TIPS: Organizing Your Pieces in the Library | 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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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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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.

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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 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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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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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 Uploading a Piece to the Library TIPS: Organizing Your Pieces in the Library

Managing Pieces in the Build section Building the Game with Button Complementing Your Dress Up Game with Background Image and Music Publishing the Game on CloudNovel

TIPS: Organizing Your Pieces in the Library

Adding Pieces into another Piece

Welcome to another page of this CloudAvatar documentation. Last time, we learned how to add pieces into the library but did you know that you can also add pieces into another piece?
Let's learn how to do that and how it will be useful to you.

To add a piece into another piece, all you have to do is click on a piece that you wish to have another piece inside. This is what we call a 'root piece'.

When you're inside a root piece, click the 'Add a Piece' button to start.

Now, this dialogue box will appear, and please look at this option. There are two choices that you can toggle, either 'Piece' or 'Image'.
Click on the 'Piece' to toggle it.

Start naming your 'branch pieces' and click 'Add Piece'.

Next, you will just follow the last tutorial on how to add images to your pieces.

When Should You Use Root Pieces and Branch Pieces?

Now, you may be wondering, what is the practical use of having a piece inside another piece?

It's actually a very crucial step because it will affect the progress of building your dress-up game.

Let's say you have multiple variations on certain parts of the model. For example, the hair.

You wish to have multiple hairstyles on your model and for each hairstyle, it will have a set of color variations.

This is when using root and branch pieces can be helpful to your situation.

You may want to organize your pieces in the library like this:
Front Hair (root piece) > Hair Color (branch pieces) > Hairstyles (images)

You don't have to follow exactly as above. It depends on how you organize your assets when exporting them on your device.

Example of adding pieces in a piece

Oh, as mentioned in the previous documentation that will help you prepare your assets before uploading them into the engine, it is important to create two root pieces for hair. One for front hair and another one for back hair.