This version updates the app icon, add blur support, improved visuals scene controls, and more.

New app icon

Changes

• Supports blur of background and screen
• Added richer visual controls for scene actions. Opacity and blur can now be applied to backgrounds, characters, screen effects, and added visual items.
• Added visual layers. Layers allows more granular control on the z index of the visual assets
• Visual support picker with separate Images, Videos, and Layouts tabs.
• Add support for duplicate and moving of sections to other scenes
• Expanded animation editing with more tween properties, including rotation, translate X/Y, and blur X/Y.
• Image and character sprite previews now support previous and next navigation from the preview overlay.
• Improved scene editor page loading and 1st render experience

This version adds screen transition animation support and layout editor scroll events. It also fixes sound volume changes and improves animation previews.

Changes

• Add screen transition animation support
• Add support for scroll up and down events in the layout editor
• Fix sound volume changes not working
• Simplify the character and background animation selector
• Improve animation list and animation editor page previews
• Change layout item ordering to match other design apps, so the top item appears in front

This version adds text styling and project data features, with navigation improvements for resources.

Changes

• Add custom text styles for line content
• Add furigana text support
• Improve resource page navigation
• Add variables feature

This version fixes a scroll issue with the Dialogue action.

Changes

• Fix a scroll issue with the Dialogue action

This version brings several major features, many bug fixes and performance enhancements.

Changes

• Add Particles page for creating effects such as snow and rain
• Add Spritesheets page for spritesheet animations
• Add multipart character sprite group support for character expressions and layered sprites
• Add dialogue character conditions in Layout Editor
• Add release web server support for testing exported web builds locally
• Optimize export bundle packaging and runtime loading for smaller exported builds and faster startup
• Improve Layout Editor interaction performance
• Improve file explorer and preview keyboard navigation
• Add tag filters that match any selected tag
• Add help links
• Many more bug fixes

Changes

Read the full release blog post here.

• Version 1.0.3 includes a breaking change for projects created with v0.17.0 and below. Older projects need to be migrated manually; contact support if you need help upgrading them
• Improve overall polish, design consistency, and usability across the app
• Redesign the Animation Editor page
• Improve stability and fix bugs across common workflows
• Improve performance when working with large images and videos
• Layout Editor now ships with a fully functioning default UI, including Dialogue ADV, Dialogue NVL, title page, menu page, save/load pages, and options page. Users can keep the default template, replace the UI assets, or customize layouts and events further without coding

Changes

• Fix bundle export for handling large assets
• Improve exported bundle start page
• Action to add visuals

Changes

• Resources pages: Add video tab

• Scene Editor page: Support video as background

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Changes

• Resources pages: remove unnecessary tooltip
• Scenes editor: make dialogue character avatar bigger
• Scenes editor: improve validation on various forms
• Scenes editor: remove unnecessary image drag
• Improve folder structure for new projects
• Fix update popup when already on latest version
• Fix versions page and export

Changes

• layout editor: fix layout editor cancel button not working when choosing image
• colors page: make color name required
• bundle export: fix so it runs properly
• scene editor: several fixes on the text editor behavior
• scene editor: mute button to mute bgm and sfx
• scene editor: fix custom font display in preview
• scene editor: fix effects related to animations with background
• scene editor: preview will now start from selected line
• improve initial application loading time

Changes

• Fix dialogue box sometimes not displaying in preview
• Prevent used resources to be deleted
• Misc fixes in scene editor text editor

Changes

• Fix issue with scene editor cursor position
• Improve preview icons in scene editor
• Fix issue with removing characters in scene editor

Changes

• Fix animation preview not playing
• Fix issue with adding multiple instances of same character
• Fix preview not centered on screen
• Fix issue related to character name in dialogue

Changes

• Add choice type in layout editor
• UX Improvements in layout editor for dialogue content
• Add choice option in scene editor

Changes

• Fix scene editor carete jumping
• Fix dialogue layer z index

Changes

• Added page for tween animations
• Enable to add animation transitions to backgrounds
• Layout fixes in layout editor
• Rename audio to sound

Initial Release

The first public release of RouteVN Creator.

Features

• Create and manage projects
• Manage assets
  • Images
  • Sounds
  • Characters and character sprites
  • Transforms
• Manage UI
  • Colors
  • Fonts
  • Typography
  • Layout
• Scene Map
• Scene Editor
• Versions and export web version

Notes

The application is still under heavy development and with many bugs. The best way to keep in touch with us is via Discord.