How To: Unity 2d RPG Cutscenes??

Unity Engine
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So after hours and hours and spending three days on trying to find out how to do this i still seem to have no hope or answer. ive been looking everywhere for the past few days on how to do this, and nothing has some up. I have become frustrated, and confused.

I want to be able to do scripted cutscenes (think JRPG), and i want to know how.

I am very very very new, as in i know almost nothing about making a live cutscene in a game. I already have a dialogue system and everything, and i can implement that into the scripted cutscene, but first i need to know how to make one

I have tried to use the timeline, but there is 0 documentation or proper guides in how to use it properly in 2d, like the following:

  • How do i use this timeline for a 2d mini cutscene?
  • How can i use this timeline and remove the easing?
  • Can i use different game objects in one timeline?
  • Can i move one object’s transform variable to another objects transform variable?
  • How do i pause the timeline (as if im going to wait for the player to finish dialogue to got to the next timeline animation)?

Here is a example from Undertale (hate the fandom, love the game.) on what a scripted mini cutscene looks like:

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](http:// https://youtu.be/DPEjZjqigIM?t=12)

The player walks into a triggered event and it triggers a cutscene, the cutscene waits until the player has read all the dialogue and then proceeds to go into the next bit of the script, moving the npcs and characters etc etc.

I myself have a dialogue system. No problem. I have everything in play, EXCEPT how to make a cutscene. I have even tried spending hours manually coding all the movements and such when a player trips over the collider 2d, but that just resulted in unity crashing because of all of the while loops i had to run.

I am utterly confused and have completed most of my game, but this is the most important part, and nobody will tell me how to do it. I don’t want to have to switch to some other engine just for a simple feature like this.

I am also open to anybody suggesting me addons, that help me do just what im asking for.

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I actually made my own simple event system for cutscenes like this :slight_smile: it’s not that hard. I can point you in the right direction. Feel free to send me a PM :slight_smile: