2007-11-03
(+) Userlist for chat.
(+) Support for actions (/me) in chat.
(+) Star bursts added to gameplay.
(+) Added "unmapped" folder to sorting lists.
(*) Minor changes to gameplay effects.
(*) Chat ticker fades faster in editor (gets annoying otherwise).
(*) Keyboard layouts fixed for chat.
(*) Fixed missing last note causing failure.
(*) Chat gracefully quits.
(*) Ping is replied to correctly.
(*) Fixed stats display for users with 0 ranked score.
(*) Fixed problem with online scores.

Hmm fell asleep halfway through fixing that score bug ><. All should be good for now. And its 6:30am and I'm awake, wtf!

peppy wrote:

2007-11-03
(+) Star bursts added to gameplay.

Hmm?

You'll see in time . I like my starrrs,

2007-11-04 (b130)
(+) Added 'SS' ranking (ALL300).
(+) Added basic test mode statistics.
(+) Slider tick rate of 3 allowable (3/8, 6/8, 12/8 kinds of timings).
(+) Spinner sounds are customisable.
(+) Sounds can be loaded from a skin directory.
(+) Added 'retry' button on ranking screen.
(+) Support for quit (/quit) in chat.
(*) Huge improvements to audio sample handling.
(*) Fixed chat nickname clashes.
(*) Much better handling of dropped/failed connections for chat.
(*) Videos scale based on width instead of height.
(*) Fixed slider sounds not stopping when the 'stop' button is pressed.
(*) Fixed bug where game will still start if the mp3 of a beatmap is missing.

b130 is up .

2007-11-05
(+) Web: Beatmap submission scripts mostly complete to: Post, Edit, Secure file upload, Add new beatmap, Update existing beatmap.
(*) 'F5' at song selection forces a refresh even if no new osz files are found.
(*) Fixed bug where stop reset song position after seeking.
(*) Ingame search no longer searches difficulty names.

Lots of web dev today. I'm really working hard on the new beatmap submission system. It will bring order to what is a bit of a mess at the moment, or so I hope. The code is going good, and while not integrated with osu! yet, I have hacked phpbb to pieces and can post/edit stuff externally with easy. Also have a ticket system setup with file uploads which will mean secure uploads to chigau.com after obtaining the right ticket from the main server. Things seem to be working well . More on this coming soon.

Awesome because the beatmap submission thing is a bit volatile right now. It'd also be nice for mods to be able to see how often the most current version of a song in the "Completed Beatmaps" and "Beatmap Help!" has been downloaded. Some of them aren't getting a whole lot of attention.

2007-11-06
(+) Beatmap submission integration in osu!. Mostly complete, just needs some touch-ups.

Not much else to say really. Tonight I was able to upload the osz and separate osu files, enter them in the database, and post to the forums all from within osu! with no more than two mouse clicks. Things seem to be going prettty good .

2007-11-07
(+) Current time counter added to test mode.
(+) Forum posts from in-game submission are linked to beatmap database.
(*) Huge optimisations in sprite management (CPU load).
(*) Small optimisations in GPU drawing calls. Unfortunately it seems like I'm hitting a fill-rate limit with starbursts during gameplay. Can people who get lag with this effect please report it?
(*) Scratch that. Did some optimising on star-bursts and now maintain a constant 60fps on my nvidia card. Lets see how this goes.
(*) Combo fire effect capped at a lower maximum height. It looks better this way.

They say "don't optimise until its broked". I say don't optimise until someone complains. Ivalset was whinging about fps drop with the star-burst effect last night, so I set out to fix this problem tonight. After about 5 hours of code changes and research into d3d calls, I managed to cut over 50% of the cpu time required for the sprite rendering loop, and reduced shader loads quite significantly. Hopefully some of you with lower-end PCs will feel this change more than I do, making it worth the effort I put into it. Should be up public tomorrow sometime.

Also made a bit of progress on beatmap submission. Now I can hit the submit button and my osz/osu files will upload, and a post with a template header will be submitted to the forums. All that is left is to add support for editing/bumping posts which have an update since the initial beatmap version. This will not require a reupload of the osz file as I'll handle this with server-side zipping of new files inside the old osz (unless something like video gets added.. but there will be a prompt for reuploading the osz file too).

Oh wow, its 4am too. *misses sleep*

This sounds pretty awesome! Maybe my computer will have less frequent random fits of gay when playing.

awp wrote:

This sounds pretty awesome! Maybe my computer will have less frequent random fits of gay when playing.

What this guy said.

2007-11-08
(+) Roulette mode added to song selection (Ctrl+R for testers).
(+) If a note is clicked way too early (more than 400ms currently) it will shake rather than count as a miss.
(*) Force topmost window when opening.
(*) Optimisation of hitobject drawing loop.
(*) Slider drawing code does much less overdraw.
(*) Memory footprint reduced significantly.
(*) Fixed flame not drawing during spinners.
(*) Fixed first flame/star-burst occurring on 31 combo rather than 30.

New build tomorrow, I hope!!

peppy wrote:

2007-11-08
(*) Memory footprint reduced significantly.

Oooooooh. We'll see.

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peppy wrote:

(+) If a note is clicked way too early (more than 400ms currently) it will shake rather than count as a miss.

What's new about this feature? I thought it was already in place?

eyup wrote:

peppy wrote:

(+) If a note is clicked way too early (more than 400ms currently) it will shake rather than count as a miss.

What's new about this feature? I thought it was already in place?

Previously it was for out-of-order notes only.

Love the random feature. All I can say is, now it needs a Ctrl+G to GO! and start the song so you can pick a random song without fussing with the cursor.

peppy wrote:

(*) Fixed first flame/star-burst occurring on 31 combo rather than 30.

Wait a minute....

*plays Ouendan 2*
Conclusion- fire/head pops up at 30, then 60, then 100, then every 50 thereafter.

*plays Ouendan 1*
Same conclusion.

*plays Elite Beat Agents*

Same conclusion, only without fire. Leaders head still pops up.


So why the change, Peppy?

(*) Fixed first flame/star-burst occurring on 31 combo rather than 30.

Read that again >.> It is actually correct english, just doesn't read so well.

By the way I noticed osu! takes about 18% less resources now. Perhaps even more.

Good work!

So it runs better now? Does that mean I can run it? >_>;;

If you got a cheap graphics card that supports shader model, sure..

peppy wrote:

(*) Fixed first flame/star-burst occurring on 31 combo rather than 30.

Read that again >.> It is actually correct english, just doesn't read so well.

OOOOOHHHH.


Ok, I get it now. Sorry for the confusion!

2007-11-09
(+) Basic avatar support in-game.
(+) Editing posts is possible with submission system.
(*) Fixed sliders killing combo on missing the end hit.
(*) Roulette is more random than before. Doesn't crash with non-beatmapped songs.
(*) Changed ingame IRC server to private peppy server. irc.ppy.sh #osu will be our new home.

Friday night = catch up on sleep night or maybe not... I'm still awake at 3am. Next public release will be tomorrow for sure .

peppy wrote:

(*) Fixed sliders killing combo on missing the end hit.

uh???

Isn't missing the end hit on sliders supposed to kill the combo?

awp wrote:

uh???

Isn't missing the end hit on sliders supposed to kill the combo?

Would I fix it if it was supposed to ? Both Extor and ZZT mentioned this as being the correct behaviour in ouendan 1, 2 and EBA.

I didn't notice that @_@ It's also like that in Step Mania and Guitar Hero as well so I suppose breaking the convention would anger a lot of folks.

peppy wrote:

(+) Basic avatar support in-game.

Does this mean you'll see our avatars from the forums in-game? And where? *hopes bring up*

2007-11-10 (b140)
(+) Many chat improvements.
(+) New layout for selection screen options.
(+) Beatmap submission support! (File > Upload Beatmap..)
(*) HUGE optimisations to code. Should notice a performance increase.
(*) Bug fixes. See changelog on web for all the details which aren't included in this list. There's lots.

Keep in mind I put this build up at 4am, and could hardly read the screen at that point in time. Take it easy on the bug reports .

Give the new submission system a try!

(otsu, ore)

Is it me or did the chat break in the newest update? =/ I can't seem to connect

Chat works for me in the latest test build, but play mode is broken
Not sure though, might have been the 12 new beatmaps I threw in there...

I've got the best of both worlds. Wait nm no I don't.

The game crashes when I try to play LOL

Edit mode works though. Also chat's working again. It didn't at first but it is now.



=(

at least I can still play Beatmaps via Edit > Test

Luckily that was test version only (full game breakage). Fixed now. If this happens in the future you can always swap to the public release .

As for chat not working - MCXD can you try again? I swapped over to a new irc server located at irc.ppy.sh on #osu if you want to test that directly too.

2007-11-11
(+) Totally reworked how alt-snapping/grid snapping is handled.
(+) Bookmark reset button.
(*) Sharpened and recreated all editor side-tab sprites.
(*) Fixed avatars where width is greater than height.
(*) Fixed editor resolution change not resizing the black overlay area.
(*) Fixed "load thread after submit" not doing anything.
(*) Select All forces 'selection' tool.
(+) Web: Ranking support added to new submission system! Should make the mod's job easier .

Just been keeping the beatmap submission working has taken a chunk of my time today. Small bugs nonetheless, and all seems good now.

I spent the rest of today working on minor editor enhancements - I feel like I want to get the editor (and its code) in a nice and solid state before starting on the new feature that could make or break it .

SLEEP is me

Dude you're insane.

It looks so much prettier now.

The editor looks awesome, now. ^_^
Nice.

2007-11-12
(+) New mods: Hidden (+6%) and NoVideo (no effect).
(+) Crosshair mouse pointer while placing notes in editor.
(+) Double-clicking on a note in the gamefield/timeline seeks to that point in time.
(+) Accuracy added to in-game results screen.
(*) Changes to layout of results screen.
(*) Made selection of notes in the gamefield more sensible (closest time-wise gets selected first).
(*) Fixed combo numbers being incorrect after a paste/duplicate.
(*) Game prompts for login if F8 is pressed before logged in.
(*) GPU load reduced by almost half in play/edit modes.
(*) Web: Accuracy stat is now a rolling average. It will be a lot more dynamic, and mean you can make larger improvements/dents in it . Temporarily adjusted to have a huge effect for plays over the next week or so.

Another hueg performance increase that those with low-end graphics cards will appreciate (myself included). I hope to release a public build tomorrow - there's a lot of nice stuff I've got done over the last 2 days. For those wonering about the progress of storyboarding... this will begin soon - I'm trying to tie up some loose-ends beforehand to please people waiting on these features for quite a while now.

A performance increase for low-end graphic cards?! Does that mean it'll work for me!?
...Probably not... *test*
Edit: I can't get Osume to fully unzip the stuff anyway o_O

2007-11-13 (b144)
(+) Skins can skin soft/loud soundsets separately (ask me for now, will update post later).
(+) Can move threads from WIP to completed from the upload dialog.
(*) Fixed dodginess with upload system.
(*) Fixed 'played by guest' displaying on ranking.
(*) Fixed soft sampleset slider loop not looping properly.
(*) Fixed distance snapping not toggling properly in select mode.
(*) Fixed editor bug where sprites would appear incorrectly after moving on timeline.
(*) Combo bursts occur every 50 hits, rather than 100.
(*) Moved replay marquee text slightly higher. Added a note about skipping intros with 'space'.

Public riri-su! Lets hope upload plays nice. Give me feedback if it fails ASAP so I can stop the havoc before it spreads .

Hidden mode, more performance increases, and quite a wide array of bug fixes and new features - especially for the editor.

I'm tired, nite.

'Fraid that copy-pasted notes are still acting weird in the editor. I'll get a screenshot and post in the bug reports forum in some time.

ZZT the Fifth wrote:

'Fraid that copy-pasted notes are still acting weird in the editor. I'll get a screenshot and post in the bug reports forum in some time.

Fixed this. Update again. Thanks for the quick testing . Oh and sorry for the double-build for those who already downloaded! I should stop doing this, really.

peppy wrote:

ZZT the Fifth wrote:

'Fraid that copy-pasted notes are still acting weird in the editor. I'll get a screenshot and post in the bug reports forum in some time.

Fixed this. Update again. Thanks for the quick testing . Oh and sorry for the double-build for those who already downloaded! I should stop doing this, really.

I actually saw the update before you posted it on the forum, so I thought I'd say something quick-like.

2007-11-14
(+) Date/time of score are shown on the ranking screen.
(+) In-game beatmap updating is a lot smarter (updates pending beatmaps, and is more informative).
(+) Mods are displayed in Now Playing chat messages.
(*) Fixed non-ranked songs being able to be ranked.
(*) Fixed hidden mode not working in replays.
(*) Fixed chat crashing on some long message strings.
(*) Clicking sound no longer occurs when osu! doesn't have focus.
(*) Web: Logged in player position is highlighted on individual song lists.

2007-11-15
(+) osu! associates itself with .osz files, and can load them by double-clicking a beatmap file directly!
(+) New dialog to show osu! is extracting beatmaps, rather than just a black screen.
(+) Added an option to enable/disable custom sound sets (song-specific) in song setup.
(*) Really fixed hidden mode not working in replays (approach circles don't show anymore).

Not so many new things done today. The file association stuff took a while to get going correctly (could still do with a bit more work) and I am also recovering from an all-nighter last night, followed by a very long work day >.>. Things should speed up again over the weekend!

Time to mess around and try to break it

for security reasons of course

EDIT: double clicking an empty .txt file renamed to an osz doesn't crash anything

you win round one, sir

2007-11-17
(+) Double-clicking an osz file opens it in song selection as the active item. This also works when osu! is already running.
(*) 'Beatmap is extracting' dialog now working as expected.
(*) Fixed editor entering unknown modes.
(*) Changed file association error messages to be more informative.
(*) Fixed bug where setting custom sample mode for beatmaps had no effect.
(*) Changed background blackness level to match old colours.

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2007-11-19
(+) Can start watching someone midway through a song.
(+) Added in-game support for hidden S/SS ranks.
(+) Skins can skin menu sounds (menuhit.wav, menuback.wav, menuclick.wav).
(*) Huge improvements/fixes to spectator mode.
(*) Test mode doesn't swap game to fullscreen anymore.
(*) Fixed bug where osu files inside osz would not get updated in some rare circumstances.
(*) Fixed file associations not registering correctly in vista.
(*) Removed some skinning from the song selection screen (the top and bottom black bars and search background). I think this feels better.
(+) Web: Added hidden (stealth) S/SS ranks.

Not enough testing to get public up last night. Maybe today will work better? D;

2007-11-20
(+) Started implementation of Full-mode chat (expands to full screen).
(+) Clickable user buttons to spectate that user.
(*) Fixed seeking failing for high BPMs while playing.
(*) Spectator mode all-round bug-fixes.
(*) Ctrl+O in editor triggers the open dialog.
(*) Fixed some sliders losing a few pixels on the bottom-right edge.

Spectator mode is really coming along. Hopefully people will enjoy watching/commenting as others play once this goes public. It'd be great to build up the in-game chat community a bit more.

2007-11-21
(+) Added avatars and basic statistics to chat userlist.
(*) Fixed video disappearing in editor when letting it play through fully once.
(*) Changed input handling code so mouse input can be grabbed from the local user during replay/spectator mode.

2007-11-22
(+) Audio controls on main menu.
(+) Centralised all internet request instances to one managed location. Should make comms more reliable.
(+) Chat has send history (up/down arrows to access).
(+) New font for chat console. Should be easier to read at all resolutions.
(*) Fixed BSS bug where forum threads were not being linked correctly. YAY!
(*) Improved layout of chat engine. Full mode uses windows mouse cursor.
(*) Fixed sliders with repeat arrows not working correctly with 'Reverse Selection'.
(*) Improved account setup dialog. Force it to open on startup if no login is provided.
(*) Reorganised quite a lot of code. I wish I had more time to do this x.x.
(*) Removed "All" from sorted selection lists - there is an All option now so its not really required.
(*) Changed star texture, removing unneeded pixels and optimising for performance.
(*) Added debug for BSS dialog to try and fix this error.

A god among men.

awp wrote:

A god among men.

I dont know how he does it! I raise a toast to Peppy!

2007-11-24
(+) Added buttons for controlling replay playback.
(+) Added buttons for hiding/refreshing full chat mode.
(+) Skip commands are sent to watchers in spectator mode.
(*) Hitting 'Escape' or 'Ctrl-Z' while placing a slider in edit mode will remove it altogether.
(*) Menu play controls appear in front of chat overlay.
(*) Spectator mode is disabled on entering play or edit mode.
(*) Clicking yourself in the spectator list disables spectator mode.
(*) Skip button can be clicked in replay mode.
(*) Huge hacks to the input system to allow mouse input during replays. Hopefully this won't own anything.
(*) User buttons flash red when updating stats.
(*) Added new icons/buttons for online ranking notifications (when a song needs updating etc.)
(*) Hitting escape while online chat is visible will close it first, then exit the game on the second keypress.
(*) Fixed bug where game would hard crash if you cancelled the login prompt when uploading a song.

omigaaaaa! huge time spent on osu! = huge improvements (yes that just means i slept less). more coming today, including a public release .

2007-11-25 (b160)
(+) New timing control screen.
(+) Samplesets can be defined per timing section.
(+) In-game song rating system.
(+) Time signature support added.
(+) Auto chat login.
(+) Auto chat hiding during gameplay.
(*) eyupstars v1.1 (currently in osu! only - no web support).
(*) BSS submissions have a link to the beatmap listing page.
(*) HP drain only starts after the first note after a break.
(*) Combo and HP bar slide out during breaks.
(*) Better handling of mid-song spectating.
(*) Song selection notification icons fade/slide in!
(*) Fixed hp icon not pulsing on initial increase.
(*) Fixed graph sometimes not drawing correctly.
(*) Web: Fixed some broken leader records.

LETS DO THIS. I've outdone myself this weekend. Hope you enjoy - make sure to leave some feedback! And be polite with the bug reports - I spent over 48 hours this weekend coding and haven't had much time for the testing part.

I find it annoying how the chat keeps showing up all the time. I'm not quite sure how to disable it.

K-S-O wrote:

I find it annoying how the chat keeps showing up all the time. I'm not quite sure how to disable it.

When chat is open, click the button to the bottom-right that says "Hide in Play" so it swaps to "Always show".

Maybe I need to make those buttons a bit more clear? Hide in Play will automatically show chat during breaks and hide it during gameplay.

Okay, new version up which makes those buttons less ambiguous. Go update if you want to .

2007-11-26 (b162)
(*) Major improvements on spectator score/play accuracy.
(*) Toggle buttons on chat dialog now don't change text. This was confusing apparently!
(*) Fixed scoring bug where combo went higher than it should.
(*) Fixed offline replays not playing back.
(*) /quit in chat mode also closes chat panel.
(*) System generated chat messages are not added to message history.
(*) Changing usename while chat is open disconnects from chat.
(*) Spaces are replaced with %20s in the download text field in upload dialog.
(*) Changing the sampleset can be done without an initial save of old files.
(*) Default smapleset option in song setup screen affects all timing points if they all have same (default) settings.
(*) Creator field is locked to logged-in username.
(*) Spinner approach circle hidden in hidden mode.
(*) Increased network connection pool and added stronger error handling.
(*) IRC usernames are enforced to be valid.
(*) Playing offline does not cause errors to appear.
(*) Auto-hiding of chat works better with pause mode.
(*) Play button on main menu unpauses when music is already paused.

bugs squash bugs squash

b162 holy hell I'm still on b144 lol @_@

oh well school's practically done now

2007-11-27
(*) Fixed crash on hitting up arrow in chat with no message history.
(*) Hitting 'escape' after already failing brings up retry screen rather than returning to song selection.
(*) Icons on submissions are retained even after updates are made to the post.
(*) Fixed bug where pasting notes over the top of other notes would leave some overlapping notes behind.
(*) Fixed health bar sometimes not fully sliding into gameplay after a break.
(*) Fixed mouse cursor going crazy during break time in spectator mode.
(*) Better spectator sync accuracy?
(*) Web: Cleaned up database a bit.

I wanted to make this one public, but its 6:53am and I'm not sure if all the changes I made are sane .

Definitely a new release tonight - gotta fix these bugs peoples are having.

2007-11-28 (b164)
(*) Removed tilde key as a shortcut for opening chat window due to breaking some keyboard layouts.
(*) Fixed bug where local replays were not being retained.
(*) Fixed bug where spectator mode would stop working until restart of osu!
(*) Fixed send rate of replays.

So i typed this once but got another bluescreen on my pc. I really need to replace my RAM - it keeps failing parity at random points in time.... about 3 bluescreens a day :/.

Anyway, new public is up with bug fixes from the last two days. There was a pretty serious problem which meant replay data was up to 10x the size it should be when stored to the online database, so I felt that this build should go up ASAP. Therefore, you might experience some inaccuracies with spectator mode, as I am halfway through remodelling the sync process associated with it.

Will probably do another public tomorrow or friday.

2007-12-01
(*) Avatars are only loaded when full chat mode is visible. This seemed to be causing lag for some during gameplay.
(*) Error message made more friendly for graphics cards which don't support required shader model.

2007-11-29
(*) Fixed skips not being sent in spectator in some scenarios.
(*) Fixed local replays not saving.

Taking a short break from serious coding due to being totally worn out. Small bug fixes, and did some more research into texture buffering for storyboarding, and some preliminary implementation of the osu! file format for tweens/transformations. Hopefully I'll get some private testing of this done tomorrow.

peppy wrote:

(*) Error message made more friendly for graphics cards which don't support required shader model.

[font=really effin' huge]THANK YOU.[/font] The thought didn't even occur to me how handy that will be.

awp wrote:

peppy wrote:

(*) Error message made more friendly for graphics cards which don't support required shader model.

[font=really effin' huge]THANK YOU.[/font] The thought didn't even occur to me how handy that will be.

You don't know how loud I screamed last night after that last guy posted that error message.

peppy wrote:

awp wrote:

peppy wrote:

(*) Error message made more friendly for graphics cards which don't support required shader model.

[font=really effin' huge]THANK YOU.[/font] The thought didn't even occur to me how handy that will be.

You don't know how loud I screamed last night after that last guy posted that error message.

So that's what that sound was.

2007-12-02 (b166)
(+) Can drag-and-drop new beatmaps and new mp3 files.
(+) First implementation of tooltips.
(*) Offline rankings display "no scores yet" rather than "update this beatmap".
(*) Distance spacing interval defaults to 0.8. Is now saved and loaded from configuration file.
(*) Can now select and delete multiple timing sections at once using the timing setup panel.
(*) Fixed slider placement problems while distance snapping is enabled.
(*) Fixed bug with timing points window (time displays in the list were wrong).
(*) Fixed not being able to click away from rating properly (only on the buttons worked).
(*) Timing setup window selects current timing section by default.

Might as well do a public, I figure - get the bug fixes up-to-date. Let's hope I haven't created any new bugs in the process!

Nitenite.

2007-12-04
(+) Menu playback controllable by arrow keys.
(+) Song selection controllable by arrow keys.
(*) Changed the way song selection is handled internally. Fixed bug where background colours of songs change unexpectedly,
(*) Confirmation dialog when reverting to last saved (Ctrl+L or File > Revert to Saved).

2007-12-05
(+) BPM is displayed on song selection.
(+) More tooltips added.
(*) Tooltips have a border and generally handle better.
(*) %20s are actually added to download url box.
(*) Test mode will respect lead-in if tested from close to the beginning of the song.
(*) Mousewheel/arrow key seeking can seek to the very start of the song.
(*) Fixed score submission/chat for usernames with strange characters, like a single-quote (').
(*) Fixed audio speeding up on fail with songs sampled at sub-44100hz.
(*) Web: Beatmap listing sorted by approved date rather than last update (for ranked listing only).

Taking it day by day, picking up a bit of speed .

I MODDED SOME BEATMAPS TOO!

2007-12-06
(*) Changed post template to show full play-time, rather than drain length.
(*) Fixed another bug with slider placement (moving points with distance snap on in selection mode).

2007-12-08 (b169)
(*) Support for semi-transparent avatars.
(*) Can't click on stuff behind chat in fullscreen chat mode.
(*) Fixed bug if port for IPC cannot be allocated (crash at song selection).
(*) Fixed online users overflowing off the screen.
(*) Tooltips for high scores list gives more details.
(*) People playing beatmaps you don't have will highlight in red rather than green. You can't spectate these.
(*) Changed the "now watching" messages to reduce chat spam.
(*) Dragging a song to the osu! window.
(*) Fixed BPM changes causing huge lag in long LONG long songs (only if there are multiple timing sections).
(*) Added a delay to skin selection actually changing the skin.
(+) New themes added (Holiday, NES and WindWaker).

Oops. a bit late

peppy wrote:

2007-12-08 (b169)
(*) Fixed BPM changes causing huge lag in long LONG long songs (only if there are multiple timing sections).

Ohhhh, how did you know? <3

awp wrote:

peppy wrote:

2007-12-08 (b169)
(*) Fixed BPM changes causing huge lag in long LONG long songs (only if there are multiple timing sections).

Ohhhh, how did you know? <3

That'd be my contribution: long songs. Great improvement on the lag reduction hey. Also, good temp fix with the delay for skin implementation when selecting, until a skin selection screen is made.

2007-12-10
(+) pUpdater caches file hashes and can automatically start osu! after updates.
(*) Compose mode cannot be entered until at least one timing section is setup.
(*) Fixed crash when attempting to open the Timing Setup panel with no timing sections created.
(*) Fixed dodgy music volume levels when swapping game modes.
(*) Fixed play time reporting wrong on web submissions.
(*) Fixed bug where distance snapping wasn't working at all in selection mode with sliders.
(*) Fixed bug with spinner sounds breaking up when consecutive spinners follow each other.
(*) Fixed bug where first metronome tick of a timing section would not play.
(*) Distance snapping tab turns red when it temporarily disables due to impossible placement.
(*) First point (point 0) of a slider has distance snapping applied during point editing.
(*) Universal audio offset is only calculated ONCE. This quickens startup time on future executions.
(*) Universal Offset setting in options can go negative. A metronome beat is provided to time against the current playing song.
(*) Exit on startup if moving a new beatmap (file association) failed.

Public release tomorrow? Quite a bit of nice stuff in here. osu! startup time should be about 20% or more reduced I think. Nitenite.

peppy wrote:

2007-12-10
(*) Fixed bug with spinner sounds breaking up when consecutive spinners follow each other.

THANK YOU!

This has been bugging me for sooo long, I'm glad you finally squashed it.

2007-12-11
(+) Date based sorting.
(+) Bookmark sorting (not fully implemented).
(+) Internal button class for handling popup menus.
(+) Added message for spectator mode when target player is not playing.
(*) Fixed offset/chat settings not loading correctly on startup.
(*) Fixed play time values in online submission post (again).
(*) Increased size of editor open dialog to fit longer filenames.
(*) Fixed file associations failing to actually open osu!.

2007-12-12
(+) Added universal announcement system to game.
(+) Bottom-right text on main menu is clickable (loads osu! website).
(*) Changed connection behaviour of IRC.
(*) Favourite storage works internally - Just need some buttons now.
(*) Web: Moved a whole heap of the website code from mysqli to mysql due to a hosting fault. Hopefully we'll have mysqli back soon .

What a bummer about stuff going down today.

2007-12-13
(*) Better handling of changing active user.
(*) Web: Rewrote all php code to fallback to mysql native (was using mysqli until the extension went missing).
(*) Web: Some prototyping of new website layout.

Spent most of my time trying to work-around or actually access the forums. Didn't get much productive stuff done. Have backed up database and website to my home server, and may swap back to that depending on this server performance over the next 24hours.

2007-12-15
(+) Circles are dimmed except for the next to-be-hit circle.
(+) Added warning message when updating a beatmap to latest version where the creator is the local user.
(+) Mods are shown during replay playback.
(*) Changed 'ki' hp bard icon to cycle through the '!!' and '!' states on initial increase. I changed this before to remain on 'ki' due to forum feedback, but on observing an ouendan video today noticed my initial assumptions were correct!
(*) Video with negative offset will play during lead-in time.
(*) Fixed bug with timing window selecting more than one timing point when opened.

Public release tomorrow for sure!

2007-12-16 (b176)
(*) Warning arrows for start of song.
(*) HP bar starts filling closer to first hitcircle for songs with long intros.
(*) Fixed bug where break time would sometimes result in no arrows being displayed.

Sorry about the double public release - crippling bug found and squashed . Heading to Japan tonight - back soon!

gl hf

peppy wrote:

(*) Changed 'ki' hp bard icon to cycle through the '!!' and '!' states on initial increase. I changed this before to remain on 'ki' due to forum feedback, but on observing an ouendan video today noticed my initial assumptions were correct!

Sorry to be a stick in the mud, but SSAY is the exception, not the rule.

Then again, it wasn't very important in the first place.

omg ;.;
so which one do we want?! lol.

maybe we'll do it this way - if the song has an intro period that means the ki doesnt start increasing at 0seconds, it will start as '!!', otherwise just go up with 'ki' the whole way? this kind of makes sense, yeah?

Yea SSAY is the only song to do that, but it has its reasons (it ties with the story.)

And your last post makes almost no sense at all, Peppy.

I'll give my suggestion in the form of a flow chart:


Do you like how it looks?
|
|----YES----Do it.
|
|
NO-----Don't do it.

HMM well in my mind there are two options:

1.
Have it automatically decided whether to have it start on '!!' or 'ki' depending on this condition:
If the intro to the song is greater than ~10seconds (the time it takes for the metre to fill up) then it will start as a '!!' else it will be a 'ki'.
Otherwise, it will be a 'ki' all the way.

2.
Always use one of the two options.

Maybe we need a poll?

There haven't been many changes between December and today, have there?

peppy wrote:

HMM well in my mind there are two options:

1.
Have it automatically decided whether to have it start on '!!' or 'ki' depending on this condition:
If the intro to the song is greater than ~10seconds (the time it takes for the metre to fill up) then it will start as a '!!' else it will be a 'ki'.
Otherwise, it will be a 'ki' all the way.

2.
Always use one of the two options.

Maybe we need a poll?

I missed this discussion earlier, but why not just make it an option for the beatmapper? I think it's only going to be a rare occasion when starting from "!!" is preferable.

On a related note, in EBA (and Ouendan, I believe), when the scorebar fills at the beginning, the marker is actually on the yellow the entire time; the red part "grows" into it. I don't know if it's necessary to recreate that effect (it'd actually mess up most skins) but it's worth noticing, because it makes it very clear that you're not starting from a "!!" state.

ZZT the Fifth wrote:

There haven't been many changes between December and today, have there?

Well peppy is in Japan on holiday, so even without his internet connection at home being down and his family away on holiday as well and no easy way to fix the problem, you couldn't blame him for not updating. But it so happens that his internet connection at home IS down and etc etc etc. So don't complain! He'll be back home in a week, after which development will snowball back up to peppy-esque proportions.

Wow, I didn't think he was still gone.

...I wish I could go on a vacation that long.

LuigiHann wrote:

On a related note, in EBA (and Ouendan, I believe), when the scorebar fills at the beginning, the marker is actually on the yellow the entire time; the red part "grows" into it. I don't know if it's necessary to recreate that effect (it'd actually mess up most skins) but it's worth noticing, because it makes it very clear that you're not starting from a "!!" state.

Turns out I was mostly wrong; the situation I described only occurs if you hit the skip button during the beginning of the song. Normally this doesn't happen.

ZZT the Fifth wrote:

Wow, I didn't think he was still gone.

...I wish I could go on a vacation that long.

It might not just be all vacation now...it could be a long quest of advertising and etcetera...XD
Or it can an analysis. But yeah, that is a long vacation.

And LuigiHann, solved your own concern thingie eh? GOOD JOB! Though the idea is a little strange maybe, but yeah, it does ruin themes...unless you have two separate files, one being the red area and one the yellow and have the yellow extend out, then have the red fly in from the left. Of course, that would look ugly and it wouldn't be something you'd see in the game, huh?

It'd definitely mess with the Wind Waker skin because of the "unique" lifebar approach. It took me a while to notice, but even the current spinner graphic doesn't co-operate with the lifebar (during spinners, you can still see the very top of the screen, which is normally blocked off by the lifebar's background). I'd change it, but I don't have the heart to make everyone have to redownload that one image/update the copy in the osume package. It's pretty negligeable anyway, riiiight?

Yeah, yeah, forget I said anything. I was in error, and I'd edit it out except it'd mess up the conversation now.

eyup wrote:

ZZT the Fifth wrote:

There haven't been many changes between December and today, have there?

Well peppy is in Japan on holiday, so even without his internet connection at home being down and his family away on holiday as well and no easy way to fix the problem, you couldn't blame him for not updating. But it so happens that his internet connection at home IS down and etc etc etc. So don't complain! He'll be back home in a week, after which development will snowball back up to peppy-esque proportions.

what eyup said . home in a few days, so lets see how things go after that!

Yay! If you're home, does that mean we'll get to hear all your ramblings on how vacation went? And the glorious pictures of you with...other people? And your quest to advertise Osu! with people going, "You should sell that."?

I'm curious, I want to hear! Well, as long as it won't be boring of course, but nevertheless...

I hope this would mean progress would be put, of course that doesn't mean I'm pressuring you peppy. I'm patient, that's what I were to be back when I registered, or at least I think.

I don't need pressure for there to be progress :p. But on the other hand, I didn't think you'd need to ask a question like that - just take a look at the changelog for the first 4 months of development!

2008-01-22
(*) I'm back *waves for the audience*
(*) ranking-F error no longer crashes game to windows. Handled with an in-game message for now.
(*) Unplayed songs listing works once again.

I really had to take a bit of time to refamiliarise myself with the code, hey .

I'll probably spend the rest of the week working my way through the bugs that have surfaced, and aim for a public fix release this weekend.

peppy wrote:

(*) Unplayed songs listing works once again.

ty

peppy wrote:

I really had to take a bit of time to refamiliarise myself with the code, hey .

I hate that feeling and it often makes me comment out the entire block of code I'm looking at and just re-write whatever I was trying to read.

peppy wrote:

2008-01-22
(*) I'm back *waves for the audience*

Best. Update. Ever.

And good luck getting yourself back on track with the coding skills, :3. Pretty nice updates, at the least. Especially the unplayed song one.