[SM5] DanceDanceRevolution XX -STARLiGHT-

Brilliant theme.
Recommendation for coders:
When spinning during "Random," have a default image placed over the songs and prevent the program from calling images (textures) into the engine until a song is selected.

This will prevent Fatal Crashes -> Out Of Memory when users are using high quality textures for songs.

Good luck!

interesting suggestion, I'll think about it

Thanks. Getting a lot of "01:46.356: WARNING: Get: Unknown preference "JudgmentHeight"
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01:46.356: ResolveTable(JudgmentHeight): pref not found
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01:46.356: WARNING: Get: Unknown preference "JudgmentHeight"
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01:46.356: ResolveTable(JudgmentHeight): pref not found
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01:46.356: WARNING: Get: Unknown preference "JudgmentHeight"
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01:46.356: ResolveTable(JudgmentHeight): pref not found
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01:46.356: WARNING: Get: Unknown preference "JudgmentHeight"
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crashes. Might be the fact that I use artificial intelligence to improve image quality to between 4 and 8k for BACKGROUND images (during songs). Maybe the pictures are larger than the engine expects. Or it could be unrelated.

I'm only saying it in case you need to know. 1.0.2. version.

could also be because I'm running on the standard stepmania 5 download featured on the main website, not the experimental (alpha? 5.02?) updates from github.

The judgment height issues should have nothing to do with the crashes, I've tested it on my own copy.

Have you tried playing without the AI to see if it fixes anything? If the AI is patching StepMania's memory itself, it's possible you're hitting the 4GB memory limit of 32bit applications. The theme is in 1080p so it can already take up a bit of that memory

Bam, that's gotta be it. Great thinking. I didn't even bother to check if it was 32-bit. It's gotta be the RAM limit.

I just noticed that after 4 of the crashes I hit log and it had judgmentheight at the bottom. Two of the crashes gave a memory notification so I used the AI to turn down the size of the images that are fetched during a random spin -- that fixed the video RAM crashes -- haven't seen one since I patched that. So cool, thanks for helping me understand.

(that makes me wonder -- since I have RAM acting as artificial supplemental video RAM and I'm spinning these songs [I'm not a C programmer so I wouldn't know] I would guess that perhaps the program is dropping some of the images into my RAM instead of my GPU's vRAM and that could be exhausting the 4GBlimit. If that were the case, then my previous recommendation of putting a blank Random-spin image would reduce crashing for 32-bit. THANKS FOR TALKING WITH ME)

Just seeing if it's possible to play character videos in 5.3 (so I can stop ripping my hair out trying to figure it out lol). Also, any plans to add touch screen functionality to this theme (OutFox supports it and I think using the theme touch screen would be super awesome)?

Thank you!!

1. Definitely possible, you probably placed the video files in the directories incorrectly. Please note that the song shouldn't have any BGChanges.
The correct directory tree should be:
for each character

2. Maybe I see no need to do it but it would be neat I guess

I figured I've been doing something wrong. I'll try to reinstall the theme and videos and see if that fixes it. Touch screen support would be awesome as this is my favorite theme to use on my StepmaniaX AIO and I hate bending over/messing around with my keyboard to pick songs.

Could you maybe be convinced with a bounty?

Theme Update! (V1.2.0):

The 4:3 Update

Changelog:

■Theme now displays properly in 4:3 Aspect Ratio
■Improve quality of the Default Menu Background
■Fix combo disappearing under certain circumstances


Please see the changelog for additional details.
https://bitbucket.org/inorizushi/xx-starlight-download/src/master/changelog.md

I love this theme but i have a questiom.

Is possible to add more bgsongs to the theme?, for example one is Fancy cake but i would try to add Voltex, fever time (from yakuza 0) and other songs

Is there anyway to add a Random option to the Character Select like in DDR Supernova 3?

Got a little issue here. MacOS Sierra user here, does anyone know how to properly install the characters that came with the skin in the folder lablled "SNCharacters?" I don't need the 3D models, although that would be nice too along with that dancing stage like in DDRA20, but having the combo bursts is mainly my primary goal here. Not sure how to do it, I even put the files of the bones+helper folder in the root directory of /Stepmania/Characters.

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You just place the folder inside the root of your stepmania install or the userdata folder that the themes/noteskins/announcers are placed in.

The characters aren't working for me either, I've placed the SNCharacters in

C:\Games\StepMania 5.0\SNCharacters

C:\Games\StepMania 5.0\Characters

and tried taking all the Characters folders out of SNCharacters and placing them in C:\Games\StepMania 5.0\Characters

None of them appear, ideas?

I personally have no clue. I've tested it across 5.0.12 - 5.3 with and without portable mode, in and out of the C drive and they just work

Also for the last time, SNCharacters is a completely different system than StepMania's built in characters.

again

SNCharacters has absolutely zero things to do with the built in character system.

It's literally supposed to be drag n' drop into the root stepmania folder.

The stepmania folder for whichever version of stepmania you're running should look similar to this

Any Plans to Give CDTitle Compatability to Certain Menu Types in The Theme?

Thank the lord I finally found an answer. Thanks a bunch, now the nostalia hits like home back when I was playing o!m.

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It's so gorgeous. Thank you for this beautiful gift.

Theme Update! (V1.2.1):

Changelog:

■Grades on ScreenEvaluation now reflect the "ConvertScoresAndGrades" setting.
■Score Difference on ScreenEvaluation is now correct.
■FullCombo Splash now displays correctly when using Center 1 Player
■Cut-ins no longer clip into the play area when using Center 1 Player
■Show HowToPlay screen now defaults to never show. It can be re-enabled in Settings>Theme Options>Gameplay Settings or Customization>Gameplay Settings. This does not affect existing/previous installs and must be changed manually.


Please see the changelog for additional details.
https://bitbucket.org/inorizushi/xx-starlight-download/src/master/changelog.md

Been getting back into stepmania a bit since last year, and this theme is amazing. I usually use SimplyLove due to it's clean simplicity, but this theme is probably going to stay on for a while for me. I love the clean, but modern look of everything, making it feel like a proper arcade UI.

I ran into a single issue when switching themes, something about a Font Color 29 missing or something (??), but that only came up when I was swapping around on themes, so not sure what could have caused it.

I think the main thing I miss from simplylove is after exiting a session, it gives a summary of what was played, and total play-time. Maybe I'm overlooking an option for that?

Overall, absolutely love the theme.