20091212 00:04|Release: StepMania 4 alpha 5

[chrisdanford]

This is a quick build of the current code as I try to get things back on track for regular releases

Windows: http://www.stepmania.com/download.ph...ia4-alpha5.exe
Mac OS X (10.4+ Universal Binary): http://shakesoda.org/stepmania/mac/S...lpha-5-mac.dmg

If you reported bugs on Alpha 3 or 4 (way back in April!) and they're not fixed, please post them again in this thread. I'm going to try to dedicate a day a week to finishing a polished release. (There should be some shame or punishment if I don't stick with it.)
|
icon=stepmania
no_crop_text=1

[FSX]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

I am so happy.

EDIT: File isn't up yet. Oh well...

EDIT2: Never mind.

[chrisdanford]

It should be up now. It takes ~15 minutes for the file to propagate.

Also, don't expect much. I'm sure it's buggier than Alpha 4 was.

[FSX]

OK.

What I've observed:
The difficulty display in gameplay and on the evaluation screen is not loading colors.
Course editor, though it has issues right now and should be made a bit more flexible. (naming courses, for one thing)
I can actually get through a game without the crashes that alpha 4 had on the ending screens.
Text handling improvements.
New versions of certain characters. (Chinese characters, Kanji and assorted Japanese characters)
It's faster.
High score text (on the ranking screen) does not display.
The difficulty list still has issues on songs with more than 5 selectable Steps. (they go past it, the game shows 7, which it shouldn't)

[AJ 187]

Nice to see an Alpha 5 release! Now, for some updates:

Originally Posted by FSX

High score text (on the ranking screen) does not display.

I believe this was fixed with r28241, since it doesn't give me a Lua error window anymore.

Originally Posted by FSX

The difficulty list still has issues on songs with more than 5 selectable Steps. (they go past it, the game shows 7, which it shouldn't)

This has been fixed with r28244.

Thanks for reporting these. :)

[shakesoda]

Crap, I was going to merge some features and do some debugging before this was out.

Looks like the Alpha 5 version of Optical will need to be gimped. :\

Anyways, here's a build for Mac users (10.4+ UB) - http://shakesoda.org/stepmania/mac/S...lpha-5-mac.dmg

Made on revision 28244.

[Daisuke Master]

does this works well?

[FSX]

Originally Posted by Daisuke Master

does this works well?

So far, it has been working better than alpha 4, so yes.

[Daisuke Master]

smprex3 works with this?

[FSX]

Haven't tried. I'll check.

EDIT: No, it crashes once it tries to go to the options screen. It works, but is slower, otherwise. (Also, it detects that that version of SM is incompatible.) Cerulean Skies 2 SVN is slightly buggy (red Danger lifebar glow fills the whole screen), but it works.