Entries tagged with tutorial

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What I got up to in October 2025

Mostly I did a lotttt of Northanger Abbey backgrounds and sprites, and I have now finished redrawing everything woo! I also posted one new thing.

Tree Cutouts and Tutorial: A collection of tree images and the Clip Studio Paint tools I used to create them, plus a tutorial.

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New Backgrounds and a tutorial!

Using Unreal Engine to Render Toon Shaded Environments, the technique I used to create these Anime Style Factory Backgrounds.

an anime style 3d render of a warehouse floor

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Tutorial: Making a Toon Shaded Background

Tutorial: Making a Toon Shaded Background

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

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Guide to to the Spiral Atlas Spritemaker

This is a guide to using the Spiral Atlas Spritemaker. Note that some details may change over time. Screenshots were taken in Firefox on a Mac.
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Making Your Visual Novel Accessible

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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renpy,
tutorial

Making Variables Behave Properly in Ren'py

This is the approach I take to making Ren'py variables behave properly during rollback and loading, including the ability to iterate through a list. There's probably better ways to do this, but this is what I got.

Big thanks to Bob from Bob C Games, and everyone else who gave me useful advice on the LGBTQ+ Visual Novel Dev discord server. ( Read more... )

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blender,
tutorial

A rough guide to toon shading in Blender

I've been really getting into creating non photorealistic rendered backgrounds resembling anime, with flat colours and simple shapes.

A 3d render of a regency drawing room, in a cartoony cell shaded style.

A 3d render of a regency drawing room, in a cartoony cell shaded style.

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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Drawing consistent, organic looking linework with Clip Studio Paint

This is mostly for my own future reference. I imagine you could do basically the same thing in any decent art program, but the specifics would vary.

An example of linework made using this method:

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music,
tutorial

Making song loops in Garageband on the Mac

Mostly for my own reference because I always forget how I did it.
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A Hacky approach to Ren'Py Text Accessibility

Ren'Py All-In-One GUI Template is a much less hacky approach but I couldn't get it to do what I wanted without having the code break. So this is what I did instead.

What I wanted: The ability to have very large text in Renpy, including button and UI text etc, and having the text box resize to match.

And here's how I did it, if only for my own future reference, as well as some rambling about why I made the decisions I did.
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