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Storyboards in Virtual Cameras- Game Dev Series 177

2 min readMar 3, 2023

Objective: importing storyboards as the reference of your game.

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When producing a project like TV series or movies, storyboards are useful that allow director and cinematographers to visualize their ideas into real things. As a game developer, you would need to learn this good tool to make your game view setting becoming easier on the process of developing.

Adding CinemachineStoryboard

Setting a storyboard in Unity is also an extension function under Cinemachine.

Once you add it, there will be a blank white covered the whole screen just like adding an image to UI.

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Then you would need to import storyboard image ad texture, and assign it from the extension.

You can also adjust alpha channel to see the current camera setting.

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When entering Play mode, you can simply checking Storyboard Global Mute to temperately hiding storyboard.

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With your own storyboard(or from your art designer), you should be able to create an unique angle of camera to your game scene.

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S.J. Jason Liu
S.J. Jason Liu

Written by S.J. Jason Liu

A passionate gamer whose goal is to work in video game development.

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