CHANGELOG.md

Changelog

All notable changes will be documented in this file.

The format is based on Keep a Changelog, and this project adheres to Semantic Versioning.

[0.5.0] - Unreleased

Added

• Zoom in the chart editor.
• Lots of new functions and variables in the Lua API. See the wiki!
• singDuration property to character jsons to control their sing duration.
• Flixel Splash Screen option to toggle the HaxeFlixel splash screen that shows up when the game starts.
• Icons now bump to the song playing when you play it with the space bar in freeplay.
• When using the default time bar style the time bar color changes depending on what character is currently in focus.
• Score text changed to use the format `< Score:$score ~ Misses:$misses ~ Accuracy:$accuracy% ~ $comboRating ~ $rating >
• Animation Debug now has a toggleable stage and a character position dot to help with offsets.
• You can now switch what side you are using to edit offsets on in Animation Debug.
• Mute Vocals option in chart editor.
• Persistent Cached Data option (stops clearing asset caches).
• Skip Results Screen Options.
• You can now zoom into the Animation Debug using the mouse.
• HScript support!
• Global / local scripts! Put any .lua or .hx file into data/scripts/global to have that script run on every song in every mod. Put a .lua or .hx file into data/scripts/local to have it run on every song in the mod it is in.
• You can put any .lua or .hx file into a song folder to have it run (like psych engine)
• Softcoded Discord RPC - Check assets/data/discord.json
• Fully softcoded and custom shaders! Check assets/data/modcharts/shader-example.lua
• Change Keycount events
• Copy/Paste events in charter
• Cool new modchart features via modcharting tools by TheZoroForce240
• Modcharting tools can be used in lua scripts, hscript, and the modchart editor (hit 9 midsong)
• Take screenshots by pressing F2 on the keyboard
• Note glow when can be hit option
• Lil' Buddies in charter

Fixed

• Bug with charting state (specifically specialAudioName not working in it).
• Bug where you can go to negative song position in the charter.
• Bug where the ui skin menu opens when opening the Note Options section in the options menu.
• Bug where the game would crash in the pause menu when Prototype Title Screen is on.
• Bug where the game would crash when opening the ui skin menu with an invalid ui skin in your save data.
• Bug with anything that would normally open the 'application error' window that crashed on Linux.
• Bug where pause menu music wouldn't disappear after closing the menu.
• Bug where the game crashes when trying to load a song or week set that does not exist in story mode.
• Animations now play when character will idle is true like how they would in psych (aka animation fully plays then once it stops the character idles).
• That one bug where characters that dance left and right would be slower than needed at high bpms.
• Difficulty specific audio not playing in freeplay (Linux).
• crochet now links to Conductor.crochet instead of Conductor.stepCrochet in lua (WARNING: This fix may accidentally break some obsecure scripts, to fix them use the new stepCrochet variable instead).
• Some alphabet font characters having the wrong name internally, causing them to not appear correctly in-game.
• Not being able to set note or strum angles in lua.
• Pause Menu now uses it's own camera so that it isn't affected by the game's ui zoom.
• Event Luas now have the create() function called on them just like the rest of the game's lua.
• Crashes with sounds not having a _transform value while trying to use it.
• Memory Counter reports correct values.

Changed

• The option Import Old Scores is now in Misc.
• Optimized Note Splash spawning.
• Optimized Score text and Info text in PlayState.
• Pause menu music is now cached at the start of each song to prevent lag when opening the menu.
• Freeplay no longer has < > when the selected song has one difficulty.
• Info text now goes onto the time bar in the leather engine time bar style.
• Stage sprites that use the beatHit animation no longer are forced to play it every beat (if it's already playing it won't play until it's not).
• Newgrounds Logo in Title Screen has been replaced by the Polymod Logo.
• Tutorial's camera zoom now acts like it does in base game* (not exactly the same, but close enough, and a less janky way as well).
• Some miscellaneous ui changes in-game.
• Revamped Animation Debug Menu.
• Results screen note graph now uses one texture for much better performance.
• Hitting 8 midsong will now bring you to animation debug
• Better tankman offsets
• Optimized character spritesheets

[0.4.2] - 6/14/2022

Added

• Week 7 Lmfao (took like 1 year to be allowed to add it back but here we are)
• Story Mode Difficulty Offsets
• Trails in Modcharts

Fixed

• Cutscenes playing on Game Overs
• Health Icon Bounce and Camera Bounce being effected by really high fps
• End Piece of Sustains Giving Misses

[0.4.1] - 2/26/2022

Added

• Copy and Paste Section.
• Option in Charter to have 1 note use multiple characters.
• Option for sprites to go above GF but not other characters.
• Hurt Note.
• Note Colors! (HSV for each note direction)
• Option for custom scroll speed.
• Stage Editor.
• Customizeable Hitsounds.
• Camera Bounce and Camera Tracks Direction Settings.
• Added missing when getting a shit rating as a setting.
• Setting to make Info Text and Score Text Bigger.
• Option in songs for having a different key count for player than opponent.
• Event System.
• Time Bar Style Option.
• Invisible Notes (Stealth Mod I guess) Option.
• Custom Game Over Sounds For Characters.
• Lua Stages
• Character Ids to Charter
• Some Cool Shader Stuff (mainly 3d shader from dave and bambi)
• Some more symbols can be used in Alphabet Text.

Changed

• New Note Splash Sprites!
• FPS Cap Max is now 1000 (800 before lol).
• Section Size actually does something in the charter again.
• Unhardcoded Judgement Timing Presets.

Fixed

• Saving Replays when the bot has been used.
• Infinite Mania now doesn't crash game (because before, it would crash due to missing keybinds).
• BF having his sing animation reset while holding a note.
• playerTwoSing() and playerTwoSingHeld() pass the arrow type parameter into the function.
• Modcharts can run with chars and bgs off.
• Crash when turning off Chars and BGs and playing a song.
• Max Sustain Length of a note being dumb (now the max is always 9999).
• Alt Animations not playing on group characters.
• Weird Pixel Character Offsets.
• Alt Idle Animations Being Weird.
• Alt Animations not playing when using Playing As Opponent.
• Held Notes looking really weird.
• Modcharts are compatible with Linux!!! :D (idk about Mac tho since I don't own one)
• Invalid Character Ids Crashing The Game
• Copy and Pasting Sections being broken.

Removed

• Herobrine

[0.4.0] - 12/5/2021

Added

• RESET to reset score on freeplay and story weeks
• Marvelous Rating (currently just a rainbow sick).
• HTML5 Support is back (very buggy, but it's being worked on)!
• Value to change damage of held notes in arrow types.
• Held Notes for Death and Caution Notes.
• Song Time Bar.
• Ratings on the side of the screen.
• An option for simpler ratings (Sick, Good, Ok rather than S, A, B).
• Added a confirmation screen for resetting song score and week score.
• Option to have a black background behind the notes.
• Custom Title Text when Watermarks is turned on.
• No Death Option (prevents dieing in songs).
• Note Snap Option in Charter (4-192 lol).
• End Cutscene Value (plays a cutscene at the end of the song).
• Scrolling Left to Right in charter (Control + Mouse Wheel).
• Unhardcoded mania arrangements.
• Potential infinite mania! (You would have to add it yourself however...)
• Option to turn off gaining misses from sustain / held notes.
• Customizeable Note Gaps! (Basically squished together notes).
• Added Extra Ratings! (PFC, GFC, SDP, SDG, etc).
• REPLAY SYSTEM!
• Marvelous Attack and Perfect (Sick) Attack.
• Option to disable the keybind reminders that show up on anything other than 4 key.
• Results Screen.

Fixed

• Note Animations displaying at 30 FPS instead of 24 FPS.
• Fixed input glitch where stacked notes would make the notes ahead of them just dissappear.
• Fixed charting bug where hit sounds for P1 would play on P2 side.
• Parts of the charter activating when pressing certain keys while typing a song name.
• Game Freezing when opening a modchart that doesn't exist.
• You can now hit stacked notes.

Changed

• Better visibilty for Note Splashes.
• Sustain notes now count towards accuracy (not the misses counter).
• 16 Key now matches 18 Key.

[0.3.8] - 11/12/2021

Fixed

• No Longer uses art (for Death Notes, Caution Notes, and Note Splashes) from other artists without permission (aka they are now created by me and not stolen from somewhere else).

[0.3.7] - 11/10/2021

Added

• Ability to change judgement timings.
• Option to turn off / on the damage taken from hitting a SHIT! rating on a note. (Labeled as: "Anti Mash")

Fixed

• Freeplay crashing when loading a bunch of songs (with space bar) and then changing speed of song, and loading one.
• Fixed mania mode and death notes doing funny miss stuff?
• Charter could be 0 bpm (basically breaking everything, oops!).
• Health Icon for characters without a .json (built in characters only), now have their icons appear in the Charter (unless it's a case like mom-car where it uses mom's icons, but that will be all fixed when built in characters all use .json files).

Changed

• Update Pico offsets
• The School Background (Week 6) with the crying bg people (in Roses) is now a seperate stage, rather than being song specific.

Removed

• Week 7 Songs from files (oops forgot to remove these!).

[0.3.6] - 11/6/2021

Fixed

• Freeplay crashing when changing speed after closing song in freeplay or beating song and going back to freeplay (aka there was no bg music).

[0.3.5] - 11/6/2021

Added

• Hitsounds in the charter
• Rythm Input Mode (basically have to hit notes in order).

Fixed

• Crash when ghost tapping is off (and you miss) and a modchart is active.
• Custom Difficulty Inst / Vocals not loading correctly when loading charter (because difficulty wasn't set before the audio was loaded).
• mania value in charts still existing after chaning things (basically it overrides keyCount and would glitch stuff).
• Rate / Song Speed being too fast (ie, if you were at 2x the health icon and camera zoom was higher than 2x).
• Discord RPC Song Time being glitchy.
• Freeplay Music now speeds up / slows down when changing speed.
• Vocals from other song no longer seep into other Inst in Freeplay.

[0.3.4] - 10/30/2021

Added

• Version display for the thing in top left.
• Different fonts for display in top left.
• Option for bigger note splashes (like in Week 7 Update and Psych Engine).
• Freeplay Colors to Debug Songs.
• Text at the bottom of the mods menu, telling you how to enable and disable mods.
• Ghost tapping option in settings.
• Options Section to the pause menu.
• Option to change fullscreen and reset keybinds in the control menu substate.
• You can select the UI Skin in the game's charter.

Fixed

• Crashes from loading charts with Psych Engine Events in them (basically notes with weird string values and stuff).
• Info Display (text in top left) appears before settings are loaded, making it show things the player might not want to see.
• Not being able to build 32 bit.
• Health Bar randomly having white pixels on it (because it was incorrect sized compared to health bar bg).
• SHIT Rating not breaking your combo.
• Freeplay Background Color change depending on the framerate.
• Game Over Camera Movement being frame dependent.

Changed

• Debug Songs no longer have difficulties other than NORMAL (because originally they were just one difficulty).
• SHIT Rating now gives 0.1 damage (out of 2 max) instead of 0.07 damage (miss damage amount).

Removed

• The folder named ui from shared/images/ (because it was unused)

[0.3.3] - 10/25/2021

Fixed

• Version system.

[0.3.2] - 10/25/2021

Added

• Proper Freeplay Colors for default songs.
• New Logo
• Dialogue for Senpai, Roses, and Thorns

Fixed

• A lot of bugs pretaining to dialogue (aka not all features were coded in yet.)

[0.3.1] - 10/23/2021

Added

• Version System (aka if newer version out, game tell u :DDDDDDDD)!
• Custom Storymode Difficulties

[0.3.0] - 10/23/2021

Added

• Revamped options menu with checkboxes and other things.
• A rank while playing.
• Character Creator.
• Custom song support.
• Custom health icon support.
• Updated hit-window.
• Decimal BPM support.
• 1 - 10 Key Support (aka POG NEW KEY SYSTEM TYPE THING).
• Custom Stage System!
• BACKEND MODDING SUPPORT WITH POLYMOD FULLY IMPLEMENTED!
• Mod Loading System (Enabling and Disabling Mods).
• Custom Healthbar Colors
• Botplay
• Strict Accuracy Mode.
• Song Speed Changes
• Thorns Trail Setting for Characters (in a cool way).
• Text for keybinds of non-4 key arrow sets.
• Cutscene JSON System (videos, dialogue, etc).
• Video Files can now be played using cutscenes!
• 11 - 18 Key Support (yo this is crazy!)
• Custom Arrow Types! (Death Notes, Caution, etc).
• Health Icons can be chosen seperately from character names now (aka by default its the char name, but a custom name can be used to prevent duplicate images in the files).
• Dialogue Cutscenes now work!
• Optimization Options! (Antialiasing, Character + Backgrounds, etc).

Changed

• Input has been updated and is a lot better now.
• Held notes no longer count to your accuracy.
• Debug Songs are now a built-in mod instead of a setting.

Fixed

• Bug where music wouldn't play when opening the dialogue in Senpai and Thorns.
• Bug where Roses would crash at end of dialogue (because of the fix I made for the issue above this one).
• Default Stages having weird character positions.
• Bug where strum notes would have weird offsets when hitting notes.
• 83475349875389579843589743 other random bugs that occured while developing this update.

Removed

• Week 7 has been removed because gamebanana and stuff.

[0.2.0] - 7/7/2021

Added

• A stage editor / stage viewer.
• Note splashes when you hit a sick!
• Millisecond timer when hitting notes.
• You can now access previously unaccessible Debug Songs with the Debug Songs option in the options menu.
• A new rating system.
• Prototype health icon when pressing 8 in-game.
• Better accuracy system (instead of just going by number of notes / number of hit notes, it's slightly different).
• Song name and difficulty to the bottom of the screen while playing.
• Difficulty selector in song charter.
• Week Progression can be toggled in options menu now.
• Improved dialogue system (will still be improved).
• New Input System! (finally dude).
• Anti-Mashing is now toggleable.
• WEEK 7 IS FULLY IMPLEMENTED BESIDES THE CUTSCENES (and also besides pico-speaker's cool animations to the music).

Changed

• Organized classes into packages.
• Health icons can now have more general types (like bf and senpai), instead of having to write down the same icon mutliple times in code.
• Alphabet now has more stuff (like bold numbers), which I took from the Agoti mod (yes ik I didn't make it myself, but I don't have adobe animate so ¯＼(ツ)/¯)
• Optimized the title screen by not loading unneccesary libraries on launch.
• The song charter has been revamped and now is more organized and easier to understand (generally).

Fixed

• Song names like Philly and Dadbattle have been replaced to their actual song names (Philly Nice and Dad Battle).
• The layering of GF on the limo stage has now been fixed! (:pog:)
• In the Thorns dialogue, Senpai's dialogue portrait is now invisible, instead of behind or infront of Spirit.

Re-Added

• When pressing 9 in-game it now will revert your health icon to bf-old (because idk why I removed it).

Known Issues

• When hitting notes REALLY close together on the new input system, the game may sometimes allow you to hit multiple notes at once.
• Pressing "Beat Hit" in the stage editor on "Spooky" stage, may cause the game to crash.

[0.1.0] - 6/18/2021

Added

• An Options Menu.
• Custom controls option.
• Opponent side arrows glowing when hitting notes (as an option).
• Downscroll Option.
• A misses counter and an accuracy percentage to in-game score text.
• In-game score text has a small black border.
• Custom Health Icon for gf-pixel.
• Press 1, 2, or 3 to open animation debug for respective characters while in-game.
• Option to change the girlfriend for any song in the charter.
• Option to change the stage for any song in the charter.
• Better stage system for making stages.

Changed

• You now don't miss when pressing keys with no notes.
• You can now change the character in the Animation Debugger.
• Animation Debug is accessible in non debug builds.
• Pressing the 9 key in-game does nothing now.
• You now progress through weeks instead of unlocking everything.
• Stages are in their own library / folder now.
• All characters are also in their own folder in the shared library / folder.
• When you select a song in freeplay it plays that song's instrumental again and with no lag! (This was disabled in a prior update due to some issues with the new libraries).

Fixed

• GF's animations have been fixed (she would go up like 20 pixels when the player broke a combo before).
• Freeplay songs are now unlocked just like weeks.

Known Issues

• I do know that GF's layering on the limo stage is broken, but I have not found a solution to fixing this yet without just seperating the limo from it's stage.

[0.0.0] - 6/18/2021

Added

• Nothing this is just v0.2.7.1 of FnF