Dara Amarie's Official Help Thread! [closed]

[EpisodeAfra]

Oh Okay so for the first yes choice all I need to write after the choice is continue? Or I don’t need to write continue?

[Dara.Amarie]

You don’t need to write continue. You can leave it blank or put in whatever you want to happen after they choose “yes”

[EpisodeAfra]

Thank you so much!

[Dara.Amarie]

You’re welcome

[Episode.Halle]

Please help me with point systems and adding two or more overlays

[Dara.Amarie]

The points system:

The Points System

Each character has their own set of points and they all start with a score of 0. Readers can gain or lose points depending on what choices they make. You can add points to your actual characters, or you could create a new character and name it ROMANCE, FRIENDSHIP, HONESTY, etc. and create a point system for each category. There are 2 ways to add/subtract points: right next to their name when they speak a simple @ command Here is an example: GIRL (talk_flirt) Hi, it’s nice to meet you. c…

Overlays Guide:

A Guide to Using & Animating OVERLAYS

Don’t forget to LIKE if this guide helps you! OVERLAYNAME is the overlay name x coordinate is where the overlay is placed on the screen horizontally (side to side) y coordinate is where the overlay is placed on the screen vertically (up and down) % is the scale size T stands for time in seconds # means “number” NOTE: When you test your story and move your overlay around, you will see 2 codes that look something like this (examples): @overlay OVERLAYNAME shifts to 196 223 @overlay OVERLA…

[Lexy12345678910]

Hello, I’m trying to make the camera pan around a beach before my scene takes place, however, my character Poppy won’t swim from zone 1 to zone 2 like I want her to. The line ‘@follow POPPY…’ has a warning next to it.
My code:

EXT. TROPICAL BEACH - DAY
@cut to zone 1
@EXTRA 2 spot 0.803 209 267 AND EXTRA 2 is tinker_kneel_loop
@POPPY spot 0.263 -41 511 AND POPPY is swim_rear
@follow POPPY to spot 0.371 176 425 in zone 2 AND POPPY is swim_rear
@remove POPPY

Please help!! Thanks

[Dara.Amarie]

The follow command does not work with spots. You will have to pan to zone 2 while your character walks.

&pan to zone 2 in T
@POPPY walks to spot 0.371 176 425 in T in zone 2 and POPPY does it while swim_rear

in T is time in seconds, so both of those need to be the same number of seconds.

[Lexy12345678910]

It works!!! Thank you so much! I was also wondering how I could change in which direction she swims in the animation

[Dara.Amarie]

Make her face left or right as she is swimming

@POPPY walks to spot 0.371 176 425 in T in zone 2 and POPPY faces left/right and POPPY does it while swim_rear

[Lexy12345678910]

It’s ok thank you for having replied anyways

[Lexy12345678910]

Thank you!!

[EpisodeAfra]

I’m getting this really weird error in my story!

It happens exactly after the Second transition fade out white!
So the screen transitions then all of a sudden poof the error appears.
I tried it on my phone and after the error the app just exits!
Is there a problem with the overlay command??

[Dara.Amarie]

@PINK BABY SWADDLE moves to layer 5 isn’t a valid command

The layer command for overlays is:
@overlay PINK BABY SWADDLE to layer 2

Or you can just add “at layer 2” right after the zone when you added the overlay with the background name

INT. CLASSIC LIVING ROOM - DAY with PINK BABY SWADDLE to 0.755 212 121 in zone 2 at layer 2

[EpisodeAfra]

Thank you so much! I kinda broke down for a minute.

[Dara.Amarie]

No problem!

[EpisodeAfra]

I have an option to choose an outfit in episode 1 and I have a gain with it, but in episode two my character wears their default outfit?

[RudeInception]

Are you adding in the gain at the beginning of epsiode 2 by using the if/elif/else command?

[EpisodeAfra]

Do we have to?

[RudeInception]

Tbh, I don’t think you should have to since the CHAR changes into that outfit, it should stay like that throughout the story until they change again. But sometimes it doesn’t so to be safe I would add it in.