MFH-Alarian Mod v2.900 - New releases here!

[>Slash666<]

for shreder. I dont know how you can have space beetwen tiers i dont have it. Theres one more bug with the songlist, i cant describe it, i will take a video of it

[kawaii_kumiko69]

No offense to anyone, but I think that the Fakir font was made quite poorly. Compare that to a font image ripped from Rock Band (I forgot where I took it):

[acrox999]

There's version 2 of that Fakir font made by Figure. Go to Figure's My Rock Band Stuffs thread.

[BlackJack]

No suggestions, only game-breaking bug reports until after 3.000 is out please.

Darn.

*bites own tongue*

And if I sneakily mix suggestions and bug reports? :p
Well, I'm going to post 2 suggestions, lest I forget them before 3.000 is released. Feel free to discard them with a snort... and let's just pretend they are "notes to myself for 3.000"... :;):


<li>Setlist : reset carreer is "hidden" at the bottom : you can't see the menu when you're on the last item. You press down one time (blank space), two times ("End of Career" is showing), three times (blank space), four times (blank space), 5 times (you finally get to "reset career").

<li>Note @every translator : pause and fail menus are no more translated with GH3-like themes, because the strings have been changed in GuitarScene.py (different amount of spaces).

The following :

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"                  RESUME"
"                 RESTART"
"                    GIVE UP"
"                  PRACTICE"
"                 OPTIONS"
"                       QUIT"
"                 END SONG"
" RETRY SONG"
"   PRACTICE"
"  NEW SONG"
"      QUIT"

has been changed to :

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"        RESUME"
"       RESTART"
"        GIVE UP"
"       PRACTICE"
"      OPTIONS"
"           QUIT"
"      END SONG"
"RETRY SONG"
"  PRACTICE"
" NEW SONG"
"     QUIT"

I'll release an updated French translation in the following minutes.


<li>Blank lines to split tiers : great.
But shouldn't blank lines not be selectable?


<li>IINM, in "Song List Settings", "Quickplay Tiers" override "sort order", so why not renaming "Sort Order" by "Sort Order in Quickplay", and merge "Quickplay Tiers" with current "sort order" options (artist, title, times played)?

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Dialogs.wrapText(songFont, (.05, .05 - h / 2), self.song.info.name + " \n " + cover + self.song.info.artist + comma + self.song.info.year + extra, rightMargin = .6, scale = 0.0030) #evilynux - increased scale by 1/3 by worldrave's request

For the song information display (at the start of a song), isn't a reduced scale (0.0025 -- or even the original, 0.0020) more accurate to GH3 (at least with current's Song.ttf -- Kaella)?

[slantyr]

the new random neck logic allows the Neck_0 image to be used as one of the random necks.

was this intentional? if i change the name to randomneck will it be filtered out again?

[MeteOritO]

Hello, I was thinking it would be better than the stages were in the folder data.
In this way the same stages could be used for different Mods
and that we do not have the same stages in different mods

[BlackJack]

^-- He meant themes instead of mods, but I second that.


French translation updated again, following newly discovered stuff.

@Alexfighter : maybe should we add comments such as "#GH3-like themes", etc., to our current "# PAUSE MENUS" and "# FAIL MENUS" sections?


@Slantyr : there's an unbelievable typo in your sig. *wink* *wink* *nudge* *nudge* :p

[Alexfighter]

Updating Spanish Translation. You're right, we should comment those fail and pause menus. It's a labyrinth. I'll do it for next version.

[BlackJack]

I'm afraid Spanish translation v1.2g is missing yet another change : "Drum highscore nav" ("Nav. Punt. Batería") has been changed to "Drum navigation" (tried to tell you earlier, but you were already in your bed ).

[myfingershurt]

@MFH
Are you sure that is Hotfix #8? There are a lot of files missing, and also I noticed the tails directory isn't even there. Things might looks kind of weird with all these new files missing.


And the MAIN directory only has 5 files in mine, but only has 2 in yours. And of course the whole tails directory is missing. Just wanted to point this out is all.

I didn't include your whole theme or hotfix -- I just updated the files that I already was including in the patches to the ones from your hotfix. At least, I thought I did....

There are more spaces between the end of career and reset career to properly separate bonus songs from the career. If there are no bonus songs, these spaces are all together.

And making blank lines not selectable has been in my To Do list since I created them:

++Make blank lines unselectable in both songlist and CD modes
++Make tiers unselectable in songlist mode only (needs to be selectable in CD list mode)

Neck_0 wasn't intended to be part of the random neck choices, no. Renaming to randomneck.png will fix this for now.

And yet another request that is already in my To Do list:

-Add support for animated stages that are not theme-specific (data\Stages\)

I did what I could... after every patch it seems I have to defend my choices. While I'm flattered that everyone here expects perfection from my work, by the same token I'm kind of annoyed that nothing I release is "good enough." I try to satisfy all the reasonable requests but there has to be some measure of compromise here...

After I release 3.000 I'm taking a break, this is getting to me.



edit: mrhoievo, I just saw your edited post with the grey stars, nice.... that is something I was planning to do eventually, in a different way - but since you've already created those I will figure out the best way to use them instead.

[Alexfighter]

Ok updated Spanish Translation yet again. Added comments to clearly see different Theme's Pause and Fail Menus.
Thx again to BlackJack.

[evilynux]

@BlackJack and other translators: Sorry about the menu strings, i had to change them to make this fit properly

[BlackJack]

making blank lines not selectable has been in my To Do list since I created them:

++Make blank lines unselectable in both songlist and CD modes
++Make tiers unselectable in songlist mode only (needs to be selectable in CD list mode)

Damn; as those were in the previous "goals for this patch", I assumed they were already included with v2.995, but weren't working for some reason (I realize now that the reason is that I'm just stupid and don't pay enough attention ).

I did what I could... after every patch it seems I have to defend my choices. While I'm flattered that everyone here expects perfection from my work, by the same token I'm kind of annoyed that nothing I release is "good enough." I try to satisfy all the reasonable requests but there has to be some measure of compromise here...

I'm sorry if my posts made me sound ungrateful, but know that's not the case. I truly appreciate (and that's an euphemism) all of your updates, and am grateful for all the time and dedication you've put in this.
The few suggestions I had were always minor details, and by any means never implied your mod wasn't already perfect as it is.
As I said in my first post in this topic :

thank you (along with the other "modders" involved in the project), because this mod is the best gift a Frets on Fire fan could expect.
You spent so much time adding a load of new amazing features (and you're still adding more everyday), it's quite impressive. Two thumbs up for you. ^__~

Please don't leave us, Chris, you are our only hope [/overused Star Wars reference] :;):

[myfingershurt]

I'm not leaving, I love this game too much -- I guess I just feel constantly overwhelmed by the ever-growing To Do list.... yet I can't help but keep adding to it, especially as good suggestions are made.

Doesn't matter if I say I'm not accepting suggestions, if someone throws a good one out there I find a place to add it in the To Do list. Guess I've got a touch of OCD as well

Anyway, I'll get back on 3.000 after I finish work today.

[evilynux]

As an old timer in FOSS projects, in harsh times i try to remember a quote from Stroustrup.
Actually, let me paraphrase it and adapt it to the context...

"There are 2 kinds of projects, those ppl always complain about and those that don't last and die".

Also, as MFH noted, there's a direct relation between the number of complaints/suggestions/comments and the interest in a project.