cinematic novel.. interesting name. and concept.
since i’m trying to create stuff in daz too (with variable results, most of them subpar, lol, but my old crappy laptop is 10 y.o. and lags behind on every level, this sure doesn’t help +sobs bitterly+), and many vn sprites and their management in homemade games are awful, even before i played str8 i also wondered - in case i’d finally move my ass and manage to try creating a small fun vn - if i wouldn’t do it like you did, with full screens created in 3d. or maybe a mixture of both, 3d screens AND 3d sprites, because what i sometimes don’t like with some vn is when the backgrounds, the cgi (for the gallery, the goodies) and the sprites are made by so different artists that they kinda don’t fit well together. i haven’t seen that yet, sprites made in 3d totally fitting into the background. but yeah, full images are the best visually, the only thing i think might be problematic is the huge ginormous amount of data you end up with… maybe this system of returning backgrounds and sprites with minimal changes was exactly created to minimize the size of data. but yeah, this was also created when hd and internet couldn’t handle as much data as today i guess? and also you have to write all your coding yourself, since any codes you might find for renpy (or whatever) are made for sprites and conventional vn… anyways, i’m very interested in your project - for the story and for your art! ^^