As researched in the following post, making fully animated cutscenes just isn’t viable. So I pitched the idea to Paula of making single frame picture book-type scenes:
Similar to that of Nine Sols:
Paula agreed this was the best way to set the story as quick as possible, so she took my poorly drawn storyboards, and turned them into comic-style pages:
Unity Implementation
I took these seperate frames Paula sent me and layed them out:
Then, I created a script I would put on each of these panels, causing them to fade in and then activate the next panel whenever the player would press the continue input:
In the inspector, I could assign the next panel that to be activated – and assign when panels needed to be deactivated (Like when the next comic scene would need to be shown or when the dialogue scene begins to play):
Results
Intro Comic Animation
End Comic Animation
I used this exact same process for when the player picks up the final fish hook fragment:
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