Director Command After Animation

[bhughes123]

Hello! Please bear with me, I’m working on creating for the first time and I feel like this could be a dumb question with a very simple answer, but can I not do certain commands after animations?

Everytime I try to zoom for an animation, then zoom reset I get the error stating 'Unexpected Sequence: You cannot use a direct command (starting with @) here.

I feel like I’m going crazy! As a simple example of what I’m trying to do:

@zoom on 0 382 to 283% in 0
MARGOT (idle_armscrossed_shifteyes_loop)
@zoom reset
LOLA (react_holdface_happy)
(Oh this is gonna be good.)

The @zoom reset is where I’m getting the error. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Sorry everyone if this is a stupid question!

[juliewrites]

You can’t do this:
MARGOT (idle_armscrossed_shifteyes_loop)

unless there is dialogue after the animation. If you’d like a character to do an animation without dialogue, you can do this:

@MARGOT is idle_armscrossed_shifteyes_loop

It’s okay, you’ll get the hang of it! I used to struggle with coding and I still sometimes do; I’m a relatively new author as well. If it’s comforting to you, I always forget how to put overlays in scenes (sigh) and I need to look it up again

[bhughes123]

Thank you so much, this fixed it! I knew there had to be a fairly simple solution, just wasn’t clicking.

That’s definitely comforting! I’m sure I’ll be spending quite a bit of time on the forums to get the hang of it!!