[SM5] Simply Love

WOW The PlayerOptions screen looks awesome i've never seen a screen like this before.

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Hi, first of all lemme thank the creators of this theme. It´s just awesome and since I tried it I stopped using any other themes in my SM5 installation.

So I´ve got a couple of questions regarding song lenght values and corresponding rounds. This is the relevant info on my installation:
- 4 songs (rounds) per play
- LongVerSongSeconds=150.000000
- MarathonVerSongSeconds=450.000000

My goal is to prevent the abuse of the custom song feature to play for much longer times than other players. All my songs are unpatched so they show their real lenght.
I´ve got custom songs up to 11min in my setup. Ideally, I would like to set this up following this guidelines:
- 1 round = 1song max lenght 2,50 mins
- 2 rounds = 1song max lenght 5 mins OR 2songs max lenght 2,50 mins each one
- 3 rounds = 1song max lenght 7,50 mins OR 3songs max lenght 2,50 mins each one
- 4 rounds = 1song max lenght 10 mins OR 4songs max lenght 2,50 mins each one

So I saw this is calculated on songDescription.lua, but It goes up to 3 rounds max only:


I tried introducing a new value in the preferences (something like Marathon2VerSongSeconds) with 600.000000 and then edit the .lua for counting it as 4 rounds but of course this didn´t worked.
Has anyone a similar issue or any suggestion that might help?
I´m sure there is a lot of stuff I´m missing, but I need input on how to best implement Long/Marathon limits or the ability of operators to control the maximum song lengths for each tier and rounds.

Again thank you,

That is because you can't create just new lines on the Preferences file. "Marathon2VerSongSeconds" is not a valid game preference.

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Hi!

I've just ported the "techno" noteskin that was made for this theme to stepmania 5
If you want, feel free to include it in the first post.



this is my first noteskin editing experience but it turned out great

Github link: https://github.com/skyli91/simply-love-noteskin

Is there a possible way to make a home version to include online play?

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stepmania.com thread with the same question and similar answer

Since you can't custom filter out songs that are too long, I think the closest you can come to timed sets with the engine music wheel is to manually adjust the number of stage tokens the players have after every song.
While time remaining is large, the players have 3 tokens. If the time remaining is less than MarathonVerSongSeconds, set them to two tokens. If time remaining is less than LongVerSongSeconds, set them to one token. When the time remaining is below some minimum, go to name entry after eval instead of song select.

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I think it was made by Lara too, as the original Simply love theme. I found the noteskin here.

I might modify the colors to look like these arrows:
or these: <- did you made this image?
but this would be more difficult to me as it's not just colors.
Also I plan to make it for couples play: cold colors for player1 and hot colors for player2 I think i should make a topic for it here and not hijack your thread ?

Looking great, skyll! Nice work with the skin. Can't wait to see what you'll make in the future.

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This noteskin looks good so far. Still needs some work though (the center receptor). I could make the center pink/purple like the center on a technomotion pad. And I could create graphics to make a rhythm colored version of this

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Yup, I'll try to make it better. I also found that high res logo image today, it would be a nice new base for the noteskin. I'm not sure which version looks the best though. The original, the white border or the _logos/techno%20(doubleres).png. Maybe the last.

I have a question with the theme, does it support Couples game mode for normal dance mode? If not, can it be included later? Or if yes, how can i enable it?

Not yet. There is also a mode, routine, which is like couple but uses different noteskins for 2 players. Usually P1 = blue and P2 = red.

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Hello, I really like this theme, but I have a couple of questions:

1. Can this theme show the groove radar? If so, how do I enable it?

2. You know how the song background shows for the last ~2 seconds of a song when Random Background Movies are enabled? Can I have it start 3 seconds earlier to last for a total of 5 seconds? In addition, can I have it show for first 5 seconds at the start of the song on the gameplay screen as well? I would like to have this globally affect ALL songs. What *.ini file do I need to edit to make this happen, and how would I program it?

Thank you for this very nice theme.

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I think this theme should also show the number of lifts and fakes a song has. (lifts and fakes are not present in OpenITG but they are in SM5, and the numbers for each are listed in the default theme)

If I work on a hint generator, can you implement it into the theme? It can be turned on or off in the options menu.

I will use this one as a base, and add my own hints. If the song difficulty is 12 or over, it will show a silly quote/fun fact instead. (not affected for 2 players if one player chooses an easier difficulty while the other chooses 12 or over)

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Thank you for the quick response.

The reason why I like the groove radar is because it tells how complex the rhythm is (chaos). Does the current numeric ITG-like display show rhythmic complexity?

I made doubleres remakes of the default "Love" font, they are much better aligned vertically, so the font doesn't jump up and down when getting different grades consecutively. They still shift left and right evenly for everything in between fantastic and miss. You are certainly welcome to replace the default font included with the theme with these if you would like!

I did the best I could without having the font used to make it. I based it on the older doubleres version that came with the theme pre StomperZ.

Competitve


StomperZ


I can provide versions that don't shift left/right as well if needed.

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OpenITG does not support the doubleres suffix in the file names, but yes, it supports doubleres images, the suffix in open itg is "res" and you need to add the native resolution in the name file, for example, if the doubleres image is 400x400 the suffix will be (res 200x200), for example:

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