Preparing Your Assets Before Uploading | Basics Documentation

Note: If your visual novel contains any explicit content (Hentai, Eroge, Yaoi, etc), please select mature. Failure to do so may result in deletion of your visual novel and a banned account.

This is NOT where you add characters for your game, this is for submitting free to use character art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add characters to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add characters there.

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This is NOT where you add backgrounds for your game, this is for submitting free to use background art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add backgrounds to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add images there.

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I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

This is NOT where you add GUI for your game, this is for submitting free to use GUI for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add GUI to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add GUI there.

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I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

This is NOT where you add objects/item images for your game, this is for submitting free to use art for other game creators to share their artwork with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add objects/images to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add images there.

I own this asset and allow others to use it

I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

This is NOT where you add music/soundtracks for your game, this is for submitting free to use music/soundtracks for other game creators to share their music with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add music to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add sounds there.

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I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

This is NOT where you add sound effects for your game, this is for submitting free to use sound effects for other game creators to share their sounds with the community in the public resources gallery.

To add sounds to your game project, go to your Dashboard, choose a project and click "Open Project," click on the library tab, and add sounds there.

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I don't own this asset and I will give proper credits to the original owner

Note: If your dress up game contains any explicit content (Hentai, Eroge, Yaoi, etc), please select mature. Failure to do so may result in deletion of your visual novel and a banned account.

Features	Free	Premium
Scene map for organizing scenes and connecting your story
Flags or Point System: Keep track of simple statistics like love points, flagged triggers, etc.
Creating screens such as CG gallery or extra screens
Add collaborators to your visual novel project so multiple people can work on it at once
Cloud Storage: Directly upload files from your computer into your project	-
Video Files	-
Flag Folders: Organizing your flags into folders	-
Customizable Save Slots	-
Character Popularity Poll	-
Password Protection Feature	-

Features	Free	Premium
Pieces system for creating your character or avatar model
Creating screens such as character closet/wardrobe or other screen systems
Add collaborators to your dress-up game project so multiple people can work on it at once
Cloud Storage: Directly upload files from your computer into your project	-
Masking to hide certain shapes or "cutouts" of pieces or other assets	-
Special effects such as blurring or coloring filters	-
Sharing your saved images with online web community	-
Password Protection Feature	-

Creating Your First Dress Up Game Preparing Your Assets Before Uploading

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Preparing Your Assets Before Uploading

Before you can create a dress-up game, you need to make sure you have assets for the game. In this documentation, we will talk about how to prepare your assets before uploading them into our engine.

Separating Hair Segments

Hair is rather complex. Unlike other body parts, hair is very flexible and it can be both in the back of the body and in front of the body at the same time.

Therefore, it is very important to make sure that hair is drawn as two pieces instead of just one.

Group the hair segment based on its position, whether it is in front of the body or at the back of the body, and name it “Front Hair” and “Back Hair”

Front Hair Back Hair

This is a very crucial part of making your dress-up game a success! Because, if you only made them into one piece, your avatar will end up looking like this!

When placing the one-piece hair in front of the body When placing the one-piece hair behind the body

Right now, you may be wondering why would you do that? Can't you just cut out the part that is covering the body and clothes and put the hair in front of them?

Well, technically, you can do that ONLY IF you're planning to make a dress-up game with one pose AND one cloth only. It will not work if all of the said conditions are not met. Your dress-up game will fail such as the example below.

It may be a perfect fit for one cloth...

But it definitely is a complete failure for the other.

Do Not Crop the Image to Fit

When exporting your images that will be used as pieces for the dress-up game, it is important to make sure that you DO NOT crop the image to fit and delete the unnecessary empty space.

It is very important that all of your images are the same size.

This step is necessary because it will help the pieces to load in the correct position when in the engine. If you crop them, your dress-up game may load like this in the engine.

Incorrect positions due to cropped image

Exporting Your Image as Transparent PNG

Before you upload your images to the engine, please make sure that all images for your pieces are PNG with transparency.

JPG/JPEG format does not offer transparency and the same goes for PNG-8. Make sure it is at least PNG-24 with transparency enabled.

Once you've prepared your assets according to the above conditions, you're now ready to upload them to the library. See you on the next documentation page!