How do you create text from overlays?

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Hi,
I read a thread about creating text from overlays, but unfortunately it didn’t work. Can someone please help me?

Here’s what I put in the script:

@overlay CAR BUG REAR create AND overlay CAR BUG REAR opacity 1 in 0
@overlay CAR BUG REAR create text Killed in cold blood…

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You don’t need the “create” command if you’re using the “create text” command. The “create text” command is the create command. So delete that first “create” command and place the opacity command after the “create text” command

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I put that in my script, and it still doesn’t work :confused:

@overlay CAR BUG REAR create text Killed in cold blood… AND overlay CAR BUG REAR opacity 1 in 0

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@overlay CAR BUG REAR create text Killed in cold blood…
@overlay CAR BUG REAR opacity 1 in 0

Then you have to go to preview and find the overlay and scale and shift it in the position you need…it is rather small and on the left bottom corner of zone 1 if you are in another zone you will not see it after the command you have to drag it to the zone (2 or 3)

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It worked, thank you for your help!

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Closed: Marked as solved by op @secrets.epi :v:

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