Menu items

Every menu item Beasty Visual Novel adds to Unity, grouped by submenu, with the page that explains it.

Everything lives under Tools > Beasty VN, except the asset right-click actions (under Assets >) and the components (under Add Component > Beasty).

Windows

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Editor`	Opens the main Beasty VN window: the nine authoring tabs.	Editor tour
`Tools > Beasty VN > Dialogue Preview`	Plays a node - backdrop, characters, props, dialogue box - without entering Play Mode. Can fast-forward to a given block.	Dialogue preview

Setup

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Create Scene`	The wizard. Builds the BeastyManager, the Stage, the Canvas, the Main Camera and the EventSystem, instantiates the UI, then auto-wires. Safe to re-run: it reuses what is already there.	Your first scene
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Migrate Scene to BeastyManager`	Upgrades an older scene to the BeastyManager rig.	Your first scene
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Blank Canvas`	Asks for a folder, then creates the empty scaffolding: a DialogueScene, a VNContext, a LocalizationTable, a root StoryGraph and a first Dialogue node, in subfolders.	Assets
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Build Default Menu Prefabs`	Regenerates the menu prefabs from scratch. Warns before overwriting.	UI prefabs
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Upgrade UI Prefabs (keep customizations)`	Updates the shipped UI prefabs while keeping your restyling.	UI prefabs
`Tools > Beasty VN > Setup > Bake Localized UI Labels`	Permanently adds `VNLocalizedText`, with its key, to every label in the open scene whose text matches a UI-table value - writing into the source prefabs.	Localization

Content

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Content > Create Base Assets (intro + FreeRoam map)`	Creates only what is missing and wires it up. It never duplicates the context and never overwrites a reference you already assigned.	Core concepts
`Tools > Beasty VN > Content > Character Database`	Opens the Characters tab in its own window.	Characters
`Tools > Beasty VN > Content > Generate Tight Click Shapes (Selection)`	Builds click areas that follow the selected sprite’s opaque pixels instead of its bounding box.	Interactables and doors

Codegen

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Codegen > Regenerate VNVars Accessors`	Regenerates `VNVars`: typed C# accessors for your variables.	Generated accessors
`Tools > Beasty VN > Codegen > Regenerate VNChars Accessors`	Regenerates `VNChars`: typed C# accessors for your characters.	Generated accessors

Neither is needed to author a game. They exist so a programmer gets compile-time-checked keys.

Maintenance

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Maintenance > Validate Selected Project`	Runs the validator over the root graph and every subgraph, and reports dangling references.	Validation and ids
`Tools > Beasty VN > Maintenance > Clean Deleted-Asset Residue`	Removes references left behind by assets you deleted.	Validation and ids

Validate

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Validate > Find duplicate ids`	Reports id collisions across assets. Two assets that share an id behave as one.	Validation and ids

Settings

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Settings > Global Settings`	Opens VN Settings. The same asset as `Edit > Project Settings > Beasty VN`.	VN Settings

Streaming

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Streaming > Convert To Streamed Content`	Marks the art Addressable and clears the direct references. Requires the Addressables package.	Streaming
`Tools > Beasty VN > Streaming > Convert To Direct References`	The reverse. Always available, with or without Addressables.	Streaming

Warning Addressables streaming is opt-in and currently in beta. It works, but the API may change in a minor release.

Export

Menu item	What it does	More
`Tools > Beasty VN > Prepare package for export`	Publishing helper: prepares the package for a `.unitypackage` export.	Building and platforms

Assets right-click

Select an asset in the Project window and right-click.

Menu item	What it does	More
`Assets > Beasty VN > Give this asset fresh ids (fix a duplicate)`	Re-ids the selected asset. This is how you fix a duplicate that `Find duplicate ids` reported.	Validation and ids
`Assets > Beasty VN > Ensure Room Background Child`	Adds the room component and a background child to a hand-made room prefab, so you can drop the room art in and place interactables against it.	Free roam rooms

Add Component

Component	What it is	More
`Beasty > Beasty Manager`	The single GameObject the whole game hangs off. It owns every manager as a hidden sub-component.	Controllers
`Beasty > Beasty Loading Screen`	The loading overlay shown while the scene boots and between modes.	UI prefabs
`Beasty > Beasty Aspect Ratio Enforcer`	Keeps the game at a fixed aspect ratio, letterboxing the rest.	UI prefabs
`Beasty > VN Transition Curtain`	The fade used when the game changes mode.	UI prefabs

The wizard adds the BeastyManager for you. You only need Add Component when you are building a scene by hand.

The one button to remember

The BeastyManager inspector has an Auto-wire / Repair button. It guarantees every manager exists and re-resolves the scene’s views by type, and it only fills empty references - it never overwrites your wiring. If a scene stops working after you moved objects around or edited a prefab, press it first. See Troubleshooting.