im trying to put 4 overlays of bookshelves and makin them look like they’re floating but everytime i put the code in the writer portal, everything freezes. I tried restarting my laptop and rewriting it but it ain’t happening. is this too much for the portal? 
has this happened with anyone else?
My scripts tend to look a lot like this in that I have a lot of & commands for overlays at one time.
Have you tried changing the @ on the overlay creation command to a & too?
It might just be a temporary problem. I’ve never had any issues with long sections of script using the & command. Only where sometimes I have characters moving and using the THEN command, but rejigging things around usually fixes that.
Also, if it still doesnt work, maybe try adding your overlays to the scene first and just having the positioning in the script e.g.
INT. BLACK - NIGHT with OVERLAY1 with OVERLAY2 etc etc. (You can always code them at the start of the scene to have no opacity so that they dont show up straight away, then up the opacity when you’re ready!)
Also, just a thought, perhaps remove the numbers before the overlay name in the loop infinite times command.
Can’t hurt to try everything!
do you have something else after this code?
I have no problem with 47 overlays in a scene but it lags terribly in a scene with 95 overlays 
So your scene with 4 overlays should be fine. Maybe there’s something to do with your coding? 
ty!! I’ll try that.
just a panning code :">
maybe try adding in 2 (seconds, for the timing) or something like that in the looping command
