Entering and exiting

does anyone know how to make a character walk across the screen without stopping?

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do u know how to do it?

Does anyone know how to have a character run across the screen in a certain amount of time i really need help with this

Unfortunately no, You’ll need to wait for one of the other users to help you. :smiley:

I tested this out in zone 1 of an Episode background ^^

Here ya go:

Entering from left and exiting right while running without stopping:

INT. BACKGROUND NAME - DAY

@CHAR spot 1.280 -160 0 AND CHAR faces right

@CHAR walks to spot 1.280 504 0 in 3 AND CHAR does it while run_athletic

@remove CHAR

Entering from right and exiting left while running without stopping:

INT. BACKGROUND NAME - DAY

@CHAR spot 1.280 504 0 AND CHAR faces left

@CHAR walks to spot 1.280 -160 0 in 3 AND CHAR does it while run_athletic

@remove CHAR

Note=
*Replace CHAR with your character’s name
*The animation doesn’t need to be run_athletic, it can be any running animation that’s available for the character or it can also be a walking animation
*in 3 just means it takes three seconds to complete this action (it doesn’t have to be 3 seconds, it can be any number of seconds you want it to be, so long as it isn’t negative because seconds can’t go backwards.) Examples= in 0.5, in 5, in 2, etc. are all fine to write.

Note that this is for one zone only. If you want the character to run all the way to zone 2, or 3 or 4, or how many zones there are, you would need to write something else.

So you want your character to enter the scene, run to the other side, then exit the scene all while running?

Here’s an example=

Entering from left in zone 1 and running all the way to zone 3, without stopping and exiting:

INT. BACKGROUND NAME - DAY

@CHAR spot 1.280 -70 0 AND CHAR faces right

&pan to zone 3 in 5
@CHAR walks to spot 1.280 388 0 in zone 3 in 5 AND CHAR does it while run_athletic

@remove CHAR

Entering from right in zone 3 and running all the way to zone 1, without stopping and exiting:

INT. BACKGROUND NAME - DAY

@cut to zone 3

@CHAR spot 1.280 388 0 AND CHAR faces left

&pan to zone 1 in 5
@CHAR walks to spot 1.280 -70 0 in zone 1 in 5 AND CHAR does it while run_athletic

@remove CHAR

Remember that:

thank u so much!

No problem :nerd_face: :sparkles:

Good luck! :tada:

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Solved and closed. :smiley: