How do i make overlays blink slowly?

[JemU776]

@julesscreven

I’m trying to make the stars in my story like blink/twinkle

You want them to on and off glow?

Then you’d use opacity:

@Dara.Amarie

OPACITY - Making the overlay see through/invisible:

@overlay OVERLAYNAME opacity # in T

# is from 0 to 1
0 is completely invisible (hidden, gone, cannot see)
1 is very visible (the whole overlay is there and you can see it completely)
0.5 is see through, and anything between 0 and 1 (ie: 0.33, 0.72, 0.845…) makes the overlay see through.

You can loop the opacity:

@Dara.Amarie

LOOPING Overlays:

Add “loop # times” or “loop INFINITE times” at the end of the line

You have to use THEN to combine all your animations together on just 1 line, then place the loop at the end. You cannot use “AND” for a looping command.

Here is an example of that:

&overlay OVERLAYNAME shifts to [a spot to the left] in zone 2 in 1 THEN overlay OVERLAYNAME shifts to [a spot to the right] in zone 2 in 1 loop 5 times

With the above example, the overlay will move to the left, then to the right, and it will continue to do that 5 times.

NOTE: Remember to use & not @ when using “infinite”, otherwise your scene will be stuck on the loop and you won’t be able to continue

You can read more in that thread as well as find that information in the overlays guide:

Overlays Guide | Dara Amarie