About

This is the v4.1 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It includes some new features and bug fixes not present in the previous release.

Please note that this release of Simply Love requires StepMania 5.0.12 (or a custom build from StepMania's 5_1-new branch) to function properly. Older versions of SM5 are not supported.

New Features

The primary two new features have been slavishly recreated from inspired by Rhythm Horizon.

Judgment Scatterplot for ScreenEvaluation

ScreenEvaluation now has a scatter plot of judgments received during gameplay.

• Early judgments are represented as dots "below the middle."
• Late judgments are represented as dots "above the middle."

This can offer insight into how a player performed over time. Did the player gradually hit notes earlier and earlier as the song wore on? This feature can help players answer such questions.

This scatter plot does not appear on ScreenEvaluation for CourseMode.

Step Statistics for Gameplay

Gameplay now has an option for "Step Statistics" as an alternative to the Pacemaker graphs. Enabling this will toggle a pane for single-player gameplay to show

• how many of each judgment the player has earned so far
• a notes-per-second density histogram of the current stepchart
• a "lifeline" over the density histogram representing the player's LifeMeter at that point in the stepchart

This can offer insight into how a player's LifeMeter corresponded to changing note density over the span of gameplay.

Due to this taking up half the screen, this feature is not available for 2-player/versus or double gameplay, and is not available when "Center1Player" is enabled in Preferences.ini.

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v4.0 and v4.1, check GitHub's comparison of the two.