Creating busy scene with background characters

[potahtto]

I’m not really sure how to explain this but how do I pan to another zone with the characters already there rather than then popping up after the pan

[potahtto]

I tried placing the commands for the characters before the pan but all my characters just ended up being on top of each other in that zone

[Tanya.episode]

Maybe try using & command instead of @

[potahtto]

Which commands should I replace with & ?

[Tanya.episode]

Like after you put a background then &PERSON is talk_neutral and not @PERSON so they don’t just pop into screen

[its_mehh]

This should work yeah

There also is another way you can first place them just by using @ and after that you can use the pan

[Tanya.episode]

Yup like spot direct them before the pan and let them do the animation after it using the & command

[potahtto]

Thank you so much for this, after moving some stuff around it finally worked! I never knew what to do with the & symbol before. I spot directed and used the & symbol for the animations (&CHARACTER starts dance_loop) before the pan and it came out clean.

[Tanya.episode]

Glad I could help