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

• RouteVN Creator prioritizes simplicity, so the interface stays clean and focused.
• Because of that simple interface, some features may be hard to find at first. Once you know where they are, they are easy to use. This documentation covers all features, including those that would otherwise be 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.
• We only maintain one live version of this documentation, and assume you are using the latest version of RouteVN Creator.

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