Make Visual Novels! RenPy Staging Enhancement Pack

Consider donating!  Proceeds from this pack will be used to fund more prizes for this year's Spooktober Visual Novel Jam!

An appeal from Nai, the creator of this pack:

Make Visual Novels and the Spooktober Visual Novel Jam Competition exist to push visual novel creators to new heights.   We rely heavily on our sponsors to afford running the competition the way we have for the past 5 years, and this year we looked towards crowdfunding as a means of ensuring our competition can continue to run and thrive.

We were saddened to find out that art, game, and story competitions like ours are not welcome on crowdfunding platforms.

Your contributions to this stage enhancement pack will be used to fund the prize pot and special categories for our upcoming competition.  These special categories encourage and challenge creators to develop new techniques and technologies in a competitive environment, which we then learn from and share. 
Lets make awesome visual novels together!

Make Visual Novels RenPy Stage Enhancement Pack!

Master staging and positioning with this stage enhancement pack! Inspired by real-life stages, this pack includes an expanded set of positional presets to help you compose your visual novel's scenes to have a greater visual impact! Take full advantage of RenPy's 3D Camera to introduce depth to your scenes. 

Instructions

Just drop the included files into your RenPy project folder next to the rest of your scripts and use the supplied transforms to apply the presets to your characters and other displayables.  Adjust the initial configuration settings to fit your character's average dimensions and desired positions just by changing a small number of easy to understand variables!

What's in it?

1. 27+ positional presets for your characters.  (in MVNStagePackStage)
2. Documentation for how to customize the positioning without going crazy or having to edit all 27+ of those presets by hand.  (Confguration in MVNStagePackConfig, math in MVNStagePackStage)
3. Camera presets to help you take advantage of the 3D camera's abilities!   (in MVNStagePackCamera) 
4. A readme file so you don't have to look at those other files to find all the preset names and accidentally get overexposed to math.
5. Visual Novel Propaganda, probably?  I'm not sure which file I put it in this time.

What makes it awesome?

1. The pack has 3 adjustable layers of depth, each with easy to understand stage positions.
2. It's safe to customize within the configuration file.  The math included in the transform definitions keeps your positioning consistent even if you change the included depths.
   
3. It's inspired by real life theatre stage marking, though we changed the names so it makes more sense to people who weren't theatre kids or were in drama club.
4. You can apply animation statements to any of the presets.  Where-ever your characters were before, they'll shuffle on over to the preset positions with you needing to key in individual numbers every single time you just want to move a character from half way between the left edge of the screen to a quarter of the way from the right side of the screen!  There's actually a test_stage transform that makes your character cycle through all of them.
5. How are you doing today?  I'm doing great.  I think I'm finally overcoming my addiction to caffeine (not really)
6. There is included documentation for the various bits in the configuration but also the transforms themselves, so feel free to read through them. 

Consider donating!  Proceeds from this pack will be used to fund more prizes for this year's Spooktober Visual Novel Jam!