[SM5] DanceDanceRevolution SuperNOVA3 - Summer Append!

Fixing it now!
Update: dot.tk took off the domain so I had to reclaim it and set it up. IT WILL BE FIXED IN THE NEXT 12-24 HOURS.

yay!! thank you so so much! can't wait to try it outttttt.

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The SM 5.0.9 theme has been released!!! Main post updated!!!

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Awww man! Thats awesome! Thanks for the release!

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So we've release alpha.

Meanwhile I'm redesigning a couple of things for the next release

What do you guys think of this BG?

I'm downloading it now to check it out. I like the current background (at least the one used in screenshots) more than that one.
Yes, I know it's an alpha, but here's some things I noticed.

-DEMONSTRATION is misspelled.


-On Select Style, one of the pads is missing arrow panels.

-On Select Mode's Battle explanation, there's a typo. "Beat the computer at it's own game", should be its.

-Some Chinese characters and Kanji are blurry. This isn't specific to your theme though, it's a font problem.


-On the Results screen, the difficulty isn't shown and modifiers are on the top.


-The "New!!" indicator on the songwheel is nice.

-On the character videos, the dark modifier (or whatever) is visible.

-I think Select Music would look better if it was modeled after DDR X (the menu elements were moved more inward).


-The Select Music song change song seems low quality.

-Overall, the theme runs smoothly even on my crappy computer.
-The position of the BPM numbers is off by a little.

-The score bar hangs around after leaving the Results screen.

-The score bar cuts into the scrollbar on Select Music.

We're addressing some of these issues as well as others right now. We'll have a hotfix and an update up soon.

I have an issue to report. After exiting the results screen, it's basically taking forever to enter the Select Music screen. And I can't even skip through it.

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Most issues have been fixed with some new additions!



Results now show difficulty and modifiers are in the correct place.



New Song appears on all new songs now as well as the clear indicator.

PlayerOptions no longer scrolls.

Expect the next release to have some nice additions and hopefully a size decrease.

Seriously, 497 MBs is way too large.

yeah it is, first thing I did when I downloaded your theme was re encode the videos, they are way way to big, 17mb instead of 124mb is way way better

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This is only temporary. We'll find a way to make the dancer videos a small size. Again, this is only alpha.

I'm having this issue as well since deleting and creating a new profile.

Same thing here. Tried making a new profile. Deleting profiles. Everything. Always gets stuck whether I cleared the song or escaped out.

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That is partially a bug on our side (we shouldn't even be trying to save My Groove Radar info for the machine profile), but there also appears to be a StepMania bug that the My Groove Radar code hits (for any devs here, the bug is that a profile's UserTable doesn't exist until the profile has been saved for the first time, it seems). I'm working on a workaround.

For now, you have to use a profile and you have to play through a game with it once in another theme, or else the theme freezes when you leave Select Music. You could also go into BGAnimations\ScreenProfileSave overlay.lua and change both of the lines starting with if GAMESTATE:IsPlayerEnabled to if false then, which should prevent the theme from trying to run the bad code.

I used the UserTable for very early versions of Consensual, but later I decided it wasn't good enough to use. It would stringify all field keys, so I had to have special loading code that would convert the field keys back to numbers. Sometimes I have to store a table that looks like '{1, 2, 3, 4}', and it's irritating when the engine loads that up as '{["1"]= 1, ["2"]= 2, ["3"]= 3, ["4"]= 4}'. I also decided to stop using the UserTable because it's more difficult to edit by hand or clear by hand in the rare cases where someone needs to.

Here's the code in the engine that causes the problem if you're curious: https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/blob/master/src/LuaManager.cpp#L138

If you need a config system based around arbitrary lua data, do what spawncamping-wallhack does and copy 00 settings_system.lua from Consensual and use that system (after changing the save folder to fit your theme). I use it for global settings and profile settings and it works fine with strings, numbers, bools, and nested tables. Sanity checking and type enforcement built into the system, so if the config being loaded needs to have the same structure as the default config, it's enforced.

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Congrats on releasing a theme! It's no small feat and is a sign of dedication and hard work. I'm curious: how many people worked on this and how long did it take from start until now?

I see that you included my (very old) code from the stepmania.com forums for ScreenUnlock. Cool; I'm glad someone is using it.

As for feedback, I'll point you toward this comment and this comment from the DDR 2014 thread here; the same thing applies to this theme.

Essentially, I'm encouraging you (as others have already done!) to reduce the overall filesize of your theme by stripping out unneeded files and compressing your avi video and wav audio files.

Using Handbrake, I was able to compress the dancing character videos in ./BGAnimations/BGScripts/ and cut the filesize of the theme down drastically (from 525MB to 192MB) without any noticeable quality loss for the videos in question. If you do this, I recommend using the h264 codec in conjunction with the mkv format/container, as it has been demonstrated that h264+mp4 videos currently start late in SM5 due to the ffmpeg version we use.

You can also use Audacity to batch-convert the mp3 and wav files in your ./Sounds/ directory to be ogg files which will help a bit.

Finally, you have a few stray .psd files that you probably don't need bundled with the release. They're not very large in filesize, but every little bit helps.

Please ask if you have any questions!

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I've already hit a couple places in the code to generalize it a little bit more, but the problem is a lot of the least-general pieces of code in this theme are thousand-line files imported from somewhere else (with permission, of course).

okie dokie. Did that and I can now move on and get to another song, but once one set is over, I get some fatal errors with the option to ignore. If I click ignore it lets me continue.

Also, on another note, I was wonder if Toasty was in this? I'm 99% sure i saw it was and I enabled it as far as I know, but it hasnt happened at 250 or 350 perfects in a row. I miss the old skewl toasty so much! lol
(Fyi I'm on a mac)

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Those errors are probably caused by the data summary screen, and I actually have to fix the bug still, which involves gutting the current MyGrooveRadar system, woohoo. The change I suggested is just enough to keep the game actually playable.

The way toasties work in this theme is that they will only appear if you have one of a handful of DDR characters installed. I know Rage is one of them. If you pick Rage as a character, for example, you get a DDR-style cut-in at 50 Perfects. This will probably change in the future, but that's how it works right now.

Yes. Only Rage works as of now because he is the only one with cut ins that we were able to find, however, it is his X cut in and not his SN2 cut in. If anyone knows where we may find some SN2 cut ins it would help us immensely!

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