Mini Mirage is a public domain and lightweight VN-style cutscene engine (not meant for actual VNs). This is the Godot 4 version.
Features: showing backgrounds/CGs, tachie (standing sprites), smooth zooming/scaling, smooth repositioning, both ADV and chat-bubble-style textboxes, textbox portraits/nametags, and arbitrary game code in the middle of cutscenes (cutscenes are just gdscript functions).
Don't try to use this for actual VNs. It's missing a large number of essential VN features, like transition masks, saving mid-cutscene, a backlog, etc.
Example cutscene:
func mini_demo_cutscene(cutscene : CutsceneInstance):
var bg_texture = load("res://minimirage/art/test_bg.jpg")
var tachie = load("res://minimirage/art/tachie/vn engine test tachie base.png")
var bg_image = cutscene.add_background(bg_texture)
await bg_image.fade_show()
var image = cutscene.add_tachie(tachie)
await image.fade_show()
cutscene.set_nametag("Guide")
await cutscene.set_text("Hello, world!")
cutscene.finish()Copy the minimirage folder into your project. See Demo.tscn for example usage. Skim the comments in the .gd files in minimirage/scenes/ to get a feel for what the API looks like.
The Godot 3 version of Mini Mirage uses static functions on CutsceneInstance to handle tachie/background changes. The Godot 4 version uses async functions on each CutsceneRect object instead.
Custom input actions you can add:
cutscene_advance - to advance text. pressing down on this also causes currently-running animations to be skipped.
(common example: m1, down arrow)
cutscene_instant_text - to make text instantly appear, but not advance. also doesn't skip animations.
(common example: on controllers, the "cancel" button. not needed if that button is bound to "ui_cancel".)
cutscene_skip - hold to skip animations, including the text type-in effect.
(common example: ctrl. please do not put this on alt.)