šŸš— HOW TO: Drive into / Drive Off the scene with Character inside

First. Choose your background and overlay.
Iā€™ll use:

EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER

A Guide to Using & Animating OVERLAYS

Letā€™s have two characters in the scene. One waiting and one in the car.

Iā€™ve already spotted my ā€œwaitingā€ character:

How to move your characters around (Spot Directing)

EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER
@JULIE spot 0.832 173 177 AND JULIE faces left
@JAMES stands screen left AND JAMES faces right
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I zoomed out the scene so I can see where to place my car and character:
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Now using Overlay Helper And Switch Tool I will change the size and place my overlay.
SCALE - make it bigger or smaller
MOVE - move around the screen

If youā€™re directing on mobile:
In order to use SCALE, drag your finger from side to side across the screen. This makes the overlay bigger or smaller.

I did the same with the character in the car

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Copy the spots on the bottom and add to an overlay

@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to -758 -48
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER scales to 0.872 0.872

COPY just the one size and AND spots and ADD to the BACKGROUND:

See example:
EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.872 -758 -48

now your car will be offscreen at the beginning of the scene.

reset zoom

Using directing helper move your overlay to the scene same as the character

This is the place I want my car to stop:

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Copy the spots for your character and overlay.

You have to use & instead of @ if you want to overlay and character to move simultaneously

Also, you have to use the command ā€œwalks to spotā€ for your character to move and does it while animation.

EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.872 -758 -48
@JULIE spot 0.832 173 177 AND JULIE faces left AND JAMES spot 1.032 -306 -85 AND JAMES faces right
@pause for a beat
&JAMES walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND JAMES does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to -342 -48 in 3.0

3.0 - itā€™s time in SECONDS, you can use what you want, you can move the car and character slower or faster. Just make sure they have the same time.

Note:
If you look closer I kept my Y (UP/DOWN)coordinates the same when my character and overlay are off screen and on screen.

To understand it better hereā€™s the example:
% X Y
1.032 -306 -85
(Size) (Right/Left) (Up/Down)

For driving off:

Place your other character in the car. I used:

@JULIE walks to spot 0.832 -60 189 in 2.0
@pause for a beat
@JULIE spot 1.033 -88 -82
@JULIE walks to spot 1.033 15 -94 AND JULIE faces right AND JULIE does it while idle

She walks left first then sheā€™s moving inside the car.

Then place your car off screen again, in this example off screen right and place your characters inside the car again

Now you just need to copy the character and overlay spots and again use & first then @ for the second command otherwise, they wonā€™t move together, make sure that the time is the same as well.

Full script:
EXT. BRICK MANSION - DAY with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.872 -758 -48
@JULIE spot 0.832 173 177 AND JULIE faces left AND JAMES spot 1.032 -306 -85 AND JAMES faces right
@pause for a beat
&JAMES walks to spot 1.032 106 -85 in 3.0 AND JAMES does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to -342 -48 in 3.0
@JULIE walks to spot 0.832 -60 189 in 2.0
@pause for a beat
@JULIE spot 1.033 -88 -82
@JULIE walks to spot 1.033 15 -94 AND JULIE faces right AND JULIE does it while idle
@pause for a beat
&JAMES walks to spot 1.032 776 -94 in 2.0 AND JAMES does it while idle_happy
&JULIE walks to spot 1.033 678 -94 in 2.0 AND JULIE does it while idle_happy
@overlay CAR ANGLE SILVER shifts to 325 -48 in 2.0


LOOPING BACKGROUND CAR DRIVING TEMPLATES:

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This makes my life SO much easier!!!

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Youā€™re not making your car move anywhere. Youā€™re having the car shift to the same spot itā€™s already in.

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My car wonā€™t drive to the front :worried: Only my character moves please help me

Did you place her offscreen?

Yeah I place the guy off screen

Can you copy and paste this code?

EXT. JUVIE OLIVER ROW HOME - NIGHT with CAR ANGLE SILVER to 0.985 -853 -76

@EMILIA enters from right to back far left and EMILIA is run_athletic_offset AND AUSTIN spot 1.280 -555 -139 and AUSTIN faces right

@pause for a beat

&AUSTIN walks to spot 1.280 216 -185 in 3.0 AND AUSTIN does it while idle
@overlay CAR ANGLE SLIVER shifts to -278 -44 in zone 2 in 3.0
@overlay CAR ANGLE SLIVER scales to 0.985 0.985 in zone 2 in 3.0

I just noticed that you misspelled ā€œSILVERā€ in shifts and scales command

Iā€™m having the same problem autumn
Lol weird saying my name lol

Can you post your script?

Sure one sec

You need to read the guide above. For best result use & for character and add time and zone to shifts command

I followed it before but I couldnā€™t really understand

If you use @ your commands will happen one after another one. Thatā€™s why itā€™s not working.

Oh so what do I do

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Ooooohey OK thank u

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