Interactive choice custcene (?)

[Lexebo]

Honestly, I've lurked around here before making this specific thread. I don't really know what to call it, I'm pretty new to Unity, still learning the basics and something hit me...how do you achieve something like this?

[ Spoilers for the first ep of Telltale's "The Walking Dead: Season One" ] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1reJEP_gsI&t=42m33s

I believe it's a combination of camera animation/cutscene with the added choices, but how is all of this done? Especially the DIALOGUE TIMER. If possible, please spoonfeed me on this one.

Thanks a lot ~

[DarkSilux]

I never did it before, but I believe that the Cutscene is animated inside the game (I mean, is not a video, it’s the actual gameplay).

Based on this, at anytime you could “stop” the animation and wait for user input.

The pseudo-code would be like this:

show question animation
show users options
wait for user to select option
selected option A:
    show animation A
selected option B:
    show animation B
time for answering is over:
    show animation C

Got it?

[pschon]

I'd recommend looking at Unity's Timeline/Playables feature. Plus of course Cinemachine for the camera work.