First of all, thanks to everyone who reads these posts! I took a moment to ask on twitter as to how often people would like me to digest development changes, as I mentioned it takes quite a bit of time and effort to prepare daily posts.

The results are quite spread over the first three options, but “per release” sits best with me (and is also the most popular) so I’m going to go with that. I’ll still keep the post titles as the current date because I don’t want to tie my posts 100% to releases for now.

osu!taiko visual improvements

smoogipooo has taken a step back from osu!mania to update the visuals of taiko. You can now enjoy more epic kiai time, better feeling hit explosions and overall a smoother visual experience.

osu! logo beat sync

Finally, the osu! logo bounces in time with the music - even at the beatmap loading screen! osu!lazer has honestly felt hollow without this implemented until now. Note that we also have screen-edge flashes (thanks to ColdVolcano with huge code review from smoogi and I) at the main menu too.

Now that we have the framework in place for synchronising arbitrary UI elements to the beatmap, you can be sure to see more of this playfulness happening all over the UI. With moderation, of course.

User panels

We now have a full user panel implementation thanks to DrabWeb (see #825). While you can’t see it changing state in the game currently, you can see your own user panel by clicking the user login area top-right.

Spinner colours improved

As per my previous blog post, we needed some framework changes to allow for more vivid spinner colours. The changes were made by paparony03 and as a result I was able to bring the spinners closer in-line with their design!

New release available

2017.524.0 is now available from github releases (or via auto-update if you already have lazer installed)!

We had some crazy levels of contribution over the weekend, so I spent basically all of today reviewing other people’s code. My brain hurts, but there’s some good progress going on. Here’s a preview of some of the stuff being worked on (but not ready for a release yet):

osu!direct in #805

Menu flashing (and the framework for more beat-synced UI elements) in #812

User and multiplayer panels in #825 and #824

Other (actually completed) stuff

• Add basic framework required to implement mania note input #826 (smoogipooo)
• Mania pattern changes #822 (smoogipooo)
• Move spinner colours to local definition for now #821 (peppy)
• Allow for solutions where the osu repository isn’t at the solution level #818 (Jorolf)
• Update spinner colours #817 (peppy)
• Abstract out SectionsContainer from Settings #815 (huoyaoyuan)
• Various song select fixes #814 (MrTheMake)
• Do not pause a running replay if the window is not focused #813 (MrTheMake)
• Make PlaylistItem use Paragraphs #808 (DrabWeb)
• Mod buttons now have tooltips #807 (DrabWeb)
• Mania hitobject object conversion is mostly complete #800 (smoogipooo)

New release available

2017.523.0 is now available from github releases (or via auto-update if you already have lazer installed)!

Updated skip button design

The skip button was sitting in a weird place on the screen, so we decided to throw it away and start fresh. The new one features a countdown bar and a much larger hit area. It also gets out of your way when you’re busy watching amazing storyboards.

Note that the sound effect is missing in this video for whatever reason. Go download lazer if you wanna try it yourself :).

Other things

• Visual fixes for OSD when displaying audio device names #803.
• Add setting checkbox to toggle debug logs #802.
• Basic mania beatmap conversion framework #788.
• Fix audio beginning to play when potentially paused due to window becoming unfocused #799.
• Fix audio seeking unnecessarily when entering play mode in certain cases #797.
• Add support for searching beatmap author at song select #796.
• Fixes for auto mod not hitting stacks of notes correctly on certain maps #787.
• Fix incorrect handling of scheduled task cancelling when many cancels are issued in a short span #731.
• Fix control key not working for some textbox shortcuts where it should #728.
• Fix mouse cursor visually sticking to the edge of the game window (again) #727.

New release available

2017.520.0 is now available from github releases (or via auto-update if you already have lazer installed)!

Quite some good progress today! Let’s dive into it.

Updated spinner design

The lazer spinner design was nothing short of temporary. It was laggy to boot. Today I spent a great deal of time realising flyte’s newer design in full detail. Take a look at it isolated:

and in a map:

Note that due to some deficiencies in our framework regarding how glows are rendered, the colours are not correct and not final. It will look much more vibrant once these issues are addressed:

Other things

• Moved all pause logic into a new container, improving reliability and cleaning up the code a lot #783.
• Fix and simplify pause logic and possible race conditions #782.
• Fix song select reverting to first difficulty of current group on entering #778.
• Fix global hotkeys not always working #780.
• Fix channels being unnecessarily recycled on disconnect #774.
• The log overlay now works as intended #721.

New release available

2017.518.0 is now available from github releases (or via auto-update if you already have lazer installed)!

Quite some good progress today! Let’s dive into it.

On Screen Display

No longer will you be confused when you accidentally hit a hotkey that changes game-wide settings. Introducing the new OSD which will reveal changes as you make them.

Currently this is for game-wide settings (resolution, screen mode, frame limiter, audio device, debug console) but going forward the same interface will be used during gameplay to let you know when things like mouse buttons have been disabled, scroll speeds have changed, etc.

Mania doesn’t crash any more!

smoogipooo has been hard at work on mania, to the point it now displays maps to some extent. Note that it is not yet playable, but you can pretend to play at least. Also Ctrl +/- are available to change the scroll speed.

Design isn’t final, colours aren’t final, all the usual disclaimers. There will be a more detailed post with visuals once we’re happy with it, but you can go check it out by loading a mania map if you wish to do so.

new.ppy.sh is no more

Thanks to a lot of hard work from the web team, we are making good progress on the new version of the website to the point we’re happy to announce that the domains have been merged. You should be automatically redirected from the new subdomain to the main one if you have been using it until now.

Going forward, we will be switching pages on one at a time as they are ready to be used. You can always manually make the switch (though some pages are not yet available) by using this link or just visiting new.ppy.sh (it’ll redirect you over).

Other things

• Gameplay pauses when the osu! window loses focus #762.
• Fix for skip button also seeking when watching a replay #762.
• Fix duplicate channels being created on connection loss #764.
• Improve the appearance of chat tabs when transitions from active to inactive #761.
• Fix requesting too many chat messages on initial connect (and sometimes the wrong ones) #760.
• Fixed hover states not getting updates until the mouse is moved. This was visible on the osu! logo at the main menu if you clicked it without moving your mouse (it would remain in a hovered state) #715.
• Add transform helpers for manipulation specifically of width or height #717.

New release available

2017.516.0 is now available from github releases (or via auto-update if you already have lazer installed)!