v0.5.1

The first patch to the Playable Pico update.

[0.5.1] - 2024-09-30

Added

• Readded the Merch button to the main menu.
  • Click it to check out our Makeship campaign!
• Added Discord Rich Presence support. People can now see what song you are playing from Discord!
  • We'll get mod support working for this eventually.
• Added an FPS limit option to the Preferences menu.
  • You can now change how high the game tries to push your frame rate, from as little as 30 to as high as 300.
• Added support for the Tracy instrumentation-based profiling tool in development environments. Enable it with the -DFEATURE_DEBUG_TRACY compilation flag.
  • For the people who aren't nerds, this is a tool for tracking down performance issues!
• Playable Character data now defines an asset location for an Animate Atlas to display Girlfriend.
  • This includes the option to display a visualizer, if configured correctly.
• Separated the Perfect and Perfect (Gold) animations in the Playable Character data.
  • Base game just uses the same animation for both, but modders can split the animations up on their custom characters now.
• Added a bunch of Flash project files from the Weekend 1 and Playable Pico updates to the funkin.art repository.
• Added the flipX and flipY parameters to props in the Stage data. (community feature by AbnormalPoof)

Changed

• Pico is no longer unlocked for all players automatically.
  • You need to beat Weekend 1 in Story Mode in order to unlock him in Character Select.
• The game's mod API version check is now more dynamic.
  • The update accepts mods with API version 0.5.0 as well as 0.5.1.
• Removed some of the more spammy trace() calls to improve debugging a bit.
• The game now complains if you create a song variation with symbols in its name.
• Switched the force crash keybind from Ctrl-Shift-L to Ctrl-Alt-Shift-L.
• Added some additional functions to funkin.Assets after openfl.utils.Assets had to get blacklisted from scripts.

Fixed

• Pico is no longer locked every time the game starts, so you no longer have to watch the unlock animation each game boot.
  • The animation should now play only once per save file.
• The clear % now displays in Freeplay after switching characters.
• Character remixes no longer display the base song's highscore in Freeplay.
• Freeplay no longer displays the wrong text on capsules.
• Freeplay now displays custom songs when switching characters.
• Duplicate difficulties from custom variations now display properly in Freeplay.
• DadBattle (Pico Mix) now has charts for Normal and Easy difficulties.
• DadBattle (Pico Mix) is now properly credited to TeraVex (ft. Saruky).
• Spookeez (Pico Mix) is now properly credited to Six Impala (ft. Saster).
• The audio track now unmutes if you miss a note just before Pico burps.
• Pico now plays out his full burp animation in South (Pico Mix).
• Removed a tap note stacked on top of a hold note in Cocoa Erect (Erect difficulty).
• Pico Erect can no longer be played with different instrumentals.
• The curtains in Week 1 no longer display in front of larger characters.
• Boyfriend now plays his death animation properly on the Week 2 Remix stage.
• The game no longer stutters when playing on the Week 5 Remix stage.
• The "Shit!" judgement no longer displays with anti-aliasing in Week 6.
• Spirit's trail in Week 6 now displays correctly.
• Pico now plays his shooting animations in Stress.
• Characters with high offsets no longer shift over after the player dies or restarts.
• Custom note styles no longer sometimes use default values rather than the fallback note style.
• Custom note styles no longer randomly fail to fetch information about their fallback note style.
• Screenshots and Chart Editor binds no longer display in the controls menu on Web builds (where they are disabled).
• Stage Editor bind no longer displays in the controls menu even when the feature is disabled.
• Freeplay Character Select keybind no longer displays strangely in the controls menu.
• Audio tracks no longer get destroyed if they are flagged as persistent.
• Video cutscenes now scale their volume properly.
• Results screen audio no longer continues into Freeplay or gameplay.
• The Results screen now plays the percentage tick sound when the value changes instead of spamming the sound.
• The save data version number is now written to the save data properly.
• The example mod can now be loaded.
• Pressing F5 to force reload a song no longer occasionally causes the game to crash.
• Animations on Animate Atlas characters no longer throw a bunch of warnings in the console.
• Entering Blazin' no longer displays a script error.
• The Input Offsets menu no longer crashes when entering it before playing a song on web builds.
• Setting the input offset or visual offset to high values no longer causes the song to skip.
• Classic FocusCamera song events no longer cause the camera to snap in place. (community fix by nebulazorua)
• Pixel hold note trails in Week 6 are now scaled/positioned correctly. (community fix by dombomb64)
• Achieving the same rank on a song with a lower clear % no longer overwrites your clear %. (community fix by lemz1)
• The FPS counter no longer displays if Debug Display is turned off. (community fix by Lethrial)
• The Chart Editor can now be interacted with properly. (community fix by Kade-github)
• Selecting the area to the left of the Chart Editor no longer selects some of the player's notes. (community fix by NotHyper-474)
• Pixel icons now display correctly in the Chart Editor. (community fix by TechnikTil)
• Audio offsets now interact with the Chart Editor properly. (community fix by Kade-github)
• Players can no longer crash the game by interacting with Character Select during the unlock sequence. (community fix by ActualMandM)
• Stage.addCharacter now properly assigns the characterType. (community fix by Kade-github)
• Fetching Modules during the onDestroy event no longer fails at random. (community fix by cyn0x8)
• onSubStateOpenEnd and onSubStateCloseEnd script events are now called consistently. (community fix by lemz1)

New Contributors for 0.5.1

• @dombomb64 made their first contribution in #3351
• @Lethrial made their first contribution in #3356
• @KoloInDaCrib made their first contribution in #3371