Digital Novel Studio allows you to create a visual novel for Ren'Py (renpy.org) within the Unity editor. You can add dialogs, pictures, music and sounds by adding nodes to a visual graph. Digital Novel Studio has all you need to make your own visual novel easily and quickly. Digital Novel Studio also supports menus, labels, and jumps to make a fully dynamic novel that allows for branching based on the reader's choices. You can even test and build your novel in Unity!
You can find more information and the online tutorials here at https://www.DigitalNovelStudio.com
Ren'Py is a very complex scripting language and creating a full set of nodes and advanced features will take time. If you would like to get access to the full version of Digital Novel Studio as it is being made and also help support the development of the program then you can subscribe to my Patreon channel. https://www.patreon.com/user?u=9912327
Planned features for the full version of Digital Novel Studio: Node grouping with custom colors, Inventory system, Image maps, Hidden objects/collectables, Full preferences, Event history, Animations, Statistics, Auto layout, Disable button to temporarily hide nodes, Advanced error/logic checking, Dynamic help/tooltips, Multi nodes combining Scene, Show and Dialog, Language selection Export all to Ren'Py project option, Image library for inventory (Drag & Drop), Daz3D and Unity scene creator, Full GUI customization, Convert Ren'Py script to a Digital Novel Studio graph, Library of routines for common transitions and effects
Digital Novel Studio has been released for free with full source code in gratitude to Thor Brigsted, the author of xNode, who released his fantastic node editor for free. And as a big thank you to a couple of great xNode tutorials released on YouTube, as well as to the authors of Unity itself. Each of which allowed me to make this software.
Links:
Thor Brigsted (Siccity) - http://thorbrigsted.com
xNode on GitHub - https://github.com/Siccity/xNode
xNode Unity Forum - https://forum.unity.com/threads/xnode-a-general-purpose-node-editor.502354/
BrainShack's xNode Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/@brainshack9077/search?query=simple%20dialog
Harrison Gowland's xNode Tutorial - https://www.youtube.com/c/HarrisonGowland/search?query=XNode
Unity Platform - https://unity.com
I hope you enjoy using Digital Novel Studio and find it useful for creating advanced visual novels in Ren'Py.
Alan Baylis
"We shall change the face of Arrakis." --- Dune (1984)