Lets talk about NPS and see if we can create a better in game Difficulty calculator

[Jousway]

so I was bored and messing around a bit so I added an NPS calculator to sm5 default theme



for anyone that wants the code and stuff I got it on my git
https://github.com/Jousway/Stepmania...%20overlay.lua

anyway I wanted to talk about NPS because its not really fail proof and its rounded off quite big, so if you got a file that's like 8.59 nps and 8.99 nps they both get shown as 9, but in sm5 we can display numbers as big as we want, so we can use bigger values.

back to not being fail proof, with NPS its a global value of the notes / chart length so if you got a really hard part and then a really easy part its not really a good way in my eyes to get a proper difficulty value.

also it doesnt support xmod files, I have already made an amod/average mod system so I tough it would be cool to have a system that supports xmod.

so yeah, does anyone have any ideas for a system, it can be advanced like fuck, because sm will calculate it for you aside from the way you have to calculate NPS manually atm