UltraStar Deluxe Changelog

What's new in UltraStar Deluxe 1.1

• platform:
• upd: platform independent code base
• upd: endianness independent code base
• add: Linux and FreeBSD support (x86 and x86_64)
• add: Mac OS X support (Intel 10.5/10.6)
• audio:
• upd: reimplemented audio playback and input
• upd: pluggable audio/video modules
• Bass input/playback/decoder (windows only)
• SDL audio playback (all platforms)
• Portaudio playback/input (all platforms)
• FFmpeg decoder (all platforms)
• upd: video files enabled for the #MP3 tag (using the first audio stream of a video)
• add: Microphone Passthrough (experimental)
• fix: a start without a microphone plugged-in does not result in a crash
• add: background music
• video:
• upd: revised video decoder implementation
• upd: windows: updated FFmpeg binary
• upd: performance improvements
• interface:
• upd: video backgrounds for themes
• upd: Song Screen: performance improvements with many songs
• upd: theme change w/o restarting Ultrastar Deluxe
• upd: new score display in Sing Screen (animated)
• upd: Score Screen redesigned (animations)
• upd: Deluxe theme enhanced (ty mog)
• upd: ability to select party modes before the game
• upd: default skin and color are read from themes and skins
• add: visualisations (due to projectM) as background while singing
• upd: Truetype fonts (due to freetype6) instead of the old bitmap fonts
• -> support for international character sets
• -> smoother type face
• upd: new lyrics effect: Shift
• upd: more than one additional song path can be set in config.ini (SongDirX)
• upd: microphone settings simplified
• vu-meter for incoming signals on the selected input
• display of input volume
• adjust input volume by using '+' and '-' keys
• threshold display (gray bar)
• adjust threshold with 'T' key
• upd: international keyboard layout (uniform shortcuts on QWERTZ, QWERTY, AZERTY, ...)
• rem: removed confusing solmization option
• add: text reflections in themes
• add: note lines can be switched off in options
• add: mouse support (hardware and software)
• add: texture type "Colorized": Texture is colorized by adjusting the hue value (see HSB color model)
• add: overlay when pause modus is activated in Sing Screen
• fix: some "Screens=2" bugs
• add: Unicode support: All "printable" characters should work with the input fields (e.g. players' names)
• add: resizable window
• add: toggle between fullscreen and windowed mode with ALT+Return (Linux and FreeBSD only)
• fix: mapped same function to Return and Enter (numpad)
• add: video preview during song selection
• add: toggle displayed time with 'T' key between current position, remaining or total playback time
• add: mic configuration assistance: error messages are displayed if multiple or no mics were assigned to a player.
• internal:
• upd: synchronization of lyrics, video and audio
• (timers were not synchronized until now)
• you can be choose via config.ini ("SyncTo" option) between:
• synchronize lyrics and video to audio (default)
• synchronize audio and video to lyrics
• no synchronization
• upd: DLL interface replaced by Lua plugin interface
• upd: Select Object replaced by Select Slide
• upd: improved stability and major code base cleanup
• fix: solved some bugs/crashes in Midi/Kar converter
• upd: Vista/Win7 conform: configuration files is saved in the user directory. Running USDX from CD/DVD should also be possible from now on.
• upd: cover thumbnails are saved in an SQLite database
• -> more reliable than the old solution; small performance loss on start
• fix: cursor freeze after Alt-Tab fixed through change of SDL.dll
• fix: better detection of ending at songs/videos while using FFmpeg
• upd: windows: user data will be placed in installation directory if user has write permissions, else it will be stored in APPDATA
• song files:
• upd: UTF8 support
• upd: #Encoding tag
• CP1250: Central/Eastern european encoding (should not be used for new files)
• CP1252: Western european encoding; was used as default before 1.1 (should not be used for new files)
• Locale: uses system encoding (should not be used for new files!)
• UTF8: text file is encoded in UTF8 (recommended)
• upd: select default encoding (if #Encoding tag is missing) via the "Encoding" option in config.ini.
• Possible values:
• "Auto" (Default), "UTF8",
• "CP1252" (USDX