A few questions about sprites in Visual Novel framework

[lostmushroom]

Hey Tony, just some questions about getting sprites to look correct in the VN.

I noticed that if background images aren't 16:9, they get squashed or stretched. Is there a way to avoid this?

Is it possible to animate backgrounds? I made some of mine larger than 16:9 so they can pan or zoom.

I think I asked this a while ago but didn't get round to figuring it out - what's the best way to make sure character sprites are displaying at the right size and ratio? I have a lot of differently sized characters and for now I just put them all on the same sized sprite - but that's adding a lot of empty transparent space that could possibly be avoided.

Thanks

[lostmushroom]

One more thing - I'm wondering if it's possible to have a post processing volume affecting the backgrounds and characters. I'm not sure if there's an straightforward way to do this since it's all under one canvas with an Overlay render mode.

[Tony Li]

For post processing, you'll need to switch the canvas's Render Mode to Screen Space - Camera, and assign the camera to it. Then add Post-Process Layer and Post-Process Volume components to the camera.

To preserve size and aspect ratio, you can tick the subtitle panel's StandardUISubtitlePanel component > Use Portrait Native Size checkbox. If you're only concerned about aspect ratio, inspect the Portrait Image and tick the Image component's Preserve Aspect checkbox.