0.5.0 pre

[Vortex2Oblivion]

0.5.0pre

The full release of 0.5.0 has been in development for a while now and with mainly only bugfixes left its time for a stable prerelease.

In case you haven't been keeping up here's whats changed since 0.4.2

Added

• Weekend 1
• Support for vslice chart format.
• 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).
• Vram Sprites option (loads textures into gpu)
• Skip Results Screen Options.
• You can now zoom into the Animation Debug using the mouse.
• HScript support!
• Global scripts will be run on any mod in data/scripts/global
• Local scripts will be run on the current mod in data/scripts/local
• You can put any .lua or .hx file into a song folder to have it run (like psych engine)
• Discord Rich Presence can now be changed per mod.
• Runtime shader support
• Change Keycount events
• Copy/Paste events in charter
• Cool new modchart features via modcharting tools haxelib
• Modcharting tools can be used in lua scripts, hscript, and the modchart editor (hit 9 midsong)
• Lil' Buddies in charter
• Multiatlas support in characters via extraSheets property
• FlxAnimate support (Texture atlas)
• mainCharacterID property in group character jsons
• Characters can now have an hscript attached.
• Added script type to cutscenes.
• Added introSound property to cutscenes.
• Notes can now be skewed
• Notes can now carry a hscript or lua script.
• Color quants option.
• Stages can now have a hscript.
• Stages have a HSV shader attached, used in voiid chronicles.
• backgroundColor property in stages.
• imageDirectory property in stages.
• dances property in stage objects
• The mod system has been changed to allow for more customization and less conflicts. The currently selected mod will take priority over all other mods.
• The base game assets are now in a mod, this mod will take priority 2nd to the currently selected mod.
• All states/and substates can now carry a script.
• Added developer mode option. Shows ingame logs. Press F3 when enabled.
• Different breakfast themes per character.
• Ingame mod creator gui.
• Added support for hud elements to be moved.
• The ability to write custom states and substates via hscript

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.
• Note splashes should now be antialiased properly.
• Lots of new built in events.
• Skip time option when charting.
• Change playback speed when charting,
• Bug where charts in psych extra keys would display the wrong key count.
• All cached assets should try and clear when changing states to hopefully help on memory leaks.

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).
• 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 all spritesheets
• Results screen now matches the one from vslice
• Softcoded all stages and characters
• Added support for voiid chronicles lua functions.
• HSV note shader to RGB note shader (may break some old ui skins)
• The time bar is now a group
• Updated polymod to 1.8.0
• All menu backgrounds are now recolored ingame.
• Story mode and freeplay will no longer crash when no weeks or songs are present.
• Window title is now named after the current mod rather than a text file.

Removed

• LeatherLogoBumpin
• Unused spritesheets
• Support for shaggy charts (The ones made in the ke 1.2 3 year old mod that nobody has touched in forever)
• Replays support (nobody used them and they caused a lot of overhead)

And anything else im forgetting

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Vortex2Oblivion/LeatherEngine/commits/0.5.0pre

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This discussion was created from the release 0.5.0 pre.

[mcagabe19]

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