Directing error with overlays

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INT. LA APARTMENT - NIGHT

@overlay BRICK WALL AND WINDOW create
&overlay BRICK WALL AND WINDOW moves to layer 10
@overlay BRICK WALL AND WINDOW opacity 1

This is literally all I’ve put to start my chapter, just so I can position the overlay first. But it keeps saying ‘specify one of these ‘shifts to’, ‘scales to’, ‘opacity’, ‘rotates’, ‘to layer’ for your overlay animation’. Is this just a stupid glitch or something? Because I’ve done everything I can to get it to go away but it keeps popping up in the warnings.

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This sounds like it would be some sort of glitch. This has never happened to me before.

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Yeah, it’s weird. I’ll just try and remake the overlay again and maybe use a different name.

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Pretty sure this is a glitch. I put this same script in my story but replaced the overlay with my own, and it worked perfectly fine.

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Maybe try changing “moves to” to just “to”? It should work with your current script as well, but maybe that could trick the code into accepting it?

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Good idea!

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Hello,
You can’t have the word “and” in your overlay’s name. That’s why you’re having this issue. :slightly_smiling_face: Change the name and it’ll work.

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Yeah that’s what I ended up doing, and it worked. But I never knew you couldn’t include AND so ty for telling me :slight_smile:

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no problem. :slightly_smiling_face:
The explanation behind that is it basically picks it up as part of coding such as Character walks to here “and” character faces right.

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