>>45520255>Any resources/tips for someone with basically no prior knowledge about making a VN?To start, download Renpy. There's a tutorial in visual novel form (lol) about the basics of using the program. There's also a sample VN called The Question, that has its script laid out in a very easy way. It wouldn't be a bad idea to mess around with it, replace assets and write lines.
For opening scripts .rpy files, use a program called Editra.
For image manipulation, you WILL learn how to use photoshop and it WILL be absolute monkey business.
Gimp lacked features, MSpaint is a joke, despite it's size, Adobe Photoshop is the best and most versatile thing on the market. Layers, filters, text, etc.
>How did the process of actually getting clean images of the nijisanji talents to use in the VN go?Frankly, it made me wanna cry it took so ling to get them clean and not have the green screen bleed into the character. . But then when I was cleaning alternate sprites for the extras menu, it didn't take that long.
I think it's just because I learned how to use the selection tool. In the selection tool in photoshop, there's a magic wandwhere you click a pixel and it grabs similar pixels to that color. The key thing is tolerance. Tolerance goes from 0-200 and determines how many green pixels of the green screen you end up picking up. Find one that picks up the green pixels but doesn't erode the borders of the sprite. Sometimes it won't be possible. Even in the current iteration of Ninisanni Scenario, you can see she's slightly greenish, because she's a smaller sprite and the pixels bleed easier.
Green screens arent necessary though, you can take sprites from any old stream, but it might take longer to clean depending on the coloration. I'd advise to just go to a stream where the sprite is big (like a zatsudan) and that has a bunch of varied expressions. Generally, you want a mix, but it's now problem if it's slanted toward psoitive or negative emotions. Selen has like, six expressions, and only two negative ones. This is low, but it works for her character. It also helps you tune dialogue to accomadate their facial expression.
I'm kinda just info dumping here. Start with Renpy tutorial and putting your own images in The Question or your own project.
I wrote my script before I started work on Ninisanni Scenario, but I only did so because I knew what I could accomplish in Renpy from past experience. It might be fun to write as you go, or implement a past work into visual novel form.
