💭 HOW TO: Spot direct Speech Bubble

[Apes]

bUmP

[rainbowunicorn281042]

Bump

[Katie36]

Say your Narrator speech bubble is someone on the other line of the phone conversation, how can you spot direct it so it looks like the caller and not just someone narrating the story.

[RudeInception]

I don’t think there’s a specific way to do this. Maybe shrink the bubble and place it close to the onscreen character’s phone. But I think that if a character is having a phone conversation, most readers will understand narration bubbles as offscreen dialogue…

[katie.on.episode]

i need some help, so my speech bubbles stay in one place, and i did the speechbubble reset with the @ and the & symbols, nothing. i took out the code for changing the speech bubble placement, nothing. how do i make it so it goes to their characters?

[debbieehx]

Hey! I want to move my narrator box but it keeps saying i need to do this tail thing
I have this now :
@speechbubble is 161 91 100% with tail_top_right

It doesn’t matter if I type ’ with tail_top_right ’ or not , it always gives an error

But the narrator box doesn’t have a tail so I don’t know how to move my narrator box

I also already tried replacing @speechbubble with @narratorbox but it also gives an error

please help mee

[Apes]

@debbieehx

@speechbubble is 161 91 to 100% with tail_top_right

[debbieehx]

Oh thought I did that. Thank you so much

[Apes]

bump!

[eriiin]

This is so helpful, but what’s the @ for thought bubbles?

[JemU776]

A thought bubble:

HOW TO: Get The End of An Animation

P.S to have your character thinking something, you’d include () around what they’re thinking. Example: CHAR (animation) (Thought goes here.) Using this example: JEM (think) (Should I eat a hot pepper?) Can read more about speech bubbles here: HOW TO: Spot direct Speech Bubble Hope this helps ^^

And welcome to the community

[LaurelleE27]

I have a character, who’s on screen. How can I make the tail point up, rather than diagonally.

Summary

I’ve moved the speech bubble around, tried resetting and placing it above him to see if it makes a difference, hence it’s so far to the right.

[Apes]

I think when you place bubble more in the center of him (somewhere around the chest) it will be pointing up

[LaurelleE27]

Unfortunately, I’ve tried that. I placed two characters on either side of the screen. And it’s perfect for the left character, but not for the right.

But I’ll attempt it again .

[Apes]

Let me know as I didn’t figure it out myself why some of them pointing up and some of them not. I’m thinking maybe it’s the placement of the characters and how many is them on the screen.

[LaurelleE27]

Thankfully, moving the characters worked instead of moving the speech bubble. Thanks though.

[Apes]

BUMP!

[Funicidal]

Can I just say how much I dislike it when people don’t bother spot directing their speech bubbles at all, so they end up looking like one big mess? You know, tails pointing towards the wrong character, bubbles covering heads, bubbles covering important parts of the scene, those kinds of things.

Y’all better follow this and spot direct your speech bubbles correctly.

[Apes]

Since they updated bubbles I’m spot directing EVERY ONE

[Funicidal]

Same. But I’ve always directed each bubble anyway, because I’m extra af.