AC with Panoply / 3rd party integration

steve

Hi

Has anyone ever used AC with Panoply? https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/58506 

It looks really cool for cutscenes, and even during dialogue.

I am curious to know if it's a good addition, or more trouble that it's worth trying to get the two to play nice.

thanks

Alverik

Wow, that asset looks really cool! It does seem to have custom events too, which could be a start for an integration, I would have loved to fiddle with it and AC... But, um, it's expensive and I'm broke, lol (inflation and general economy in the country where I live is different, saving that much takes a while)... but I'll keep an eye on the asset, thanks for making me aware of it! If I ever get the money to spare I'll try and get a copy.

Anyway, maybe someone else in the forums has the asset and can give you more of an insight?

steve

Hi Alverik, glad you think it looks cool too

Since I posted the question I got an email response from the developer of Panoply:

"The two areas I would imagine could have conflicts would be camera management and captions. Given that AC integrates with a camera-controlling asset like Cinema Director it’s possible the two could work together, but you’d have to test it to be sure."

He also said I could have a refund if I bought it and it didn't work together within a month; just not sure if I have the skills to get the two working together within a month if nobody else out there is using it  :-/

Something for me to sleep on I guess!

ChrisIceBox

The Cinema Director integration is handled via the ThirdParty: Cinema Director Action.  The AC Camera is disabled manually by calling KickStarter.mainCamera.Disable () in the action's Run() function.

Though I haven't used Panoply myself, I expect that a custom Action could be written to do basically the same thing with that asset as well.  If you're experienced with coding, have a look at the tutorial and then open the ActionCinemaDirector.cs Action script, which is relatively simple - and a duplicate of which (renamed properly following the steps in the tutorial), should be modifiable to trigger Panoply cutscenes instead of CD ones.