How to Skip a Cutscene and return to the game

Press S to Skip

In this article we create the functionality to skip our intro cutscene. We also had to make the same adjustments as in our mid game cutscene, since we want to return to our game and continue playing. Like switching the camera back.

How to return to the game after playing a cutscene

In a previous article we showed how we return to the game after the cutscene is finished. We will need the same setup on the current cutscene as we have in our mid game cutscene as in the article below.

Sleeping Guard Interaction

To skip the cutscene we chose to use the Playable Director from code. This is the component that controls the timeline.

From the Scripting Reference we can find we need to use an library:

using UnityEngine.Playables;

PlayableDirector

GameManager Script

Here we use to script to set the time of the timeline to near the end. This way the timeline will still activate and deactivate the right gameobjects for us.

Unity — Scripting API: Playables.PlayableDirector.time

The bold parts are relevant to skipping. The rest is needed to start the BGM after the cutscene.

public PlayableDirector introCutscene;
private bool _isBGMON = false;
void Update()
{
    if (Input.GetKeyDown(KeyCode.S) && _isBGMON == false)
    {
        introCutscene.time = 61f;
        AudioManager.Instance.PlayBGM();
        _isBGMON = true;
    }
}