Unnamed SDVX clone

A game based on KShootMania and SDVX.

Download latest Windows build

Skinning Documentation

Demo Videos:

Current features:

• Completely skinnable GUI
• OGG/MP3 Audio streaming (with preloading for gameplay performance)
• Uses KShoot charts (*.ksh) (1.6 supported)
• Functional gameplay and scoring
• Saving of local scores
• Autoplay
• Basic controller support (Still some issues with TC+)
• Changeable settings and key mapping in configuration file
• Skinning support
• Supports new sound FX method (real-time sound FX) and old sound FX method (separate NOFX & sound effected music files)
• Song database cache for near-instant game startup (sqlite3)
• Song database searching
• Linux/Windows/macOS support

Features currently on hold / in progress:

• Song select UI/Controls to change HiSpeed and other game settings

The folder that is scanned for songs can be changed in the "Main.cfg" file (songfolder = "path to song folder").
Make sure you use a plain text editor like Notepad, Notepad++ or gedit; NOT a rich text editor like Wordpad or Word!

If something breaks in the song database, delete "maps.db". Please note this will also wipe saved scores.

Controls

Default bindings (Customizable):

• Start: [1]
• BTN (White notes , A/B/C/D): [D] [F] [J] [K]
• FX (Yellow notes, L/R): [C] [M]
• VOL-L (Cyan laser, Move left / right): [W] [E]
• VOL-R (Magenta laser): [O] [P]

Song Select:

• Use the arrow keys or knobs to select a song and difficulty
• Use [Page Down]/[Page Up] to scroll faster
• Press [F2] to select a random song
• Press [F8] demo mode (continuously autoplay random songs)
• Press [F9] to reload the skin
• Press [F11] to open the the currently selected chart in the editor specified by the EditorPath setting
• Press [F12] to open the directory of the currently selected song in your file explorer
• Press [Enter] or [Start] to start a song
• Press [Ctrl]+[Start] to start song with autoplay
• Press [FX-L] to open up filter select to filter the displayed songs
• Press [Start] when selecting filters to toggle between level and folder filters
• Press [FX-L] + [FX-R] to open up game settings (Hard gauge, Random, Mirror, etc.)
• Press [TAB] to open the Search bar on the top to search for songs

How to run:

Just run 'usc-game' or 'usc-game_Debug' from within the 'bin' folder. Or, to play a chart immediately:

{Download Location}/bin> usc-game {path to *.ksh chart} [flags]

Command line flags (all are optional):

• -notitle - Skips the title menu launching the game directly into song select.
• -mute - Mutes all audio output
• -autoplay - Plays chart automatically, no user input required
• -autobuttons Like autoplay, but just for the buttons. You only have to control the lasers
• -autoskip - Skips beginning of song to the first chart note
• -convertmaps - Allows converting of *.ksh charts to a binary format that loads faster (experimental, feature not complete)
• -debug - Used to show relevant debug info in game such as hit timings, and scoring debug info
• -test - Runs test scene, for development purposes only

How to build:

Clone the project and then run git submodule update --init --recursive to download the required submodules.

Windows:

It is not required to build from source. A download link to a pre-built copy of the game is located at the beginning of this README. The recommended Visual Studio version is 2017, if you want to use a different version then you will need to edit the 'GenerateWin64ProjectFiles.bat' if you want to follow the guide below.

1. Install CMake
2. Install vcpkg
3. Install the packages listed in 'build.windows'
4. Run 'GenerateWin64ProjectFiles.bat' from the root of the project
   • If this fails, try using the -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=[VCPKG_ROOT]\scripts\buildsystems\vcpkg.cmake flag that vcpkg should give you on install
5. Build the generated Visual Studio project 'FX.sln'
6. Run the executable made in the 'bin' folder

To run from Visual Studio, go to Properties for Main > Debugging > Working Directory and set it to '$(OutDir)' or '..\bin'

Linux:

1. Install CMake
2. Check 'build.linux' for libraries to install
3. Run cmake -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release . and then make from the root of the project
4. Run the executable made in the 'bin' folder

macOS:

1. Install dependencies
   • Homebrew: brew install cmake freetype libvorbis sdl2 libpng jpeg libarchive
2. Run mac-cmake.sh and then make from the root of the project.
3. Run the executable made in the 'bin' folder.

Embedded (Raspberry Pi):

1. Install the libraries listed in 'build.linux'
   • For things that are not in the package manager repository or too low of a version you have to download and build yourself
   • SDL2 Can be installed using the instructions found here
2. Run cmake -DEMBEDDED=ON .
3. If cmake completes succesfully run make
4. Run the executable made in the 'bin' folder