Release 1.0.4

[1.0.4] - 7/22/25

Fixed

• Toolbox crashing on open

Full Changelog: 1.0.3...1.0.4

Release 1.0.3

Added

• Added the ability for mods to create their own options through an options.json file

Fixed

• Note type textures not loading sometimes
• Switch Mod Menu not having a scrollfactor of 0, making mod options scroll with the camera.

Full Changelog: 1.0.2...1.0.3

Release 1.0.2

Added

• Descriptions to all options in the options menu.

Fixed

• Freeplay music option only working on the first song.
• Optimized menu bgs option sometimes making a black menu background.
• VSlice charts are properly split among sections.
• Some results screen anims.
• Color quantization on notes breaking on BPM changes.

Removed

• Prototype title screen option from the menu.

Full Changelog: 1.0.1...1.0.2

Release 1.0.1

Small bugfix / feature update

What's Changed

Added

• Hitting SHIFT while ENTER to leave the chart editor now skips to that time.
• Support for Scroll Speed events for VSlice charts.
• Throw Exception On Error option.

Changed

• Charts are backed up every 5 minutes now as opposed to 10
• Reworked autosave button in chart editor, it is now a button that can let you load an actual chart.
• MS popup text is now always antialiased by default
• Results screen no longer always rounds down accuracy.

Fixed

• Softlock on the title screen when check for updates is disabled
• MODDING_ALLOWED define not working properly.
• FPS counter sometimes being inaccurate
• Specific vocal tracks per character not loading properly if the character is invalid.
• Game crash when trying to load an invalid UI skin.

Full Changelog: 1.0.0...1.0.1

Release 1.0.0

Oh boy, the final major release!

What's Changed

Added

• Revamped Character Editor
• Skip Song option in story mode when developer mode is active.
• Auto Open Charter option.
• Input text has more features (highlighting, etc).
• Split vocal files per character
• Seperate player and enemy hitsounds checkbox in charter.
• A revamped HUD config menu.
• The ability for notes to carry thier own scroll speeds.
• Functions for setting note speed with Lua.
• Functions for setting note colors with Lua.
• Support for animated winning / losing icons.
• The ability to toggle botplay by hitting the F6 key.
• A toggle to show the commit hash in the info display (off by default).
• getUnspawnedNoteType() function to Lua.
• Add a dead variable to PlayState
• Performance improvements to outlined text.
• Add attack and pre-attack animations to bf.
• Made shader error messages more descriptive in Lua.
• Clear progess warning on stage editor.
• Organized and documented Project.xml
• HSCRIPT_ALLOWED define to Project.xml
• CHECK_FOR_UPDATES define to Project.xml
• COMPILE_ALL_CLASSES define to Project.xml
• backgroundColor property for stages.
• imageDirectory property for stages.
• dances property for stage objects.
• flipX and flipY propert for stage objects.
• zIndex property for stage objects and characters
• Improved Discord RPC support.
• Suppor for reading psych engine characters.
• The ability to click on the title screen to enter the game.
• onError onDisconnect onReady signals to Discord RPC.
• onUncaughtError and onCritcalError signals.
• New VSlice pixel note splashes and icons.
• Allow for engine classes to be extended with HScript.
• VSync option.
• Check for Updates option.
• NdllLoader class.
• Low Quality option.
• New toolbox graphic
• Warning for commit hash macro failing.
• FlxStringUtil functions to Lua.
• pause() and resume() functions to Lua for sounds.
• alt animation notetype.
• Middescroll and Downscroll toggles to modchart editor
• XMModifier to modchart editor.
• YawModifier and PitchModifier to modchart editor.
• ColorTransformRed ColorTransformBlue and ColorTransformGreen to modchart editor.
• StrumBounceXModifier, StrumBounceYModifier, StrumBounceZModifier to modchart editor.

Changed

• Updated Haxe to 4.3.7
• Start using Swordcube lime, flixel, and openfl forks for better performance.
• Use VRAM sprites whenever possible
• freeplay.json to replace freeplaySonglist.txt
• Removed use of deprecated functions from codebase.
• Chart editor uses sustain graphics for hold notes.
• Rewritten scripting backend, allowing for easier management of Lua and HScript simletaneously.
• Scaled sprites are no longer rounded.
• Optimized window title bars
• popup errors now have a cap
• Crash log stack traces can now be clicked, allowing for jumping to the line for easier engine debugging.
• Priting to the console with trace/print will now show the file name and line number (HScript only).
• Softcoded all stages

Fixed

• Characters that dance left and right not playing the dance right animation
• Blazin crashing
• Crash when trying to load an invalid game over character
• Improved sustain rendering
• Disabled cliprect rounding on sustains for a sharper cliprect.
• Sustains not rendering with modcharting tools and VRAM sprites
• Sustains not clipping properly on the opponent side with modcharting tools
• Antialiasing not properly applying / unapplying to noteskins in the chart editor.
• Change UI Skin event not properly working on pixel skins.
• Changing keycounts with modcharting tools
• Note sustains scale properly when changing speeds.
• Vocals not stopping on state reset.
• Shaders should no longer throw an error when failing to compile, sending the info to the console instead.
• Icons not loading when not being a multiple of 150x150.
• Lua scripts causing a game crash when destroyed.
• State background color not resetting to black when changed.
• Holes in the event sprite graphic.
• Copy/Paste events not properly working.
• Events being invisible in the chart editor when no notes are in a section.
• getRenderedNoteType() function in Lua returning the wrong value.
• Some graphics not being properly antialiased.
• Custom Discord RPC not working.
• Stage script not properly being loaded on change stage event.
• Chart editor not changing sections when scrolling.
• Some typing in extern classes.
• Mods menu allowing you to disable your current mod.
• Custom mania data per mod not loading
• Songs not starting sometimes.
• Webpages not opening on Linux.
• Cutscenes being above the notes.
• setShaderProperty not working with integer values.
• Story mode crashing when switching songs on Linux.
• New Mod Menu inputs being the wrong width by default

Removed

• Unused screenshot keybind graphic.
• Fakeout death screen
• VSlice sound tray
• FPS lil buddies.
• Unused Project.xml defines.
• Some deprecated compatability classes

Full Changelog: 0.5.0pre...1.0.0

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0.5.0 pre

0.5.0pre

The full release of 0.5.0 has been in development for a while now and with mainly only bugfixes left its time for a stable prerelease.

In case you haven't been keeping up here's whats changed since 0.4.2
Im probably forgetting a lot of things too so keep that in mind.

Added

• Weekend 1
• Erect mode
• Support for vslice chart format.
• Zoom in the chart editor.
• Lots of new functions and variables in the Lua API. See the wiki!
• singDuration property to character jsons to control their sing duration.
• Flixel Splash Screen option to toggle the HaxeFlixel splash screen that shows up when the game starts.
• Icons now bump to the song playing when you play it with the space bar in freeplay.
• When using the default time bar style the time bar color changes depending on what character is currently in focus.
• Score text changed to use the format `< Score:$score ~ Misses:$misses ~ Accuracy:$accuracy% ~ $comboRating ~ $rating >
• Animation Debug now has a toggleable stage and a character position dot to help with offsets.
• You can now switch what side you are using to edit offsets on in Animation Debug.
• Mute Vocals option in chart editor.
• Persistent Cached Data option (stops clearing asset caches).
• Vram Sprites option (loads textures into gpu)
• Skip Results Screen Options.
• You can now zoom into the Animation Debug using the mouse.
• HScript support!
• Global scripts will be run on any mod in data/scripts/global
• Local scripts will be run on the current mod in data/scripts/local
• You can put any .lua or .hx file into a song folder to have it run (like psych engine)
• Discord Rich Presence can now be changed per mod.
• Runtime shader support
• Change Keycount events
• Copy/Paste events in charter
• Cool new modchart features via modcharting tools haxelib
• Modcharting tools can be used in lua scripts, hscript, and the modchart editor (hit 9 midsong)
• Lil' Buddies in charter
• Multiatlas support in characters via extraSheets property
• FlxAnimate support (Texture atlas)
• mainCharacterID property in group character jsons
• Characters can now have an hscript attached.
• Added script type to cutscenes.
• Added introSound property to cutscenes.
• Notes can now be skewed
• Notes can now carry a hscript or lua script.
• Color quants option.
• Stages can now have a hscript.
• Stages have a HSV shader attached, used in voiid chronicles.
• backgroundColor property in stages.
• imageDirectory property in stages.
• dances property in stage objects
• The mod system has been changed to allow for more customization and less conflicts. The currently selected mod will take priority over all other mods.
• The base game assets are now in a mod, this mod will take priority 2nd to the currently selected mod.
• All states/and substates can now carry a script.
• Added developer mode option. Shows ingame logs. Press F3 when enabled.
• Different breakfast themes per character.
• Ingame mod creator gui.
• Added support for hud elements to be moved.
• The ability to write custom states and substates via hscript
• Added crash handling for better debugging
• Auto generated docs after every commit
• Dinnerbone mode (basically just flips all characters upside down)

Fixed

• Bug with charting state (specifically specialAudioName not working in it).
• Bug where you can go to negative song position in the charter.
• Bug where the ui skin menu opens when opening the Note Options section in the options menu.
• Bug where the game would crash in the pause menu when Prototype Title Screen is on.
• Bug where the game would crash when opening the ui skin menu with an invalid ui skin in your save data.
• Bug with anything that would normally open the 'application error' window that crashed on Linux.
• Bug where pause menu music wouldn't disappear after closing the menu.
• Bug where the game crashes when trying to load a song or week set that does not exist in story mode.
• Animations now play when character will idle is true like how they would in psych (aka animation fully plays then once it stops the character idles).
• That one bug where characters that dance left and right would be slower than needed at high bpms.
• Difficulty specific audio not playing in freeplay (Linux).
• crochet now links to Conductor.crochet instead of Conductor.stepCrochet in lua (WARNING: This fix may accidentally break some obsecure scripts, to fix them use the new stepCrochet variable instead).
• Some alphabet font characters having the wrong name internally, causing them to not appear correctly in-game.
• Not being able to set note or strum angles in lua.
• Pause Menu now uses it's own camera so that it isn't affected by the game's ui zoom.
• Event Luas now have the create() function called on them just like the rest of the game's lua.
• Crashes with sounds not having a _transform value while trying to use it.
• Memory Counter reports correct values.
• Note splashes should now be antialiased properly.
• Lots of new built in events.
• Skip time option when charting.
• Change playback speed when charting,
• Bug where charts in psych extra keys would display the wrong key count.
• All cached assets should try and clear when changing states to hopefully help on memory leaks
• The window icon will change to the icon of the currently selected mod
• Sustains should no longer be able to be a negative value in the chart editor, causing rendering issues.
• Fixed a lime issue where audio could be muffled or low quality due to lime having a gain limiter on by default see FunkinCrew#3318
• Fixed an issue where the options menu music would not play.

Changed

• The option Import Old Scores is now in Misc.
• Optimized Note Splash spawning.
• Optimized Score text and Info text in PlayState.
• Pause menu music is now cached at the start of each song to prevent lag when opening the menu.
• Freeplay no longer has < > when the selected song has one difficulty.
• Info text now goes onto the time bar in the leather engine time bar style.
• Stage sprites that use the beatHit animation no longer are forced to play it every beat (if it's already playing it won't play until it's not).
• Tutorial's camera zoom now acts like it does in base game* (not exactly the same, but close enough, and a less janky way as well).
• Some miscellaneous ui changes in-game.
• Revamped Animation Debug Menu.
• Results screen note graph now uses one texture for much better performance.
• Hitting 8 midsong will now bring you to animation debug
• Better tankman offsets
• Optimized all spritesheets
• Results screen now matches the one from vslice
• Softcoded all stages and characters
• Added support for voiid chronicles lua functions.
• HSV note shader to RGB note shader (may break some old ui skins)
• The time bar is now a group
• Updated polymod to 1.8.0
• All menu backgrounds are now recolored ingame.
• Story mode and freeplay will no longer crash when no weeks or songs are present.
• Window title is now named after the current mod rather than a text file.
• Sprites created with lua are now antialiased by default.
• Strums are now in a separate image from the notes (This might break mods overwriting the default ui skin)
• Stages should now work even when not in the stageList
• Gf is now a group character, gf + speakers.
• Sustains now show the actual sustain texture.
• The mouse pointer will automatically hide itself during gameplay.
• The window title will show (DEBUG) when compiling to debug mode.
• Note splash texture now uses the one from vslice.
• Using the options button in the pause menu now sends you to the full menu rather than a submenu.

Removed

• LeatherLogoBumpin
• Unused spritesheets
• Support for shaggy charts (The ones made in the kade engine 1.2 3 year old mod that nobody has touched in forever)
• Replays support (nobody used them and they caused a lot of overhead)

Full Changelog: https://github.com/Vortex2Oblivion/LeatherEngine/commits/0.5.0pre

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