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alwaysanisa · January 30, 2022, 8:02pm

The problem I have isn’t really a coding problem, but in a story I saw they zoomed on a character and used an animation. The animation made the character look at the screen and talk and I was hoping someone knows the name of the animation.

anon33728140 · January 30, 2022, 11:00pm

Hi, it’s goes like this depending on the characteristic type:

@CHAR previews hair Blunt Bangs Short

@CHAR unpreviews hair Blunt Bangs Short

“hair” is for changing the hair type

anon33728140 · January 30, 2022, 11:02pm

There’s these animations for talking while looking at a camera:

silver.shade · January 31, 2022, 5:11am

Tysm

alwaysanisa · January 31, 2022, 12:26pm

Oh. Thank you!

Lena.writes · January 31, 2022, 2:22pm

Hey, I’m having a problem making my Gifs in an infinite loop! Can help me with that?

caitlinicecream · January 31, 2022, 4:57pm

Hi again. When my character enters, he’s big but he gets smaller when he approaches the spot. How can I fix this and not make him look so big?

@ELIJAH enters from right to spot 0.782 197 139

alysin · January 31, 2022, 11:28pm

sorry to randomly jump in, but here’s the guide for GIFs that taught me:

if you’re still having trouble, feel free to let me know! i’d like to think i’ve gotten pretty decent at coding them.

Winteronepisode · February 1, 2022, 12:59am

Spot him further offscreen to the right scaled at .782, then have him walk (not enter) to your desired spot (you’ll need to figure out a time, but it will ensure he stays the same size the entire time.

For example, you could do…

@ELIJAH spot .782 400 139 in zone (whatever zone he's in now)
@ELIJAH walks to spot 0.782 197 139 in (seconds)

Lena.writes · February 1, 2022, 4:41am

Yeah, I followed her thread…but the Gif doesn’t go smoothly.
Here is my script-

Summary

EXT. BLUE - DAY
&overlay MOON1 create
&overlay MOON1 shifts to -16 82 in zone 1
&overlay MOON1 scales to 1.791 1.791
&overlay MOON1 moves to layer 1
&overlay MOON1 opacity 0

&overlay MOON2 create
&overlay MOON2 shifts to -16 82 in zone 1
&overlay MOON2 scales to 1.791 1.791
&overlay MOON2 moves to layer 1
&overlay MOON2 opacity 0

&overlay MOON3 create
&overlay MOON3 shifts to -16 82 in zone 1
&overlay MOON3 scales to 1.791 1.791
&overlay MOON3 moves to layer 1
&overlay MOON3 opacity 0

&overlay MOON4 create
&overlay MOON4 shifts to -16 82 in zone 1
&overlay MOON4 scales to 1.791 1.791
&overlay MOON4 moves to layer 1
&overlay MOON4 opacity 0

&overlay MOON5 create
&overlay MOON5 shifts to -16 82 in zone 1
&overlay MOON5 scales to 1.791 1.791
&overlay MOON5 moves to layer 1
&overlay MOON5 opacity 0

&overlay MOON1 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOON2 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOON3 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOON4 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOON5 opacity 1 in 0.2 THEN overlay MOON5 opacity 0 in 0 loop INFINITE times

Farah_DeSantis · February 1, 2022, 5:35am

You havent fallowed my thread correctly..

Please go and see again in detail how to make the loop command.

Every overlay in the command is 2x each time with different opacity and there is specific order how o set them.

alysin · February 1, 2022, 2:13pm

okay, so here’s what i notice…it seems you didn’t set it up right.
it’s difficult to explain, but i’ll do my best here’s my template:

&overlay MOON1 opacity 1 in 0.1 then overlay MOON5 opacity 0 in 0.1 then overlay MOON2 opacity 1 in 0.1 then overlay MOON1 opacity 0 in 0.1 then overlay MOON3 opacity 1 in 0.1 then overlay MOON2 opacity 0 in 0.1 then overlay MOON4 opacity 1 in 0.1 then overlay MOON3 opacity 0 in 0.1 then overlay MOON5 opacity 1 in 0.1 then overlay MOON4 opacity 0 in 0.1 loop INFINITE times

that should work- basically what you wanna do is set the first overlay’s opacity to one, then the very last overlay’s opacity to 0. then for the rest of it, you set the next one to one, and the one before it to zero afterwards. (i’m sorry if that doesn’t make sense, i never can explain this right )

Lena.writes · February 1, 2022, 3:31pm

I understood and it worked! Thank you so much for your help…I appreciate it

caitlinicecream · February 4, 2022, 10:41pm

I tried to do it with a different character but it didn’t work…

@AKIRA spot 0.659 34 283 in zone 3
@AKIRA walks to spot 0.659 34 283 in 1

I used spot directing and brought her to the right behind the screen but it doesn’t seem to be working. Not sure what I’m doing wrong…

Winteronepisode · February 4, 2022, 10:52pm

What zone are you having her walk into? Zone 2 or 3? And how many zones does the background you’re using have?

caitlinicecream · February 5, 2022, 12:27am

She’s in zone 2 and I want to make her exit out. I’m using INT. PENTHOUSE BEDROOM BEACH _ DAY and I believe there’s 3 zones.

Winteronepisode · February 5, 2022, 12:52am

Your commands seem to be backwards, then.

It’d be something like this (first placement command should put her in zone 2, second command moves her to zone 3):

INT. PENTHOUSE BEDROOM BEACH _ DAY
@cut to zone 2
@AKIRA spot 0.659 34 283 in zone 2
@AKIRA walks to spot 0.659 34 283 in zone 3 in 1

epy.dey14 · February 5, 2022, 6:33am

i am having trouble with transitioning into a new scene —>

scene script

INT. AUDITION STAGE - DAY
@zoom on 0 552 to 74% in 0
@ui MAY TEXT create
@ui MAY TEXT shifts to -39 -72 in zone 1
@ui MAY TEXT scales to 0.357 0.357
@ui MAY TEXT moves to layer 4
@ui MAY TEXT opacity 1
&GRAD TANISHA spot 0.715 148 242 in zone 1
&GRAD TANISHA moves to layer 3
&GRAD TANISHA is dance_shake_happy_loop
&GRAD NATALIE spot 0.670 98 242 in zone 1
&GRAD NATALIE moves to layer 3
&GRAD NATALIE is laugh_chuckle
&GRAD KAYLA spot 0.701 198 242 in zone 1
&GRAD KAYLA moves to layer 3
&GRAD KAYLA is flirt_shy_pose
&GRAD RYAN spot 0.751 94 242 in zone 2
&GRAD RYAN is idle_shiftweight_neutral_loop
&GRAD MOM spot 0.681 39 242 in zone 2
&GRAD MOM moves to layer 3
&GRAD MOM is film_phone_energetic_loop
&GRAD DAD spot 0.769 8 242 in zone 2
&GRAD DAD is idle_sad_timid_loop
&GRAD TANISHA faces right AND GRAD NATALIE faces right AND GRAD KAYLA faces right AND GRAD RYAN faces left AND GRAD MOM faces left AND GRAD DAD faces left

FILTER: Sepia

@set hsl 5 -50 8 colorize with blendMode NORMAL to 100%

Your filter will be enabled for every scene after this line

To turn off the filter, use “@reset hsl” or “@reset hsl in [# of seconds]”

@zoom on 126 323 to 202% in 5.5
@transition fade in black in 2.5

so the problem is that i want the scene to start off from the “@zoom on 0 552 to 74% in 0” part and pan its way to the “@zoom on 126 323 to 202% in 5.5” part after the fade in transition happens yet it will always

Winteronepisode · February 5, 2022, 6:37am

To restate, is it that you’re wanting it to transition in before anything else happens, but you want the zoom preset?

Winteronepisode · February 5, 2022, 6:47am

The fix to your error would be as follows:

Script

INT. AUDITION STAGE - DAY
&zoom on 0 552 to 74% in 0
&ui MAY TEXT create
&ui MAY TEXT shifts to -39 -72 in zone 1
&ui MAY TEXT scales to 0.357 0.357
&ui MAY TEXT moves to layer 4
&ui MAY TEXT opacity 1
&GRAD TANISHA spot 0.715 148 242 in zone 1
&GRAD TANISHA moves to layer 3
&GRAD TANISHA is dance_shake_happy_loop
&GRAD NATALIE spot 0.670 98 242 in zone 1
&GRAD NATALIE moves to layer 3
&GRAD NATALIE is laugh_chuckle
&GRAD KAYLA spot 0.701 198 242 in zone 1
&GRAD KAYLA moves to layer 3
&GRAD KAYLA is flirt_shy_pose
&GRAD RYAN spot 0.751 94 242 in zone 2
&GRAD RYAN is idle_shiftweight_neutral_loop
&GRAD MOM spot 0.681 39 242 in zone 2
&GRAD MOM moves to layer 3
&GRAD MOM is film_phone_energetic_loop
&GRAD DAD spot 0.769 8 242 in zone 2
&GRAD DAD is idle_sad_timid_loop
&GRAD TANISHA faces right AND GRAD NATALIE faces right AND GRAD KAYLA faces right AND GRAD RYAN faces left AND GRAD MOM faces left AND GRAD DAD faces left

&set hsl 5 -50 8 colorize with blendMode NORMAL to 100% in 0
@transition fade in black in 2.5

@zoom on 126 323 to 202% in 5.5

It’s all about the ordering of the commands and the use of the Ampersand (&).