Spiral Atlas Games

Tutorial: Making a Toon Shaded Background

A tutorial for making 3D backgrounds as in my recently posted house backgrounds.

There's a lot of general guides to accessibility in video games but they can be a bit overwhelming, and I haven't seen any focussing on the stuff that comes up with visual novels, and other games that primarily revolve around reading text, looking at images, and clicking buttons.

I'm not an accessibility expert, just a well meaning developer, and this post is kinda slapdash. Don't take anything I say as gospel, and if I've missed/misrepresented anything, please let me know!
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I've been really getting into creating non photorealistic rendered backgrounds resembling anime, with flat colours and simple shapes.



Everything I know comes from some really great Youtube tutorials but I haven't seen any broad guides laying out the general approach I personally use. I'm very new to this so I'm sure there's better methods out there, but if nothing else this can help point people towards some good tutorials!
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Mostly for my own reference because I always forget how I did it.
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Contents:

• About This Creator
  
• Images and scales
  
• Simple sprites in black and white
  
• The Dollmaker
  • Basic instructions
    
  • Details
    • General
      
    • Colour chooser
      
    • Body Editor
      
    • Outfit Editor
      
    • Expression Editor
    • Settings
• Code details
  • Basic Structure
    
  • The parts of a sprite
    
  • Functions
    
  • Examples
    
• Layered image files
  
• Adding your own images and textures to the dollmaker
  
• The Python script
  
• Working with other Visual Novel engines
  
• Using the dollmaker code for your own projects

There is a html version of these instruction at https://spiral-atlas.dreamwidth.org/1357.html
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