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fixed the event spawning logic so that it actually spawns where the player clicked and snaps to the nearest beat!

logic for new events is SO annoying istg

got a very borked system to make new events. I need to polish so much + fix an issue involving me not being able to place any event under x=1920. but hey im getting somewhere!

ohhh boy here comes the editor 💔 I do NOT want to make ts but ig I have to

made very basic ui! tracks are auto generated from the global.events dictionary.

waowow dash go stretchy!!

• added some motion blur/better stretch to the dash animation
• better particles for the laser slam
• fixed a bug that made all visualizer bars start maxed out and reversed (flashbang)
• minor modifications to laser positioning

ugh writing lyrics is SO hard butttt it’s sorta working out!
transition between first and second section, and a rly nice lead synth for the second section. im still working out lyrics/melody for the second section so i didn’t record that yet (it sounds super bad rn) will prolly finish that next devlog!

Working on an UTAU song! The first section in the video is supposed to have lyrics (but it obv doesnt) I will add those in later!

Added a crt effect! (not that visible in the low quality recording but it’s very much there)

Added the ability to turn off the visualizer and make the platform go invisible!

Modified some visualizer logic.

Other small changes!

Biiiig bugs here

When using the laser circle and laser sweep presets, the beat at which the laser spawned would begin to drift very fast. This wasn’t that noticeable on very fast settings, but setting it to something like 1/2 beat would make it horribly off beat. It got to the point where it would spawn an entire BEAT after it’s expected spawn time. I started by adding an epsilon to the bpm and forcing it to be a float, and while that did help it, by no means did it fix it. It was still extremely inconsistent. I ended up rewriting the fire logic completely for the two presets so that it uses a system similar to the one found in the main event handler. It was SUCH a hassle to fix but I finally got it done! The lasers you see after the drop in the video are all part of a single circle event, it’s clear the fire beats do not drift anymore (i have print statements to prove that too!). All considered it was a nice adventure learning about precision timing systems and floating point error. Lots learned! I also added a camera pulse feature, still in the works since it looks kiiinda mid rn.

tl;dr: timing! and camera pulse!

AUDIO VISUALIZERR this took me SO long to get working. the math to make it look good and even sort of sync to the music was so annoying 😭 i revised my code like a billion times and changed a billion values BUT IT WORKEDD

fog now has a slight tint

sun isnt bright but still looks glowy, and now has a (really mid) enter/leave animation!

Currently working on adding a synthwave sun to the background! It looks fire but with some BIG issues rn.

1. It’s so hard to see anything in front of the sun.
2. The transition looks horrible
3. The colour matches the platform, but switches INSTANTLY instead of easing in.

This has turned out to be so much harder than I thought it would be. Looks mid rn but I’ll lock in!

Laser Circles can now modify themselves with input from the map file!

Fog exists now, adds some nice depth and makes it feel less bland!

First devlog! Woohoo!!

In Godot:
Made the project, player scene, and basic physics.

In Garageband:
The VAST majority of the time here was spent working on the second song! I made the intro section, pre drop 1, buildup, drop, transition to pre-drop 2, and the buildup to drop 2! I kinda want to add voicelines (The Master styled) but I have no idea how I’m supposed to pull that off 😭

Enjoy ts little snippet of the song!