Car Driving Offscreen

Hey,
I need some help. So, I wanna make my characters get in a car and then drive off with them in it when the car moves offscreen. I got them in but I don’t know how to move them offscreen while they are in the car. I can see that something isn’t right about the second part after Zara says, “Get in!”.
I’ll post my script that I have so far:

EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.872 -758 -48
@pause for a beat
@YOU enters from right to spot 0.832 173 177 and YOU faces left and ZARA spot 1.032 -306 -85 and ZARA faces right
@pause for 2
&ZARA walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND ZARA does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to -342 -48 in 3.0
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER scales to 0.872 0.872

    ZARA (talk_neutral)
Get in! 

@YOU walks to spot 0.832 23 11
@YOU faces right
@pause for a beat
&ZARA walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND ZARA does it while idle
&YOU walks to spot 0.832 23 11 in 3.0 and YOU does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to 319 -46 in 3.0
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER scales to 0.872 0.872

I couldn’t find anything. It was kind of complicated for me. :sob: :sob: :sob:

You have to use & instead of @ if you want to overlay and character to move simultaneously

Also, you have to use the command “walks to spot” for your character to move and does it while animation.

Example:
EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.872 -758 -48
@JULIE spot 0.832 173 177 AND JULIE faces left AND JAMES spot 1.032 -306 -85 AND JAMES faces right
@pause for a beat
&JAMES walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND JAMES does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to -342 -48 in 3.0
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER scales to 0.872 0.872

For driving off car follow the steps and place your car and character off the screen on the other side

So test what your off screen coordinates are and then use them in your script

I used that for the beginning.

You’ve used the same spots for both characters when they are in the car. So they are not going anywhere. You need to use the directing helper to spot them off screen but keep the third spot number the same so the go in a straight line and not diagonal across the screen :slight_smile:

??? :thinking:

&ZARA walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND ZARA does it while idle
&YOU walks to spot 0.832 23 11 in 3.0 and YOU does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to 319 -46 in 3.0

You need to change the numbers in bold. You’ve used these spot numbers whilst they’re in the car. To move them while car is moving you need to use directing helper and spot them off screen.

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