DARA’S GUIDE: Overlays

Try using this for the 2nd spot:
@overlay X shifts to X in 4

Thank you. And I will try and let you know.

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I’m trying to do a punching bag swinging on it’s chain, but for some reason, when they rotate, the punching bag teleports down to the bottom of the screen and the chain attached to it teleports into the second one a little, but then they shift to the place I’m telling it to go. What am I doing wrong??

Also, the co-ordinates for the overlays at the beginning are:
Punching Bag - 0.532 45 22 in zone 2 at layer 2
First Chain - 0.496 79 453 in zone 2 at layer 3
Second Chain - 0.496 79 485 in zone 2 at layer 4
Third Chain - 0.496 79 541 in zone 2 at layer 5

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Can someone please help me?
I’m trying to make an explosion scene where the overlay stays in the same place but gets bigger.
Heres my script:

@overlay EXPLOSION create
@overlay EXPLOSION opacity 1 in 0
@overlay EXPLOSION moves to layer 3

@overlay EXPLOSION shifts to 126 212 in zone 3
@overlay EXPLOSION scales to 0.064 0.064
@overlay EXPLOSION shifts to 63 -123 in zone 2
@overlay EXPLOSION scales to 1.685 1.685 in 3

I have also tried changing the @ symbol to an & symbol and the same thing is happening - the overlay appears from the bottom left and moves to the correct place where I want it.
I want it so that the overlay is really small in the centre of the screen (when the scene starts so it shouldn’t be moving at all) and gets bigger staying in the centre of the screen.

&overlay EXPLOSION create
&overlay EXPLOSION opacity 1 in 0
&overlay EXPLOSION moves to layer 3
&overlay EXPLOSION shifts to 126 212 in zone 3 in 0
@overlay EXPLOSION scales to 0.064 0.064 in 0

&overlay EXPLOSION shifts to 63 -123 in zone 2 in 3
@overlay EXPLOSION scales to 1.685 1.685 in 3

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Thankyou so much!

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Can some body help me?
I have been trying to make a gif loop for days but it ain’t.
Here is the code

&overlay INTRO1 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO1 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO2 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO2 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO3 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO3 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO4 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO4 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO5 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO5 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO6 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO6 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO7 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO7 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO8 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO8 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO9 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO9 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO10 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO10 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO11 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO11 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO10 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO10 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO9 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO9 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO8 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO8 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO7 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO7 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO6 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO6 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO5 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO5 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO4 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO4 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO3 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO3 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO2 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO2 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO1 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO1 opacity 1 in 0.1 THEN overlay INTRO0 opacity 1 in 0 THEN overlay INTRO0 opacity 1 in 0.1 loop INFINITE times

Please some one should help me

Nothing’s changing. Each command is having the opacity be at 1.

Hello, I would highly suggest reviewing this and following the instructions there to get your gif to loop properly.

Oh God I still don’t get it.:persevere:

Okay. I’m going to check

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Basically, you have your overlays fading in then fading in. There’s no fading out (opacity 0), which you need to do.

Took a second glance and I saw the problem but after changing it, the gif is glitching not looping.

Thank you this helped a lot.

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Thanks I have finally found the problem.

Is there a way to make an overlay rotate and loop infinitely?

Yes it’s in the guide above