Dialogue/Action Cues Over Long Gradual Image Transitions

[Adrian]

I've tried searching for a thread with a similar question, but none came up for me. I was looking to incorporate long, gradual background dissolves into a game, like going from a day scene to an evening scene in the same setting to show the time of day gradually changing. I was hoping to do these transitions subtly, so anywhere from a thirty to ninety second duration. Of course, nobody wants to sit through that without anything else happening, and I wanted the scene and dialogue play out while the background slowly changes. I was wondering if anyone has found a way to do this. Basically, jump-starting dialogue or other cues while a single image transition runs its course over a fixed amount of time in the background. Any help would be much appreciated!

[Matalla]

Maybe doing the transition with atl and placing it as an image?

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image timelapse:
    contains:
        "day.jpg"
        alpha 1
        linear 60 alpha 0
    contains:
        "evening.jpg"
        alpha 0
        linear 60 alpha 1

Then:

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label start:

    scene day

    "Text during the day"

    # Start transition

    show timelapse

    "Keep going with the text"

I have done similar things as the transition, but I don't know how it would work with dialogue.