DEVN - Dialogue Editor for Visual Novels

A custom Unity Editor tool. A node-based graph editor for creating visual novel scenes.

Features

DEVN offers all of the expected functionality and features that are provided with a visual novel. This includes:

• Audio (BGM, ambience, SFX & voice)
• Backgrounds (includes CGs)
• Characters
• Dialogue
• Choices, conditions & branching paths
• Auto & Log
• Save/Load (coming soon)
• Settings (coming soon)

Installation

Follow these instructions to set-up DEVN for your Unity Project.

Clone

• Clone this repository using https://github.com/DillonHandyside/DEVN-DialogueEditorforVisualNovels.git/trunk
• Or, alternatively, download the .zip file containing the repository.

Directory

• Ensure the DEVN folder is placed inside of the assets folder of your Unity Project, e.g. UnityProject\Assets\DEVN\
• Installation complete!

Quick-start

Follow these instructions to get started using DEVN.

Scene set-up

• In the project view, navigate to DEVN/Prefabs/ and locate the prefab named "DEVN Canvas"
• Drag and drop said prefab on to the scene hierarchy

Creating a DEVN scene

• In the project view, navigate to a folder that you would like to create your DEVN scenes in
• Right-click, and select Create/DEVN/Scene
• Remember the "DEVN Canvas" prefab that was placed on the hierarchy? Navigate to the "Scene Manager" component and set the newly created DEVN scene as the "Start Scene"

Editing a DEVN scene

• To open the scene editor window, under the Unity toolbar, navigate to Window/DEVN/Scene Editor
• In the scene editor window, under "Current Scene", select your newly created DEVN scene

Congratulations!

• You are now ready to edit your scene! Try right-clicking on the graph and have a look at each node and their properties
• Hint: Try starting with a background node! Most visual novel scenes will need a background at the start of the scene

For a more detailed explanation, refer to the FAQs, and/or internal documentation.

FAQ

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Contact

Reach out to me on one of these platforms for support/enquiries.

• Website: to do
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @DillonHandyside

Special Thanks

Here are a few notable people who helped me out on this project! :)

Devin Stewart (Zelus) - Character Artist

• Instagram: z.elus
• Twitter: @z_elus

Dale Giroud-Grumley - Designer

• Twitter: @Delicious_Hams

Christopher Poermandya (Chrispy) - Designer

• Twitter: @ChrispyDesign

Drake Barclay - Programmer

• Github: Pyromage

And finally, shoutout to the Discord boys (for "ooh"ing and "aah"ing at my gifs and screenshots)