Also I added an issue
I can add a few really small packs. But I have no idea how to make git extensions stop ignoring a certain folder in the chars folder. I tried a few things in the gitignore file, they didn't worked.
Guys... come on, this is not even remotely useful. Anyone who seriously wanted to help with development so far figured it out or asked us for instructions. Noone is bloody likely to develop with one character, it's confusing as f*ck cause all chars in the game look the same and it's boring. If either of you feels like action here is needed, write a comprehensive guide on how to clone the game from the git repo for some specific software (like GitExtension which we use) and install packs. We had one such guide in the past.
So please don't add base chars or generate dummy chars, if you must: use renpys internal function to check is chars/rchars folders exist and throw a very clear clear Exception that packs which can be downloaded from our forums are required but
please don't complicate the code with useless bloat, we change stuff all the time through relentless refactoring of old code and as logic/design updates, the more code you need to go through to refactor something, the more time it takes and we've been developing for little over four years, admittedly with breaks and times where we were able to spend just 15 mins per day on the project but we've established our own way in this time which works and work well for us.
Time would be much better spent documenting, refactoring, advancing logic, fixing parts of interface that broke down on last renpy update (mostly "stats" style group which I rewrote as "proper_stats", but there are other issues) and so on.
I'll be traveling most of the next week, so it'll be mostly android and minor coding on laptop...