Suitability of Timeline for use with input driven dialogue/cutscene system

Unity Engine
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I’m putting together a dialogue and cutscene system that is able to for example:

  1. Play a walk animation
  2. Move player to certain position given a speed (not time!)
  3. Once the player has reached the position, start a dialogue
  4. Once player has clicked through the dialogue, walk and move to another position
  5. Another dialogue

Now the dialogue system should wait for the player to click ‘next’ before advancing through each line of the script, and the next set of actions shouldn’t start until the last line has ended.

From what I’ve seen of Timeline, it seems like it’s very much a ‘start to finish, trigger everything along the way’. I’m not seeing any potential of doing things like waiting for player input.

Is there some way to extend Timeline to do what I’d want, or is it simply not the right tool for the job?

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I think you could pull this off by breaking up each of your steps into their own timelines. And then the player input would trigger the next timeline to play.

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Well what if a conversation has 16 lines of dialogue? The player has to push a button to continue the dialogue each time, does this mean I need 16 different timelines for just 1 dialogue? Probably not very efficient, unless there was some nice way to do it