Hello fellow episode writers, while I was writing, a question popped up in my head that I wanted to know the answers to.
What was the worst writing bug/error that you have ever experienced? (whether that be a missed phrase in code or unintentional) How long did it take you to solve them?
For me I’d say spelling something wrong and having to go back and look for it. I rememeber a code I did and I spelled my characters name wrong and I was like wth yes it does and I didn’t see the mistake until I asked for help on forums which was embarrassing
The worst directing issue that I had wasn’t my fault; just when I was beginning, I couldn’t get the writer’s portal to remember if/elif/else choices. Took me a solid hour to learn that the writer’s portal doesn’t display them without the picker lol.
Then once I spelled the name of a choice wrong in the if/else section, didn’t take me long to catch it, though. I feel like it’s harder to notice typos in all caps…
Nothing huge other than that, just that I forget the syntax a lot. “&PEARL walks spot 43 153 1.280” or “@.fade to black in 3”. Once I forgot the @ in front of the “@.CHARACTER +1”. Now I just keep Dara Amarie’s All Script Commands guide up whenever I’m directing.
I just had an error where my animated opening would not work. it was because I had spelled the overlays wrong. the script did not even tell me it was an error so I had no idea why it would not work
It wasn’t necessarily hard to fix, just annoying. But I had an issue where I changed the spot directing of one person or something like that and subsequently the zooming changed for the entire scene (glitch, I guess, I don’t know) But it was pretty hilarious because I suddenly had characters flailing across the screen at the speed of light. And then the scene ended with a super zoom up of this one characters face. It was so funny to watch.