Dara Amarie's Official Help Thread! [closed]


I tried everything but, the dressing game isn’t working.

Hey, Dara. First I just want to thank you for how much you’ve helped me. I literally always use your templates!

Anyway, I was wondering if you had a good, functioning background characters/extras template for me? I can find them on forums but every time I put them in my story I find out that none of the animations are valid, and I have to spend a while fixing them. I would appreciate it sooo much if you could do this, whenever you have time! Thanks so much!

Sorry I don’t make scene templates, but you can request them from any of these threads:
1- GiGi's Script Template Request Thread! **OPEN**
2- Script Template WORKSHOP
3- Hey guys! I will make you a script template! (OPEN!)

Ok so something is seriously wrong with my stairs overlay

It’s not moving with the whole thing and is stuck in zone 1 and just dragging the outline of the thing

Here is what I have

Remove line 191. You already added the overlay next to the background name so you don’t need to use the create command.

Ok it work but what layer should I have my characters at bc I don’t know about the layers that well??

The overlay should be at a lower layer than the characters: HOW TO: Move Characters / Overlays to the Layers

Is this right??

No, you can’t add the layer to a walking command. Instead, add the layer to JADE’s spot placement

@ JADE spot 0.609 290 467 in zone # at layer 4

Okay, thanks so much for the suggestion! :slight_smile:

Hi, I’m having trouble with some spot directing.
I have two characters falling from a roof top to the ground. My screen doesn’t say there’s an error, but the characters don’t fall, it just shows them standing to the side of the screen then on the ground if that makes sense.

EXT. DAD’S HOUSE - DAY
@zoom on 891 250 to 266% in 0
@cut to zone 3
&overlay LADDER create
&overlay LADDER shifts to 148 196 in zone 3
&overlay LADDER scales to 0.784 0.784
&overlay LADDER to layer -10
&overlay LADDER opacity 1
&LUNA spot 0.337 200 382 in zone 3 at layer 5 AND LUNA faces right AND LUNA is arms_crossed_angry
@NICK spot 0.337 250 600 in zone 3 at layer 6 AND NICK faces left AND MAYA spot 0.337 250 600 in zone 3 at layer 6 AND MAYA faces left
&zoom on 860 280 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 820 180 to 266% in .1 THEN zoom on 891 207 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 860 280 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 820 180 to 266% in .1 THEN zoom on 891 207 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 860 280 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 820 180 to 266% in .1 THEN zoom on 891 207 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 860 280 to 266% in 0.1 THEN zoom on 820 180 to 266% in .1 THEN zoom on 891 207 to 266% in 0.1

@MAYA walks to spot 0.337 300 381 in zone 3 in .3 AND MAYA faces left AND MAYA is sleep_uncomfortable_awake AND NICK walks to spot 0.337 150 385 in zone 3 in .3 AND NICK faces left AND NICK is idle_lay_exhausted
@MAYA is sleep_uncomfortable_awake AND NICK is idle_lay_exhausted
@pause for 4

I don’t know what I’m doing wrong!

Okay I know this is her thread to help but I already noticed the problem :sweat_smile:

You forgot the @ symbol

it should be
@NICK is idle_lay_exhausted

That part is on the same line as other commands, so it doesn’t need the @ sign.

Oh, I didn’t see that. Oops. :woman_shrugging:

You need to use “does it while” when you want a character to walk to a spot while doing an animation.

Okay, got it. Thank you so much! I’m going to go try that out now.

I’m making a story and I’ve tried loads of things to try and fix it but my character just is “idle” whilst it walks to a spot instead of doing the thing that I’ve told it to do.

(This story is Limelight)