[OutFox] bitEye

bitEye is a library and tool to preview RandomMovies and BGAnimations when creating BGScripts or charts in OutFox and StepMania 5+.

You can preview animations while on the editor and the background change menu using a couple of special inputs.
If you use OutFox you can also look up animations through with a search box.
Check the repository to see the inputs.







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You rock Engine! Looking forward to working with this in the future! Thanks for taking the time to work this out.

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If this would evolve into a theme creation tool then im exited for this one.

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oh you know I'm gonna use the hell out of this!!

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Nice, now I can actually determine if official or my custom BGAs actually make sense now.

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Wow! This Is Gonna Cut the Time To Make Scripts and I might finish a lot more scripts at once!

Ojaja hubiera una herramienta similar, pero con la animaciones del beatmania y los personajes del pop'n music.

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Repo link is now in the main post.

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Um. I've been kinda stuck with this feature because I'm trying to add a search box thing to lookup Global BGAs and Global Movies. But I don't know if it possible (or if it will be) to push the "string" result of the search box into the ScreenEdit BGChanges or the OptionRow choice in ScreenMiniMenuBackgroundChange.

I don't really know much about OptionRow manipulation.

I'm also thinking on adding an additional addon for ScreenEdit to be added in _fallback, so you can see a preview of backgrounds next to the names of the BGChanges.

https://streamable.com/97dikn

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Search Box Feature/Tool now works for Outfox (5.3).
The inputs to enable the interface and enable the search box are at the Wiki of the repo.

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Very nice! If I find the time I might play around with it. A while back someone was getting some 4th Mix style videos scripted for some songs from that era, but he hasn't been here in 4 years.

Cuando harás una herramienta similar, pero con la animaciones del beatmania y los personajes del pop'n music.

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New video at first post showing the feature and better UI.

v2.0.0 Released, check GitHub on the release changes.

Made a fix for OutFox new editor overlapping with the controls and SearchBox.

v3.0.0 released. Changes and stuff in the repository.

v3.8.0 released.

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There is no error when loading the beat4sprite.lua file.

This time I got an error form bitEye:

You're using an incompatible tapLua version. Either downgrade bitEye or update tapLua.
https://github.com/EngineMachiner/bitEye/tree/e83316635db853fe3288ea394b62b3f4d884c6a7 (older release)

I do not recommend using older versions and I won't be supporting those anymore.

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Where is the fallback's ScreenEdit and fallback's ScreenMiniMenuBackgroundChange as shown on the instructions?

Check these awesome docs to understand what it means.
https://github.com/stepmania/stepmania/wiki/Theming#bganim
https://outfox.wiki/en/dev/theming/Theming-3-Anatomy-Screen

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Although I found the fallback ScreenEdit overlay.lua and placed the return Def.ActorFrame{ bitEye.spawn("EditNoteField/Actor") },
now where's the ScreenMiniMenuBackgroundChange in the fallback theme folder?

You can create the file and add it yourself if it's not there. Adding it in _fallback will make it persistent through all the themes unless it's overridden by the theme.

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Don't worry, I got it already got it.