How do i create an animated dialogue system or 2D cutscene?

[NotAppeals]

im making a visual novel-ish game anddd…
i would like my dialogue to play gifs on the UI(audio included would be great) and another one if the player presses a particular key on the keyboard but i dont know how to.

here is something i want to achieve (hope this explains it)

and also how to make the player temporarily unable to move/control because it is a cutscene and moving would bad lol

[please note that im a very big noob in scripting😭(im just an artist) so if you’re kind then a good explanation will help me a ton.]

thanks!

[poly3rd (vioisright)]

Curently, GIFs or Videos in general are inaccessible to the general public. They will be when VideoFrames will be able to support community-posted videos.

To make the player unable to move, you’d have to stun them, which is usually done by setting their walkspeed and jump power to 0 like such:

character.Humanoid.WalkSpeed = 0
character.Humanoid.JumpPower = 0

At last, for the dialogue there’s no simple answer. You’d have to store the lines in a table like such:

local lines = {
    "This is line 1.",
    "This is line 2."
}

After that, to detect user input, or the key they need to press you’d have to utilize UserInputService, like so:

local UserInputService = game:GetService("UserInputService")

UserInputService.InputBegan:Connect(function (input, gameProcessedEvent)
	if gameProcessedEvent then return end
	if input.KeyCode ~= Enum.KeyCode.Space then return end
	
	-- continue dialogue.
end)

Overall, for a beginner this is no easy job and you may want to consider doing something easier. If not, though, this is a template code that you can use to help you.

local lines = {
	"This is line 1!",
	"Line 2...",
	"Finally, line 3!"
}

local ScreenGui = PUT_SCREEN_GUI_HERE
local DialogueTextLabel = PUT_TEXT_LABEL_HERE

local currentLine = 1
game:GetService("UserInputService").InputBegan:Connect(function (input, gameProcessedEvent)
	if gameProcessedEvent then return end
	if input.KeyCode ~= Enum.KeyCode.Space then return end
	
	currentLine = currentLine + 1
	local lineText = lines[currentLine]
	
	if not lineText then
		return -- NO MORE LINES
	end
	
	DialogueTextLabel.Text = lineText
end)

[NotAppeals]

oh my god TYSM FOR HELPING MEE!!

[NotAppeals]

ill try to somehow code the gif part myself