Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

You, sir, are a genius. The local arcade owner, which owns like 15 arcades all over italy, wants a new and improved itg for his machines. Wanna chime in?

sadly my knowlage is lua side and not c++ side, so I dont know how to do it program wise, like my amod system is written in just lua, like I could write the basic stuff for openitg in the scripts folder but defining it is going to be hard :V

I got a copy of the sm5 version online at

https://github.com/Jousway/Stepmania-Zpawn/tree/master/SM5/Themes/default_JousEdit_SpeedMod_System

and it also changes how the speedmod displays in player options like look



like its no longer a giant mess, of a load of values, because now you can define the type and speed separate, also I should just learn c++ so I can do it program side tough :V

[Mollocephalus]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

Actually, i think he's more interested in having a badass looking theme than modifications of the program itself We already have a modified arcade theme calle ITGF, maybe it could be possible to work on that? I'm not sure about that, but i think you could get paid if you are able to do a quality job theme-wise.

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

I can do mostly lua theme stuff, and openitg is xml :V, well if you know the basics you can understand both, also, I'm testing my Jmod system and its HILARIOUS

[Mollocephalus]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

Mind=blown

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

I renamed it to CXmod, here have a vid of Amod and CXmod next to eachother

[Fission]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

doing much of anything in c++ for stepmania is really unnecessary. it requires people to recompile, which is a huge inconvenience that should be avoided. you really should just do it in lua anyways, and use c++ if there is no api hook or it isn't performant enough.

unrelated, but where can i find documentation for the lua api stepmania uses that actually has some examples? references like http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Lua_sc...Actor_commands are hardly helpful because they have no context.

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

http://kki.ajworld.net/lua/sm5/Lua.xml if you need any help feel free to ask

[Fission]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

this is the type of thing i wasn't looking for. as i said in my previous post, it has no context. it's just a bucket list of functions and i have no idea in which context they are callable in, etc.

EDIT: forget i said anything. this is probably something i am going to have to mess with myself. i doubt i am going to find the type of documentation i am looking for.

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

other than that, there is nothing, so yeah, have fun! lawl

[Fission]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

zzzzz. i might dabble around in it, but not sure if it's worth learning the api at this point.

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

most of us just learned from reading existing themes code, and looking trough the game's source code at the lua related binds

[Fission]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

yeah, that makes sense. i guess it wouldn't be that hard to figure it out since i am already proficient in lua.

still though, not sure what i would even do after i learned how to do what i was looking for. i don't have the time to make extensive modifications anyways. i guess i could make a revamp of ultralight that caters toward keyboard play if i did find the time.

i'm just going to cut this post here since i'm rambling now and i derailed this thread.

[Jousway]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

maybe I should just make a topic were we can derail about themes, lua, xml, ini or w/e as much as we want, and people can ask for help with theming questions

[Kukurin]

Re: Why can I never seem to find charts that I want

That would be a good idea...