NotITG changelog - version 4.2.0

💡 New Features!

• Changed how Lua errors are displayed
  • They now point to the correct line in your xml or ini files
  • They also tell you which file the error happened in
• Metamods
  • They mod your mods
  • They can be applied only from the theme options, they can't be toggled from a simfile!
  • The "Flip" on the v4/1-april-fools build was a metamod
  • metaflip, metainvert, metaorient, metareverse, metastealth, metadizzy
  • They are just for fun, so they will disqualify your score
    • Imagine having MetaInvert on Red and Blue
• Drag and drop songs support
  • Drag a song folder onto the game window, the song will be loaded while the game is running!
  • If you are in the song selection screen, the wheel will automatically go to the new song
  • The song will be placed in /Songs/_drag_and_drop/
    • Configurable in NotITGPrefs.ini: DragAndDropSongGroup
• Preference Borderless
  • Can be freely used with Windowed=0 or 1!
  • Borderless + Windowed=0 will set the screen resolution to the wanted one, as usual, but clicking outside of the game won't hide it, like a regular borderless fullscreen!
  • Borderless + Windowed=1 will behave as usual, but the game will simply not have a border.
  • DISPLAY:SetBorderless( bool ) allow simfiles to toggle this! This is still controlled by the AllowWindowPos preference.
  • If the borderless status has been changed by DISPLAY:SetBorderless(), it will reset at the end of the song, just like other Lua window manipulations.
  • The status is also resetted by doing F3+8.
• Preference ShowComboInEditor is fairly self explanatory!
  • Defaults to "on", can be adjusted from the editor's ESC -> Preferences menu.
• Set custom song end time via lua with GAMESTATE:SetSongEndTime( seconds )
• Preference EditorPlayModeOffset lets you choose how much time (seconds) behind the cursor the game will start playing from when you switch from editing mode to playtest mode.
  • Defaults to 1 to match normal StepMania behavior, but can be adjusted from the editor's ESC -> Preferences menu.
• Added ScreenReadyCommand for gameplay
  • Runs before the songs starts
  • TopScreen is guaranteed to be available
  • xml <Layer ScreenReadyCommand="%function(self) local s = SCREENMAN:GetTopScreen() -- This will be ScreenGameplay end" />
• Preference SleepCpuWhenUnfocused
  • Defaults to 1 (old behaviour)
  • Disable this if you want the game to run full speed at all times, including when you switch windows/alt-tab
• Preference BothAtOnceAffectsDifficulties
  • Defaults to 1 (new behavior)
  • If BothAtOnce is on, changing difficulty at song select will change difficulty for both players to ensure they have the same difficulty.
• Preference DisqualifyCover allows you to choose whether "Cover" (Hide Background) mod disqualifies your score.
  • Set to 1 by default, to match the existing openITG behavior
  • Will not have any effect if Disqualification preference is already 0
• Preference FailOffForFirstStage allows you specify whether or not the first stage of a credit has "FailOff" enabled.
• Preference DiscardFailOffFailedScore allows you to not save scores that were "failed" when playing using failoff.
• Preference AutoDisableBothAtOnce causes BothAtOnce to be disabled automatically on ScreenTitle init, for arcade purposes.
• New ScreenTitleMenu Code: BothAtOnce, that toggles the BothAtOnce, for arcade purposes.
• F3+0 now toggles between edit mode and song select
• Add function PlayerStageStats:GetCurPossibleDancePoints()
  • Which is very useful to calculate subtractive score in lua
• Add functions to get/delete scores of courses
  • profile:GetHighScoreForCourseAndTrail(course, difficulty, stepsType)
  • profile:ClearHighScoresForCourseAndTrail(course, difficulty, stepsType)
  • profile:ClearHighScoresForCourse(course)
• Add a method to get the stepsType of a trail
  • trail:GetStepsType()
• actor:tween(t, f) now accepts a function
  • xml <Layer OnCommand="%function(self) self:tween(4, function(t) return someEase(t) end) end" />
• Added GAMESTATE:OnlyOpenITGMods(true/false)
  • This restricts the mods to only the ones available in OpenITG
  • Will disqualify you
• LUA_PATH is now set by the game
  • This means you can now use dofile, loadfile, etc to load .lua files
  • From anywhere in the game, it searches in the current theme folder
  • From within a song, the current song folder takes priority

⚡ Enhancements

• Project Outfox provided some updates and enhancements
  • Several math optimizations
  • Library updates
  • Render stats now show memory usage
  • Thank you Project Outfox!
• Theme switcher has been modified and should switch themes without error
  • Even Simply Love based themes!
• ApplyModifiers now throws a Lua error if you give it an invalid player number
• NOTESKIN:GetPath does not crash the game anymore
  • It returns the theme missing graphic if it can't find the noteskin element
• Several memory leaks have been fixed. bad allocation errors should not happen anymore.
• DISPLAY:SetWindowPosition[AndSize]() have been fixed for accounting window borders!
  • They used to resize the window wrongly, e.g. having a 640x480 game could result in a 636x471 game (because it accounted for Windows 10 borders)
  • They now resize the actual game, borderless or not!
  • They set the position relative to the actual game, and not the window (+ borders)
    • Their position is now accurate no matter if the game is borderless or not: the game will ALWAYS be at the same position, if we provide the same values to the methods. (So, a position of e.g. (40;40) will make the game be at the SAME place, borderless or not.)
  • Before this change, on Exschwasion's ETERNALLY file : Video
  • After this change (lua is unchanged): Video
• GAMESTATE:GetRealPath() has been slightly tweaked for accounting specific edge cases (noticeeably with the presence of patch.zip) and should now always work no matter the setup.
• The External memory (used by GAMESTATE:GetExternal() and :SetExternal()) got its size increased from 64 to 256.
• The Toasty theme element is named
• Lights had their indexes reverted to pre-v3.1
  • Parallel lights has been changed to account for this
• Song offset keys (F11/F12) in Edit mode has been swapped
  • It now matches syncing offset in ScreenGameplay
• Removed some very chatty log traces from FFmpeg
• Several Edit Mode changes:
  • Current Beat, BPM, Time and mods display in Edit Mode does not move with TopScreen anymore
    • This means you can screen bounce as much as you want, the mods display will stay in place
  • Actor order for Edit Mode now matches actor order in Gameplay
  • Player 2 steps are now set, fixes errors in scripts querying both players
• Attempts to use non-existing mods will print warnings to the Log
  • Edit Mode will also show a SystemMessage
  • Enable NotITGPrefs AlwaysShowUnknownModsSystemMessage if you want the message to be shown outside of Edit Mode as well
• The maximum texture size's hardcoded limit has been increased from 2048 to 4096
• doing SetTexture on a Shader with an invalid texture no longer crashes the game with "Nice texture, idiot."
• Editor's "Jump to beat" text field now starts empty.
• Score actors will no longer appear in the editor.
  • It is still possible to unhide them with SCREENMAN:GetTopScreen():GetChild('ScoreP1'):playcommand('Show')
• BothAtOnce being enabled counts as joint premium (one credit needed to join both sides) for coin purposes.
• Jump between spellcards in the editor using Alt + , / Alt + .
• hidenoteflash timing has been greatly improved so it's now instant.
• UpdateFunction now shows a dialog on error, it also unsets the function to prevent getting stuck.
  • Patch provided by XeroOl
• player:IsUsingReverse() see whether the player is using reverse or not
  • It's just seeing the reverse of column 0 (left in dance)
  • Intended to be used by themes
• Added sprite:GetNumStates()
• Other Edit mode changes
  • Enabling MetaReverse lets you edit in reverse
  • Render distance past the receptors has been increased
  • Scroll animations are back, but are more snappier than before
• All non-LGPL DLLs are now embedded in the .exe

⤴ New Mods

• randomvanish has been split into two mods, randomize and vanish, which control the two aspects of the original mod seperately.
  • Vanish makes the arrows disappear for a bit at a spot in the middle of the screen.
  • Randomize shuffles the notes while they are within the "invisibe" region created by Vanish.
  • randomvanish is now a macro that enables both.
  • vanishoffset and randomizeoffset controls the location where the event takes place, randomvanishoffset controls both simultaneously.
  • Choose which turn mod is being applied to each player during the "randomize" event with Player:SetRandomVanishTransform( 'swapupdown' ).
  • The default is supershuffle, to match the original randomvanish implementation.
  • All existing turn modes are usable (left, right, mirror, swapleftright, swapupdown, couplesmirror, couplesswapsides, shuffle, softshuffle, spookyshuffle and supershuffle)
• scrollspeedmult<n> multiply speed mod of a single column.
  • does not have a non-col specific version - attempting to apply it without a specified column will just apply all col specific versions.
  • default value is 100%. 50% is half scroll speed.
• zigzag<n> and sawtooth<n>, sawtooth and zigzag waves are finally column specific.
  • these naturally come with accompanying periods and offsets, i.e. zigzagperiod<n> and zigzagoffset<n>
• dizzy<n>, twirl<n> and roll<n> join the column-specific party! (notes that rotate in z, y and x axis over time as they approach, ending with a rotation of 0 at the targets)
• manualnoteflash has a much better alias that more accurately describes what it does: hidenotepress. It's also now column specific.
• drunk<n> in all axes, along with all associated period, spacing, speed and offset is now column specific.
• beat<n> in all axes, along with all associated mult, period, cap and offset is now column specific.
• boost<n> and brake<n> are now column specific.
• Added aliases tanbumpyz, tanbumpyzsize,tanbumpyzperiod, tanbumpyzoffset
• Added tanbumpysize<n>, tanbumpyzsize<n>, tanbumpyperiod<n>, tanbumpyzperiod<n>, tanbumpyoffset<n>, tanbumpyzoffset<n>, tanbumpyxsize<n>, tanbumpyxperiod<n>, tanbumpyxoffset<n>, tanbumpyysize<n>, tanbumpyyperiod<n>, tanbumpyyoffset<n>
• Added orientoffset
  • It changes the direction the orient mod should reference
• Added noreorient
  • Disables the orient behavior optimized for reverse and SCAR families
  • See bugfixes for more info

🐛 Bugfixes

• Column specific wave works again
• ScreenGameplay:SetLife( number ) actually works now
  • number must be a value between 0 and 1 inclusive
• Theme elements in ScreenGameplay show up correctly again
  • Most notably the LifeMeter in the itg3 theme
• Preference LastSeenVideoDriver now shows the correct driver in use
  • The string may have changed from what it used to be
  • This will make old modfiles using the old Nvidia checker work correctly on dual GPU (Intel+Nvidia) setups
• Opposite playfield on battle made has been fixed (Is this correct?)
• Turn mods in #ATTACKS actually work as they should now!
  • Reported and test file supplied by PCBoyGames, thanks!
• Turn mods for Player 2 (and other aspects of Player 2 in general) in the editor are no longer completely broken.
• Rainbow effect on BitmapText updates correctly upon theme change
• SkewY is now properly reset in the editor.
• GetRealPath issue is probably dealt with
• GetTapNoteScoresForPlayer with TNS_HIT_MINE fixed
• NoteTypeMults and HiddenRegions resets between songs in Course mode
• Ctrl-O/Reveal in Explorer in Edit mode works for AdditionalSongFolders and AdditionalFolders too now
• We don't normally do this, but we fixed an issue happening on newer versions of Wine where keyboard bindings weren't detected properly
• SetNoteTypeMults now no longer requires an entry at beat 0 to work properly.
• Combo above 2147483647 no longer crashes the game.
• orient now reorients itself when when reverse and SCAR mods are enabled.
  • If you have used orient+reverse before, setting 314% confusionoffset is no longer required.
  • Several existing files are dependant of this change, a patch to affected files will follow
• Fixed substractive scoring calculation
• RageShaderProgram:define now works with #version directive
• Certain edgecases with DrawFunctions resulted in weird rendereing, they are now gone.
• tanbumpyxoffset actually works now
  • The old behavior was setting tanbumpyyoffset instead

👾 Known Issues

• Reloading theme and textures (f3+r) still has the same issues as the old theme switcher

❤️ Simply Love changes

We are open for contributions! https://github.com/TaroNuke/Simply-Love-NotITG-ver.-/

• Metamods! (Under "More Options" in the player options menu)