[Concluded] STEPOCALYPSE (Official Thread)

[Wafles]

Why do life settings even matter in the slightest if fail off is allowed?

If fail off isn't allowed then I might back out because I can't pass a lot of the charts in the song list.

[Mahou]

Originally Posted by Wafles

If fail off isn't allowed then I might back out because I can't pass a lot of the charts in the song list.

At the rate you're improving, I wouldn't back out man.

[aj187]

Originally Posted by Moogled

in, also add life difficulty settings to rules (4 for sm3.9, 2 for sm5)

Important thing I need to point out for anyone and everyone in this competition:
Life 2 should only be used for StepMania 5 beta 3 and lower; StepMania 5 beta 4 will have fixed life difficulty, so you should be using Life 4 there.

[Moogled]

I interpreted "Fail on isn't going to be a rule necessarily, but it's highly recommended to save time." as "if you fail your score is disqualified, so you may as well leave fail on to get back to song select more quickly"

[Wafles]

If thats the case (fail scores = 0 points and/or disqualified), then I'm gonna back out. I don't see the point in failing half the setlist and as a result I wouldn't care about my scores anyway.

[lurker]

Originally Posted by Guilhermeziat

Btw, can you guys organize the songs in a pack, so i dont need to waste as much time searching for them?

forthcoming, tiers should be tonight while PUSH IT will probably be tomorrow
the intro screencaps are gonna have to chang

Originally Posted by Moogled

I interpreted "Fail on isn't going to be a rule necessarily, but it's highly recommended to save time." as "if you fail your score is disqualified, so you may as well leave fail on to get back to song select more quickly"

woah woah woah i never said this
fail scores are allowed to be submitted, i said don't use fail off because it wastes time i got fail off and fail at the end of the song confused, fail off will not in fact be allowed
pretty much no one is going to pass every song in the two sets so it should not be a deciding factor in competing
on that note life 4/2 is going to be forced so thanks for pointing that out

[Moogled]

I don't understand, on my theme (staiain 3.95 mod) if you have fail off the only difference in the score is whatever letter rank you get is changed to E, where would the time waste come from?

I'm going to test the behaviour of leaving fail on, but if I remember correctly it sends you straight back to song select without letting you see your score

edit: confirmed on staiain v12 and 3.95 default

[lurker]

sm5's default fail behavior kicks you out of the song immediately but lets you get a screenshot of your score, i forgot that 3.95 was different in that respect

[_STROUT_]

It's times like this that make me wish I wasn't bad at this game so I could stand a chance in this, looks fun as hell

[TC_Halogen]

Originally Posted by lurker

sm5's default fail behavior kicks you out of the song immediately but lets you get a screenshot of your score, i forgot that 3.95 was different in that respect

For 3.95 users, do the following:
- open Metrics.ini
- Ctrl+F (find) ShowEvaluationOnFail
- change the value so that it is equal to 1, instead of 0.

EDIT: wait, that's not working? the fuck

will post again later

[lurker]

Uploaded the files for the first set! The second set should be up by the end of this week. I already adjusted the rule about beginning the set so that you can actually play the files in the set beforehand.
The qualifiers will remain a secret until the day of.

[choof]

nice graphics dicklord

[choof]

lol pancaks are you really dropping out
I'm worse than you and I'm still gonna play
don't be a lil wimp

[TC_Halogen]

oh while i'm here

ATTN 3.95 users

Adding a timestamp to results screen:
- I wanted to do this with only embedded lua inside of a XML, but I was too impatient to get it working properly since I'm not used to drawing text from variables inside of the embedded structures since the way it works is kinda weird sometimes...

ANYWAY
- a.) create a text document inside of your Scripts folder and save it as whatever name you want; make sure the file has a .lua extension. Mine is just called other.lua and I will refer to that file accordingly.

- b.) open other.lua and add the following:

-- Timestamp
function Timestamp ( actor )
	Trace ("Timestamp")
 local month = MonthOfYear();
 local text = string.format("%s %d, %d - %.2d:%.2d:%.2d", MonthToString(month - 1), DayOfMonth(), Year(), Hour(), Minute(), Second() );

 actor:settext( text )
end

Save and close the file.

- c.) navigate to the following: Themes\(your theme here)\BGAnimations\

Inside of the BGAnimations folder, create a folder called ScreenEvaluationStage overlay, and open it.

- d.) While inside of ScreenEvaluationStage overlay: create a text document, and save it as default.xml. Inside of that file, add this:

<BitmapText
	Font="_Arial 14 Shadow"
	Text=""
	OnCommand="y,10;x,SCREEN_WIDTH-5;zoom,.5;horizalign,right;shadowlength,0.1"
	InitCommand="playcommand,Update"
	UpdateCommand="%Timestamp"
/>

NOTE: The font that is used here is pulled from the Fonts folder of my theme. In my case, the font used is _Arial 14 shadow 16x16.png -- you do not need to indicate the spritesheet size (16x16) or the file extension. Replace the font accordingly if _Arial 14 Shadow does not apply to you.

Save the file and close.

If everything works properly, you should get the timer to display on the top right like so:


Hopefully this helps!

[Wafles]

Originally Posted by choof

lol pancaks are you really dropping out
I'm worse than you and I'm still gonna play
don't be a lil wimp

im not dropping out, lurker clarified and i'm cool with it as is now

also i'm pretty sure you're a lot better than me lol...

[choof]

maybe at solo

[PolygonEater]

In please :s

[James May]

Originally Posted by _STROUT_

It's times like this that make me wish I wasn't bad at this game so I could stand a chance in this, looks fun as hell

Just join anyways :V

[Staiain]

don't worry we're all bad

[EzExZeRo7497]

For anyone who wants to keep track of their scores throughout their sets, lurker could put this in the OP I guess:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...byk/edit#gid=0

File -> Download as -> .xlsx or .ods
(thanks LG for helping out with the second set)