Panoply: Comics & Splitscreen for Unity

Panoply brings the visual language of comics to Unity, in 2D or 3D, cutscenes or gameplay.

Panoply brings the visual language of comics to Unity. Whether you're working with 2D or 3D, cutscenes or gameplay, get started adding comics to your Unity project today!

Panoply delivers a versatile digital comics experience that will feel great for your users. Use 2D and 3D artwork, add captions, dialogue bubbles, and easily set up sophisticated multi-panel layouts. Every transition in Panoply is calculated in real time, so transitions are smooth and reversible. The player/reader can step forward and backward in the story whenever they like, without waiting for animations to start and stop.

Technical details

• Works with 3D and 2D assets

• Create multi-panel layouts

• Each panel is its own camera

• Keyframe-based layout changes on a global timeline of steps

• Move panels, cameras, artwork, and captions from step to step

• Trigger Unity animations at specific steps

• Use a grid to structure your layouts

• Click-and-drag layout editing

• Parallax effects from mouse or device motion

• Looped and one-shot audio effects

• Create dynamic dialogue balloons and captions that fit to your content

• Use your own artwork for full control of the look of captions and balloons

• Customize the built-in thumbnail menu for easy reader navigation

• Includes PlayMaker actions for triggering events at specific steps on the timeline, handling interactions, automatic navigation, more

• Built-in support for localization using the free LeanLocalization library

• Can integrate with other localization libraries