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Lynium 2.2.4: key mods, what a chart pays, and the skin editor

Sep 14

A key mod converts any chart you own to 3K, 4K, 5K, 6K or 7K, ranked from the first run. Every chart now says what it pays before you open it. The download browser asks the same questions the site does. And the skin editor folds, searches and resets.

ANY CHART, ANY KEY COUNT

Your library stops being a key count.

THE CARD sits in OTHERS. Each click moves it on: off, 4 Keys, 5 Keys, 6 Keys, 7 Keys, 3 Keys. The dots under the multiplier say where you are.
THE CONVERSION follows the genre's shared standard, extended. The mod sets the target column count and the converter rebuilds the chart from it. Compressing anchors a lane. Expanding spreads it over a band, so a 4K chart uses all seven columns.
THE SAME CHART ALWAYS CONVERTS THE SAME WAY. The dice are seeded from the chart, so the server rebuilds what you played and prices it.
RANKED FROM DAY ONE. Score x0.90 when the conversion applies, pp off the difficulty measured after converting, and a board for the keys you played.
THE STARS FOLLOW into song selection, the pause screen and the results. The results say these scores can be reset if the conversion is updated.
ON A CHART THAT ALREADY HAS THOSE KEYS the card does nothing. No conversion, no x0.90, no token.
TESTED ON THE WHOLE LIBRARY: 4,078 charts, 16,371 conversions, 157 seconds. No note left the field and no chart converted into two different things.

WHAT A CHART PAYS, BEFORE YOU PLAY IT

The number you actually pick a chart by.

THE CARD IN SONG SELECTION gets a second row: length, combo and creator ⇒ plus Performance, Notes and BPM, with the pp in the site's accent.
IT FOLLOWS YOUR MODS, like the ratings on the carousel. 104 with nothing on, 109 with Hidden, 0 with Auto.
THE DOWNLOADS HOVER: "1.69 · 2:48" next to a label that only said Difficulty ⇒ one row per figure, each beside its own label, pp included. An unpriced chart shows one row fewer instead of a zero.
SORT THE DOWNLOAD BROWSER BY WHAT A MAP PAYS. Sets order by the ceiling of their best chart. It sits beside Difficulty.

THE DOWNLOAD BROWSER

Two screens, one catalogue, same questions.

THE FILTER ROW IS THE SITE'S ROW, control for control and in the same order: Show only, Sort by, Mode, Difficulty, Tags, Played, Favourites, Hidden. Downloaded goes last, since the site has no Songs folder.
SORT BY gets an arrow. The quietest sets, the easiest charts and the oldest uploads can reach the first page.
THE DIFFICULTY SLIDER: an empty readout ⇒ it says which difficulties it covers, and "and up" when a handle sits on the ceiling.
TWO KINDS OF LENGTH. A set has both: the track and the chart. Counting Stars is 2:51 of audio over a 2:48 chart.
THE TABS: TOP RATED came back sorted by views, NEWEST MAPS by likes ⇒ each tab sorts by its label.

THE SKIN EDITOR

One word per idea, and everything folds

138 controls, and you can shut the ones you are not using.

OPACITY, COLOUR, SCALE, OVERRIDE: ALPHA here, TINT there, SIZE elsewhere ⇒ one word per idea everywhere. The search still answers to the old names.
EVERY LABEL FOLDS, not just the sections. A thin line runs down the rows each one holds, so you can see where a subsection ends.
EVERY GROUP LISTS IN THE SAME ORDER: switch, scale, opacity, colour, textures, then the rest.
A ROW YOU CHANGED SAYS SO. It gets a faint wash, an accent rail and a reset icon after its title. One click puts it back, as one undo step.
PICK A TEXTURE BY ITS PICTURE, not by its filename.
A FOLD IS A ROW: a filled plate with its chevron on the left ⇒ the same shape as the rows it holds, chevron in the column every heading folds from.

Choose a beatmap, by set

Four thousand loose rows become eight hundred lines with cover art.

THE PICKER: one row per difficulty, stopping at 200 with "narrow the search" ⇒ one line per set with its cover, its creator and how many difficulties it holds. The whole library fits.
IT OPENS ON WHAT IS PLAYING, marked in pink. A search opens every set it matches and hides the difficulties that do not.

The glow up a held lane

It used to be the pressed colour at a fixed strength.

LANE GLOW is its own group under RECEPTOR, in every rhythm and melody lane and in both family blocks: SHOWN, COLOUR and OPACITY.
IT FOLLOWS UNTIL YOU MOVE IT. It shows the pressed colour and the game's own strength, and the reset icon puts either back to following.

One skin, two cameras

A 2D look and a 3D look, edited on their own.

SEPARATE 2D AND 3D is one switch under CAMERA. Off, a skin is one look for both views, which is how every skin behaves today. On, everything visual splits in two and the camera button picks what you see and what you edit. Name, tags and sounds stay shared.
THE CENTRAL NOTE gets the three things authors reach for first: a SCALE whose Y changed nothing on screen ⇒ THICKNESS, its own OPACITY following ALL NOTES until you set one, and its own picture. The same set again while a hold is down.
THE CENTRAL HOLD spans the field again, and its rows draw at the colour and opacity it uses.
A TAIL'S OPACITY is kept apart from its colour. Moving one no longer darkens the tails.

Offset and scale, one row each

THE PLAYFIELD BLOCK: five slider rows for two ideas, with REFLECTION and WATER EFFECT in between ⇒ OFFSET and SCALE as X, Y and Z fields you drag or type into, together under CAMERA. Z appears only in 3D.
EACH NOTE BLOCK splits into its parts, with everything a press changes grouped under HELD.
THE PP COUNTER: hidden unless a skin switched it on ⇒ shown in every skin that does not say otherwise. Settings → Visuals gets a PP COUNTER row with SKIN, ON and OFF.

THE PLAYFIELD, THE POINTER AND THE EDITOR

KEEP THE POINTER DURING A RUN. A row in OTHERS, on by default, read every frame, so unticking it mid-song hands the pointer back on the next one.
THE PLAYFIELD IS MEASURED BY ITS RECEPTORS, not by whatever hangs off a lane. FOLLOW THE LANES put the judgement text 27.69 px to the right at 1904 wide. It is 0.00 now, in both camera modes.
PUBLISH A WHOLE BATCH AT ONCE: one difficulty at a time, about thirty seconds each ⇒ sets in parallel and difficulties inside them. Measured at 45 difficulties a minute instead of two.
WHEN THE FIREWALL REFUSES AN UPLOAD the editor says so instead of showing a bare HTTP 403, and stops resending 50 MB for the same answer three times.
THE EDITOR AND THE GAME KEEP THEIR OWN BEATMAP INDEX. It lives beside the library it describes. A cold start is 84 s and the next one 0.99 s, where every launch used to re-read all 4,091 beatmaps.

[Website] THE SITE

THE BEATMAP BROWSER HAS THE GAME'S FILTERS: Played, Hidden and Favourites for a signed-in reader, Pending under Show only, a direction on the sort, and a difficulty range.
MODE splits into MANIA (all mania, 3K to 7K) and STANDARD. Sets whose charts carry a compound variant are reachable, and 3K is in the list.
A PLAYED SET SAYS SO on the row, in the gap that was already sitting between the title and the numbers.
THE DIFFICULTY CARD: five figures on one line joined by middle dots, three of them unlabelled ⇒ six numbers in two rows. The sixth is what a run of nothing but MAX would earn. Four layouts in the menu beside the title.
EVERY DIFFICULTY CHIP can read "4K · 104 pp", with a Show pp box beside the result count. The game's hover opens over it.
SORT BEATMAPS BY WHAT THEY PAY, beside Difficulty, and by either of a set's two durations.
KEY MODS ON A SCORE ROW: their own purple pill, x0.90 in the multiplier line, a row in the wiki's mod table, and "7K > 4K" beside the badge so a converted run does not read as a native one.
ALL RUNS joins Finished and Unfinished on the latest plays feed, on the home page and on the rankings tab. Both open on it.
THE LOGO TURNS ON THE BEAT while a page loads: five equalizer bars ⇒ the triangle, a third of a turn per beat, with a shockwave each time it lands.
THE RANK CHART stops disagreeing with the rank above it, which is what anyone who climbed after midnight was reading.
325 KEYS that shipped as English in the other sixteen languages are translated: the tournaments and review sections, the browser's filter labels, the judgement names, and Performance in every board and profile.

BUGFIXES

Hidden and Fade In draw again. A skin's blend was taking the fade shader off the notes on every repaint, in 2D and in 3D.
Both search boxes have a caret, and the field holding the keyboard says so.
Gameplay is its own tab in the settings rail instead of a fold under Skin. Note speed is not a variant of a skin.
The chart type filter in song selection applies on the tick, not on the way out. The library it filters is already in memory.
Lane edges, centre lines and the middle of a hold get the game's own picture back when a skin drops its own.
Typing in the skin editor no longer leaves the shortcuts listening.
Discord names built out of dressed-up letters fold back into letters the game can draw.
The four keys the new download filters added are translated into the other thirteen languages.

SEE YOU ON THE PLAYFIELD

Tell us how a 7K chart feels in 3K, and what it should pay. The conversion is frozen at V1 on purpose. The numbers it produces decide whether it stays there.

DISCORD: https://discord.com/invite/8E4yhX5EbH
THE SITE: https://lyniumgame.com

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Lynium 2.2.3 — Patch Notes

Sep 9

Long notes are three pieces now — a head, a body and a tail — and they are drawn like it. The skin editor grew a search box, three switches for the sparks, and a proper override for what a hold looks like under your finger. And the playfield can be emptied of everything that is not the chart.

LONG NOTES, DRAWN PROPERLY

On the field

A head, a body that tiles up from the tail, and a tail. No stretched ribbon, no white slab.

THE HEAD STAYS ON THE LINE while you hold it: an early press dragged the ribbon down to the line and left it there ⇒ it sits on the judgement line until the tail arrives, then the whole note leaves at once.
AT 75%: the ribbon swapped texture where the hold pays its credit, and read as cut in half ⇒ the credit still pays there, and nothing on screen moves.
NO MORE SHAKE: the bar was drawn after the frame it measured, so a held head sat 16–36 px under the receptor and moved every frame. It now draws against the frame being drawn — measured at 0.0 px across thirty frames.
A SKIN THAT SHIPS BOTH END CAPS is drawn this way on its own, with nobody touching a row. Without caps it is the additive light it always was, so no existing skin changes.

In the skin editor

Six pieces for a long note, and a real switch for the pressed state.

OVERRIDE HELD NOTES sits in each of the three families — central, rhythm and melodic. Off, a hold looks the same pressed. On, the rows under it are what pressed looks like, and nothing else.
THE HELD WIDTH: applied whatever you did, so every tail in every skin widened under your finger without anybody asking for it ⇒ only when the override is on.
TWO OPACITY ROWS: the tail's opacity only existed as the alpha strip hidden in the colour picker ⇒ LONG NOTE OPACITY for the tail at rest, LONG NOTE HELD OPACITY for the moment your key is down.
SIX TEXTURES in all — start, body and end, plus the three held ones — and the tail's colour now reaches all three pieces while the chart is running.
EVERY SKIN ALREADY INSTALLED was read for what it was already doing and seeded to match. None of them look any different.

FIND A SKIN SETTING BY TYPING

138 controls across three tabs, and finding one meant guessing the tab and then scrolling.

A BOX UNDER THE SKIN'S NAME filters all three tabs at once, and the tab rail says how many matches each one is holding. If the tab you are on has none, the panel moves to one that does.
A ROW ANSWERS TO ITS HEADING as well as its own name, so "melody 4 colour" finds a row that is just called COLOUR.
CTRL+F puts the cursor in the box, ESC clears it, and a click on the playfield clears it and scrolls to the block you clicked.
EVERY HEADING FOLDS ITS BLOCK — the whole heading is the button. A search opens everything while it is up, and your folds come back the moment you clear it.
THE STATUS LINE: "Up to date" sitting there whenever nothing was happening, which was most of the time ⇒ it is simply not there until it has something to say.

THREE SWITCHES FOR THE SPARKS

"The particles when you press a note" turned out to be three different effects.

HIT SPARKS: the burst the receptor throws at the moment you hit a note.
HOLD SPARKS: the jet it keeps up for as long as a long note lasts.
NOTE SPARKLE: the glint each note carries the whole way down — not a press effect at all.
All three start on, and a skin written before they existed reads them on, so nobody who touches nothing sees a change. Turn all three off and the field goes quiet: the receptors are flat bars of colour again and the note head arrives plain.

A PLAYFIELD WITH NOTHING IN THE WAY

THE MOUSE POINTER HIDES while a song is playing, and the corner buttons go with it — they come back the moment you are not playing.
THE GAME HAS ITS OWN POINTER: the Windows arrow ⇒ the logo's triangle, from the splash screen onward.
THE BEATMAP BACKDROP has one switch that turns it off, on a row of its own.
H HIDES THE HUD in a replay and while spectating.
DRAG THE PLAYFIELD where you want it instead of moving sliders, and every marker piece can be dragged — not only the health bar. The timing bar and the pp a run is worth are pieces a skin can place too.

SONG SELECT

FILTER BY TAGS, the same way the download browser does — the chart tags, on the list you actually pick from.
THE OTHER FOUR BOARDS are in the dropdown that used to hide them.
THE PREVIEW FOLLOWS THE RATE, so a chart you are about to play at 1.4x sounds like it.

THE CHAT WINDOW MOVES

DRAG IT AND RESIZE IT, and it comes back where you left it.
EACH DM'S FACE on its channel tab, so a row of tabs is a row of people.
SEND A BEATMAP IN A MESSAGE, and open one that arrives.

THE BEATMAP EDITOR

DRAG A LONG NOTE'S ENDS instead of retyping its duration.
UPLOAD A WHOLE MAPSET from the editor in one go.
THE CAMERA PERSPECTIVE is remembered between sessions.
THE BEAT DIVISIONS are drawn on the lanes they divide, and only as far as the view can reach.

[Website] THE SITE

A WIKI AND A SKINS PAGE, on the row you look things up from.
THE TERMS, THE PRIVACY NOTICE, THE COMMUNITY GUIDELINES AND A BEATMAP RIGHTS POLICY are published — the ones the service actually runs on.
YOUR PEAK RANK sits under the rank you hold now: how high you have ever been, not only where you are today.
MUTUALS: a follow that goes both ways says so, in pink.
A CHART'S BOARD can be narrowed to a country, to your friends, to one speed or to one mod.
PICK WHICH BOARD YOUR PROFILE OPENS ON, and World Rankings comes back on the keymode you picked last.
THE PROFILE SAYS WHAT YOU ARE DOING, not just that you are online, and the badge opens the map it names.
ETTERNA joins the profile links, and the rhythm-game links carry their real logos now.
TOP PLAYS reaches the second hundred, the latest plays feed refreshes itself, and the country table says which keymode it is counting instead of always 4K.
THE STREAK says when the day turns over, and what to do about a day that has not counted yet.
THE PP RECALCULATION PANEL: a panel you had to read to know where you stood ⇒ retired, and the page simply says how full your pp window is.
THE WORLD RANKING can show the players it hides, when you ask it to.

BUGFIXES

Typing in the skin editor no longer plays the chart underneath — searching for "spark" used to press whichever lanes S, P, A, R and K were bound to.
Escape from a text field clears the field instead of closing the editor.
A hold's spent and failed ribbons keep their texture when you change skin without leaving the song.
The two ends of a long note survive the skin under them being rebuilt.
Last song's answer no longer puts its event cursor back on this one.
The game opens on its menu until the four notes are worth playing.
Spectate says why the picture stopped, not just that it did — and says what the player you are watching is doing, not only their name.
A long note is called one thing everywhere in the game.

SEE YOU ON THE PLAYFIELD

If you make skins, this is the patch to open the editor on. Tell us what is missing.

Join the Lynium Discord[discord.com]
https://lyniumgame.com

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