Welcome to the RouteVN Creator docs. This documentation will cover everything you need to know about RouteVN Creator and how to use it to create a Visual Novel.

• RouteVN is a brand and encompasses a full suite of products for Visual Novels
• RouteVN Creator is a desktop application for writers and artists or anyone who wants to make a Visual novel

• RouteVN Creator is an application specialized in the creation of Visual Novels
• It does not require any coding or technical skills to use
• It strives to keep an intuitive interface while exposing powerful capabilities
• It is open source under MIT license, you can find the source code on Github
• It is free to use
• It works fully offline
• There will be paid features for advanced use cases, but those shall not impact the usage of the free and offline version

• The user interface is designed to be simple and intuitive, so you can explore and discover functionalities on your own.
• Because we lean towards a simple and clean interface, a lot of functionalities are a bit hidden and not immediately discoverable. This documentation will cover all features including those that would be otherwise harder to discover.
• It is recommended to skim through this documentation the first time, but you do not need to read it cover to cover. A lot of the information will only matter when you are working on a specific page or feature.
• Think of this documentation primarily as a reference that you can return to whenever you need it.

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