How do you make a cutscene in Godot?

WAAAAAAWAWA

I've looked everywhere... guides on this just don't exist. What I'm looking for is a something relatively simple: player walks 'into' the cutscene, loses control of their controls, and some animations/ dialogue plays out. After this they can carry on playing as normal. Have any of you made a successful cutscene like this? What would be the best way of going about this? Do you know how people achieve this in other game engines? Thanks so much in advance.

TheVoiceInMyHead

Hi there,

I'm also new to godot, but this is how I'd approach it: create an Area2D, when your player gets to that area (body_enter) load a new scene (the cut-scene). When this scene finishes (maybe a timer node?) re-load the original scene.

I hope the above helps.

milan-davidovic

Hi,

I've been experimenting recently with a cutscene system. I use an AnimationPlayer for cutscenes. When the player enters an area, player input is disabled and a non-loopable animation for a given AnimationPlayer node is played. The animation can use multiple tracks to animate scene objects properties, the camera, play other animations and call script functions for things like starting a dialogue (I have functions which start a modal dialogue which pause a cutscene which is resumed after the dialogue is finished, or a non-modal one which runs along with the cutscene).

Take a look at this screenshot of an example animation I use.

WAAAAAAWAWA

Yeah similar ideas. Good job on that. It sounds pretty ideal... For now I ought to stick to smaller tasks but will definately keep this strategy in mind, thanks. If you have a video of it I'd be really interested in seeing it in action, don't go out of your way to though. Thanks again