Alarian mod v2.7 - Full release

[nighton]

Thanks SO MUCH Alarian, this is the best mod out there. I found absolutely no problems with the latest release (2.6 as I'm typing this)

I hope you could add more stuff to the RB Theme.

Thanks, for using your time to make us FoF Players happy

Also, GH2 Sloppy is, in my opinion, the closest you can get to real guitar HOPO-wise.

[myfingershurt]

edit: @txf
Just noticed your post from before:

Nice. Side question though, are those notes the ones that come with the mod? Because they look higher quality, and slightly bigger than the ones I have. If they're different, any chance of sending them? <.<

Yep those are the notes that come with the GH3 theme. I play with the FoF board angle / perspective, and in 1280 x 1024 resolution.... they just look really good in high res

txf:

Yes, I quoted a big image, but meh.

How come yours is so much higher quality than mine?

(I took this at full screen, but didn't know it wouldn't let me, so it shrunk.).. Thing is, when I go full screen, all it does is STRETCH the stuff, making it blurry. Yet, yours is all high quality and stuff. ... ???

mine:(800x600)

It's because I play in much higher res than you... I found that I couldn't stand anything lower than 1280 x 1024 once I saw how damn good it looks.


edit: nighton -- -have you tried any of the hotfixes for 2.6? see my sig for the latest...

[txf]

edit: @txf
Just noticed your post from before:

Nice. Side question though, are those notes the ones that come with the mod? Because they look higher quality, and slightly bigger than the ones I have. If they're different, any chance of sending them? <.<

Yep those are the notes that come with the GH3 theme. I play with the FoF board angle / perspective, and in 1280 x 1024 resolution.... they just look really good in high res

txf:

Yes, I quoted a big image, but meh.

How come yours is so much higher quality than mine?

(I took this at full screen, but didn't know it wouldn't let me, so it shrunk.).. Thing is, when I go full screen, all it does is STRETCH the stuff, making it blurry. Yet, yours is all high quality and stuff. ... ???

mine:(800x600)

It's because I play in much higher res than you... I found that I couldn't stand anything lower than 1280 x 1024 once I saw how damn good it looks.

I realise that your playing in a higher screen resolution, but shouldn't my images still be someone clear and not blurry? at 800x600, it should look decent, or at least I would think so, but looking at the screenshot I posted, the notes are all stretched weird and "meh" looking.


My full screen res. is 1280x800 btw :p

[blessedmain911]

Ok. Well here's my new and improved You Failed! as a result of my new Photoshop CS3 I got today. And again myfingers could you put this in your next hotfix which im sure will be in existence soon.
here's the old:
and the new:

[myfingershurt]

At Alarian's request:

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Instructions: Just unzip the hotfix into your Alarian 2.6 main folder (where FretsOnFire.exe and the data folder reside). It will replace your fretsonfire.ini with a fresh one (back up yours if you want to refer to old settings) and various files in the Alarian\data folder.

If anyone finds problematic note patterns with the after-chord HOPOs, please confirm by performing multiple tests with the various HOPO options, and then create a blank / silent song containing just the problematic pattern and send it to me to use for debugging. Please ensure that your test song exhibits the same problem, if not you need to include more surrounding notes.

Remember, my hotfixes are cumulative - the latest fix contains all previous fixes unless otherwise noted.


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Latest hotfix:


Hotfix #15 - Screenshot -- Link - Post
***Alarian's new GH3 streak lights
***Included new "You Failed!" GH3 graphics from blessedmain911 (edges smoothed ever so slightly and file size reduced by ~30kb) His post


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History:
note: no need to download old hotfixes unless the latest causes a new problem for you.


Hotfix #14 - Link - Post
*The accuracy mod will now work in "RF-Mod HOPO" and "No HOPO" modes.
*A new setting is available underneath Stage Mode and Rotation:
**You may now adjust the timeout variable that changes how long each stage is displayed in "Random" - "Rotate" mode
*Included new "You Rock!" GH3 graphics from blessedmain911 (edges smoothed ever so slightly and file size reduced by ~30kb) His post

Hotfix #13 - Screenshot -- Link - Post
****New accuracy modes:
*****"Off" will display no feedback on your hit accuracy.
*****"Numeric" will display the game's numerical representation of your hit accuracy
*****"Friendly" will display text based on the following logic:
* "Very Early" when you are hitting close to the early edge of the hit window
* "Early" when you are hitting a bit better
* "Slightly Early" when you are hitting even better
* "-Excellent!" when you are hitting almost perfect but a little early
* "Perfect!!" when you are actually hitting with a 0 error (-1.0 to 1.0, small window)
* "+Excellent!" when you are hitting almost perfect but a little late
* "Slightly Late" when you are hitting a bit later
* "Late" when you are hitting a bit later
* "Very Late" when you are hitting close to the late edge of your hit window
*****"Both" will display the friendly text and the numerical representation below it

Hotfix #12 - Link - Post
****A new function has been written to ensure the miss volume is refreshed after unpausing
*****You may now adjust your miss volume in-game and hear the effects immediately

Hotfix #11 - Link - Post
****Under "Visual Settings," you can enable a numerical note hit accuracy display by setting "Accuracy" to "On."
*****In the game, a number will appear when you hit a note. This number represents your hit accuracy.
******An accuracy of 0 means you hit the note exactly at the right time.
******An accuracy of greater than 0 means you hit the note early.
******An accuracy of less than 0 means you hit the note late.
******The accuracy will dissappear when you miss, or pause the game.
******If you are always hitting late (negative numbers), try DECREASING your audio delay.
******If you are always hitting early (positive numbers), try INCREASING your audio delay.

Hotfix #10 - Link - Post
***Code and feature by qqstars:
****A new option has been added to "Stage Mode = Random":
*****if the following option is set to "Rotate," then all available stage backgrounds will be randomly used as the background every couple seconds while playing the game.

Hotfix #9 - Link - Post
****Code correction by qqstars - GH3 spinning star notes now display properly again.

Warning - Hotfix #8 is still known to cause Gh3 spinning star notes to display incorrectly - must use "static"
Hotfix #8 - Link - Post
****You may now pause the game when starpower / overdrive is active, and you will not lose any starpower while paused.

Warning - Hotfix #7 is known to cause Gh3 spinning star notes to display incorrectly - must use "static"
Hotfix #7 - Link - Post
***Suggested by dejastar
****In the Rock Band theme, you may now get more starpower notes while in overdrive just like in the real game.

Hotfix #6 - Link - Post
***Thanks to Inkk and Blazingamer for rough code (however, I had to do things a bit differently anyway)
****You can now have special note tails in each theme.
*****Must have tail1.png, tail2.png, bigtail1.png, bigtail2.png in theme folder -- or else the default tails (in data\) will be used.
*****Fatter GH3 theme tails are included to demonstrate (provided by Figure).

Hotfix #5 - Link - Post
****Added a forgotten condition in the new fixed GH2 Strict pull-off logic which might cause problems

Hotfix #4 - Link - Post
****Fixed GH2 Strict descending HOPO pull-offs for when the user did not already have the lower frets held down

Hotfix #3 - Link - Post:
****Added liquid's GH3 pause menu GFX with redone smoothed edges (His post)
****Added audio/video delay setting to pause settings menu, and added a new function to refresh the a/v delay after an unpause or restart.
*****You may now adjust your a/v delay in-game. The new setting will be applied as soon as you unpause, although you may prefer to restart the song after a change.
****Added starpower browsing / viewing world chart URL into help-readme.txt file

Hotfix #2 - Link - Post:
****Implemented "Party Mode" fixes by qqstars:
*****Fixed Party Mode control switching issue
*****Moved Party Mode switching notification text to center of screen

Hotfix #1 - Link - Post:
****Debugged rough untested code from Blazingamer:
*****Added option under "Visual Settings" to completely disable the GH rockmeter's starpower lights / indicators (may help slow machines, this avoids many calculations)
****Also included Worldrave's new ripped GH3 hitflames & glow GFX.


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[Chaosdragon94]

Is something similiar going to happen soon for Rock Band? I'm tired of having silver/grey notes while in star-power. I like to see my colors, and I like to recognize hammer on notes. I can't do this in star-power if star-powered notes are all silver/grey.

The RB notes you have aren't the only ones here, you know...
Check the first post here and look for the part with Rock Band notes. I recommend EdisLeado's notes (at the top of the list).

Obviously did not hear the part where I said something about... oh ya, no silver/grey notes.

[kawaii_kumiko69]

Is something similiar going to happen soon for Rock Band? I'm tired of having silver/grey notes while in star-power. I like to see my colors, and I like to recognize hammer on notes. I can't do this in star-power if star-powered notes are all silver/grey.

The RB notes you have aren't the only ones here, you know...
Check the first post here and look for the part with Rock Band notes. I recommend EdisLeado's notes (at the top of the list).

Obviously did not hear the part where I said something about... oh ya, no silver/grey notes.

ummmm........... no silver/gray notes [url=[URL=http://i31.tinypic.com/2v2ux4m.jpg]here[/url]...

[blessedmain911]

I dont see the difference. No offense, of course.

I WAS TALKING TO THE IMAGE "YOU ROCK" GUY WHEN I SAID THIS

Are you talking about my YOU ROCK! or my YOU FAILED! because my YOU FAILED! is tons better. I can see where you're coming from on the YOU ROCK! because I didn't see much of a difference between my original and the new one either. And yes I did do the original YOU ROCK and YOU FAILED for this mod (I'm not just a noob hoping to improve someone else's graphics ).

EDIT: PHEW! Man I used to work on all my graphics via Microsoft Digital Image Standard Editor. Thank you God for letting me get Photoshop CS3. I hope to have more improved graphics but I'll have to work with worldrave and alarian to see what they need.

EDIT 2: If anyone has suggestions regarding what I now call "hotGraphics" (for the mentally ill that means graphic hotfixes), just post and I'll do what I can

[gamexprt1]

Man, I really hated the previous you rock/fail signs because they are poorly made. I prefer:



Also, some cleaned up graphics:

* There were some random transparent artifacts and picture size was big for no reason.


* The dots have been rounded out and the glows have been feathered better.


* Color values have been changed and was feathered.


* Used some cloud filters to make them look grittier.


* Better transparency and also feathered the glows better.


* A cool and rough looking neck selection screen.

[nixie]

yes ill think u should add that, alarian!

[qqstars]

Hey guys~ I make something for hotfix15:
download:http://www.mediafire.com/?sbmjwt4ykyw

first, I gave the option to set where the Acc Words appears!

now you can set it to right-top; center; center-bottom; left-bottom.

right top is the origional place.
center is beyond the neck, in GH POV is below the "xx notes streak!" and in other POV is beyond the "XX notes steak".
center bottom is below the frets buttons. in the place of lyrics. So if you want to see the lyrics, just don't set to this place.
left-bottom is below the streak counter. I think it is a not bad place, we can see that thing clearly, and will not influent to the other things.



And another work:

now we get a colorful Acc words!

it is:
* "Very Early" "Very Late" : shown as red. Alert us that we need to change our rythem to fit for that.

* "Early" "Slightly Early" * "Slightly Late" "Late" : it is yellow, give us some sig to notice our rythem.

* "-Excellent!" "+Excellent!" : is green. great work, we need to keep this rythem!

* "Perfect!!" : is green+blue. it is a very nice color, the price of your wonderful work!

[yoyokid2008]

With the new hit window thing. Are we pushing FoF to being like DDR/stepmania?

[Death Legion]

I'll wait for the special song to tweak the A/V Delay, cause I can't find it myself

Even if I set it to 0, it is always "Very Late" with -78.638 or something like it...

[lsapg09]

Uh,
My DDR Broke

[holystoneH]

Hey guys~ I make something for hotfix15:

great modification i love it very good for part with a lot of strumming