HOW TO: Stage Direction

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Thank you so much! This helped me a lot!!!

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List of all positions without spot direction/directing:

The background positions:
back far left
back left
back right
back far right

The foreground positions:
screen left
screen right
screen center
upscreen right
upscreen left

When you see this:

@CHARACTER enters from X to screen Y

X - the two directions
X: left
X : right

Y-the three main positions
Y: left
Y: center
Y: right

TIP: Tip: Conversion between Main Positions to Spots

*replace CHARACTER’s name with yours.

Ex.

@FRAUD enters from left to screen center

Of course, for basic exiting and entering scenes, you can add more stuff to them to spice it up: HOW TO: Enter and Exit Scenes 🧊

[fraud]

Ooo, thanks! Very useful, I’m bookmarking this

And I made it into the example My life is fulfilled!

[JemU776]

Second, the generic command for panning to a different zone:
@pan to zone # in T

An example:
@pan to zone 2 in 3
This means the camera will pan (slide) to zone 2 from the current zone it’s in, and this pan will last 3 seconds.
It doesn’t have to be three seconds. It can be any number of seconds you want it to be.

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According to the Episode Article on pans (direct quote):

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Interzone pans (pans between two different zones) are achieved with this simple Donacode

@pan to zone X in S

i.e. @pan to zone 2 in 3 (the camera will pan from whatever zone it’s in to zone 2 in 3 seconds.)

The default pan speed is 2 seconds. You can use “fast pan to zone 1” or “slow pan to zone 1” for 1 or 3 seconds respectively, or “pan to zone 1 in S” for a slower or faster pan. S does not just have to be an integer: you could use 1.2 or 3.7, for example, for a pan speed.

And just a reminder that:

HOW TO: Use Easing Functions :disco:

Easing functions work with pans as well.

@pan to zone X in S using easing_function

Example:

@pan to zone 2 in 4 using easebounceout

*this would pan (slide) to zone 2 in 4 seconds and it would also have the cool easing function effect applied to it.

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@On another topic

Interzone pans (pans between two different zones) are achieved with this simple Donacode

@pan to zone X in S

i.e. @pan to zone 2 in 3 (the camera will pan from whatever zone it’s in to zone 2 in 3 seconds.)

The default pan speed is 2 seconds. You can use “fast pan to zone 1” or “slow pan to zone 1” for 1 or 3 seconds respectively, or “pan to zone 1 in S” for a slower or faster pan. S does not just have to be an integer: you could use 1.2 or 3.7, for example, for a pan speed.

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Not sure if you knew about slow pan or fast pan but yeah, they are actual existing commands

[Jenaco]

I actually didn’t know LOL Thank you Jem and thanks for your threads!!

[JemU776]

np Jen and tagging you guys because you are also rocking it in the directing category and helping so many people, thank you for everything, rockstars

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[theeallax]

Thank you so much. I was confused about my characters cutting their walks to certain positions! The follow command of course

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