Dara Amarie's Official Help Thread! [closed]

[Unique_911]

Why am I getting a error message?

[Dara.Amarie]

That’s weird, there should be a yellow triangle on the line of the error. But change “at” to “to” for the layer command

@overlay OVERLAY to layer #

[Dara.Amarie]

You need to add the character’s name again to make them walk.

@ APRIL walks to spot _____ and APRIL does it while walk_exhausted

[Unique_911]

Thanks!

[Episode.Cameronwrite]

How do you make it that both characters are in the car and the car is moving?
I am using the silver car overlay

[Dara.Amarie]

HOW TO: Drive into / Drive Off the scene with Character inside

First. Choose your background and overlay. I’ll use: EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER A Guide to Using & Animating OVERLAYS Let’s have two characters in the scene. One waiting and one in the car. I’ve already spotted my “waiting” character: How to move your characters around (Spot Directing) EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER @JULIE spot 0.832 173 177 AND JULIE faces left @JAMES stands screen left AND JAMES faces right [place%20hdhdh] I zoomed out the scene s…

[Episode.Cameronwrite]

Thank You

[PurelySIMple]

Not sure I asked this but my web viewer displays my characters with blonde hair (how I set their character up as) but the app shows brown hair. How do I fix this?

[SocialButterfly]

What’s the difference between

@CHARACTER stands screen center
and
&CHARACTER stands screen center?

[Dara.Amarie]

There is no difference with those specific commands because those commands don’t have beats.

But to see the difference between & and @ read this: Script Symbols/Commands and What They're Used For

[PurelySIMple]

I need Aaron to run_athletic to the same spot but to zone 1 so he doesn’t change size.

&BRIDGET faces left AND BRIDGET exits left
@ AARON spot 0.452 169 271 in zone 1 AND AARON exits left AND AARON is run_athletic

I know the coding is wrong. I need help fixing it.

FIGURED IT OUT! =)

[SocialButterfly]

I’m currently writing an episode on writers portal and I want to preview it on the episode the app (I know there’s the web previewer but it’s not the same.) But when I go to the app the story I’m working on isn’t appearing and I only have 2 other stories on that shelf. Do you know why and what happening?

[SocialButterfly]

My phone background with all the overlays isn’t showing but before it did this is what I’m getting (on teh previewer)

[Dara.Amarie]

There’s a new update where you need to have 3-4 episodes with 400 lines each for it to show up in your playable stories on the app.

[Dara.Amarie]

Were you zoomed in on the previous scene?

[Bethany1]

I need to know how to let reader’s skip if they don’t want to re-read a chapter! I have some things I want to add in like splashes and did a little changing on some things a few people pointed out to me!

[Dara.Amarie]

At the very end of the script add a label:

label end_chapter
@pause for 0

Then at the beginning of your episode add a choice.

NARRATOR 
Skip the chapter if you’ve already read it. 
choice
“Skip” {
goto end_chapter
} “Don’t skip” {
}

[Bethany1]

thank you and do I just put my story between the don’t skip? I just want to make sure!

[Dara.Amarie]

No it’s continue your story after the choice.

[Bethany1]

Okay so put nothing in there!? Thank you so much for helping me out!