StepMania 5.1-new nightly builds

EDIT: Sorry, no more hosting.

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This is actually super rad since I'm still technologically illiterate and have no idea how to compile stuff from github. Also hyped for the support being worked on for newer DDR themes.

Off topic, but hey, dunno where to bring bugs to attention for all you devs since the forums still seem to be dead, but I wanted to bump this up since I'm worried it's been a little buried and forgotten. It keeps getting brought up in our BG Scripts thread. lol
https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/issues/1489

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I'm not actually a StepMania dev.

I looked at background.cpp and it seems like most of that diff is old and isn't applicable anymore, so I wouldn't know how to fix it.

There is an easy to follow guide on compiling StepMania for Windows, Linux, and OS X on the StepMania wiki: https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/wiki/Compiling-StepMania

I've had to go through hell and back trying to get the damn thing to compile on Windows so if you would like to try on your own I can help.

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Ah, cool. Only briefly glanced at your profile on Github and kind of assumed. ^^;

Still appreciate you taking the time to do nightly builds so I can try it all out!

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Does it purposedly intended to work in event mode? I assume this doesn't apply to pay/free mode (because attract mode clears RAM)...?

StepMania has a memory leak. It will crash if you leave it running for hours. (Actually there are memory leaks in a lot of places but since valgrind doesn't output anything and I know virtually no C++, I wouldn't know how to fix them)

I don't know what you mean by clearing RAM, it won't clear memory that it thinks is still being used. Nor is there anything related to memory in ScreenAttract.cpp, ScreenManager.cpp, or Screen.cpp that I could find.

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Are ActorFrameTextures going to be supported? Just asking if I should work on anything except anything to do with ActorFrameTextures.

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To clarify, ActorFrameTextures do currently work when the VideoRenderer is opengl.

StepMania's d3d code currently does not implement render to texture, which is required for ActorFrameTextures to be useful.

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Oh, yes. You're right, I forgot. So my question would be; will the d3d code be added in new versions or is that like impossible right now?

And how hard does OpenGL beside D3D hit on perfomance? Asking that too because I might test OpenGL but can't tell if it will become unstable or laggy at some point.

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I am not aware of any plans to add support for it.

I'm not sure because I don't use Windows. On Linux and macOS, opengl is the only available VideoRenderer for StepMania.

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