I’m still new to switching lanes from freestyle to blocks.
As has been mentioned in this forum, blocks are better for managing storylines.
Something I’ve noticed is that blocks can drift within the whiteboard as other changes are made. They often move to the left (which seems strange when changes are being made to the right.)
I didn’t think much about it until a block drifted left past the start of the episode. It doesn’t seem like that should ever be allowed to happen, should it?
Hi,
Is it possible that it’s actually the episode marker that’s drifting into the block. Are we specifically talking about the first block in an episode? And the block isn’t empty, by chance?
Ideally, this should be cosmetic drift, and not drift of the actual items in the block. I’m separating them, because the whiteboard consists both of the positions of the material things in the script, the beats and episode markers. But then it also consists of a bunch of “anchors”, that for example tell us where to put an empty block, basically where to put all the non-printing things.
There are a ton of layout decisions to arbitrate this, which is logic that we’d happily reduce. But when we test, we subconsciously test in ways that make our code behave right.
If you can cook up a clear example that shows the migration, along with the steps you take to get there, we can surely address it.