StepMania 5.0.9 released

[Kyzentun]

StepMania 5.0.9 has been released, with various minor changes, mostly bug fixes from 5.0.8.
You can read the release notes on GitHub for more details, and the downloads are below the release notes.

Happy Father's Day from the StepMania team!

[gold stinger]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

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[NeoMasterPie]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

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[Kyzentun]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

StepMania 5.0.7 had two minor bugs that have since been fixed:
1. Lifts were not counted correctly, resulting in scores over 100% on charts that use lifts.
2. A warp and a stop and a step all occurring at the same time sometimes makes the step unhittable.
The internal detail is that TimingData was sped up by creating a lookup table so that StepMania doesn't have to process the entire TimingData for the chart up to the current time several times every frame. Instead, the lookup table contains starting points for the processing to start at, so StepMania never has to go through more than 32 timing segments when calculating the current beat or elapsed time during gameplay. If a stop is the 32nd timing segment, and a warp is on the same row, and there's a step on that row, that step will be unhittable.

Since these bugs affect scoring, it's worth warning people about them, but since they're so rarely encountered, another rush release doesn't seem necessary. Report any other issues found so they can be fixed.

The next release will be May 10th. (Shakesoday)

[Kraezymann]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

You guys rule for keeping the forums up to date with this stuff. Thanks a ton for all the old release info/threads and for everything else upcoming. I appreciate it, and I'm sure other folks do too. Keep up the awesome work!

[Trogdor!!!!]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

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[Jousway]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

StepMania 5.0.7 had two minor bugs

[Kyzentun]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

So, the TimingData bug was worse than I thought. Not sure why there aren't 10k people venting their anger over stops having problems. Maybe it's not as bad in 5.0.7 as it is in the nightly from 04/10.
Basically, the lookup tables in TimingData didn't behave right when calculating a timestamp inside a stop that is in the entry in the lookup table and I didn't notice when testing sooner because I was testing stutter gimmick files (like Oniichan Rave), and didn't realize the occasional great wasn't my fault. A slight change to how the lookup tables are used, and the bug is gone. So the next nightly will be good.
Revert From Disk in edit mode trashes all charts in the song, and that absolutely must be fixed before a release. (Did revert ever work? I don't remember it ever working right)

[Kraezymann]

Re: StepMania 5.0.7 released

I still use. 6 so I never had an issue

[Kyzentun]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

StepMania 5.0.8 has been released, with various minor changes, mostly bug fixes from 5.0.7.
You can read the release notes on GitHub for more details, and the downloads are below the release notes.

Happy Shakesoday Mother's Day from the StepMania team!

(I would have posted this sooner, but there were some shenanigans with fixing a couple surprise bugs, and scolding wolfman to put the exe in Program instead of bin)

[Palm_Tree]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

Awesome, thanks.

[Palm_Tree]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

Quick question: when I try to set full screen, and use the native resolution on my Macbook Pro Retina 15" (2880x1800), all I get is a black screen. I can technically move through the menus of the game and can hear the clicks as I scroll through options, but I cannot see anything. Now it seems as if I'm stuck, and can't get back to windowed to at least try to solve the issue because I can't see a damn thing. Any advice?

[Kyzentun]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

Your prefs are in "~/Library/Preferences/StepMania 5/", or some folder inside it, in the file Preferences.ini
If you edit it, you can change back to windowed mode.
I'm going to talk to the devs that make the OS X build and get them to put one up with working fullscreen support.

[MarioNintendo]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

But does it make adding Cmods any easier than on previous versions of stepmania? Not a necessary feature, but I'm curious as to how hard it would be to implement a Cmod modifier (I'm thinking kind of like how you can make new profiles).

[Palm_Tree]

Re: StepMania 5.0.8 released

But does it make adding Cmods any easier than on previous versions of stepmania?

FWIW, using the ultralight theme, when going to the speed options under the song options menu before playing a song, I found modifying the cmod incredibly easy. A matter of selecting the type (cmod), and then choosing how much to increase or decrease it by, in increments of 1, 5, 10, 25, and 100.

Also thank you for the quick response Kyzentun. I suppose I'll use my bootcamp partition to further my StepMania addiction.