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BeatUp Engine v0.6

A big quality-of-life release: a new look from the first launch to the last menu,
a much more comfortable chart editor, and a reworked hit judgment that feels
closer to the original.

Compatibility: Charts, .bu projects and patcher content from v0.5 load
unchanged. Your settings carry over.

Highlights

  • Reworked hit judgment — no more notes "snapping" to the wrong arrow, and
    Great is now reliably hittable.
  • Theme Editor — style the whole app with just six colors, with a live
    preview and your own saved themes.
  • Resizable split view — drag the divider; the game view zooms to fit.
  • New first launch & main menu — a short onboarding, an animated menu and a
    personal "Welcome back".
  • Categorised Options — Graphics, Game, Editor and Patcher in one place.

New

First launch & menu

  • Onboarding on first start: an overview of the most important hotkeys and a
    prompt for your creditor name.
  • The creditor name is written into every .slk export automatically — there
    is now a single export path instead of two. Change it anytime in the settings.
  • Redesigned main menu with an animated title, hover effects on every entry,
    a personal "Welcome back, name" and a random tip at the bottom.
  • Menu background can be customised with your own menu_background.png.

Options

  • New Options window with four categories: Graphics, Game,
    Editor and Patcher.
  • Enter Lock (on by default) — keeps Enter-Chance active in both Editor and
    Patcher.
  • Instant Play — the Patcher skips ahead to one MADI before the countdown.
  • Shadows — dims the whole window, from 0 to 85 %.
  • Default chance and Challenger Mode can be set directly for the Patcher.

Design

  • Theme Editor (Options → Theme Editor…): pick six base colors —
    Background, Surface, Accent, Text, Muted and Border — and the rest of the
    interface is derived automatically. Changes apply live, with a preview card.
  • Load the built-in themes or your own themes saved in theme.ini.
  • Minimap note bars, minimap marker, waveform, waveform inner line and waveform
    opacity are now part of the theme.
  • New glass look for dialogs: options, pause menu, quit and save prompts.

Chart Editor

  • Resizable split view: drag the middle divider to give the chart or the
    game more room. The game view scales as a whole, so nothing gets cut off.
    Double-click the divider to reset to 50/50.
  • New column order 7 4 1 9 6 3 SP F, with number keys 1–8 matching the
    columns (S and F still work).
  • Arrow Up / Down jump one beat, Shift + Arrow jumps a whole MADI.
  • Thicker, easier-to-see position indicator.
  • Max. Score shown next to Total Combo, with thousand separators.
  • Waveform inner line in an Arrow Vortex–style: a subtle core inside the
    peak envelope.

Player

  • Rebuilt playback bar: one clean row with play, stop, time, progress and speed.
  • Hover preview on the progress bar shows the time you would jump to.
  • Speed is color-coded: green above 100 %, red below.
  • In the chart-only view (F2) the transport sits in the menu bar so it never
    covers the chart.

Updates

  • The loading screen checks for a new version first and shows a single
    in-app notice with a link to the download page.
  • "Mute this message for 7 days" hides the notice for a week.

Fixed

  • Hit judgment: presses no longer jump to a neighbouring note, Great is
    reachable across its whole window, and fewer presses register as a miss.
  • Hit explosion now flashes clearly on the receptor and scales with the
    arrow size.
  • Enter-Chance arrows and receptors line up correctly.
  • Ctrl + drag selection works across both sides of the chart.
  • Loading a .bu project now resumes the music at the saved position
    instead of from the start. Resuming after a pause continues in place as well.
  • Auto Enter / Enter Lock now also applies in the Editor right after loading
    a song or project.
  • The Editor no longer carries over music that was previewed in the Patcher.
  • Themes selected in Options now actually apply, and saved themes load
    correctly     again.
  • Player: rounded corners, buttons no longer cut off, speed always visible.
  • Fixed an interface conflict that could show a warning in the Options window.

Upgrading: replace the executable and keep your assets/ folder next to it.
Your config.ini, theme.ini and projects stay as they are. Custom themes
saved with an earlier version may need to be saved once more in the Theme Editor.

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