[SM 5.1-new / OutFox LTS and Alpha V] DDR A3 Theme

I hope they can finish the project safely.
I guess my involvement is no longer necessary ()

You’ll have to do it from scratch. I mean you could ask private groups who own data privately for help. I mean maybe the owners of Zenius can work on the theme too. They have the sources to do so. But that is very protected information. So maybe just wait till a year when it becomes public. Or got to Publix to get some groceries

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Thank you for your time doing the implementation of DDR W in my theme



I know, I'm suffering with this theme haha.

Also, I sent you a DM, could you please take a look?

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is it the one about receptors size? well sadly i have no idea how do you do that with Lua itself, there's probably more to the modifiers to make it work

Humm, noup haha, I'll send u another DM.

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Can you please publish the theme, even if it is unfinished?

The only thing I really hope to see one day on a DDR A/World based theme is a proper Music Wheel, there tend to be always the same issue with the last songs not properly aligned.

PS: Is this DDR A3 Theme still not compatible with DanceStages on Outfox (Black Screen)?

The A3 theme's DanceStages implementation has been finicky to say the least to the point of it being removed in the later versions and my accurate fork also inherits most of the bugs from said system.

Speaking of MusicWheel fixes, I was poking at the MusicWheel Lua scripts for months, and still cannot find the way to fix the positioning of the final row without overlap, positions of folders and songs conflict on either the first or the last row, depending on what methods I use to shift them to attempt to fix it. It's some weird stuff, not gonna lie. We need some Lua wizard to find a detailed fix to this problem.

Pilot can you add a feature when you hold down the start button it goes into the options menu just like in ddr a3

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Maybe, I probably should map the start button that where if you do not release it within 2 seconds for example it will open ScreenSelectMusic, there is a difficulty selection behind anyways and it only proceeds to gameplay after pressing again

Can you update the lamp animations to look like a3 they still kinda look like a and a20 lamps. They should look like spotlights .

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From what I was able to see by the extracting the graphics from the real game data, the lamps' graphics already seem to be the correct ones. I don't know what you mean by them being A20 lamps, Curilang would not have done that, unless it never got updated from an earlier stage where the graphics or the footage was unavailable.

I wonder if you will also be able to address the following issues/requests below?

1. DDR A3, GRAND PRIX, and WORLD have a feature that allows you to switch between Single Play and Double Play in the music select screen with a single button press, much like beatmania IIDX since SPADA. IIRC the theme doesn't have such a function implemented yet.

2. The ITC Machine STD font files used by the theme have some wildly excessive spacing when using non-letter characters like dashes or numbers (e.g. if you use a profile with a player name like "G-313", it will appear as G - 3 1 3 and even bleed out of the player name frame if it is long enough). Additionally, the difficulty labels in the score frame during gameplay still use the old and inaccurate Commador Extended font when they should use ITC Machine STD like in DDR A3 and GRAND PRIX.

3. Updated 07 StagesManager.lua, 04 Other.lua, and SongManager PreferredSongs.txt files to account for the current DDR WORLD update that includes new songs such as Stand Alone Beat Masta, Monsters Den, and Thunderstorm. It also adds the BEMANI selection vol.3 songs from DDR GRAND PRIX and various scrapped songs from earlier DDR arcade releases.

This is actually possible in my fork, press both MenuUp and MenuDown to switch the style.
Note: If you switch to a new style and then select a song that doesn't have the selected style or difficulty, you'll get a game crash.


In my forked theme, I have made attempts to replace the almost correct fonts with the actual fonts, but if some names are actually going outside of the name container, I'll have to verify this again.


Makes sense, I'll put those in soon.

I'm not sue if this theme fork supports this or not, but I can't display the "BEST SCORE" thing on Music Selection as in other versions of DDR A3 Theme.

This what I mean:
https://imgur.com/a/ddr-a3-best-score-nJKDKIE

It used to work, but it was replaced because the style change feature was being added and all combinations of pad buttons were already taken with their associated functions, so I just got rid of what you showed off in the image.

The code still exists, but it's unloaded in the top-level Lua file.

I have Stepmania, the A3 theme, the dancers and stages, but why don't they appear in the options? What am I doing wrong? Is there a patch I should add? Can someone help me?

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Pretty sure that dancers and stages were removed because the system was buggy.

Please, re-do the DDR A3 theme without the Dance Stage systems, but keep the CONSTANT and the FLARE GAUGE levels.

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Why don't you just remove the Lua files of the dance stage system?