LineTapper

[ancient spruce]

I'm all good

[verbal bramble]

@novel gust にゃ

[novel gust]

どうして

[ancient spruce]

Meow

[untold maple]

meow

[shadow coral]

meep

[ancient spruce]

wawa

[tawdry meadow]

awawa

[fringe flare]

A

[shadow coral]

e

[fringe flare]

c

[cinder olive]

o

[tawdry inlet]

https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/820209451817500684/1135285767325888583/E59321BC-A727-4EC4-9204-4DD36F4ABEEF.gif

[novel gust]

Real

That was me like 5 mins ago

[ancient spruce]

🛞 d

[clear scaffold]

Hello, Haxors!

[quaint ferry]

bro line tapper looks way better than this

[clear scaffold]

@ancient spruce BTW, if this is called "LineTapper", then does it have WaveTapper by Frums?

[quaint ferry]

Bruh, i had to scroll so far for a decent demo

why make us time travel like that

[clear scaffold]

Why do something that doesn't exist yet

[quaint ferry]

we gotta do what we gotta do

[clear scaffold]

So we gotta do what we gotta do what we gotta do what we gotta do what we gotta do what we gotta do what we gotta do

[quaint ferry]

yes

[clear scaffold]

BTW can you ask CoreCat if there's Wavetapper by Frums in this game? || (The game itself is called "LineTapper"! I want it to be a pun!) ||

[quaint ferry]

Hey @ancient spruce, is there wavetapper by Frums in this game?

[clear scaffold]

Bruh, I think he's asleep 💀

Let's just leave him alone for right now

[ancient spruce]

Hi y'all :]

[cinder olive]

ello

[ancient spruce]

For now there's still no maps have been made for wavetapper

[ancient spruce]

Hi toffee

[cinder olive]

hello corecat

[ancient spruce]

Also LineTapper's name is (kinda) inspired by wavetapper :')

[quaint ferry]

cool, I have no idea what wavetapper is

[ancient spruce]

https://youtu.be/-lRPEny5jug?si=rnM_syYe9oIoyH-9

[clear scaffold]

If you’re done, post a video of the WaveTapper map

[clear scaffold]

It's been a good week and two days

And no more activity

[ancient spruce]

Sorry, I got really busy with school and can't really post updates on the game frequently

[novel gust]

Is this canned or smth

[verbal bramble]

give it 12 months

[ancient spruce]

Nope, i'm still working on it but like REALLY slow :']

Rn focusing on the editor

[ancient spruce]

https://streamable.com/lwdqib
Wavetapper in LineTapper 😹

[showcase]
Hold tiles should work properly by now (and won't randomly make the player miss), video backgrounds are now supported, lyrics are also added back! This time, the lyrics won't be desynced from the audio's time 😺
https://streamable.com/nr43po

Poor performance on the recording because my pc is just trash :']

[cedar osprey]

Wow, that's sick 💥

[shadow coral]

noice

[novel gust]

Oh my

Video bgs

Wait

Do they desync often

Cause my video bgs really desync and there's a lag spike when setting video time so it's always desynced

[ancient spruce]

I haven't got any issues with video desyncs

Though, i haven't added video desync prevention on the game

[stray hill]

awesome!!!

if i may give 2 suggestions:

• experiment with ways to add "directionality" (idk it could be hard to "feel" your position)
• change the bottom bar to make hits remain for a good second or two

[ancient spruce]

Ahh, thank you! I'll add those to my list :]

For the directionality, i'm still think about how can i do it, at first i was going to make stuff like overlapping tiles have a slight size change based on which tile is the nearest to player's time and the farthest, but it's still a concept

I'll try to make a visual example for it

[ancient spruce]

( this explanation is bad so I'm sorry if it's hard to understand:']] )

[ancient spruce]

Wait i think this is for readablility and not directionality :/

Ahhh i'm burning

https://tenor.com/view/cat-on-fire-sitting-edited-on-fire-fire-gif-17645117

[verbal bramble]

i would've planned to add a semitransparent line that traces the path so you kinda like on rails
and/or position the direction arrows outside of the tile, maybe someone has issues reading them

[ancient spruce]

like this?

holy memory leak

[orchid dome]

Sys.exit(-404);

[ancient spruce]

😔

[orchid dome]

memory leaks are bad

[ancient spruce]

Yeah

That happened while i was testing stuff

Funny thing is the memory counter displays correct value and not the wrong one

(context: hl)

[ancient spruce]

It shows 1gb on the counter, also on the task manager

[shadow coral]

How the fuck?

[ancient spruce]

Idk lol

[wet hawk]

is it possble to get the exact amount of ram displayed on task manager?

on windows target

[ancient spruce]

I think you could with c++ function calls

[verbal bramble]

task manager lies too
using cpp externs will display the correct usage

source: some stackoverflow forum while I was looking for a way to get ram usage

[tawdry inlet]

Only with externs

https://github.com/Vortex2Oblivion/LeatherEngine/tree/main/source/external/memory you can steal

[ancient spruce]

https://github.com/corecathx/LineTapper/actions/
I forgot to say that for those who wanted to test the game without having to compile the source code, there's available builds on LT's github actions now

(i learned how to make workflows yay)

[thin scroll]

looking at linetapper's playstate and conductor and getting intimidated

[ancient spruce]

:')

[shadow coral]

Teach me

[delicate fox]

Color changed!

boop @ancient spruce

[ancient spruce]

Whuh

[ancient spruce]

That was like 6 days ago and now i completely forgot everything i'mma be real

[shadow coral]

oh

well i just yoinked your scripted and modified it a bit and so far so good

The only issue is libraries and it keeps giving me an error when I try to commit the workflow changes in VSCode

[ancient spruce]

I have a init script in resource/ folder iirc

[ancient spruce]

A script that's used for the workflow

It just reads the lib.json file and doing some haxelib install stuff

[shadow coral]

doesnt work 😦

[shadow coral]

lib.json?

oh

[ancient spruce]

In the project root

[shadow coral]

o

if I change Lib to hmm would that still work?

they basically have the same format

nvm

didnt work

yeah no

not working

at all

[ancient spruce]

Ehh

[agile magnet]

I'd recommend just watching a tutorial on workflows

instead of taking from someone else

[shadow coral]

ok

[ancient spruce]

Hey y'all, I'm not really sure about this but what if the LT's editor uses HaxeUI as it's UI Framework?

I kinda gave up on making UI Elements from scratch

[cinder olive]

awh

any particular reason? it was looking pretty cool

[ancient spruce]

Because it's hell to code (atleast for me)

I haven't done stuff like dropdowns, options etc

The editor right now only have these on the panel

The reason that I was considering to change to HaxeUI is that i think it would speed up the development process

[ancient spruce]

Because I'm stuck with UI stuff

[cinder olive]

aw I see

[ancient spruce]

https://streamable.com/zhugeo
Stuff

[ancient spruce]

Okay so I decided to continue LT's UI Kit rather stop and use another ui framework, and I think it's finished now

Rahhh

I reused my UI kit from my discontinued project, so some people might seen that UI before

"why are you reusing uis" because i dont want it to be wasted 💔

So uh yeah time to implement those on the editor

[cinder olive]

YEAHHH these look so yummy 💞

[ancient spruce]

Thank youu

I feel like i havent made other ui elements which i forgot

I have done buttons, sliders, drop downs

etc

But i feel like i'm missing something hld on

OHH these things

Steppers

Arghh

One more i guess

[cinder olive]

oh these should be easy

-# hopefully

[ancient spruce]

It should be...

Though it's just text box + buttons

Sooo i guess it should be

[cinder olive]

yeaa

[ancient spruce]

Hooray

[cinder olive]

niceee

[ancient spruce]

Hmmm what else....

[ancient spruce]

Thankss

I think i'll use these elements for now until i can find any new elements i could add

[cinder olive]

neatt these looks pretty good

[ancient spruce]

Yayy

https://tenor.com/view/fadding-cat-dance-gif-15524768750287997468

[shadow coral]

Hola

[shadow coral]

Im going to help with this again

[shadow coral]

If I can find something to work on

[shadow coral]

@ancient spruce https://github.com/corecathx/LineTapper/pull/19

Not done with it yet

I wanna add some more to it

[shadow coral]

You can merge it now

[ancient spruce]

I already have a song selection design concept that'll be used in-game but right now i'll use yours until i'm done finalizing it

Also added a lot of comments to the code because I just realized there's almost no comments in most of the game's code :']

[shadow coral]

https://tenor.com/view/1u-industrial-industrial-workers-of-the-world-injury-iww-gif-17596638

[shadow coral]

https://tenor.com/view/twd-meme-turning-black-rick-to-morgan-white-to-black-gif-1235489122588202612

[ancient spruce]

Haarghhg

I'm just so bad at making documentations (idk english)

[shadow coral]

POV: CoreCat finishes the right song select

[ancient spruce]

Lol

[shadow coral]

I mean hey, getting the base point across works

[ancient spruce]

Right

[cinder olive]

Left

[cinder olive]

I was bored and did this

[ancient spruce]

Ooh

[ancient spruce]

Do you want me to add that?

[cinder olive]

Sure, feel free to

[ancient spruce]

Alrighty

I'll leave a credit for you

I don't know what the hell just happened

[cinder olive]

Oops

Damnnn the font doesn't have ` ~ thingies

[ancient spruce]

Ah uh

I didn't know that :'/

[cinder olive]

Me neither

Ummm I guess I could not use them but it'd look wrong

[ancient spruce]

I will try to find alternative font to be used by it

I really don't know if it's an issue with the font or flixel text rendering so

I will run a few tests

[cinder olive]

Alright

[cinder olive]

And I forgot to translate fullscreen and language ;w;

[ancient spruce]

It's a new thing I added, don't worry bout it xD

[cinder olive]

Ohh alrighty 'w'

[ancient spruce]

Huh, but in here it supports it

[cinder olive]

Try à ã â é ê í ó õ ú ç

[ancient spruce]

Actually lemme use Text object and not input boxes

[cinder olive]

Guhhh

[ancient spruce]

Oh

It supports it i guess?

Wait is it the large font one

[cinder olive]

Yeah

[ancient spruce]

Ahh, looks like it :'/

😿

I think

[cinder olive]

Aw dang

[ancient spruce]

I will find a new font for it

Replacing the old extenro one

Dwdw

[cinder olive]

Alrighty

[ancient spruce]

Rahhh i can't find good fonts that are (almost) similar to Extenro

Does anyone have a suggestion for this? :']

I actually found this font, it's called xirod

What do you think?

[ancient spruce]

big white box

[leaden raft]

wooooooooo

[ancient spruce]

⬜

[cinder olive]

oops my bad for the late reply x3
It looks pretty neato!!

[shadow coral]

This makes me feel very happy

[cinder olive]

[shadow coral]

@ancient spruce We should discuss LineTapper things here

[ancient spruce]

Sure

I do have something that i've been wanting to discuss and that is about the LineTapper editor

Mainly wanted to know about what to add to it and stuff

[shadow coral]

UI skins?

For gameplay.

Maybe there can be specific UI skins for different songs

an FNF skin for FNF songs like Nusky

Osu skin for Osu songs

etc etc

[shadow coral]

btw do you know about the issue of songs having a note right at the beginning where you can't press it in time and just can't play the song?

[ancient spruce]

Yes I'm aware of that

[shadow coral]

k

[ancient spruce]

There was supposed to be a countdown before the music plays but I ended up never adding it

[shadow coral]

I see

[ancient spruce]

[shadow coral]

?

[ancient spruce]

I was cloning it

guh

haven't setup my laptop for flixel stuff because i've reinstalled arch :']

[shadow coral]

My brain despises the theme

[shadow coral]

Remember how you said you needed to learn git?

[ancient spruce]

I'm forced to use this theme to minimize light on my room

[shadow coral]

oh

[ancient spruce]

Yeah

[shadow coral]

An Idea I have is setting up a private repo for LineTapper development

And then pushing it to the main repo when the production is finished

[ancient spruce]

Ah

Yeah but, ehhh

[shadow coral]

Understandable

it was just an idea

[ancient spruce]

Idk how to say this but LT's repo would remain public because idk, just wanted it to be like that

[ancient spruce]

I see

I think i would keep LT's repo public so that others could see the game's progress

And maybe contributing

[shadow coral]

Understandable, understandable.

[leaden raft]

sometimes keeping things public is a decent motivator

[shadow coral]

I remember a devlog series that mentioned something similar.

That the devlogs was a good motivator for the project

[cinder olive]

yee

[ancient spruce]

Testing on Linux

Without lerping // With lerping

Sorry that the video is really short, have to avoid it being limited by discord

[quaint ferry]

2nd video looks a bit laggy

also, you got 50mb uploads here

[shadow coral]

I see no difference.

[ancient spruce]

Oh? that's nice, well then it's muscle memory

[ancient spruce]

Look at the player sprite when it's making a turn

[quaint ferry]

i think first one is smoother

[ancient spruce]

Basically the first one locks the camera position at the player, while the second one kinda delays it's position a bit

[quaint ferry]

yeah it looks odd

[shadow coral]

I say without lerping

It's just weird trying to keep my eyes on the player when it's moving ahead

If anything I'd prefer if the camera was ahead so I can see notes ahead of me

[cinder olive]

yayyy

[shadow coral]

I have all notifications on for this thread and I thought the notification for this was one of my friends 😅

Jeez

[cinder olive]

lol

[ancient spruce]

Aight, without lerping thenn

[ancient spruce]

I don't know how to differentiate speed tiles (or mainly event tiles) with sprites, i got one concept that looks like this but it looks out of place :']

[quaint ferry]

wind?

cloud with lines

[ancient spruce]

Something like this?

[quaint ferry]

yeah

seems a bit big, can you zoom out to how it would look in game

[cedar osprey]

Or it can be a thunder (maybe)

[stuck stirrup]

Pretty cool game

[real wadi]

Kickass game u got homeslice

[ancient spruce]

Thank you!!

[orchid dome]

is this still active

[molten quail]

Thiis is genuinely so cool