0.9.1

Danser

Scoring

• Fixed combo not resetting when very short sliders are missed (0.9.0 regression)
• Fixed spinners sometimes not clearing or giving too much bonus in replays (#330)
• Fixed spinners sometimes auto-missing with massive RPM in replays (#342, https://reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/15sf7ui/comment/jwdyumm)
• Fixed passive hp drain being too high on some maps (#316, #342)

Misc

• Debug overlay now shows memory info
• Reduced memory hit by debug overlay
• Reduced memory allocation by shaders, should result in less GC cycles.

Launcher

• Fixed strain graph not showing properly for freshly imported maps

0.9.0

General

• Dropped support for Windows 7/8/8.1
• Updated go to 1.21 which brings stability improvements
• Added a DANSER_FLAGS=AMDHACK environment variable to fix cases when launcher only has triangles visible or danser has random missing letters on older AMD GPUs

Danser

Recording

• Fixed color issues/stuttering on 23.7.1 or newer AMD drivers (#337)

UI

• Strain Graph now ends at last object's end, not start
• Strain Graph now better exposes most difficult parts of the map
• Fixed Strain Graph crashing if map has only one object

Objects

• Fixed reverse arrows being broken on old maps (#328)
• Fixed missed kick slider head circles disappearing too late

Settings

• Cursor.CursorRipples is now disabled by default because a lot of people confused them with HitLighting
• Paths are not being sanitized anymore which enables use of network locations (#323)

Misc

• LZMA compressed and Base64 encoded settings are now embedded in danser.log for easier issue analysis
• Improved stability of frame limiter, fixes update thread sometimes being stuck at 800-ish ups
• -debug flag now also shows memory information

Launcher

• Launcher logs now also print platform information
• Fixed "Select replay" button crashing the launcher if Replays dir doesn't exist, it now defaults to danser's dir
• Improved wording of Encoder option tooltip (by @AliceUnderwater)
• Fixed task bar progress being stuck on failed replays
• File/Directory that triggered the database refresh request is now being logged
• Added strain graph to Time/Offset menu:
  

I think I didn't omit anything this time ;)

0.8.4

Happy New Year! 🎉🎉

General

Settings

• Changed default values for OversampleMultiplier and BlendFrames to 16 and 24

Launcher

• Fixed launcher crashing if Songs dir doesn't exist
• Fixed "Browse" button freezing the launcher

0.8.3

Ho Ho Ho! 🎅

A small update this time, but read to the very end ;)

Danser

Recording

• Improved quality (especially hitcircles) at lower resolutions

Gameplay

• Added an option to ignore fails in replays. You can now render your multi replays ;)

Objects

• Fixed some sliders not loading correctly
• Danser is now ignoring sliders with 1B total length (pixel_length * repeats)

Cursordance

• Fixed danser failing at ~60% of the map when Slider Dance is turned on.

Playfield

• Fixed "Bloom to the beat" not being disableable

Storyboards

• Fixed looping sprites disappearing too early

Launcher

Import

• Slightly improved speed of calculating Star Rating of longer maps
• Fixed some maps freezing Star Rating Calculation

Recording

• Fixed danser opening new videos folder each time after finishing 2nd+ video.

And a small surprise in the launcher!

Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄

0.8.2

Finally an update :P

There are some changes in settings file format, read below.

General

• Fixed function keys crashing danser and launcher (#293)
• (Linux) Fixed inability to run danser if working directory is not the same as danser's directory
• Fixed broken video on AMD GPUs with 15.200.* drivers

Danser

Recording

• Fixed AAC audio being encoded at 128kbps no matter the setting
• Removed manual blending weights
• Moved Automatic weights to Motion Blur:
  
  They migrate automatically

Gameplay

• Fixed HT plays having wrong passive HP drain (#288)
• Fixed NaN pp appearing in some cases
• Fixed osu! auto replays auo-failing (OR just use danser UI mode FFS)
• Switched danser auto and play mode to lazer's notelock (kinda, auto-miss is missing yet). Ability to switch between stable/lazer notelock will come in the future

Cursor dance

• Numerous improvements to 2B cursor dancing (example: https://youtu.be/97Gx97iCQ9s)

Objects

• Added support for lazer's multi-type sliders:
  
• Fixed timing points with decimal time (lazer) being skipped
• Improved performance of sliders with huge amounts of ticks/repeats
• Immensely improved performance of slider path rendering, allowing complex sliders without losing quality. As a result, Quality options have been removed. For nerds: https://img.wieku.me/22/solace.mp4
• Fixed distortions not looking correctly
• Added options to customize distortions
• Fixed objects with negative volume being loud

Storyboards

• Fixed video of https://osu.ppy.sh/s/95981 crashing danser if internal ffmpeg is used
• Fixed some sprites of https://osu.ppy.sh/beatmapsets/1521219 storyboard not being scaled/flipped correctly

Launcher

General

• Fixed some maps freezing Star Rating calculation
• Removed classic knockout
• Danser now detects new maps in osu! Songs directory, restart is no longer required:
  
• Maps can be imported by dropping OSZ file on launcher's window. osu! may complain about it.

Settings

• Fixed search being reset on reopening
• Added more tooltips
• Added 16:9 presets to Recording Resolution:
  

And probably something I forgot about.

0.8.1

General

• Switched to 2022-09-30 PP System: https://osu.ppy.sh/home/news/2022-09-30-changes-to-osu-sr-and-pp
• Fixed danser crashing during database refresh while trying to load beatmaps that are broken in a specific way
• On Windows, danser first looks into registry to find osu! installation path (if multiple osu! instances are installed the one that handles files is selected) before defaulting to %localappdata%

Danser

UI

• Switched results screen pp display font to HUD Font
• Added customizable Outline to strain graph:
  

Gameplay

• Fixed DT ScoreV2 plays having wrong score

0.8.0

IMPORTANT

• danser switched to GPLv3 license. Thanks to that, from now on, danser will be released with built-in ffmpeg (danser-optimized build that takes ~20MB instead of 100MB+). Now you will be able to render videos (or play background videos) out of the box ;)

• Renamed danser to danser-cli and danser-launcher to danser. If it's important you can rename cli back, but launcher won't work properly then.

• Settings from this version are not compatible with 0.7.1 downwards. Please make a backup if you plan to rollback. More info below

General

• Fixed broken rendering on AMD/ATI TeraScale architectures (eg. Radeon HD 5xxx/6xxx). If you updated your graphics drivers and it's still broken, please let me know.

Danser

Record

• Fixed dark colors being green-tinted in recordings (#268)

UI

• Added Infinite results screen in play mode
• Fixed strain graph being funky on %Centre% alignments (#261)
• BREAKING: Switched to per stat color (Color300, Color100 etc) instead of confusing to use list in hit counter. Old values are migrated automatically

Input

• Added support to play with other keys than A-Z/0-9
• Added an option to change screenshot key (default F2)

Objects

• Make slider tick fade-in be closer to stable's behavior
• Slider's Snake In/Out can be changed in real time
• Fixed Fade/Duration Multipliers affecting slider ticks even if Snake In is disabled
• Added -24ms offset for beatmaps with version lower than 5
• Fixed old maps having wrong number of slider ticks

Gameplay

• Added fail support. Danser now will stop rendering if player fails. Caveat: if -end (End time in launcher) option is set before fail, fail can still be heard if Gameplay.ShowResultsScreen is set to true

Cursor dance

• Fixed danser missing on "hidden" circles (0 length sliders)
• Added an option to offset spinner's centre, shouldn't be used in "Danser with UI" mode.

Background

• Added MoveStoryboardWithPlayfield option, ignored if OsuShift is set to true
• Fixed video having wrong offset on 3079907 map (#278)
• Fixed storyboard of 1985210 map eating ~16GB of RAM. Can reduce performance slightly on other heavy storyboards
• Fixed old storyboards with missing volume info in audio samples crashing danser
• Fixed Parallax Amount affecting scale even if parallax is disabled (#281)

Skinning

• Fixed boolean values not working properly in skin.ini (should now match c language specs)

Misc

• Added better FPS limiter
• FPSCap can be now edited live
• FPSCap lower than zero now means abs(FPSCap)*monitorRefreshRate

Launcher

• Launcher window now adapts to Windows screen scaling
• Fixed record/screenshot name box allowing forbidden characters (#263)
• Reduced VRAM usage a bit

Replays:

• Select replay button now remembers last used directory
• Fixed replays from other modes not being ignored on "Load latest replay at startup"
• Fixed not properly set "Replays" directory crashing launcher
• Properly announce that replay is from another mode

Knockouts:

• Knockout "Select replays" button saves last used directory between launcher runs
• Added support of dropping multiple replays at launcher window/executable, thus turning on knockout mode
• Added enable/disable all button in knockout manager
• Added shift+select in knockout manager
• Added indicator how many replays are selected

Config manager/editor:

• Added live edit of some settings while danser is running in Watch mode. It can be summoned by clicking "Edit" in the launcher or with ctrl+o in danser itself, will unminimize the launcher and open the config editor. Some not-locked options may still require restart for now
• Added config save/clone confirmation with enter key
• Added a launcher option to enable/disable JSON Paths in config editor (disabled by default, reduces noise)
• Added "(!)" before option's label if that option has a tooltip
• Added tooltips to some options
• Fixed config editor's layout breaking when there are conditionally hidden options
• Added key changer to input options
• Added some user-friendliness to Custom FPS limit

And probably something I forgot about.

0.7.1

Recording

• Fixed videos being oversaturated

Launcher

• Improved visual quality
• Fixed some maps freezing star rating calculation
• Added an option to skip database integrity check, speeds up loading on slow HDDs. Not recommended though

0.7.0

:CatJam:

WARNING: This release may not be entirely stable. Please report any issues immediately.
WARNING: Settings and database from this version are not compatible with 0.6.9 downwards. Please make a backup if you plan to rollback.

Biggest new feature

Official launcher (under danser-launcher executable). No more info on this, just try it yourself ;)

Command

• Launching danser with -settings=credentials or -settings=launcher will crash as those names are reserved
• Added -preciseprogress flag
• Added -knockout2 flag

Info on those flags can be read in README

Recording

• Improved rendering speed on slow/mobile CPUs (3x improvement on Intel i5 8250U, from 0.36 to 1.1x at 1080p and QuickSync)
• New (incompatible) per encoder (video and audio) settings. Remember/backup your previous settings before using 0.7.0
• Forcing nv12 on QuickSync encoders as its improving speed
• Fixed combine process crashing if ffmpeg was in subfolder (by @jamiegyoung)
• Added FLAC support to mp4 container
• Added ffmpeg error to crash message

UI

• Fixed Hp Bar not sliding out on breaks

Audio

• Fixed 0 byte samples being rejected
• Fixed audio getting randomly delayed on some Windows machines

Storyboards

• Always load storyboard samples (similar behavior to osu)
• Don't play expired samples
• Fixed videos/samples not being loaded from subdirectories
• Don't use separate thread if only samples were loaded, reducing CPU usage
• Fixed 1 pixel elements being half-transparent

Knockout/Replays

• Fixed "bubbles" getting very big if multiple players died at similar time
• Added Knockout.MinPlayers setting (by @PercyDan54)
• Fixed SD/PF replays crashing danser randomly after fail point

Settings

• Moved api.txt to credentials.json. Migration happens automatically
• Added Playfield.Background.Parallax.Enabled option
• Added Playfield.Logo.Enabled option

Misc

• All danser crashes should be now recorded in danser.log

And probably something I forgot about.

Big thanks to beta testers of the launcher ❤

Happy dansing!!!

0.6.9

NICE ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Command:

• Added -offset flag. Acts like osu!'s local offset. It's applied to recorded videos as well (unlike Audio.Offset). NOTE: it's inverted compared to stable.

Recording/Background videos:

• FFmpeg can now be put in {danser dir}/ffmpeg/* to not bloat the main directory
• Fixed ffmpeg being loaded from working directory if danser is started not from inside danser's directory
• FFmpeg errors are more descriptive now

UI:

• Combo Counter now looks even closer to stable
• Ability to make PP, UR, Accuracy, Score and Combo static (not roll/bump)
• Accuracy now starts at 100%
• Configurable fade time of hit/aim errors
• Configurable scale of positional misses on hit error bar
• Added an option to scale hit error bar with speed
• Added an option to show Slider Breaks in the hit counter
• Fixed result screen not appearing if DT mod is used in preview/play modes
• Added an option to add HUD underlay (refer to wiki)
• PP/UR/hit counter font is now changeable (refer to wiki)

Storyboards:

• Fixed some storyboard assets not loading due to leading/trailing spaces

Beatmaps:

• Longer maps should take a bit less to load
• Negative AR should take waaaaay less to load
• Approach circles are forcibly disabled on AR < -88
• Various hitsounding fixes (fixed 2883509 beatmap crashing danser)

Import:

• Beatmap import spam is turned off by default, it may speed up loading of large libraries on slower PCs
• Even with -nodbcheck enabled danser will load newly added beatmap sets

Knockout:

• Added an option to sort knockout plays by Accuracy
• Score, Accuracy and PP in knockout overlay now use standardized rolling counter
• Players won't get knocked out if they lose combo before GraceEndTime (applies only to mode 0).

Settings:

• Changed default cursor size to 12
• Changed default trail density to 1
• Added Top and Bottom as aliases for TopCentre and BottomCentre alignment values in settings
• EZHT is removed from default ExcludedMods

Misc:

• -noupdatecheck is on by default for Linux packages
• Reduced assets.dpak size by 2MB (by @vladaad)
• Switched to go 1.18
• Added Discord RPC to logs (should be clear now if danser is stuck connecting to RPC and not during GLFW initialization)

And probably something I forgot about.