How to hide on-screen information (SM 5)

[sheogorath]

Hello.

I run Stepmania through my Plasma TV. Considering its pretty much the only thing I use my Plasma for, I'm a little concerned about potential burn-in from a couple of the on-screen elements that never change. I was wondering if anyone knew what code in the metrics.ini I would need to modify to hide or disable the system clock in the screen corner and the "Press Start"/"Insert Card"/"Player X" at the bottom left and right screen corners, as well as the song BPM

Thanks! :)

[FSX]

In StepMania 5, the BPM display and the Press Start text are created by Lua files.

Create a folder in your Themes folder. Name it whatever you want. Create a metrics.ini file, and place in it:

[Global]
FallbackTheme=default

Create a BGAnimations folder inside that folder.

Copy Themes\_fallback\ScreenSystemLayer overlay\default.lua to the BGAnimations folder, rename it ScreenSystemLayer overlay.lua, then replace

return text;

in CreditsText with

return NullActor;

Then, copy the ScreenGameplay decorations folder from default. Edit default.lua and delete this line:

t[#t+1] = StandardDecorationFromFileOptional("BPMDisplay","BPMDisplay");

That should do it.

[shakesoda]

worth nothing that we have a screen in the game dedicated to reducing burn in, maybe it is worth adding to the op menu

[sheogorath]

Yay! Thanks ^.^ Will give it a try!
I'm probably being a little too sensitive about the burn in problem, but I'll still feel a lot more comfortable without those screen elements just sitting there. Since I'm the only one that plays anyway they're a bit pointless :P Thanks both!