Himmel_Engine

Himmel Engine

Himmel(equal to Heaven, but in German) is an engine for Visual Novels, written using Dlang and Lua.

Getting Started

Getting needed components

Build system currently assumes POSIX like system. For building, you need first install next components on:

1. FreeBSD:

   sudo pkg install ldc vlc dub lua53
   

2. Alpine:

   doas apk add ldc2 dub vlc-dev vlc lua5.3-dev 
   

3. Debian:

   sudo apt install dub ldc libvlc-dev liblua5.3-dev vlc lua5.3 build-essential
   

Next, run ./build.sh . Everything will be done automatically!

Features

Engine scripts are written in Lua with some raylib direct bindings as well as some custom functions written for visual novels

• Drawing, loading, unloading and stop drawing character and background textures
• Camera zooming to specific coordinates
• Dialog box with multiple pages and choices, with configurable design using png background 40x32 images
• Custom fonts(PNG format from XNA, ttf, otf)
• Very flexible API with direct bindings from raylib, which allows to create interesting UI
• Graphical effects from multiple PNG images
• Resolution of development, end-user resolution, fullscreen, window name, icon, menu scripts and first game script.

TODO

• Adding lipsync as a feature
• Adding savestates in-engine

Documentation

You can see documentation on Himmel's wiki page. It contains cheatsheet and some useful examples for getting started with development.

License

raylib(raylib.com) uses zlib/libpng license

himmel engine uses MIT license

VLC(videolan.org) uses LGPL license

lua(lua.org) uses MIT license