0.6.1

HOTFIX RELEASE

Changes:
Fixed -out flag not working in recording mode

0.6.0

WARNING: settings from this version are not compatible with 0.5.2 downwards. Please make a backup if you plan to rollback.

Recording:

• Recording performance improvements:
  • Updated BASS library that fixes excessive buffering
  • Faster rendering with selected Recording.PixelFormats:
    • yuv420p
    • yuv422p
    • yuv444p
    • nv12
    • nv21
• Audio is recorded during rendering (not after it like in 0.5.x), resulting in slightly faster combine process.
• Intermediate files are now stored in videoName_temp directory to not clutter main directory, it's removed automatically when rendering finishes
• Fixed rendering crashing at the end if beatmap has no music
• Added Recording.EncodingFPSCap (0 for unlimited) - limits encoding speed if you don't want your danser to hog up too much resources

Example speed comparison on i7 8700K and GTX1080:

UI:

• Changed PP counter and UR font to Quicksand Bold
• PP counter can now be colored
• Added HideOverlayOnBreaks to knockout options
• Fix leaderboard glitching if multiple players are being knocked out at the same time
• Added an option to show PC's timezone instead of UTC in play results
• Added hit counter
• Force disable bloom in results screen

Beatmaps:

• Fixed speed not being changeable when beatmap has no music
• Slider fixes to Solace Of Oblivion maps
• Slider fixes to old maps
• Fix hit circle overlay not showing up on idke skins

Cursors:

• Hide smoke and ripples when cursor is hidden
• Fixes to cursor position at the start

Colors:

• Fixed object/cursor rainbow not matching in recording mode or when skip/start is used

Replays/Performance:

• Updated pp system to late July changes
• Fixed TouchDevice being nerfed two times
• App is now crashing when replay has no input data in -replay
• Added timewarp warning during replay load
• Added ScoreV2 support

Background:

• Fixed videos not being loaded if LoadStoryboards is false but LoadVideos is true
• Fixed some videos (like Streaming Heart) being distorted
• Changed default triangle colors to shades of gray instead of random

Cursordance:

• Added dancing pippi mover
• Fixed danser's play date being 0001-01-01
• Fixed ExGon mover not clicking circles
• Added combo based TAG
• Individual mover options per tag cursor, for example first cursor can use different Momentum settings than the second one:
  

Settings:

• UTF-16 settings files are readable now
• Settings are now stored in settings directory to not clutter the main directory (WARNING: they will be auto-migrated on first 0.6.0 start, be aware of that)
• Dropped settings- prefix from custom settings, default settings are now stored at {danser home}/settings/default.json
• Settings can now be nested: -settings=a/b/c will result in settings located in {danser home}/settings/a/b/c.json

And probably something I forgot about.

0.5.2

Flags:

• Fixed -quickstart on maps that start around 0s causing background dim/blur and coin to stay at In level

Play/Replay:

• Added possibility to turn off cursor smoke
• Cursor is now visible above HUD
• Fixed replays on maps starting at 0s being cut before that point
• Increased the thickness of average/UR box border to avoid artifacts if resolution is smaller than 1080p
• Fixed health bar not being hidden during breaks
• Fixed avatars not being scaled properly with Gameplay.ScoreBoard.Scale

Knockout:

• Fixed top knockout players not being visible if number of players is bigger than 50

Scoring:

• Improved accuracy of relax replays

Beatmaps:

• Fixed beatmaps that don't exist anymore not being removed from the database
• Fixed stopping danser during beatmap migration causing database to become corrupted

Graphics:

• Improved quality of fonts
• Added experimental Graphics.Experimental.UsePersistentBuffers - it may rise fps a bit in some cases, uses more VRAM
• Reduced the number of OpenGL calls a bit
• Force dedicated GPU (AMD and NVIDIA) on Windows
• Fixed rendering on Intel's iGPUs

General improvements:

• Added support for UTF-16 .osu and skin.ini files
• Added basic system info to danser.log to make issue reporting a bit easier

+ probably some things I forgot about.

0.5.1

Please take a look at wiki and README to learn how to use new features/flags

Flags:

• Added -ss flag (screenshot mode)
• Added map difficulty modifiers (-ar, -od, -cs, -hp)
• Added -id flag to search for beatmaps by their IDs
• Added -nodbcheck flag, skips database integrity check
• Added -quickstart flag
• -speed flag now affects PP in play mode

Play/Replay:

• Added Mouse Raw Input support
• Possibility to set username in play mode (via Gameplay.PlayUsername)
• Decimals setting for UR and PP
• Added quick restart option
• Added cursor smoke support

Storyboards/Backgrounds:

• Added Speed option for Triangles
• Fixed some storyboard loop transforms being processed too early

Skinning:

• Added support for Beatmap colors
• Fixed spinners incrementing combo color

Scoring:

• Fixed old replays crashing the app
• Improved accuracy of replays
• Updated PP system to consider 2019 slider changes (should be now on par with osu! website as of 2021-05)
• Improved speed of step SR calculations
• Fixed TD replays having wrong amount of PP

Beatmaps:

• Fixed missing slider bodies on old maps

Recording:

• Add faststart moov flag automatically to mp4 container
• Improved quality of audio
• Added support for audio filters

+ probably some things I forgot about.

0.5.0

NOTE: danser 0.5.0 has higher OpenGL requirements so this version may not work for you.

Please take a look at wiki and README to learn how to use new features/flags

Biggest new features:

• Added record feature with resampling support (needs ffmpeg installed separately)
• Mod support for play/replay modes
• Some settings are updateable even when danser is running in non-recording mode

Flags:

• Added -record and -out flags
• Added -replay and -r flags
• Added -mods flag
• Added -end flag
• Renamed -scrub to -start
• Added -skin flag

Cursor dance:

• Mod support
• Improved 2B handling
• Reworked Momentum mover
• Fixed snapping to spinner centre on its beginning and end

Play/Replay:

• Changeable position/size/opacity of pp counter
• Changeable scale and opacity of hp bar
• Numerous layout/animation fixes
• Added ranking screen
• Added leaderboards
• Improved skip logic
• Added warning arrows
• Added pass/fail sections
• Option to enable grade showing all the time (false by default)

Storyboards/Backgrounds:

• Added background video playback (needs ffmpeg installed separately)
• Fixed storyboards displayed incorrectly before song's start
• Added Scale/Density options for Triangles
• Fixed Triangles blinking sometimes

Skinning:

• Added skin cursor support

Scoring:

• Autopilot support for replays
• Fixed some replays being off-set
• Improved accuracy of HR/EZ replays
• Updated PP system to 2021.01 changes

Knockout:

• knockout-button and knockout-button-active are skinnable
• Option to turn off player live sort
• Option to sort players by PP
• New SS or Quit mode

Beatmaps:

• Fixed old beatmaps having wrong AR
• Ported old stacking algorithm for old maps
• Fixed Beatmaps with : in their names not being cached correctly

General improvements/fixes:

• Fixed MSAA not being applied when Bloom is on
• Reduced memory usage
• Fixed Storyboards/skins having missing textures on Linux due to incorrect casing
• Fixed timing being 15ms off on Windows
• Fixed choppy animations if danser starts in DSound instead of WASAPI shared mode
• Fixed spontaneous concurrent map read/write crashes

+ probably some things I forgot about.

0.4.1b

Additions:

• Momentum mover (c4da499)
• Add triangles to background
• Relax mod support for replays
• InnerAlpha and OuterAlpha options for slider bodies
• ShiftX and ShiftY options for playfield

Fixes:

• Cursor being detached from it's trail on low FPS
• Some breaks not loading properly
• -scrub before drain time causing background to be normal dimmed during the intro
• Some DT replays not being played back correctly on very fast sliders
• Slider on Time Traveler having wrong length
• Discord status being occasionally stuck needing Discord restart to remove it
• Hit Circles disappearing too fast when scored too late
• Spinner sprites not aligning with playfield scale and shifts
• Replays not being filtered out when they have excluded mods or beatmap checksum doesn't not match
• PP going up as normal when number of misses on hitcircles outweigh positive judgements
• Mouse keys in input overlay having wrong colors
• Clipping being incorrect on non-widescreen storyboards
• Storyboard update frequency not being accommodated to draw fps
• Cookie beat being choppy when BeatUseTimingPoints was true

Changes:

• Beat detection is now more responsive to kicks
• Danser is now displayed as auto
• Auto mod is now displayed as AT, not AU
• Spinner alpha is now not being changed in mandala mod
• Grades are now slightly bigger in knockout overlay

0.4.0b

SETTINGS FILES IN 0.3.0b ARE NOT COMPATIBLE WITH 0.4.0b

Additions:

• Skin system support
• Full visual support for spinners (old and new style)
• New Spline mover
• Slider body/ more border options
• Combo color support
• Test play mode
• Knockout mode
• -skip flag
• Spinner movers
• Cursor dance "Battle" mode
• Ability to set different movers to each tag cursor
• TimingPoint based scales/flashes
• Slider distortions
• New cursor trail styles
• Partial beatmap searches
• Discord RPC support
• Linux/MacOS BASS settings
• Danser now automatically unpacks .osz files in Songs folder when starting the app (osu! may complain about it, ignore it)
• Bugs

Changes:

• Movers are now being set in settings
• "Spline" mover is now the default one when running for the first time
• Removed UnblurToTheBeat
• Updated BASS library to 2.4.15.26
• Assets are now in the form of one binary file to prevent users from changing it and breaking the app
• -cursors=1 is now default

Fixes:

• First run causing the app to start in FullHD
• Failing to find a beatmap causes settings.json to not being created
• Non-merged sliders causing other objects to be dimmed
• Some storyboards not being displayed correctly
• Some beatmap directories causing danser to crash
• Linux/MacOS builds needing global BASS installation
• MacOS builds crashing at Framebuffer creation

Improvements:

• Better support of gimmick maps (like XNOR)
• Drastically improved slider performance (non-merged ones specifically)
• Drastically improved memory usage of sliders
• Drastically improved storyboard performance
• Drastically improved database import times
• Massively reduced executable size
• Reduced danser.db size
• danser command doesn't have to be called from it's directory
• Static blurred backgrounds are not tanking fps anymore (unless storyboard is running)

Probably forgot about something, may update the list later.

NOTE: you may have to allow running unverified programs in MacOS

0.3.0b

Additions:

• Added combo numbers
• Added slider follower
• Added slider reverse arrows
• Added new "Aggressive" mover
• Added slider dancing when 2B is detected
• Added disableable epilepsy warning
• Added fps limiter
• Added option to make snake-in longer
• Added aliases to artist, creator, difficulty and title properties
• Added bugs

Fixes:

• Fixed loading of some storyboards
• Fixed fade problems on some storyboards
• Fixed hitsounds sometimes incorrectly played
• Fixed hitsounds messing up on ultrafast beatmaps (like The Empress)
• Fixed storyboard beeing scaled along with Playfield.Scale
• Fixed no additive blending between cursors
• Fixed obs crashing on recording non-storyboarded maps
• Fixed snake-out beeing too "slow"
• Fixed static gifs not loading
• Fixed non-widescreen storyboards rendering incorrectly

Changes:

• Standardized HitObject fading
• Additive blending does not occur between cursor and hitobject
• Changed font to Roboto Bold

0.2.1b

Changes:

• Fixed storyboard loading for some maps
• Adjust the slider path according to pixelLength (ppy/osu#2467)
• Approach circles are drawn on top of everything
• Fixed the bug that made some sliders invisible
• Added options to disable slider merging (experimental, slow) and snaking
• Fixed letter "N" in icons

0.2.0b

Changes:

• Storyboard support (but TRIGGER command is still missing)
• Batched rendering
• New style for Flower Mover (enabled by default)
• Dynamic slider loading (less VRAM usage)
• Added music pitch
• Fixed shaders not compiling on newer NVIDIA drivers
• Beatmap compatibility fixes
• Removed fps logging to terminal, added fps and debug overlays
• Added application icon