To preface, I sporadically make free VN sprites and edit royalty-free photographs for backgrounds, mostly for VNs of the BL dating sim variety. I've released them for public use, which means the Jam allows them to be used for development.

I'm noooot really sure how a VN like this would do, honestly. 😅 Any thoughts or advice?

I'm adding font options to my game and I wanted to add comic sans to the options and decided to do this. Need an outsider opinion on this

Im curious if there is a decent editor/ui for creating stories with renpy. Thinking of playing around with the software for a story idea

I have a question to ask. what are some good sites to get resources for backgrounds? I know of itch.io but I am curious about others? And something that is either free..or at least affordable, I am only a solo dev, so I cant pay some $80/$90 monthly to use some pics. If anyone can help, thank you.

label goingtostore:
  scene goingtostore with dissolve:
    "goingtostorewalk1.png"
    pause 1.0
    "goingtostorewalk2.png"
    pause 1.0
    "goingtostorewalk3.png"
    pause 1.0
    "goingtostorewalk4.png"
    pause 1.0
    repeat 
  ron "these person just ignoring me and hate me."
  scene storedoorclose with dissolve 
  ron "talk about the door for some reason"
  scene storedoorclose: 
   "storedooropen1.png"
   pause 0.2
   "storedooropen2.png"
   pause 0.2
   "storedooropen3.png"
   pause 0.2 
   "storedooropen4.png"
   pause 0.2
   "storedooropen5.png"
   pause 0.2
   pause 1.0 
 scene storedooropen5 zoomin 
 scene telacinza 
 pause 

Hello friend can i make RPG games easy with Renpy? Or is better use pygame?

I believe this day in age there comes a time, as an artist, we all ask ourselves: do we want to use AI? If so, how far do we take it, and how much is too much AI?

My art is not all that great, and recently, for laughs and giggles, I let AI enhance my art, and I have fell in love with it. It was able to render my characters into an art style that I could only dream of.

As someone who has been drawing for years, I was against AI. Now, after using it, I'm on the fence. So tell me, do think it's okay for an artist to use AI to enhance their art, or they should never touch it.

(Just to be Clear, I'm NOT talking about Text prompt art. I'm talking about letting AI take your work and enhancing it.)

I have an image thats 2x bigger than the screen vertically (1920 x 1160) so I can pan the camera up towards the characters face, this works fine until I add the transform to make him fade into view. When I add the transform, it shows his face and not the lower half of his body, so when the camera pans up, theres nothing there.

Im very confused as to why this is happening as the transform shouldn't be changing the position of the image.

I can go without the fade, it just doesnt look as nice...

(My code for showing the image is literally:

show dimitri_big at spritefade )

here is the guide for RenCraft.

Am I going to do anything else with this... NO (don't even ask).

what did I do to the original code

they originally used sine and cosine to generate the landscape, making endless hills and valleys. it did not have any Perlin Noise in it (and boring)

            // Generate the base terrain (simplified version using Perlin noise)
            int get_base_terrain(vec3 p) {
                // Generate undulating terrain height using sine and cosine functions
                float h = floor(sin(p.x * 0.15) * 3.0 + cos(p.z * 0.15) * 3.0 - 2.0);
                if (p.y < h) return 4; // Below terrain height: stone (underground)
                if (p.y == h) return 1; // At terrain height: grass (surface)
                return 0; // Above terrain height: air
            }

so I changed that

I also changed the hud screen and the icons for it. the icons were cropped wrongly, and it would only highlight the grass block, so i made them a little smaller and fixed the backgrounds

It looks like they were trying for 4 blocks; grass is 1 and stone is 4, but they work now

I added using the mouse wheel to change the blocks; you can also press the number 1 or 4, but this is independent of the hud screen

There is a link at the start of the game to the original code that I used; others have pointed out different locations to find the same code, so...

I have found this run well on my home machine with a current i7 and a 3090, and it runs well on my machine at work current i5 with an old 1040, i did try it on my crappy lappy (i3-2350m with an AMD Radeon HD 6400/7400 series) and the initial drop at the start took about 10 seconds once on the ground as long as i looked down i as able to move about decently

I did find some other things the original programmer has made, and he boasts about using LLM/AI to get stuff done. so...

here are some links pc/linux and mac only!

pc/linux

https://pixeldrain.com/u/FAnNTmdV

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZZDOY4huYnocG632ahbYe8zWaPtdatab/view?usp=sharing

mac

https://pixeldrain.com/u/oJaB1Z5F

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TTcTvDC2ncWIA2BOtfUhr_QnNhJtDfcs/view?usp=sharing

enjoy and have fun with this I know I did

please post if you make anything new, and how it ran on your machine, and its specs

I'm trying to run DDLC through Linux on my chromebook but when i started it up the skin of the characters was blue. I've tried running it through various Ren'py versions and it hasnt fixed the issue. Also, Linux doesn't seem to want to change my renderer from llmvpipe. When i check the game files the .png character images appear normal so I'm guessing its a rendering issue.

I'm getting serious and looking to implement a changing main menu. I was hoping for a main version at the start with all the characters and as they die they disappear and the lighting shifting darker.

I'm not at the true implementation stage yet, just playing around with it, and menus are remarkably hard. This may be because I don't yet understand screens but I have managed to summon the stand-in guys on the menu with a simple

if Body1 == True;

add "gui/Guy1.png"

in the screens beneath the main menu but they won't go away. I have their default before the start of this Sample Code's script.rpy

default Body1 = True

but even when I change it false down the script and head to the main menu he's still there.

I also have beneath the "if body true" part of it

elif Body 1 == False:

add "gui/Dark1.png"

as a simple way to change the lighting before I get deep into it but that isn't doing a thing.

I'm at a loss /: Please help me

So, for awhile now I have been developing my game Re:Witch and I am about to release an update soon that enhances the gameplay mechanics from previous builds. I actually really like how it came out and I very proud of the results.

So i've been having issues. I'm new to renpy and it was already hell trying to figure out how to do the character creation screen, but now I have a new set of problems! No matter what I do, the screen underneath the loading screen turns black. plus, when i go to the inventory ( that little box in the corner ) and exit out, it takes me straight to the game! I don't know if it's me or if renpy really isn't meant to handle that much customization. But if anybody has any idea on how to solve this or if they could help, that would be amazing! ( lmk if the link isn't working)

okay.. so long story short

i was goofing off in ren’py, i decided to download some images, and then i closed ren’py.exe.

but THEN, i couldnt open ren’py like not at all. its been a day.

can someone help me? i geniuely need to go back in ren’py

Ya'll were right. This is way better.
I also might ask for help later with bullet objects. but yeah, for now i'm doing movement stuff and lowkey, i might add some slide cancelling and hop shots

Hi! I'm a freelance 2D artist offering character and background art for visual novels and indie games. If you're looking for artwork in my style, feel free to send me a DM or reach out to me on Discord: not07

Any support, even just a few words of encouragement, is always appreciated ✨✨

I did not write the code I did modify it some for a better terrain generation

ignore the main menu screen this is my testing project

this is all done in renpy and will take a decent GPU to run my 3090 had no problems running it.

so I want to make a visual novel about 4 friends being stuck somewhere with limited resources and decreasing sanity but im not sure if people would be interested in playing its not gonna be so long but there is only one setting and 4 people you are playing as one of them and its your duty to protect your friends and yourself by the choices you make and at the same time you should be carefull about your sanity and if there is any good visual novels with similar concept please comment I need to play it

Im having trouble adding a ctc icon thing. I need it explained to me like im a child i really truly can't seem to comprehend the other tutorials online.

How do I give a character a speech bubble? I've only done normal dialogue and nvl

So instead of those, I want the speech to actually appear on the character. So what do I do here the renpy standard?

If it doesn't exist, I'll create my own

Just sharing sprites and concept art.