Alarian mod v2.7 - Full release

[myfingershurt]

I should have some time in a couple hours to look at the code again, I've already submitted a minor fix for Alarian to use in his next version. If he doesn't finish it by later today I'll release it as a hotfix for 2.6c and see what else I can figure out today.

[DeathEvil]

I see Alarian posted 2.62 but I see no link to dl. Am I missing something?

[myfingershurt]

He's working on it, I don't believe it's ready yet. If you'll notice he posted a table showing exactly what he's doing with the hitwindow in the next release.

[iamnoob]

You guys should have a chart or list that shows what youre working on as you do it.

[jnuz]

just released linux binary for 2.6c with hotfix 1. This will be my last release for probably close to a week. sorry linux folks. I'm moving and I won't have time to get updates together until I'm settled.

[rednano12]

Wow. Who needs sleep anyways?

[alarian]

ANYONE WHO HAS ISSUES WITH UNOFFICIAL UPDATES.
PLEASE SEND PERSONAL MESSAGES TO THE RESPECTIVE
CODER, DON'T LITTER THIS THREAD PLEASE

About Double-pick problem on guitar controllers!
- When strumming down, up, down, up, ... the game doesn't always register all the picks. Now this has been bugging me since... well... always.
I have got the Xbox Xplorer guitar-controller and it's safe to say that the problem I'm experiencing is caused by the controller!
The "strum-button" on the controller is registered by the computer as "Point of View Hat" and this causes problems since it's not a button that you can release. FoF won't register when you release the button. What I did was to download Xpadder: http://xpadder.com/.
You can link the "strum-button" to 2 keys on the keyboard instead, this solved my problem.

IMPORTANT! READ THIS!
+This mod would not be in it's current state if it wasn't for the other main contributors. Don't just thank me, remember to thank Blazingamer, Glorandwarf, Myfingershurt and QQStarS for their huge (and constant) code contributions. And Worldrave for his dedicated work on perfecting the GH3-mod graphics.
-Please stop repeating requests, if it's not anything new.
-Please stop repeating known issues.
-Please don't post useless bugreports like "My game crashes HELP!!" (In other words, if you want
help. Provide ALOT of information!).

New in 2.62 (vs 2.6)
+Actual GH3-tails in GH3-theme
+Actual Streak Lights in GH3-theme
+Hotfix #1-17 by Myfingershurt, QQStarS, Blazingamer Changelog here
+Neckspeed is now always depending on Difficulty & BPM
+New Hitwindow calculation. Exact values here
+New Hitflames (actual Blowtorch-graphics! in GH3-theme made by me )
+Improved logics related to strumming, by Myfingershurt.
+2.6c hotfix #1 is included as well, with the nicely-trimmed 2 decimal point hit accuracies with the "ms" label.

Online Scores
http://fofchart.exofire.net/index.php?sp=true

Full Download 2.62 (5 Themes)
http://rapidshare.com/files/119382190/Alarian2.62.exe.html
Light Download 2.6b (1 Theme only)
2.62 Light Download GH3-Theme:
http://rapidshare.com/files/119386641/Alarian2.62_Light_GH3.EXE.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?nkuy3dxayln
2.62 Light Download RB-Theme:
http://rapidshare.com/files/119386643/Alarian2.62_Light_RB.EXE.html
http://www.mediafire.com/?ev2y22zs239

[myfingershurt]

And 2.6c hotfix #1 is included as well, with the nicely-trimmed 2 decimal point hit accuracies with the "ms" label.

edit: now included in the main post.

[rednano12]

Sweet! Great job guys!

[firefret]

i don't know if this would cause other people problems if they just downloaded and wanted to play but you didn't include an overdrive board in the necks folder. (this is from the light version of RB)

edit: ah never mind, i see you put it in the themes folder.

[myfingershurt]

yeah, overdriveneck.png is now part of the RB theme folder.. we're trying to move towards actually allowing more than 1 Rock Band based theme.

[jnuz]

don't know if this is an issue with the windows version, but alarian sent me code and a Gh3 folder to get the new linux binary going before i move. Anyways, MFH, you may be able to help. On the long notes, the tails disappear when u hit the note. maybe something to do with the implementation on the new tails.

**EDIT** For some reason the game is not drawing the btail*.png files. although it does draw the btaile*.pngs. Not sure what is causing this. Don't have much more time to test before regular life must continue.

**EDIT2** Also when i miss a note it does not display tail0 or taile0 it instead keeps whatever tail is there originally. If I hit a note and then release, it is still invisible.

[.liquid.]

I'm getting an error off of the Alarian light GH3 release after install... "This application has failed to start because MSVCP71.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem."

Could it be that the installer isn't registering those DLL files used? The file IS present in the program directory.

EDIT: I've done an un-install and a re-install twice since... same result..

To fix this Alarian, just have the installer copy those two microsoft dll's (msvcp71.dll and MSVCR71.dll) to the system32 directory as well as the Alarian folder where they are now.

Also just spawned this error after clearing the missing dll files error up.

Code: Select all

Traceback (most recent call last):
 Ã‚ File "FretsOnFire.py", line 36, in ?
 Ã‚ File "C:\Program Files\Alarian\data\library.zip\GameEngine.py", line 134, in ?
WindowsError: [Errno 3] The system cannot find the path specified: 'data\\Themes/*.*'

EDIT: Seems when i use the shortcut created by the game installer, i get the above code reference error... But if I make a NEW shortcut from the game directory, or start it from the game directory it loads ok... Odd.

[EdisLeado]

I'm getting an Invalid mode: Rb after getting new highscore on any song -- I'm using the latest Alarian mod 2.62 -- with only the GH3 theme installed. It doesn't really affect anything, I think -- I can hit OK and still go on and play -- But I'm just wondering why it's coming up.

I tried putting the RB folder into the themes folder too and it still comes up.

[iamnoob]

Keep up the amazing work!