MFH Mod (FoFiX) 3.0xx (v3.030) (OLD)

[Spikehead777]

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I noticed something weird happening with the killswitch animations...when you hit a long note and use killswitch, the animation should normally be partially transparent and colored according to the note. When the end of the note comes into the view, the killswitch animation turns almost completely white and opaque. You can see this in the video of the animation I uploaded a few pages back. I hope the animations aren't needlessly rendered multiple times for just one note...

Link please. I wasted much time hunting back through pages to find this video you mentioned but could not find it.

Also, the animated killswitch tails are not something I'm familiar with - that was Blazingamer. I still recommend Static killswitch tails for a reason.... there is much more calculation involved with Animated no matter what....


By the way, anyone who's thinking I didn't see a post... I see every single post. I get topic tracker emails. I mark important posts and go back later when I have a chance or feel like it to take care of them. I do not respond to every post, or else I would always be posting and never coding...... I don't answer questions that other players can answer, either. I'm busy, please don't expect direct responses.

Video:
http://www.mediafire.com/?xzyt2trnyza

I made this video to show off the difference in lag over time depending on where the view is, in relation to the end of the tail...you can notice that there is more lag closer to the start of the note than closer to the end of the note, which is a reason I think unnecessary killswitch animation calculations are taking place.

Also, I guess the video may have been on the previous thread, sorry about that... =/

Also, I seriously could care less about the lag caused by the killswitch animations, I mean, they're only there if you push the killswitch button and they only appear on held notes anyways, so it's not like the game will lag from killswitch animations during a solo. XD Unless you have severe epilepsy or something, I don't think subtle graphics changes like going from slightly transparent to almost fully white and opaque like in the video will do any harm anyways.

EDIT: Grammar fail...it should make sense now. Before, it was "you can notice that there is more lag closer to the end of the note than closer to the end of the note" >_>

[Anahkiasen]

« you can notice that there is more lag closer to the end of the note than closer to the end of the note »

What ?

[death_au]

Hello death_au, Could you tell me please. How can I make Star Notes tail is Light Blue SP Color when I use Killswitch as I am getting star power from them ?

I don't think there's an option for that... yet

[SlowDrag]

I'm working hard these days to release playable multi tracks songs from most of the WIP Videos you see in my signature. Unfortunately, I have what I consider a major problem with audio amplitude in some OGG tracks so I can't release anything until "someone" take a look at the code... or tell me which ".py" file I should loot at.

What I need to know is how the game sets the audio volume for all the tracks in a multi tracks song. Obviously, the active track (the one you're playing) is louder than the others but by how much? Please. This info would save me hours of useless work.

[BlackJack]

Not sure what I did here, but whenever I play in game, the guitar still plays over the song even if I'm not playing anything. How do I fix this?

IINM this is a known bug : if you don't press the strum button, the notes are played normally until you first begin to strum (the same behavior happens on two occasions : at the start of a song, and after you change volume options from the pause menu).
I thought MFH had planned to fix this as I seem to recall this bug had been added to the To-do list, but after a quick glance I couldn't find it anymore. So now I'm confused. :p


Another reason would be that the song you played didn't have a separate guitar track.


@MFH :
<li>If you fail to play the first starnotes of a song, then use "Restart", you no more get the starnotes from the start.
<li>Also, the accuracy indicator from the last note hit is still displayed after a restart.

<li>Concerning non-animated killswitch, they always showed white for me, so I supposed this was a normal behavior, but the video Spikehead777 just posted made me wonder : shouldn't they be colored according to the note (like it's the case for the animated killswitch)?

[Spikehead777]

@Anahkiasen: Post edited with typo fix'd.

@BlackJack: In the video I posted, the killswitch animation takes on the color of their respective notes of the chord closer to the start of the note, but when the end of the note's tail comes into view, it seems to turn completely white and fully opaque.

I think I can explain this better in pictures than words, so here's a crude diagram; the O--- Represents a note with a tail, and the |--| represents the portion of the tail in view:

O-|----|--------------------
View is close to the start of the note
More lag
Colors are correct (not white and partially transparent)

O--------------|----|-------
View is closer to the end of the note
Slightly less lag
Colors are correct (not white and partially transparent)

O-----------------------|-- |
View shows the end of the note's tail
Less lag
Colors are weird (white and opaque)

I hope those diagrams clarify what I'm trying to say, despite being "crude".

[death_au]

I've just noticed another bug that may or may not be known... if you miss notes in a star power phrase, then the notes go back to looking normal and you won't get star power from the phrase, but you can still milk the long notes for star power with killswitch.
I discovered this by accident on RB2 - Alanis Morissette - You Oughtta Know. I missed the first two notes on Medium (wasn't paying attention) but still got star power from the long notes that came next.

[XJay]

Well I'm STILL having problems with all the songs not being read correctly. So I WAS going to downgrade to 2.9 and then....


The website is down.

[worldrave]

This should probably go in the "ThemeINI Instructions.txt". I was surprised it wasn't there when I looked.

Thanks for catching that. It's now added.

Come to think of it, i decided to just add the file to the end of the 1st post of my thread to make it easy to include for future hotfixes here.

[SneakHouse]

yo !

really nice, all these new animation/grafx and option made this game to a higher level, you guys are awsome

*edit: uh? why i see my name in the credits ?
** re-edit: ah! i see now, my animated "live on stage" - (btw, thanx for creditin' me)

[kristijan_mkd]

@kristijan_mkd - This was on purpose so that you didn't have to go through quite as many screens to play and so it didn't have to load all necks every time the game started, greatly reducing load times.

...Ah ok.I thought it was my mistake ..Tnx

[Kotti]

What are the most RB-ish hopo settings? Using GH2 and hot pants tight now.

And how do you change the overdrive flashes and "neck brightness" in RB2 theme? It's hard to see notes when everything is yellow.

EDIT:
Almost forgot, does FoF star scoring still exist?

[Brillu]

Hi guys,

where can i download the full mfh-alarian mod v3.011 for mac? the v2.995 doesn't work on my macbook

thanks!

[BlackJack]

IINM there is no full version yet, but you can download patches there.

[Brillu]

thank you! but when v2.995 doesn't work is it possible that mfh-alarian mod will work with the v3. patches???