0.8.0 Preview r1176 - Release Candidate 1

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Nicholas
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Post by Nicholas »

PREVIEW r1176 - Release Candidate 1
Download from the pink box above.

Changes in r1176 since r1171:
  • Added score buttons to mode-selection screen (and removed old, ambiguous "highest score for..." on the track settings screen).
  • Vertical sync is now off by default. Input timing should be more accurate.
  • Fixed the non-100% speed recital bug. For now we're locked to 100%. I'll add like 50% and 75% some other time.
  • Full-song metronome disabled in recital. ("Before first measure" is still there.)
  • Default window size will no longer cause a warning in the config tool. :oops:
  • r1171 can no longer submit recital scores (to close the speed-change exploit).
If no one finds bugs, this will become 0.8.0!

In the meantime, let's keep testing: Big Bad Goblin Blues, Both Hands in recital! Again, I'll be using (in-game) footage of the first page of scores for the front page video update. You could be famous. :D
aria1121
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Post by aria1121 »

Nasty crash when you hit the metronome button in recital mode. I sent you the crash file by email. :(
Nicholas
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Post by Nicholas »

For as much as that type of thing makes it look like I'm not testing things over on my side, I totally am. ;) You just... keep finding ways to break it. :D
Raymond
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Post by Raymond »

vsync will not turn on in full-screen mode. (Both OpenGL and DirectX.)
DirectX is the only one that works in windowed mode.

I like the new score buttons. :)
maccer
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Post by maccer »

1. I got the same metronome button crash as Aria. The game froze for a few seconds and the quit. Do you need a log file or have you already found the cause?

2. Also: please consider re-enabling the full-song metronome!
Why i wanted/needed a metronome in Synthesia so badly in the first place was that it was very hard to play two-handed songs with no other background tracks giving you a rhythm. Think about it: in Guitar Hero / Rock band / whatever there's always background music - usually with drums - even if you don't press any keys yourself, but most Synthesia songs would be completely silent. When using Synthesia the users could relatively easily add a drum track to the MIDI file ( if I understood the "only 'you play' notes counts i when you select what score list to publish to" part correctly) just to get something that helps you keep the rhythm. I don't really see why the metronome should be disabled during the song - having no easy way to get a rhythm just makes playing much harder and more frustrating, especially if you miss a few notes and try to get back to sync with the song.
Songs learned using Synthesia:
CT: Wind Scene, The Trial | FF7: Prelude | SMB: Overworld, Underwater | Tetris: Theme A | Zelda: Lost Woods | Other: Für Elise
Nicholas
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Post by Nicholas »

Alright, leaving full-song metronome in. (You guys are innocent until proven guilty... I'll wait for evidence of cheating before I spend any more effort combating it. So far it looks like jimhenry is the only shady one around here. :lol: )

That fixes the crash Aria found (thanks again for the report)!

Also, the v-sync changes were a little premature, so I rolled them back. That's a pretty big change to make the day before a release. I'd prefer to get a better handle on just what I'm changing and see it through several previews before something like that goes live.

So, because most everything was just a roll-back of stuff I just added (outside of the score buttons), I'm going to forgo another release candidate and go right for release. So... 0.8.0 inbound!
Electrode
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Post by Electrode »

Can you access scores for other songs using the Web-based interface at the moment? I know there is only the one specific example of "Big Bad Goblin Blues - Both Hands" above, but is this available for other songs, too?

I notice the scores are provided using ASP server-side processing in the example above - will there be some way for us to be able to edit the URL in order to see scoreboards for different songs over the Web in future?
Nicholas
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Post by Nicholas »

I'm working on making scores available via the web right now. :D

I was just mentioning over here how there will be aggregate scoreboards (something like "G Major - Medium") that will combine all your scores from that category into one. That should reduce the crazy fractionation problem a little for having so many different songs each of which can have different configurations. It should also make a little mini-game possible where you can pick your battles to try and optimize your cumulative score.
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