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🎭 Visual Novel


Example link: https://creator.celestory.io/project/ETZKLG0ZZ


πŸ”Ί To activate the Visual Novel, you must create a new Module and choose the Visual Novel Template.




The Template created by default in a new project is the Chatbot Template.


Only the blocks linked to one of the templates are not compatible with the other.


🎭 Visual novel


In Celestory, there are 3 types of blocks: logic blocks, blocks linked to a template and blocks not linked to a template.


There are 2 templates: Chatbot and Visual Novel.


If the Chatbot template displays a wall for publishing messages, the Visual Novel template has several particularities:


  • It is made up around the scene, a decor that is cut in X places of the same width, which adapt to the size of the screen.


  • The characters have dialog images (a still image to the left of each dialog to indicate who is speaking) and moods, each of which can be associated to an image.


  • It has new blocks to animate the characters.


  • The actions of the blocks have delays.


  • It is compatible with an animation software that allows to have skeletons with 2D or 3D effects: Spine.


More info: Spine's website

Example of Spine skeleton:


πŸƒπŸšΆ Animating the characters


The specific blocks of the Visual template are


- Scene:


Displays the image of a scenery that is divided into X locations



- Add a character:


Makes a mood of the character appear at a location



- Change the mood



- Remove character


Makes the character disappear by fading out



- Flip the character over:


Makes a flip in the image of the current mood



- Slide:


Displays an image is a text overlay on the screen:


Updated on: 14/04/2025

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