This markdown file contains every single feature Codename has, separated into multiple categories. List may be incomplete.
QOL = Quality of Life
- New input system
- New accuracy and misses system, added to fix the base game UI.
- New options, including:
- Controls rebinds (for P1 and P2)
- Downscroll
- Ghost Tapping
- Opponent & Co-op modes
- Memory optimisation (most of the game runs < 500mb)
- Usage of flxanimate on big sprites, such as Girlfriend to save memory.
- You can further optimize it on certain stages by enabling
Low Memory Mode
inOptions > Appearance
.
- New volume change SFX (no more loud flixel beep, customizable)
- New FPS counter allowing you to see advanced info by pressing F3.
- Simple but advanced modding system (press TAB on main menu)
- Windows only:
- (Windows) FNF is no longer blurry on 125-150% DPI
- FNF auto fixes audio on state change when you plug in/out your headphones.
- FNF auto applies dark titlebar
- Week 7 included with softcoded cutscenes (no MP4)
- Auto updating: Once the engine updates, a prompt will be available at launch. If you accept to update, the engine will auto install the newest version. All of the following update files will be downloaded from the GitHub releases:
Update-Windows.exe
- Containing the latest Windows executable. (~60mb)Update-Assets.zip
- Every asset change from the latest version to the newest. If upgrading from even older version, all of theUpdate-Assets.zip
files for the versions in between and the latest one will be downloaded.
- New assets and scripting management - Applies both to the
assets
folder and mods.- Support for
hscript-improved
, a fork made to allow HScript to push modding even further- Allows for imports
- Allows for public variables (variables shared between every script in a ScriptPack such as a song scripts)
- Allows for static variables (variabels shared between every single script ran in this mod)
- Allows you to use for example
boyfriend
instead ofPlayState.boyfriend
orgame.boyfriend
, for smaller and easier to comprehend code. - Allows you to use
@:bypassAccessor
- Allows you to use maps
- Usage of XML files for Characters instead of hardcoding them.
- Animation names, prefixes, indices, etc... can be set in the XML without an additional line of code.
- Offsets are automatically fixed. That means changes such as scaling, rotation, and playing as an opponent character wont break them.
- Entirely new song structure (
songs/name/
)- Usage of
meta.json
, which allows you to synchronize data between charts and the Freeplay menu.- Charts can use their own by specifying
meta
in the JSON (Codename charts only)
- Charts can use their own by specifying
- Charts are now located in
songs/name/charts/
, and are named after the difficultyhard.json
instead ofname-hard.json
- Difficulties are auto-detected in case they aren't specified in the
meta.json
file.
- Difficulties are auto-detected in case they aren't specified in the
- Scripts are located in
songs/name/scripts/
, and only applies to the current song.- Script that applies on every song are located in
data/charts/
.
- Script that applies on every song are located in
- Song files are now located in
songs/name/song/
. They still follow theirInst.ogg
andVoices.ogg
names.- Inst/Voices for custom difficulties can be set by naming those files
Inst-difficulty.ogg
and/orVoices-difficulty.ogg
. - Song length limits
- Inst/Voices for custom difficulties can be set by naming those files
- Usage of
- Usage of XML files for stages. XMLs can:
- Change camera zooms, camera offsets, etc...
- Add elements to the stage and
- Position them
- Add animations
- Change their scale
- Change their scrollfactor
- Change their zoomfactor
- Turn on/off their antialiasing (on by default)
- Change additional properties via child nodes.
- Change boyfriend, girlfriend and dad's info
- Moving the
<boyfriend />
,<girlfriend />
and<dad />
nodes will move them in the layers - Adding x and y attributes to them will change their position
- You can add positioning for custom characters by adding
<character name="name" />
- Moving the
- Usage of XML files for weeks.
- Characters are located in
data/weeks/characters
. - Weeks are located in
data/weeks/weeks/
- If you need to rearrange the weeks in-game, you can use the
data/weeks/weeks.txt
file.
- Characters are located in
- Editors for Charts and Characters (Stage coming soon)
- Undos/Redos supported
- Warning on closing unsaved work
- Clean UI (for ocd freaks)
- Mature Chart editor (Character editor rework soon)
- Features not found in other editors!
- Every single state & substate can be modified via HScript (
data/states/StateName.hx
)
- Support for
- Instances launched via
lime test windows
will automatically use assets from source.