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What is Cinematic?
What is Cinematic?
Cinematic is a more expansive form of directing that allows you to manipulate everything that is on the screen more easily. Instead of automatic behaviors of half-body characters swiping in and out, characters' full bodies always stay on the screen. Because of this, we are able to have characters perform animations together (ex. kissing or slow dancing), have background characters, and create a more lively and realistic scene.
This way of directing is meant to be more thorough, detailed, and immersive to a true cinematic experience. It is closer to the directing of a TV or movie scene. The dialogue and story is a always big focus, but via cinematic directing, the visuals are too.
Turning Cinematic 'On'
Turning Cinematic 'On'
To use cinematic, we have to turn this form of directing 'on' in our code by setting the format. Once this format is set, the story will remain in that format until it is changed to something else.
The syntax of setting a story's directing format in cinematic is as follows:
set format cinematic
Conclusion
Conclusion
Cinematic format is excellent for visually bringing your story to life. With cinematic, we can have a scene full of background characters, characters ice skating across the rink, horseback racing, giving each other massages, and more. Though we'll only go through the basics in this Beginner's course, you'll see all that we're able to achieve through cinematic through the Intermediate and Advanced courses as well.
In our next lessons, we'll learn more about character movement and will build a basic scene out together in cinematic. From there on out, you'll be able to code an Episode story all on your own!
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