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Sometimes when I use CTRL to skip text/animations in the game, characters will appear on top of one another instead of their proper placement (say, at right with easeinright will display on top of the at left) how can I avoid that?
For instance in this part of my game, the very first characters to appear:
Also, a helpful community member helped me sort this out.
Basically, always state your character placement after a movement to make sure that the transition doesn't bork. It's not the most elegant way, but hey, it has the advantage of being an easy fix! I'll mark as solved and ask a mod to move the thread in case this helps somebody else.
show char2 baseside at right with moveinright:
xzoom -1
show char2 at right
char2 "Yes indeed."
char1 "Don't interrupt."
show char1 neutral open
hide char2