About

This is the v4.8.1 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It's a modest update to the previous release that includes small bug fixes and a handful of nice new features.

Please note that this requires StepMania 5.0.12 or StepMania 5.1-beta2. Future releases of SM5.1 should also work fine.

Older versions of SM5 are not supported. SM5.2 is not supported.

New Features

Vertical LifeMeter

LifeMeter options now include:

• Standard
• Surround
• Vertical

Danger Flashes Now Optional and Hidden By Default

The previous "danger" behavior (flashing red while in danger, a single green flash when out of danger) was inherited from SL3.95, but many players have found it distracting and asked how to disable it. The red/green danger flashes are now optional and disabled by default. They can be re-enabled on the second Options page.

There will be still be a single red flash when the player fails regardless of this setting.

Limited Emoji Support

Simply Love now supports a limited set of Emojis. 😎👌

Perform Action When Target Score Is No Longer Possible

A new option has been added by @DinsFire64 for non-public setups that will either restart the song or auto-fail you when your target score is no long achievable. This setting is only available in EventMode.

For more details, check out #128.

Scrolling Notes-per-Second Density Graphs for Long Songs

For longer, stamina driven songs (where the nps density graph can be especially helpful), there was previously too much information squished into too little a horizontal space. For very, very long songs (30+ minutes), the density graph was basically useless.

With this release, if the song is 4 minutes or longer, the graph scrolls to show you 1 minute of what you've already done and what's coming up in the next 3 minutes. If the song is shorter than 4 minutes, the graph's behavior is unchanged.

For more details, see: 8206e3c

Bug Fixes

Ensure that TimingWindowAdd=0.0015 for ECFA mode

See a6c494a and b593b23 for more information.

Allow ScreenShots on Evaluation Summary Again

SLv4.8 broke the ability to save screenshots on Evaluation Summary. It's working again. See f537c2f for more information.

Reinstate TargetScoreGraph

SLv4.8 made the TargetScoreGraph inaccessible. It's back now. See fb659cf for more information.

Correctly Get and Display BPM Range for Autogenerated Courses

See 14e4602 for more information.

Improve ChartParser's Chart-Finding Routine

See 6b96f7b for more information.

Remove Problematic Attacks from Attack Menu in Edit Mode

Certain attacks that caused StepMania to crash have been removed. See d05b101 for more information.

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v4.8 and v4.8.1, check GitHub's comparison of the two.