Hoplet
Hoplet · Munich · est. 2026

One deep tool
at a time.

We are a two-person studio. We build Renpai Studio, a production cockpit for Ren'Py visual novels, and we build it because we needed it for our own. Everything here is made by the people who have to use it.

What Renpai does Read the devlog
The Hoplet wizard frog at the centre of a printed production diagram

i · the studio is a loop

The path, once

idea the script a need a still the build

The agent
What that surface is for

Characters, places and continuity live as data, so a scene knows who is in it and what they last wore.

Renpai Studio Lore graph capture
The lore graph on the story lens: twenty-five entities from the Margins script, with the chapter chain running from one point one Open through to the ending
Why a loop, not a list

You write a scene. A need appears. An agent works the studio. The asset comes back, and the project runs. The six surfaces are not a required order.

ii · control, one rung at a time

01 · Prompt only

The model invents the shot. Roughly five tries per usable still, and the one you keep is often still generic.

Still guessed by the model face, outfit, framing, camera

02 · Sheet and library

A character sheet and a saved prompt hold the face and the look steady across a hundred images.

Still guessed by the model framing, camera

03 · Proxy shot

You pose the figure and set the camera yourself. The model styles a composition you already specified.

Still guessed by the model nothing you chose to decide

Rung three, from a scene made this week

Two mannequins hold the pose and the camera decides the frame. What the model receives is that picture, so what comes back is the same staging, dressed and lit. Nobody wrote the word kneeling and hoped.

Renpai Studio Before · the shot is blocked capture
The proxy shot composer: two grey mannequins blocked in a library set, one pulling the other up off the floor, with lens and framing controls beside them
Renpai Studio After · the model dresses it capture
The generate surface: the written shot and its attached input images on the left, the finished illustration of the same staging in the job stream on the right

iii · the stack it joins

figures and renders

Daz

scenes and props

Blender

posed shots

Honey Select

paint and cleanup

Clip Studio

Renpai sits on top of the tools a visual novel is already made with, and it is never the artist of record. It routes a shot, keeps a cast consistent across a hundred images, and assembles the result into a Ren'Py build. What it does not do is decide how anything looks.

iv · how it behaves on your machine

Local first

A desktop application that works with the network off. Your project, your files, your database, on your disk.

No account

Creating and generating never require signing in. There is nothing to log into, because we host nothing of yours.

Your own keys

Generation runs on your provider keys at cost. We are not reselling credits and we never hold a balance for you.

v · the studio

Hoplet · what the name is for

Small hops,
real distance.

A hoplet is a small jump. The studio is two people, one tool and a game being made with it, and the plan is to keep shipping in short hops for a long time rather than one heroic leap that ends the studio. The frog has a wizard hat because the work is unglamorous and the mascot does not have to be.

The record, in order