Should I create different scene for different cutscene ?

[Nuttaphoom]

In my game, I have a cutscene system similar to the one seen in the Persona series. Players will frequently visit the same locations, akin to a school setting, and may encounter various cutscene events based on the time of day.

Note that players won’t directly control a 3D character but will instead navigate using a map menu, which transports them to different locations.

my question is that if I have multiple cutscene for friends interaction, main story, etc in the same location ,say it’s a library, should I create distinct scenes for the library, each containing its own timeline for cutscene events, and play them upon scene loading? Or are there more modular methods to achieve a similar system?

[Kurt-Dekker]

You could even chop it up finer than that with additive scene loading.

You could load the content scene, load the cutscene scene, play it.

When the cutscene ends, unload just the cutscene and then load your player into the already-loaded content scene and off you go.

More reading…

Additive scene loading is one possible solution:

Right way for performance, divide scene?

I always favor breaking the scenes up and loading additively. reduces overall memory consumption lets multiple team members trample on each other less often ensures clean "reset" of all objects in a fresh loaded scene I'm working on a game now where we each have our own "content" level, the level we're working on. the content scene has all the lighting baked in. Just press play and that level has one script that additively loads: music scene (just an audiosource on autoplay) the p…

Right way for performance, divide scene?

Glad you asked… going this route definitely requires slightly-higher awareness of what scene is what. In no particular order, responding to you questions, When the game or level is over, I try to go to a fresh “end level” scene (not additively!) and clear everything else out (except overall ongoing game manager obviously, as a singleton) when the game gets paused I stop time and bring up a pause scene that sorts above all else, then unload it and restart the time. OR if you quit, I just …

Problem with canvas & UI prefabs

There are underlying reasons this happened and you can track it down by examining everything about each scene's canvas setup and scaling that are different from the other. But keep in mind it might not be super-easily to address it in the general case, especially if you start partitioning your UI into chunks. An alternate workflow is to put chunks of your UI into separate scenes and then load those scenes additively. For instance you might have the following scenes, all loaded additively: …

A multi-scene loader thingy:

Unity additive scene loading example - Pastebin.com

My typical Scene Loader:

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/862da3bc22ee13aff61a7606ece6fdd3

Other notes on additive scene loading:

Removing Duplicates on Load Scene

Why not remove the player from ALL your scenes, put him in his own separate scene, then load scenes additively? That way you don’t even need a Player prefab at all, just have a Player scene and load him additively. I tend to break up all my games into partial scenes, all additively loaded by the game manager: UI player enemy manager other stuff? and then finally I load the content scene. The first batch of screens all have scripts that do nothing until the content scene appears and they kn…

Timing of scene loading:

Function called from preloader script doesn't change parent of gameobject (in the second scene)

If line 8 relies on something being present from the scene load in line 7 (in GameController), it won't be: scenes are loaded at the end of frame and would never be available until the next frame, at the very earliest. You can trivially make void Start() into a coroutine by declaring it to return an IEnumerator, then put a while loop (with a yield return null; in it!!!) to wait until the scene loads and you find the "Trains" object, then proceed. Obviously you would need to interlock other t…

Also, if something exists only in one scene, DO NOT MAKE A PREFAB out of it. It’s a waste of time and needlessly splits your work between two files, the prefab and the scene, leading to many possible errors and edge cases.

Two similar examples of checking if everything is ready to go:

Daily Events and content changes

I think multiple scenes are definitely worth chasing. You need to make everything in your game tolerant of perhaps not having stuff ready at the same time, and you have to track things that you need only ONE of: Camera (Main) Audio Listener EventSystem I like to put all of those in the BASE scene if possible, then load other scenes like UI and pause and the level itself, etc. You have to sort of figure out which works for you. You can actually make Start() be a coroutine too, such as lookin…

Unit scripts calling Start function before other scripts

Indeed. I like to use a lot of additively-loaded scenes, so I tend to code my individual item controllers (including the player controller) so that they are happy to wait around if other stuff isn’t ready yet. You can make Start() into a coroutine, which is a super-easy way to get this kind of lazy-sloppy startup that is extremely tolerant of late loading and uneven loading. // typical base framework for all entities bool ready; IEnumerator Start () { // don't proceed unt…

[spiney199]

When we’re talking about a Persona game ‘cut scene’ you really actually mean something along the lines of a Visual Novel style dialogue, yeah?

In any case like Kurt says this can be done additively. Probably entirely modularly, with scriptable objects to set up the cast of characters and dialogue trees, and so on.

[Nuttaphoom]

@Kurt-Dekker

You could even chop it up finer than that with additive scene loading.

You could load the content scene, load the cutscene scene, play it.

When the cutscene ends, unload just the cutscene and then load your player into the already-loaded content scene and off you go.

More reading…

Additive scene loading is one possible solution:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/820920/2
https://discussions.unity.com/t/820920/4

https://discussions.unity.com/t/824447/2

A multi-scene loader thingy:

https://pastebin.com/Vecczt5Q

My typical Scene Loader:

https://gist.github.com/kurtdekker/862da3bc22ee13aff61a7606ece6fdd3

Other notes on additive scene loading:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/805654/2

Timing of scene loading:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/813922/2

Also, if something exists only in one scene, DO NOT MAKE A PREFAB out of it. It’s a waste of time and needlessly splits your work between two files, the prefab and the scene, leading to many possible errors and edge cases.

Two similar examples of checking if everything is ready to go:

https://discussions.unity.com/t/840487/10

https://discussions.unity.com/t/851480/4

That’s a lot of resource you give me, I will make sure to check most, if not all, of them. Thanks !

[Nuttaphoom]

@spiney199

When we’re talking about a Persona game ‘cut scene’ you really actually mean something along the lines of a Visual Novel style dialogue, yeah?
.

half correct,
I intend to use the same location (environment) frequently, and by frequently, I mean a lot.
So I was thinking creating different scenes using the same environment (copy and past them or make them into prefab) might be unnecessary

[spiney199]

@Nuttaphoom

half correct,

Want to properly describe what you mean then? Persona has had a lot of different cut scene styles over the years and usually multiple within the same game.

In any case you can still probably make this all modular. Probably only need the one ‘stage’ scene for a cut scene, and then just additively load/instantiate everything you need into it.