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Hello, I am looking for the best way to make an editable crawl.

Yes, I know about the crawl playout option in the sequencer group, but that puts the crawl on top of all background.

I want to make a crawl that goes behind other elements in z-space, and still have it editable.

Have I run into a dead end? Is datalinq the only option?

I might be heading down the wrong road, but have you tried using layers to move your scenes around? For example, you have a scene on framebuffer 1 layer 0, and you want the crawl to go behind it. Move the crawl to framebuffer 1 layer -1.

Just a thought.

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Not the ideal way to do it.

The crawl scene is made out of several layers, some that the text are on top, and some that the text should go behind. The crawl also animates on air.

I am also having an issue with pauses in the scene director on scenegroups. I can't trigger "continue" manually.

If I set the pause to a set time, it continues. I don't get that.

I just have to use datalinq then, if theres no help on this forum.

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The only thing I can think of is using a number of hidden text objects in the scene group parent scene and have those published. You could then use a script to pull information out of those text objects into the child scenes.

Does your crawl have a fixed number of pages? Or do you need the ability to fill in as much information as you want and have it display all of that data?

I'm going to work on the script example and see what I can come up with.

Andrew

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Jens,

Here is a link to an example project of what I described above.

https://ross.brickftp.com/f/ee6d40e31

In the example the text entry fields are still set to visible but in practice you would have these invisible. I'm using event markers that "on show" copy the text from the text entry objects to the ones in the crawl.

Andrew

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Yes, that does the trick! Thanks a lot!

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