π Visual Novel
Example link: https://creator.celestory.io/project/ETZKLG0ZZ
πΊ To activate the Visual Novel, you must create a new Module and choose the Visual Novel Template.
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/896adc2f81bee800/dc72ac57-614a-4efd-8db8-9341db_z30gq9.png)
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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.
π 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:
ππΆ Animating the characters
The specific blocks of the Visual template are
- Scene:
Displays the image of a scenery that is divided into X locations
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/c58d13306ef8d000/98f42470-43af-49e2-885f-db24fe_11hout6.png)
- Add a character:
makes a mood of the character appear at a location
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/393cb13eecb34c00/fefd66f1-b9fb-4887-ad33-6d762a_120q4o8.png)
- Changer l'humeur:
- Change the mood:
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/60310789bdcc7800/ffc78d7b-0d67-42a0-aad9-dec405_1xlymad.png)
- Enlever un personnage
makes the character disappear by fading out
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/9131f644bff46800/bd4087ed-bc9d-4585-95e3-b064f4_dghb50.png)
- Flip the character over:
makes a flip in the image of the current mood
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/11193fa021f9af00/a808bd29-7e5d-4482-b0f0-f8b51e_2y6x6l.png)
- Slide:
Displays an image is a text overlay on the screen:
![](https://storage.crisp.chat/users/helpdesk/website/787d3abad58b6c00/e3340be3-729a-46e4-aca3-4ffef1_3rg9ff.png)
Updated on: 20/10/2021
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