Help panning a scene background

[wayward]

Maybe someone here can explain this. Pretty much what I'm trying to do is make a scene appear, show the image background appear for a few seconds and then pan down to the bottom of the background. my background height is double my resolution size.

It works and it doesn't. Here's what I've got.

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label start:
    scene background with fade:
        pause 3.0   
        yalign 0.0
        linear 10.0 yalign 1.0
   
    scene next_background

With ^these^ lines my image shows for about a half a second and then switches to the next scene. If I remove the pause line the scene pans down really fast and then switches to the next scene. Now...

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label start:
    scene background with fade:
        pause 3.0   
        yalign 0.0
        linear 10.0 yalign 1.0
    name "test"

    scene next_background

If I add a bit of dialogue (did this to just see what happens if the game was forced to wait for user input), everything works like I want it to. background shows for 3 seconds and then does a 10 second pan perfectly. Could anyone enlighten me as to what's happening? Any way to do this without the dialogue "stopper"?

[Alera]

How about having a second pause, outside of your scene block, in place of the dialogue? Is this the effect you wanted?

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label start:
    scene background with fade:
        pause 3.0   
        yalign 0.0
        linear 10.0 yalign 1.0
    pause 10.0

    scene next_background

[wayward]

How about having a second pause, outside of your scene block, in place of the dialogue? Is this the effect you wanted?

Wow, why does that work? I'm trying to make sense of it in my head. Thanks.

[mobychan]

The linear transition doesn't block the following actions, so if the following action actually waits on the last one to finish you have the effect you wanted^^

[wayward]

The linear transition doesn't block the following actions, so if the following action actually waits on the last one to finish you have the effect you wanted^^

Oh, okay. That makes sense.