Looping An Overlay

[Jules2]

The EXT. OUTDOOR STREET LOOP - NIGHT background doesn’t loop and I’ve heard that the background is broken. So I made this background into an overlay but I can’t figure out how to make it loop continuously. It goes through and then skips to the beginning again instead of going through smoothly. I have looked at many answers to these questions on the forum but none of them work for me. Please help!

[Aykay]

Loop Your Own Background | Dara Amarie

Try this

[line123462]

@Jules2

EXT. OUTDOOR STREET LOOP - NIGHT

dosent work, never have, never will, its never been a looping background.

anyway here is the overlay and code I used, its a little bit glitchy though.

INT. BLUE - DAY with OUTDOOR STREET LOOP to 2.446 -682 0
@overlay OUTDOOR STREET LOOP moves to layer -30

&overlay OUTDOOR STREET LOOP shifts to 0 0 in 6 THEN overlay OUTDOOR STREET LOOP shifts to -682 0 in 0 loop infinite times

[Jules2]

Thanks! I tried that before but that code didn’t work for me. I don’t know why or what I did wrong. How do I use it correctly?

[Jules2]

Thank you! The one that you sent, it skips back to the beginning instead of going through it smoothly. How do I do the same thing but have it without the glitchy look?

(Sorry. I realized that I replied to it in general and not to your post)

[line123462]

dont know, I use that. I would have send one there didnt glitch, if I knew how to do that.

[Aykay]

You have to be sure that your images of the overlay has the exact same size!

[Jules2]

I actually figured it out! I used the link you gave me and did some math. I made a different version.

This is my code:

EXT. BLUE - DAY with STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP to 1.625 0 0 in zone 1 at layer -5
&overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 create from STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP and overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 opacity 1 in 0
&overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 scales to 1.625 1.625 in 0 and overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 shifts to 275 0 in zone 2 in 0 and overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 to layer -6

&overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 shifts to -595 0 in 8 THEN overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP2 shifts to 275 0 in zone 2 in 0 loop INFINITE times
@overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP shifts to -595 0 in 4
&overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP shifts to 275 0 in zone 2 in 0 THEN overlay STORE ALLEYWAY NIGHT_LOOP shifts to -595 0 in 8 loop INFINITE times

But it wouldn’t work for other people I guess because of the size.

So how do you know what size you downloaded the overlay?

However, the math I did to figure it out should work for everyone:

[Jules2]

The math would just be with different numbers depending on the size of the overlay.

[Aykay]

Hahaha, and one say you don’t need math after school anymore
I’m glad it finally worked!