Hoshikara/Nightfall 1.5.0

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1.5.0 - January 9, 2024

• Moderate design update which includes changes of varying degree to animations, fonts, UI elements, screen layouts, and more
• Added JPG image support
• Added a skin settings to disable the tinting and adjust the dim of the common background image
• Modified layout logic to support more aspect ratios; elements will no longer be cut off but instead be scaled to fit within the horizontal/vertical edges
• Standardized knob behavior to be left knob for horizontal navigation and right knob for vertical navigation
• Main Menu changes:
  • Added VOLFORCE TARGET page which calculates and displays a list of scores required for a given target volforce value
  • Removed PLAYER INFO page
• Song Select changes:
  • Added a Top 50 display that can be opened with BT-A
  • Added a folder stats display that appears during folder/level selection; this can be disabled in skin settings
  • Added effect radar display for known converts
  • Added support for defining custom chart effect radar, see radar.lua for more information
  • Added a slide-out window to display local and online scores (if applicable), revealed with BT-D
  • Removed density graph display
• Gameplay changes:
  • Added a player card component which displays:
    • Avatar (image file is /textures/gameplay/avatar.png)
    • Player name
    • Volforce value
    • Dan level (user configurable)
  • Added new textures for buttons and fx buttons; including holds
  • Added new laser textures; they are now configurable via the USC laser color setting
  • Added a new track texture which matches the configured laser colors
  • Removed the chain burst animation due to large memory consumption
  • Added an EX SCORE percentage display
  • Holding down START now shows the lane-speed range of the current chart (if applicable)
• Gameplay Settings changes:
  • Renamed from In-game Preview
  • Added a setting to change the position of the hit delta bar
  • Added a setting to change the position and opacity of the chain display
  • Added settings to change the scale of all elements
  • Added settings to change the hue of hit/hold/laser animations
  • Added various player card settings
  • Added settings to change the fill and percentage displys for the gauge bar
• Results changes:
  • Added a score and object "replay" feature in place of the previous hover-to-zoom hit stat graph--the lengths of hold and laser objects may be inaccurate due to skinning limitations
  • Added a skin setting to disable the color coding of rating texts
  • Added absolute mean delta and standard deviation information
  • Added an EX SCORE percentage display
  • Added support for IR leaderboards which can be toggled with BT-D