what my script looks like

&overlay JADE ARM HAND GUN 2 rotates 90 anchor point 0.5 0.5 in 1
@overlay 6235407916990464_JADE ARM HAND GUN 2 shifts to 155 319 in zone 1
@overlay 6235407916990464_JADE ARM HAND GUN 2 scales to 1.000 1.000
@overlay 6235407916990464_JADE ARM HAND GUN 2 moves to layer 30
@pause for a beat
JADE
Just tell me what I want to know and you’ll be fine
@overlay JADE TALK 4 opacity 1 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK 4 opacity 0 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK 3 opacity 1 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK2 opacity 1 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK 3 opacity 0 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK1 opacity 1 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK2 opacity 0 in 0.1
@overlay JADE TALK1 opacity 0 in 0.1
@pause for a beat

But the speech bubble would pop up and after I click Then then mouth overlays would move, could anybody help me please?

[juliewrites]

Instead of @, try using & so that multiple things can happen at the same time.

[RyannCJgirl]

So use & for all of the talk overlays?

[juliewrites]

I think? I’m not sure how else to do it

[RyannCJgirl]

Alright well, ill try it

[RyannCJgirl]

it didn’t quite work but thank you!

[nuha.episode]

I think you could use the @ and & symbols alternately? I’m not really sure.

[Dragon]

This topic might help:

Moving mouth script template here

Hey, so I’ve seen some threads asking how to do a moving mouth with overlays, and I’m here to show you my way of moving mouth with 2 mouths or 4 mouths. If this is your first time with moving mouths, I advise you to start with the 2 mouths code. It’s actually just changing opacity really fast and putting short pauses. With 4 mouths, MOUTH1 should be your base mouth, like a closed mouth when characters aren’t talking.

With 2 mouths

So first, you will need to create two mouth overlays in differ…

[calico.episode]

Perhaps use your overlays in sequence by using THEN. And maybe try it this way around? Its because you have the speech before the overlay code, so try having the overlay code with & before the speech bubble and the two should action at the same time.

&overlay JADE TALK 4 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK 4 opacity 0 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK 3 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK2 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEB overlay JADE TALK 3 opacity 0 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK1 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK2 opacity 0 in 0.1 THEN overlay JADE TALK1 opacity 0 in 0.1

JADE
Just tell me what I want to know and you’ll be fine

@pause for a beat

[RyannCJgirl]

thank you! that helped

[RyannCJgirl]

thanks!