I have a split phone call scene and i have the coding but when I preview it, the background doesn’t pop up in my script. can anyone help? thanks!
Could you share a ss of your script?
yea sure
Did you by any chance use the create command for the overlay?
someone I met coded it for me so im not sure
Did you create the overlay in the middle of a scene?
Oh, okay. Can you share a ss of higher up in your script? Create commands need an opacity command to make overlays visible.
so do i take a ss from the beginning of my script?
Just the beginning of your scene. (: Hopefully anyways baha.
that’s the beginning of my split phone call scene
The beginning of that background scene?
yes
where it says “Amelia (text_phone_neutral_loop) i need to call don winslo”
That’s where the phone call scene starts
What we mean is scenes as far as the script/code is concerned. “Scenes” are typically separated by the portal using backgrounds.
INT. BACKGROUND 1
#First scene here.
INT. BACKGROUND 2
#Second scene here.
I hope that makes sense. But you could search to see if you have the create command there using ctrl + f and typing:
@overlay BACKGROUNDFORPHONECALL create
&overlay BACKGROUNDFORPHONECALL create
on line 368, was that the first time you coded in the overlay, since I do not see a create command, or do you have it next to the background?
Ah, okay. There doesn’t appear to be any create command nor was the it added to the background.
I would try adding:
@overlay BACKGROUNDFORPHONECALL create
@overlay BACKGROUNDFORPHONECALL opacity 1 in 0
Before the rest of the overlay commands. If it doesn’t work than the x y coordinates (in the shifting commands) themselves may be incorrect.
to which part of the script