Make Visual Novels! RenPy Smart Title Screens

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Make Visual Novels! RenPy Smart Title Screens

Give your players (another) reason to come back to your visual novel with this Smart Title Screen system!  If you've ever written or read a visual novel where one scene changed everything you thought you knew about it... Well this can't help you do that, but it can add to it by making it really easy to change your title screens as your story evolves. 

There are two ways to use this pack:

Smart Backgrounds:  If you're still learning RenPy and haven't quite mastered everything the Screen language can do, but still want to swap out your background images on your title screen, the first part of MVNTitleMap.rpy has you covered there.  Everything you need to get it working is written for you, you'll just need to copy a line from MVNTitleMap.rpy into your Screens.rpy.  All of the logic is handled for you, and all you need to do is fill out the template dictionary right under the first set of instructions.

Smart Title Screens: If you're comfortable with making your own screens already, the second half of MVNTitleMap.rpy will cover you.  You can create any number of different screens and attach them to different scene labels in the dictionaries in the Title Map, and when your main menu loads, it will select the correct version of the title screen for you.

Instructions

Just drop the included files into your RenPy project folder next to the rest of your scripts.  Open MVNTitleMap.rpy and follow the instructions included there.  Zero additional programing needed!

What's in it?

1. A title map allowing you to assign labels to backgrounds or entire screens. (That's the MVNTitleMap.rpy)
2. Functions for nerds. (Also in MVNTitleMap.rpy)
3. A few mostly placeholders for smart title screens in case you happen to be using the labels I used as examples. (MVNSTSExampleScreens.rpy)
4. Visual Novel Propaganda, 100%.  I know I put it in this one. 

What makes it awesome?

1. A solution for changing title backgrounds that requires ZERO extra code from you.
   
2. If you can make screens, then : A solution for changing entire title menus that requires SOME (screen) code from you.
3. I mean, changing title screens are rad.  Ask literally anyone who has seen them. 
4. 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.
5. Oh crap I totally copied that last one from another pack, ignore that one.
6. There's plenty of in-file documentation to help you along.

Consider donating!  Proceeds from this pack will be used to fund events, functions and competitions for the community!