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[shakesoda]

I figure it's long overdue to have a megathread for asking questions related to stepmania that aren't covered anywhere (or maybe they are but you are lazy).

Since I've got no life whatsoever as I'm sure you all think, feel free to ask really complicated and obscure questions that haven't been answered before (but don't hesitate to ask simple things too - e.g. "what's the 'Other' folder for?")

Important resources:
http://kki.ajworld.net/wiki/Main_Page - Theming wiki
http://stepmania.sourceforge.net/Lua.xml - Lua info (official)
http://kki.ajworld.net/lua/ - Lua info (unofficial, more up to date)

The important ones are 1, 2, and 4:
- I can't offer nearly as extensive help for SM 3.x as I can for SM 4 latest, a lot has changed and I really have better things to do than remember every single function SM has ever had.
- I expect that if you have something to ask, you are capable of some amount of free thought (and you can replace placeholders like this_is_where_you_should_put_something in any code I give you).
- Any and all code I give you here is public domain, unless stated otherwise.
- check the wiki first.
- Feel free to ask things not directly related to SM, if you want (although do try to keep things mostly on topic)

This thread will be as successful as you make it, ask away ;)

[Wanny]

Something I found while converting 3.9 themes to 3.95/OpenITG...

In some 3.9 themes/noteskins there's the following command: "glowmode,brighten", but 3.95/OpenITG crashes with the following message:

[string "in"]:2: attempt to call method `glowmode' (a nil value)

Is there any replacement for "glowmode"?

[neothe0ne]

How do I make Theora videos look as good as XviD at the same filesize. (No, I'm not getting anything remotely resembling h264 quality). It would be preferred if the method is compatible with avs scripts.

[shakesoda]

Originally Posted by Wanny

Something I found while converting 3.9 themes to 3.95/OpenITG...

In some 3.9 themes/noteskins there's the following command: "glowmode,brighten", but 3.95/OpenITG crashes with the following message:

[string "in"]:2: attempt to call method `glowmode' (a nil value)

Is there any replacement for "glowmode"?

I don't believe there is, although indexed color images seem to automatically switch to additive.

Originally Posted by neothe0ne

How do I make Theora videos look as good as XviD at the same filesize. (No, I'm not getting anything remotely resembling h264 quality). It would be preferred if the method is compatible with avs scripts.

ffmpeg2theora-thusnelda input-video.avi -v 9

try that, if it's too big then try v 8 and so on. You might also want to try -p pro as an option.

[Wanny]

Originally Posted by shakesoda

I don't believe there is, although indexed color images seem to automatically switch to additive.

Hmm, seems not.

Take this example for the default noteskin for Beware's Extreme:

[GhostArrowBright]
NoneCommand=
MissCommand=
BooCommand=
GoodCommand=
GreatCommand=blend,add;glowmode,brighten;diffuse,0.0,0.95,0.95,1;zoom,0.8;glow,0,0.95,0.95,1.7;linear,0.13;zoom,1.2;diffusealpha,0;glow,0,0.95,0.95,0
PerfectCommand=blend,add;glowmode,brighten;diffuse,1.0,1.0,0.25,1;zoom,0.8;glow,1,1,0.25,1.7;linear,0.13;zoom,1.2;diffusealpha,0;glow,1,1,0.25,0
MarvelousCommand=blend,add;glowmode,brighten;diffuse,1.0,1.0,1.0,1;zoom,0.8;glow,1,1,1,1.7;linear,0.13;zoom,1.2;diffusealpha,0;glow,1,1,1,0

Note that there's already the "blend,add" command. If I remove the "glowmode,brightnen" command, the noteskin definitely doesn't look the same.
This applies to theme elements too. They don't look the same as the originals if I take that command.

Seems that "glowmode,brighten" isn't related to blending, but with... well, the glow mode. To make things worse, "glowmode" isn't documented anywhere.

[shakesoda]

I know glowmode was removed in 4, if it isn't working then I assume it was removed for 3.95 as well (unless you see anywhere that the function still exists)

[Wanny]

Well, as I said, 3.95 crashes with glowmode ["attempt to call method `glowmode' (a nil value)"]

What I'd like to know if there's an equivalent command for it.

[shakesoda]

Originally Posted by Wanny

Well, as I said, 3.95 crashes with glowmode ["attempt to call method `glowmode' (a nil value)"]

What I'd like to know if there's an equivalent command for it.

Not that I'm aware of, no.

[Karai]

shakesoda,

How do I themed StepMania?

--
Karai

Postscript: 1000th post :V

[shakesoda]

Originally Posted by Onilink

shakesoda,

How do I themed StepMania?

--
Karai

Postscript: 1000th post :V

well first you put the pe- oh wait, wrong explanation.

be more specific