I’m no expert on this as I have never used this type of thing, but maybe try @CHAR faces left and @CHAR faces left
I don’t know if it’ll work, but maybe you could give it a shot…
Some tips to know when it comes to spotlight:
When you select the Spotlight Format and make characters, you’ll notice on the side something that says main character. From here, you can select a character-any one and what this does is it puts them on the left side of the screen-so they would appear on the left when speaking in spotlight.
Also:
You can change the position of a character on stage.
For example, let’s say DIANA is the main character, so she appears on stage left and WILLIAM appears on stage right.
You can change his position by writing:
@WILLIAM stands POSITION AND WILLIAM faces DIRECTION
*Please note that POSITION would be the new place where he is appearing at and direction is the way he’s facing. Replace those two words with an actual position and an actual direction.
Example:@WILLIAM stands upscreen left AND WILLIAM faces right
WILLIAM (talk_sad) I’m not that heroic like you, Diana.
And a bonus tip:
If you want a character to stay on while the narrator speaks, the code would look like this:
WILLIAM (talk_mindblown) Yo, Diana, your superpowers are so wicked!
NARRATOR (DIANA) ((character_stays)) Did William mean my powers are wicked awesome or wicked creepy?!
*This is just an example. I used random characters-also this code only applies to the last character that was on stage. That last character was William so when the narrator speech bubble appears with Diana thinking this, William is still on the screen.
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