About

This is the v5.2.0 release of Simply Love for StepMania 5. It's mostly geared around supporting the upcoming ITL Online 2023 tournament. It includes a couple new features as well. It is the second release compatible with ITGmania but it does require version 0.6.0 of ITGmania for run.

Supported Versions of StepMania

Simply Love v5.1.2 is compatible with current releases from the official StepMania/ITGmania project.

Compatible Releases
✅ StepMania 5.0.12
✅ StepMania 5.1-b2
✅ StepMania 5.3-a4.13.0 (OutFox) (preliminary support)
✅ ITGmania 0.6.0 - Make sure you download the ITGmania specific version below.

If you are able to compile StepMania's source code yourself, the 5_1-new branch is supported. The wiki has instructions for compiling.

If you are able to compile ITGMania's source code yourself, you can check out the instructions for compiling.

Incompatible
❌ Forks of SM5 (e.g. starworlds)
❌ Older versions of StepMania (e.g. StepMania 3.9)
❌ Forks of older versions of StepMania (e.g. OpenITG, NotITG)
❌ SM5.2

If you have trouble installing or running StepMania, particularly on macOS, this Troubleshooting Readme may help.

Installing Simply Love

If you are upgrading from a previous version of Simply Love, fully delete the old Simply Love folder first.

Do not merge the new folder into the old.

Full install instructions are in the Installing Simply Love README. It's worth looking at!

Changes

Combo Lamps

The most noticeable changes will be the inclusion of combo lamps! This was a pretty highly requested feature and it has now been included! Thanks to @bwaggone for the work on this!

Modified Timing Statistics on Screen Evaluation

This release sees the inclusion of Mean, Std. Dev., and Max Error. We also remove Median and Mode ini favor of those. Mean Timing Error has been renamed to Mean Absolute Error. This is done to indicate that it's the mean of the absolute values of the timing error and to help distinguish it from the true Mean.

Error Bar Trim Option

This is a quality of life improvement by @Valentina16 to the colorful and multi-tick error bar options to truncate them only be as large as the Excellent window. The great window is often too wide which often made the ticks harder to discern.

CD Titles

Also a pretty common request was to reintroduce CD Titles. They can be found near the banner if one exists for a song.

Bug Fixes/Other

Many of the changes in this release were taken and modified from @SugoiFactory & @zarzob's fork of SL. Thanks for their work on this project Those are the following:

• Added a 0ms line on the scatter plot
• Trackng fail time on the scatter plot on ScreenEvaluation
• Reintroduction of CD Titles (which was sourced from @Hayoreo 's Digital Dance)
• Added Song/Course Length to ScreenEvaluation
• Added stream breakdown to ScreenEvaluation
• Added a reamining time duration for column cues that last longer than 5 seconds

Additional Changes are the following:

• Fixed framerate issues on non-SRPG6 visual theme due to the heavy use of videos for that specific theme
• Add the ability to toggle between tech counts and density graph in versus mode by double tapping the select button (by @CrashCringle)
• Update the Miso font for better clarity + include new glyphs (by @JustMoneko + @JapanYoshi)

Contributors

Refer the to the patch notes above for the individual contributions in this release.

Thanks to all who contributed to this release!

Change Summary

For a full summary of changes between v5.2.0 and v5.1.2, check GitHub's comparison of the two.

A full summary of the ITGmania specific changes can be found here