About

This is the v4.6 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It includes new features and bug fixes.

Please note that this release of Simply Love requires StepMania 5.0.12 or StepMania 5.1-beta1 to function properly. Older versions of SM5 are not supported. SM5.2 is not supported.

New Features

Manage CustomSongs Preferences via Operator Menu

Loading custom songs from player profiles (i.e., from USB) is a new feature of SM5.1 beta 1.

If you are using SM5.1, a subscreen in the operator menu for managing related settings will be available. This will not appear if you are still using SM5.0.12.

Please note that you will need to configure your operating system for StepMania to read profiles from USB. Configuration guides are available for Linux and Windows, but this is quite outside the scope of Simply Love.

Performance Improvements

StepStatistics

Issue #89 pointed out that the StepStatistics feature could result in a drop in framerate on very long songs. While one "solution" to this problem was to use a PC with a dedicated (not onboard) graphics card, even that would eventually degrade on very, very long songs (like 24 Hours of 100bpm Stream).

Thus, @andrewipark went above and beyond to improve the performance of the StepStatistics feature. Those interested can dig into the details in the discussion for pull request #93.

Bug Fixes

Fix Scatter Plot Alignment

Issue #77 demonstrated that ScreenEvaluation's scatter plot seemed to be misaligned (and that this is more obvious on very short songs). The specific cause is still somewhat unclear, but @andrewipark seems to have resolved the problem well enough via pull request #94.

Fix Alignment of MenuButtons Font

@andrewipark fixed the alignment of the START (green) menubutton in pull request #92.

Misc. Cleanup

As usual, files have been cleaned up and more comments have been added.

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v4.5 and v4.6, check GitHub's comparison of the two.