[OutFox] beat4sprite

One user awhile back obtained some video clips from 4th Mix and posted a few scripts. Would it make sense to absorb that work into this project? Also: I've done pretty well obtaining scripts for both the 4th Mix and 5th Mix style BGChanges scripts for a good chunk of the songs on those arcade games, but would it make sense to get a central location easier to navigate than searching the forums post by post?

Not sure if these videos you talk about are mine (or not) but they were old stuff recorded from an emulator and cropped the UI of the game. I discarded the idea of that and stopped because the videos became heavy in size and low in quality. So to be honest I would discard them, get the textures and load the scripts because it's cheaper in size and better in quality. The stuff that can't be scripted can be recreated in programs like After Effects.

You don't have to post these BGChanges here. You can learn how to use GitHub, fork the repository and push the content to the BGChanges branch. Just be careful to respect the order.

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hey guys I have a problem with zwrite
I know it's to apply layer masks, I wanted to try it and it didn't work out, did I do something wrong?

Here's the code:


here's the result:

Oh, I assume when you asked about the mirror effect you sorted it out by checking the 1st script/asset I made.


You are missing ztest for the other actor. I think there was a global function somewhere in the docs to apply a mask but I forgot and I can't check right now. Please if you're helping and making more BGAs let's stick to the parameters system I made (in my opinion it makes it easier)
I can solve any doubt about the system or scripts. (yeah I should be working on the docs/wiki)

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Released all the 1st MIX BGA's in the repo.
I'm now currently working with the Outfox version so be aware of that.
If you have any feedback post it here for discussion.

Reminder if you want to support my projects, you can through Ko-fi on the first page.

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Where I can find something similar for Stepmania 3.9?

You can't.
SM 3.9 doesn't support Lua.

Hey sorry for bumping this but I'm having weird issues at the start of songs that don't seem like they should be happening. Like most songs won't show the background at the beginning and the ones that do have weird issues with the bg animations on them. The ones with no background are just showing part of an animation in the upper left corner.


Once I get a few seconds into the song where the background would go away everything works as advertised and it all looks amazing. I'm not sure if there is a setting I need to change to make this work? Or did I install something wrong?

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You didn't do anything wrong. That's the default behaviour in the BGA layer of the StepMania engine and it has been a bug. That and also that any scripted BGA before beat 0 is messed up.

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I guess that means there isn't a fix then? I've been going through preferences.ini manually changing things related to the background hoping to fix it lol. Oh well. This all looks so good, everyone involved did a great job recreating these.

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v3 release, big big code update, repos have been splitted and not that many BGAs were added. Remember to switch between branches to find what you want add.

v4.0.0 release, the rewrites don't stopp.

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Alguien puede enseñarme?, no entiendo que debo hacer y donde puedo encontrar las animaciones de 1st y 5th mix para Sm5

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What? You bumped the thread and it's not even in English? What are you doing? Get the mods over here.

I've never done this, but from what I can see, the steps are as follows:

1. get TapLua
2. get beat4sprite
3. get beat4sprite collections

https://github.com/EngineMachiner/tapLua
https://github.com/EngineMachiner/beat4sprite
https://github.com/EngineMachiner/beat4sprite-Collections

Instructions are on the pages.

https://translate.google.com/?sl=auto&tl=en&op=translate

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I have downloaded them, but none of the files contain the sprites or BGA

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A quick search of the forums brings up these threads:

https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=7450
https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/thread?threadid=9145

Should be more than enough of a jumping off point. https://zenius-i-vanisher.com/v5.2/search.php

Try digging in this subforum too.

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Hi guys, I'm currently deploying a new version and there are quite some big changes, meaning the 1st and 5th MIX collections are not going to be compatible and will need to be checked.

To use these collections, you need to use this version v4.0.1 https://github.com/EngineMachiner/beat4sprite/tree/b59af76a0cc3f18edc4f75eac8c3ba56c4bcb9fd and https://github.com/EngineMachiner/tapLua/tree/cf49ae3ec4fb8d27142afb19368a458d7524b3b9

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I don't know where can I put the LoadModule("tapLua/tapLua.lua") in a script that runs once in fallback's Script folder?

I assume you're using OutFox and you're trying to install tapLua. Check \Appearance\Themes\_fallback\Scripts\
These scripts run initially after the game loads so you just have to create a lua script with that piece of code in it to load the library. These scripts run in order (alphabetically) so I'd just put a tapLua.lua file in there and then start the game. Check your log if you get any errors.

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

This time I got an error form beat4sprite:

According to the error, it's because you maybe got the latest tapLua version and you actually need the older tapLua version that I posted about v4.0.1 (they both have to be older) https://github.com/EngineMachiner/tapLua/tree/cf49ae3ec4fb8d27142afb19368a458d7524b3b9

Try again with that specific version.

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