'Meanwhile/After some time' cutscenes

Hello to all!

i would suggest to make a new scene which has a dark (black) background. Then when you need this, just SHOW (not switch to) the black background scene and show a narration text, then again SHOW the current scene the character is in. 

Yes it seems this is the best solution, thanks Sebastian!

Aye what Sebastian said is probably the simplest solution, but you can fade the scene brightness too; though it requires using the to() Lua script tweening function.

Display text, narration text & object text would still display as they are not tied in with the scene or even global brightness values.

Another alternative would be to create an interface & add the background as a solid black image then create some buttons & add some images to them of the meanwhile texts you want to show. Create some conditions & assign one to each so you can toggle which text should be displayed. You would call the interface when you need to display it, update the conditions & fade it in & out with Lua script. However you could do the same thing with a single menu type scene as Sebastian said... I'm talking about using a single scene with multiple text images & using conditions to determine which image/animation should be displayed.

the lua thing is also great! very small footprint because of less configuration  

Thanks for the Lua tip also, cool indeed!

Thanks for the Lua tip also, cool indeed!

Just a note though: the particular scene has particle effects (snow) applied, it seems that brightness will not affect the particles which will continue to be visible; also, so far i have not found a way to stop the particles with an action part (maybe i'm missing smth here - maybe with lua?).

If you assign the particles to a scene object & then assign a condition to the properties tab of said scene object, you can hide/show the particles by toggling the condition.

As for stopping a particle system directly applied to the scene properties tab; there doesn't seem to be an action part for that & according the data structure page on the wiki, it's not scriptable, which means it might not be possible to change with Lua script either - basically it means that it may be possible to temporarily change it, but the new data doesn't get written into save data when a player creates a save game. Then again, it might not be scriptable at all - some fields aren't (more a case of trial & error to see what happens if you try editing an unscriptable data structure field).

Appreciate your detailed reply, it's getting clearer now!