How do I get multiple characters to react at the same time?

[CrazyCreativeMind]

Hello!
For a scene in my story, how do I get multiple characters to all react at the same time?

I’ve tried the ‘@’ and ‘&’ command but it doesn’t seem to work.

[jpn.writes]

&CHARACTER is animation and CHARACTER is animation

[MandiWrites]

You can use:
@CHARACTER is _______ and CHARACTER2 is _______
or
&CHARACTER is _______ and CHARACTER2 is _______

[jpn.writes]

that’s what i said lol

[MandiWrites]

I know I just didn’t see you answered until afterwards.

[CrazyCreativeMind]

Does it work for more than two characters?

[vanessa_epii]

@CHARACTER is animation AND CHARACTER2 is animation
And while the narrator or a character is talking:
&CHARACTER is animation AND CHARACTER2 is animation

[vanessa_epii]

yes

[MandiWrites]

Yeah, just keep adding ‘and CHARACTER’ and you can use as many as you want.

[CrazyCreativeMind]

Thankyou!

[Farah_DeSantis]

& should work and you do not need to use AND (it’s not wrong to use it this is just alternative)

When you use & the rule is that all lines with & happen with the line with @ or dialogue UNDER it.

So if you want 4 characters do the animation in one time using & you write

&CHAR1 is animation
&CHAR2 is animation
&CHAR3 is animation
@CHAR4 is animation

My opinion is that using & is better than AND for one big reason - the longer you make the lines the more impossible it becomes to find a typo or mistake in it or to modify it.
But is more a matter of personal preferencies.

[lazy_donut]

I would use too the & command. It’s much easier and tidier.

&CHAR 1 is animation
&CHAR 2 is animation
&CHAR 3is animation
@CHAR 4 is animation

But both “and” and “AND” work the same.