20111005|StepMania 5 Preview 4 Released

[Wolfman2000]

is copy+paste timing changes working for anyone else?

Some internal improvements were made to timing changes in general, but it's possible we missed something during said improvements. I'll have to take a look.

[MaxX]

Alright problems now that I'm done having fun.

-Whenever I switch fro IIDX 15 to default, this error shows up:
Metric "SongManager::Song Group11-23" is missing.

-Whenever I switch to kb7, it reverts to the default theme no matter what, and these two errors pop up:

Lua runtime error parsing "ScreenSelectStyle::ChoiceKB7": [string "ScreenSelectStyle::ChoiceKB7"]:1: attempt to call field 'AfterSelectPlayMode' (a nil value)
[String "ScreenSelectStyle::ChoiceKB7"]:1: main((*temporary) = name,kb7;style,single;screen,(* temporary) = (null),(*temporary) = attempt to call field 'AfterSelectPlayMode' (a nil value))

Metric "ScreenSelectStyle::IconChoiceKB7x" is missing.
Metric "ScreenSelectStyle::IconChoiceKB7y" is missing.

Also editting courses seems to crash SM when your copying and pasting notes and such (Kingdaro mentioned that I see).

[NitroX72]

the first problem, iirc, shows up every time when switching from any other theme to default

for the second, switching gametypes will bring up the last used theme in that gametype. makes sense if you think about it. just change the theme again.

[Midiman]

#1: is an oversight and will be fixed in the next release
#2: uh oh who's been touching things *time to fix it*

[MaxX]

Another problem
3. Regardless of theme, SM refuses to load a lot of songs from Tachyon Beta (The ordeal becomes great, Dumpstream, Love Hurts, etc.). I'm guessing this is because the notes are too close to beat 1 or something and it's screwing it up.

[freem]

Regardless of theme, SM refuses to load a lot of songs from Tachyon Beta

I heard about this on the SMOnline forums, but it's nice to have confirmation.

also whoever makes that series needs to learn to make proper song graphics instead of just plastering "TACHYON [version]" on them.

[MaxX]

also whoever makes that series needs to learn to make proper song graphics instead of just plastering "TACHYON [version]" on them.

Mad Matt has seemingly gotten more lazy as the series went on it seems. :/

[freem]

the interim fix is to rename the files so that they have a lowercase extension.
The next version of SM5 will not require you to do so.

[LeanaXShizuma]

I'm not sure on how to add the songs? When I updated it says 94 songs, it only shows the two songs given though. So I made another folder for the music, but that didn't seem to work either.

[DaYu-San]

I just made a stepchart in Stepmania an while setting the last few notes accidentally hit "end" during the recording process and it crashed with all of my stepchart gone. I hope this issue will be fixed towards the next release. I know this is kinda my fault for using a smaller keyboard, but then again this shouldn't happen at all.