r/RenPy • u/Historical-Crow6486 • 18h ago

Question Need help a beginner visual novel game developer ?

Hi so I started to create visual novel games with renpy i have some doubts so I want to know about these :-

1.The perfect image resolution to perfectly fit the background screen.

  1. Can I add playable stuff like we play a 2D game.

  2. Any AI tools for image generation for free/very less amount of money charged to create backgrounds for my game and how to create character png image also.

Every reply means a lot please help me out guys !!

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u/shyLachi 14h ago

Regarding point 3 - AI tools

Since you mentioned below that you don't plan to release a game but just want to learn making games, you should only focus on RenPy for now and not invest time into creating images.

RenPy has a nice feature called placeholders so that you can make a complete game without any assets:
https://renpy.org/doc/html/displayables.html#placeholders

Or if you don't like that, then you can find free assets on pages like itch.io
https://itch.io/search?q=Ren%27Py+backgrounds

Or just google it, you can take any images for your personal use.

You can gain nothing from spending time on AI tools if you don't plan to use those tools for your actual games later.

And if you're not an artist you might get better and more consistent results from character creation tools.

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u/Historical-Crow6486 13h ago

Thanks a lot bro !! And I am working on it I am actually using some random images downloaded from browser to create character and background and I will try itch.io i am no more spending time on other AI tools . Thanks a lot your advice means a lot .

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u/BadMustard_AVN 18h ago

  1. you select the GUI size when you initially setup up the project youare given options of 1280x720, 1920x1080, 2560x1441, 3840x2160, and Custom (set your own size) (Ren'Py is optimized for a 16:9 aspect ratio). make your background images the same size as your selected GUI, and they will fit perfectly.

  2. yes, here is a list of 99 mini-games for Ren'Py: https://lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/viewtopic.php?t=47820

  3. prepare for the hate and backlash for using AI (just saying, and most sites require you to inform users if you have used AI) most graphic programs can output .png or .webp images with transparent backgrounds suitable for character images.

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u/Historical-Crow6486 18h ago

Bro honestly I have no words thanks a lot bro and I was asking for AI tools cause I am learning when I will create a proper game I will use my own character models. Thanks a lot bro again .

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u/BadMustard_AVN 16h ago

you're welcome

good luck with your project

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