[WIP] DDR 1st to 4th themes

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stfu VR0

in other news I'm writing custom wheels for every ddr version out there, its going to be a long project but its fun





@madkat want the source of these?

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Wait, even code for DDR A20? People have been trying SO LONG to get that to work

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How the are people still saying this? It's not that hard to write a grid wheel, and yet I've seen ZERO people attempt it so far.

Here's your grid wheel. item scroller goes in Scripts, musicWheel is loaded from ScreenWithMenuElements based screen, replace the missing graphics yourself. I'm beyond sick of hearing people ask for an ace wheel.

https://arcofswords.s-ul.eu/DcGdGMTc.zip


or the long explanation:
1. Create a 2D array. arr[i][1] = item type, arr[i][2] = item. item type is folder, sort, whatever. item is either a folder or a song.
2. Create a wheel using the item scroller, feeding the 2D array into the wheel.
3. set and transform function of the item scroller will determine how to position the element.
4. For input handler, check the current selected item in the wheel (and check above and below so you can move in and out of folders).
5. move according to item type. To move left and right on the grid, adjust focus -1 or +1.
6. To open folder, just inject it into the array, to close folder, remove it from the array. It's not fast, but it works.
6b. Remember the index of the open folder in memory, then make it glow blue. If you want.
7 (optional). Run a function on wheel items that have the "song" type to give them an animation when opening the folder.

You could make this even easier and do what that one youtuber did and separate the folder and the grid wheel instead of combining them.

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What are you talking about. There's DDR Ace themes (A20 is a recolor, so...)

I don't know what theme that is, but usually the wheel is move left/right only or it's using input redirection + move commands to try and move by 3 up and down and 1 left and right, but it jumps around because it doesn't know what objects are above or below the current object.

And from what I've seen in the other thread, things like this happen (overlapping, row isn't filled correctly)


And one theme I used had the difficulty randomly changing when scrolling through the wheel.

Maybe all these are fully fixable and it's possible to have a grid based wheel that uses the built in wheel. But so far I'm only seeing weird issues caused by using the built in wheel, and people reluctant to write a custom wheel even after all this time.

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An A wheel that aligns properly with group folders, like the one ZTS has been showing off, and despite it functioning fucking great, still gets aligned funny.

and hey Jousway this is super hype! In support of you continuing this!

EDIT: Ninja'd

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Wow, so much activity since my last login I will be absent for longer time to increase the thread activity

The HD versions will be released when the themes are almost complete.

Hi Jous, would be nice if you could share your codes.

I'm busy with RL troubles, some months ago, but I will come back to update/pseudo-finish some themes. Thanks for the support!

I want themes based on classic beatmania 1stMIX-THE FINAL for Stepmania. (beat mode)

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cuando estara listo ?? estoy muy ansioso....

DDR 1st received some love and have a little update, I've completed a bit the CS screens, options, missing sounds, bgs, is nearly to get all the screens complete.

An image to tease a bit the new screens:


I will update a bit the other themes too. Expect some news. And thanks for watching!

Due to DDR SELECTION, all themes can be redone by adding LIFE GAUGE, SPEED, TURN and ASSIST options. SCREEN FILTER and GUIDELINE are disabled in DDR(1st) - 5thMIX and all other options are forced to default settings in these themes. All DDR(2014) options aren't affected in DDRMAX themes onwards.

In DDR(1st) and 2ndMIX themes, can edit the LIFE GAUGE frame adding a separator to permit 4 LIVES and RISKY options.

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Amazing work! I just downloaded the 3rdmix theme (I had done it in January, but I realized that you have improved several things).

I have some minor comments:

1. The difficulty selection (basic, another or ssr, and perhaps begginer and challenge) is not shown on the song selection screen.



Maybe you could add something like this:



2. Related to the above, but now playing versus. You only see the level of difficulty that P2 is selecting (for example, if P1 has another paramount and P2 has catastrophic ssr, it only shows 9 feet and the word catastrophic).

3. After selecting something in the play option (single, versus ...), a screen appears where you only hear something when you press up or down, but you don't see any options. When pressing start, the corresponding options appear (Sotf, Medium, Nonstop). Do you plan to insert any menu in that part?

4. I have seen in the most recent DDRs that marvelous judgment is generally close to white in color. In January I realized that you occupy a color very similar to that of the perfect one, and that can sometimes be a bit confusing. You could consider something like this perhaps (if you obviously like it):



I hope you continue working like this (especially in the 3rdmix Theme), this looks spectacular!

Awesome work !

Just getting into all this.

Any way we could get a 4th Mix Plus?

Hello, I've been working this week in the theme again, those are just minor updates, that's why I haven't posted any news here, this theme needs a lot of work, it was the first theme for this generation of my themes, and is so outdated, I'm working on fixing and completing at least the basics, and later go with the details, about the difficulties in select music, I will add them static in the meanwhile, but I will animate them like in the original game.


About versus gameplay I haven't checked that mode, but I will do a revision of it too thanks for pointing those things, I always skip details in my themes. That's why feedback is nice.


That dummy screen is meant to be for character selection, but is not functional at this time, maybe I could skip it until it is working.


The graphic could be updated, I've edited the marvelous graphic, but I'm not good with the colors, so I just made it a little bit brighter Is that graphic yours? I could replace it or repal my graphic with the colors of that one.


Yes, I will be working on all the themes, they have a lot of work, but I try to make them as fully featured as I can, real life doesn't give me so much time, but I wanna finish all my themes or at least make them decent to play. Thanks for your feedback, I hope you can enjoy them, and I will be posting here, when I have mayor updates or you could check the repos for the minor ones.


Yes, when the base themes are complete it will be easier to do the derivative themes

Thanks to all for your feedback, this has a lot of work and sometimes I forget/skip some details, I know that I will not be able to recreate 100% the original experience, but I try to do my best to achieve the highest fidelity, thank you all for your support, for your comments, and soon I will be notifying them when there are important updates.

Your work has been very good, keep it up!

Regarding the judgment that I shared previously, it is a judgment graphics that was in a 3rdmix theme for 3.9redux that at some point I tried to improve (I don't remember if I saw it here in zenius or google, but the name of the user who created it apparently is Takeru) . In that judgment graphics, the marvelous consisted of letters of many colors, and I painted it close to white pixel by pixel (because I don't use image editors either).

Obviously you can use it if it seems appropriate =)

@madkaT, Do you have a Patreon or donation page?

Hi. You're still alive?

I would like that apart from making DDR based themes for Stepmania, I also want beatmania and beatmania IIDX based themes for the beat mode.

The only beatmania IIDX theme that I found for that simulator is one based on beatmania IIDX 15 DJ Troopers, but it has a lot of problems with the current versions of Stepmania.

I want to have a better experience when playing Stepmania beat mode

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there's always lr2 and beatoraja

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lr2 and beatoraja are more closed source compared to Stepmania

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