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Project Arrhythmia

Alpha Branch Update - 24.7.7



24.7.6


Improvements



  • Memory improvements.
  • Better handling of disabled objects in UIs.
  • Improved editor top dropdowns.

Changes and bug fixes



  • Fix for mobile input not working on the level end.
  • Fixed ghosting on prefab collapse. (when objects would hang around)
  • Fixed / Improved the empty location rendering in the editor.
  • Reduce ram usage in the editor / fix memory leak on level list reload.


24.7.7


New features



  • Add credits button to the main page.
  • Add a change log button to the main menu when the version changes.
  • Added additional VN scene after the tutorial.

Improvements



  • Rework text editor selection to be more efficient and effective.
  • Add to the character cutoff for artists in UI.
  • Update menu effects / Update some shader settings.
  • Improved menus for mobile.
  • Improve level cleanup when exiting a level without beating it.
  • Optimized assets for lower RAM usage.
  • Boost in performance on all UI scenes.
  • Improved skipping cutscenes (hold pause button).
  • Minor VN fixes.
  • Minor UI / UX improvements and tweaks.

Changes and bug fixes



  • Fix for story effects persisting between scenes on unexpected close.
  • Fixed parent deletion, creating ghost objects.
  • Fix for the last viewed version not being properly saved in the settings file.
  • Made themes clear after playing a level.
  • Fix for preview window shrinking.
  • Fix for empty / checkpoint gizmo rendering.
  • Fix for selection effect.


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Default Branch Update - 24.7.5


Level created by Bimz!



Level created by LakeIsEnby!



Branch changes


This is quite an important update! This update marks the first time in a couple of years that alpha and default (no branch selected) are on the same version. Moving forward, alpha updates will have release candidates pushed to default more frequently, as you'd expect from an alpha branch.



24.7.5


Patch notes


New features

  • Added ability to control menu effect amount in the main menu settings.
  • Added ability to disable Steam Input in the main menu settings.
  • Added ability to have camera jiggle settings be selected by the level creator in the editor.
    • By default, all legacy levels have no jiggle, and moving forward it defaults to player controlled jiggle, unless it was changed by the level creator.

Improvements

  • Added random tips to the loading screen.

Changes and bug fixes

  • Removed lag buster editor panel.
  • Fixed Discord log spam.
  • Made controller reconnection notification better.
  • Fixed dark player colors in notifications.
  • Fixed input notifications showing below timeline.
  • Fixed last controller disconnect causing removal of the final player in game.
  • Fixed high contrast setting sometimes not working right.
  • Fixed SFX toggles not working in main menu.
  • Fixed quick-reloading-arcade button glitching out arcade if spammed.
  • Fixed private/friends only metadata being swapped.
  • Fixed menu music always defaulting to one.
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Game Patch: 24.7.2 & 24.7.3 [alpha branch]

24.7.2 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


New features:

  • New external prefab reload button.

Improvements:

  • Tooltips show up faster.
  • Added more tooltips. Expect the rest to be added/fixed in the next patch.
  • Made is to the intro now properly updates if you update the metadata info.
  • Removed F11 notification from editor.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Fixed Ctrl+R shortcut (the randomization button) not working in the editor with children + parents.
  • Fixed issue with selecting the editor via the main menu using the keyboard making it so all editor controls would make a noise.
  • Fixed numerous issues with editor notifications.
  • Gradient shader now properly handles color comparison. (thanks Unity)
  • Fixed various issues with post processing effects across the game.
  • Fixed backgrounds being really colorful in Story Mode.
  • Fixed issue with getting hit on spawn.
  • Fixed gravity not working as a default event type.
  • Fixed parallax objects changing default depth offset.
  • Fixed minor VN issues.
  • Fixed editor grid not displaying properly.
  • Fixed issue with notifications staying longer then they are meant to.

24.7.3 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


New features:

  • New external prefab reload button. (lmao actually works now)

Improvements:

  • Editor tooltips looks way better now.
  • More fixed tooltips in editor.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Fixed mouse notification being stuck on screen on startup.
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The Gradient Update - 24.7.1 [alpha branch]


Level created by TheVoidUnknown!
Using the new gradient effects!


Patch notes:



24.6.1 [alpha branch]


New features:

  • Gradients have been added as an option in the level editor. (Radial / Linear)
  • Gradients can be color to color or color to transparent. To make a gradient color to transparent, set the second color to match the first.
  • Now the intro sequence shows in the editor to better represent how the level will look in game.
  • The debug controller now can load directly between levels.
  • Some minor stuff I likely forgot.

Improvements:

  • Now all levels have a post level screen. Including story mode levels.
  • Massive improvements in scene loading. (This should help with the game's performance on lower end hardware a bit.)
  • Scene loading now has a more fitting loading screen.
  • All story levels now have album art and descriptions.
  • UI cursor properly resizes now to match screen.
  • Editor now technically supports any resolution and the preview view is much more consistent. (If the screen size is weird, you might find there's a little distortion in the preview view though.)
  • The loading screen now never has it's effects randomly taken away.
  • Better error handling in the editor when loading bad levels.
  • Now, if a dialogue is in autoplay mode, it will not show the continue cursor.
  • Now all timeline generated sounds will be automatically mapped to the SFX player making them the correct volume.
  • Better outliner rendering in the editor.
  • Better player hit noise.
  • Better overall performance due to less camera usage.
  • Lots of small UI/UX improvements.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • The player no longer twitches at higher framerates, the player should look much smoother as you're just moving around now.
  • Fixed issues with startup being loud.
  • Themes now work far better in the editor.
  • End level screen title now should no longer go out of bounds.
  • Parallax objects are now properly reset so they don't accidentally carry over between levels and mess up foreground objects.
  • Parallax objects now properly all go away on swapping levels.
  • Fix some issues with Story Mode getting it's order jumbled or stuck.

24.7.1 [alpha branch]


New small patch is live with fixes for issues found in 24.6.1!

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Fixed selection bug.
  • More fixes for outliner bug.
  • Fixed invalid level causing loading fail in editor.
  • Fixed various scene swapping issues.
  • Various editor UI improvements.
  • Minor QoL improvements.
  • Depth updated to support up to 60.
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Fifth anniversary of Project Arrhythmia!

Anniversary!


For those that don't know, this is the weekend of the anniversary of the game's launch on Steam. Without being too dramatic, I really do thank you all for changing my life.

Thank you for being a Project Arrhythmia fan! ❤️

Update info:


Expect the leaderboard and gradient update this coming week.

I tried to get it out for y'all before the weekend, but cause this will be a candidate for default build I wanted a bit more time to catch bugs. Thank you for your patience!

Hope you all have/had a wonderful weekend and father's day!

Game Patch: 24.5.5 [alpha branch]

24.5.5 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


New features:

  • Added tons of new options to parallax objects, including animations. Please give feedback as this is a new feature and I want to make sure it hits some of yall's wants.
  • New editor setting allows the creator to change the collapsed object size per level.
  • Editor should now handle weird screen sizes better, so please, try with ultrawides!

Improvements:

  • Overhaul to how the visual novel segments work to make them more user friendly and less buggy.
  • Improved intro sequence.
  • Updated rewired to help with scroll wheel issues.
  • Minor UI improvements.
  • Fixed couple issues with scrolling in object timeline.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Cleaned up a lot of unused assets to reduce the game's file size.
  • Fixed some naming errors in the game's code.
  • Lots of fixes for markers being kinda not great.
    • I recommend you create a new marker, then save and reload the level in any level you previously had issues with. That will ensure it will be working moving forward.
  • Fixed post level screen having issues on weird resolutions.
  • Fixed multiple keyframe types being dragged and not updating properly.
  • Attempted fixing any issues with objects spawning like parallax objects (due to a camera glitch). Let me know if that's still an issue.
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Game Patch: 24.5.4 [alpha branch]

24.5.4 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


New features and improvements:

  • Made editor elements render slightly better and some minor UI / UX improvements.
  • Added object text/color overrides in editor.
  • Added editing to multiple events in the editor at once.
  • Added ability to glitch characters.
  • Improved character animations and timeline options.
  • Updates to story levels.
  • Minor generate UI improvements.
  • Better handling of multi-selection.
  • Better memory management in some cases. Should improve performance on lower end machines a bit.
  • Handling zooming in and out on the timeline should be now way the heck better lmao.
  • Made keyframe selection in events timeline match object timeline more.
  • More VN improvements.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Fixed restarting a level not resetting hit count in some cases.
  • Fixed issue with moderate/basic levels being weird.
  • Fixed for end level stat over count.
  • Fixed note time input.
  • Made sure text objects can never hurt the player (get nerf'd lmao).
  • Fixed various general editor issues.
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Game Patch: 24.5.3 [alpha branch]

24.5.3 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


Changes and bug fixes:

  • Fixed issue with moderate/basic levels being weird.
  • Fixed restarting a level not resetting hit count in some cases.
  • Fixed cursor not coming back after editor.
  • Fixed issue with emoticon display/none rank.
  • Objects are more properly cleaned up on level end.
  • Reverted TMP character changes.
  • Updated TMP to 3.0.8.
  • Added new "restartlevelevent" for Modders.
  • Changed some localization text.
  • Fixed issue with text objects having collision in unexpected places.
  • Fixed issue with triggers being weird in editor.
  • Made sure there's no pool bleed on parallax objects.
  • Minor performance improvements.
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Game Patch: 24.5.1 & 24.5.2 [alpha branch]

Patch notes:


New features:

  • 24.5.1:
    • Added several new keycodes for the editor. Find them in the help section.
    • New end level screen with data from your run.
    • Added ability to select parallax text/object text from preview.
    • Added ability to turn off text selection in editor settings.
  • 24.5.2:
    • Added new reload level button in editor.
    • Added ability to lock X/Y triggers to editor.
    • Added dash direction trigger to editor.
    • Made markers jump to time and show where on the timeline they jumped when swapped between.
    • Made keyframes jump to time and show where on the timeline they jumped when swapped between.

Changes and bug fixes:

  • 24.5.1:
    • Fixed theme hash collision error.
    • Fixed theme memory leak.
    • Updated level ranks.
    • Fixed a lot of issues with pausing when a player was in an inbetween state.
    • Fixed general issues with pause screen.
    • Added pause screen back to the tutorial level.
  • 24.5.2:
    • Removed GameManager and renamed GameManager2 (please take note mod makers).
    • Fixed issue with editor settings not saving.
    • Fixed issue with settings window appearing before being opened.
    • Triggers are now properly reset more often.
    • Fixed BG objects animations not reloading properly.
    • Fixed issue with SFX being toggled back on automatically.
    • Made settings file always generate values.
    • Minor UI improvements.
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Game Patch: 24.4.1 [alpha branch]

24.4.1 [alpha branch]



Patch notes:


New features:

  • Added new story level (WIP, only 80%-ish at best).

Changes and bug fixes:

  • Re-ordered story mode content.
  • Fixed vignette and other effects stacking during levels played in Arcade.
  • Updated events to have more consistent and usable arrow changes on inputs.
  • Huge improvement to stability and optimizations for notes.
  • Minor fixes to editor UI.
  • Fixed middle and right click being able to select event keyframes.
  • Editor waveform generate properly again.

Known editor issues:

  • Several tooltips are missing/broken, but they will slowly be fixed.
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