Looping background help needed

[Wicked_Mayhem]

I am trying to loop my background at a level 7 speed but my looping is having the overlay whizz by but then show the original background of that same looping background that I have chosen and then repeat the overlay whizzing by again instead of just looping infinitely like Dara Amarie looping background. Hopefully, that makes sense giving a visual of my problem. I wish I can send a video showing you all to make it easier to explain, but even that’s not working. I tried Dara Amarie, Joseph Evans, did the right size 1183x700, have it in zone 1, it’s an overlay as I stated. I can’t figure out what else I could be doing wrong for it to not loop correctly. I know people will ask, so here’s my script. If anyone can help me figure this out, I will appreciate it. Also a sidenote, TESTING 3 is the overlay’s name.

EXT. TOWN SQUARE LOOP - DAY with TESTING 3 to 1.119 0 0 in zone 1 at layer -5

&overlay TESTING 3_2 create from STREET LIGHTS and overlay TESTING 3_2 opacity 1 in 0

&overlay TESTING 3_2 scales to 1.119 1.119 in 0 and overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 0 and overlay TESTING 3_2 to layer -6

&zoom reset

&overlay TESTING 3 shifts to -640 0 in 1 THEN overlay TESTING 3 shifts to -960 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay TESTING 3 shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 0 THEN overlay TESTING 3 shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 1 THEN overlay TESTING 3 shifts to 0 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay TESTING 3 shifts to 0 0 in 0 loop INFINITE times
&overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 1 THEN overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to 0 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to 0 0 in 0 THEN overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to -640 0 in 1 THEN overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to -960 0 in 0.5 THEN overlay TESTING 3_2 shifts to 0 0 in zone 2 in 0 loop INFINITE times

&CATALINA spot 1.054 71 -1 in zone 1 AND CATALINA faces right AND CATALINA is ride_horse_gallop_serious_loop AND CATALINA moves to layer 2
&MIDNIGHT spot 1.006 76 14 in zone 1 AND MIDNIGHT faces right AND MIDNIGHT is gallop_loop AND MIDNIGHT moves to layer 1

[schittwriter]

https://www.instagram.com/p/B5gGfVDlBMB/?igshid=1bkxz3qnrp1d4

I’ll always recommend Jen’s post on looping backgrounds.^

I’m sorry I can’t really help with yours because I can’t see it for myself nor test it at the moment.

@Wicked_Mayhem

1183x700

1 zone is actually 640x1136 though…

[Wicked_Mayhem]

It’s a 3 zone background, I have my characters and it starting at zone 1

[schittwriter]

Then 3 zones is 1920x1136, but as Jen explains in her post, she uses 4 zones instead and edits it so that zone 4 is exactly the same as zone 1 and then it will loop more smoothly (of course, it’s up to you whether you want to do that or not).

1 zone = 640x1136.
2 zones = 1280x1136.
3 zones = 1920x1136.

[Wicked_Mayhem]

thank you, I tried to do it Jen’s way but I don’t have any special image editor, so I tried fixing the zone and it worked! Thanks for the help

[schittwriter]

No problem!