๐ŸŽ HOW TO: Deal With The Error You Can't Have One Character Following Another ๐ŸŽ

What to do when dealing with this error message in most cases:

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In your script, itโ€™ll say something like:

The issue is when you have the character saying something in all capitals (in this case, BUBBLES ARE AWESOME) and the script/web previewer is recognizing this as a character. You can either put it in lowercase or add punctuation to it like a period or exclamation mark or do another trick.

Making it lowercase:

Adding punctuation to it (examples below, first of adding an ! and then adding a period):

Or

Or other kinds (ex. question mark, etc.)

Another trick you can use:

What it looks like:

You can find this text effect here:

Well, I love testing codes out, I came across this trick thanks to @Elaina2 who has used it (picking it up from Dara Amarie) and I thought it was pretty neat, thank you for helping the episode community :fist_bump: :blob_hearts: Also, tysm to @FlowerGriefer for the background and overlay in this scene <3 :crescent_moon: :revolving_hearts: :gift_heart: By the way, the | no-space | code is also cool for other things like starting your sentence off with a lowercase letter and et cetera :yay: :blob_sun: :heart: :gift_heart:

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thank you jem!!

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Firstly, I feel honored to be tagged in yet another helpful thread you provide for the episode community :sneezing_face: however, I canโ€™t take credit for that as I actually picked that up from the lovely @Dara.Amarie. But thank you so much anyway! :sunflower:

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Bump!

Bump!!!

BUMP!!! lol it helped me the second I read the first thing. :heart:

Bump :two_hearts:

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OH MAH GOODNESS! I had this same error and just searched it up in the forums lololololololol.
BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH! I HAD NO IDEA. THANK YOU! You just saved me from giving up on coding for the day lmao!

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Iโ€™m so glad to hear that :blush: :blob_sun:

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