Script Help, Please!

Creator's Corner Directing Help & Tips
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Hey ya’ll! I need a bit of help with my script! For some reason, my previewer and app won’t go play anything after if (texthim is “TEXT HIM!”) { and I’m starting to get really kind of frustrated and it’s a key point in the episode so I really need it. Could someone please take a look at my script and find out why it’s not working? It just stops at the end of my intro and that’s it. Thanks a bunch!

INT.INTRO5
@transition fade in black in 2
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
@pause for a beat
volume music 0 2000
@transition iris out black in 2
if (texthim is “TEXT HIM!”) {
INT.NALABROOM1
&cut to zone 2
&zoom on 402 296 to 198% in 0
&NALANI spot 1.048 122 100 in zone 2 at layer 1 and NALANI faces right and NALANI is read_phone_gasp_shocked
@transition fade in black in 2
NALANI
(He texted me back??)
@pause for a beat
@transition fade out white in 2
set format phonetext
EXT.LANIPHONE
&zoom on 0 0 to 100% in 0
@transition fade in white in 2
NALANI
Hey Dean, it’s Nalani Martin. I hope it’s okay for me to be texting you!
sound phone_text

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You need a closing barrack at the end }

Also, do you have an elif or else after that? That could also be the issue.

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I have the closing bracket further down in my script and I also have else since there’s only two previous options but i just didn’t include those on this post since the chapter won’t go past the if part

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Ive used the if elif else option before and never had this problem so im really confused

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Try resetting the progress.

Also, are the choice name the same thing? That could be the issue or you don’t have a choice name next to the choice before the if/else.

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Its the same choice names too! That’s what i dont understand :flushed: unless its the actual choice itself.

So i put

Choice (texthim)
And then my two choices

Could that be the problem?

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So, your choice looks like?

Choice (texthim)
“TEXT HIM!” {

} else {

}

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   NALANI (think_loop)

(Should I take Aunt Kelly’s advice and text him?)

Choice (texthim)
“TEXT HIM!”{
all my dialogue goes here
}
“No!”{
dialogue goes here
}

That’s the original choice so what im trying to do ia do an after effect of the original choice

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I don’t know why it won’t work.
Maybe @apes can help.

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So what you’re saying is that it’s skipping this?

When you choose “TEXT HIM!” and then come to this, it goes past the if statement, right?

:thinking:

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Could you show a bit more of your script? Can PM me if you’d like but that is strange, it should work :thinking:

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