Holodance
GrouchoMarxism 2017 年 1 月 7 日 下午 10:46
Is there a basic tutorial on how to use OSU and this game?
I have never used OSU before, but I downloaded it and some beatmaps ... but from there I am lost. I have no idea how to get the two to integrate. Using OSU seems like a must to really enjoy the game and download beatmaps for songs you want to "play."
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Thrash Bandicoot 2017 年 1 月 7 日 下午 11:47 
After you have installed osu and have downloaded some beatmaps from the osu website, just double click on a beatmap file (should be a file that ends in .osz) You don't have to have osu open. Once you double click an .osz file it will automatically open the osu program and install that .osz file (which includes the song and beatmap). You can switch back to your desktop and see that the .osz file you clicked on it will now be gone. You can click on each .osz file to install it or you can select them all and do it at once by right clicking and opening with osu. You can then close osu (although you don't have to) and open holodance and play the songs you installed.

I had not used osu before Holodance either so I was also confused how it worked. I didn't know that the song came packagaed with the beatmap. I think a pinned guide for getting osu set up would definately be helpful.

Edit: Also for anyone else reading this- you have to sign up for an osu account before you can actually download beatmaps from the osu website.
最后由 Thrash Bandicoot 编辑于; 2017 年 1 月 7 日 下午 11:57
GrouchoMarxism 2017 年 1 月 8 日 上午 11:29 
Thank you. I will try going through your steps. You're right a pinned tutorial seems appropriate.
jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 8 日 上午 11:34 
If all goes well, within a week or two, we'll have a much easier way to play osu! beatmaps in Holodance by directly downloading them from within the game. I'm really sorry about the hassle you have to go through and agree that a guide would be ideal ... but actually, Thrash Bandicoot wrote an almost perfect guide already, thank you! So i guess what I'll do for now (until we have the more convenient download option in the game) is pin this thread ;-)

One little thing to add: Instead of double-clicking the songs, you can also put them into the osu-songs folder and then open osu (I guess what most people get stuck with is not opening osu at least once after they copied the osz-files to the correct location).

There's also a nice guide on the official osu Website: Adding Beatmaps[osu.ppy.sh]
GrouchoMarxism 2017 年 1 月 18 日 上午 1:02 
引用自 Thrash Bandicoot
After you have installed osu and have downloaded some beatmaps from the osu website, just double click on a beatmap file (should be a file that ends in .osz) You don't have to have osu open. Once you double click an .osz file it will automatically open the osu program and install that .osz file (which includes the song and beatmap). You can switch back to your desktop and see that the .osz file you clicked on it will now be gone. You can click on each .osz file to install it or you can select them all and do it at once by right clicking and opening with osu. You can then close osu (although you don't have to) and open holodance and play the songs you installed.

I had not used osu before Holodance either so I was also confused how it worked. I didn't know that the song came packagaed with the beatmap. I think a pinned guide for getting osu set up would definately be helpful.

Edit: Also for anyone else reading this- you have to sign up for an osu account before you can actually download beatmaps from the osu website.

I followed your instructions and everything happened according to what you said but when I open Holodance how do I access the songs? I go to Free Mode (where the OSU is listed) but no songs are listed nor is there an option to access them.
jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 19 日 上午 3:30 
引用自 GrouchoMarxism
I followed your instructions and everything happened according to what you said but when I open Holodance how do I access the songs? I go to Free Mode (where the OSU is listed) but no songs are listed nor is there an option to access them.

That is strange. So just to be sure: You point to the "Free Mode" and click "Enter "World" but then, when the osu! file browser opens (big screen right in front of you with an osu! icon on the top left and navigation widgets on top of the right half of the screen), instead of giving you a list of song, it comes up empty, and there's no error message or anything that would tell you what's happening?

If that's the case, first of all apologies for the trouble!

Then, could you please send me the file "output_log.txt", ideally via email to jashan AT narayana minus games dot net (our company domain is http://narayana-games.net, so from that, the email is easy to guess ... for humans ;-) ). You find that file in: D:\Steam\steamapps\common\Holodance\Holodance_Data ... D:\Steam is probably for you, if you installed Steam to the default location, so that would be C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Holodance\Holodance_Data then.

I'm currently working on making the whole process of getting started with osu! much easier because especially with putting the osu!-archives into the osu!-songs folder and then starting osu! at least one time, we have new players jumping through way too many hoops.

If you did everything right and still don't see any songs in the osu!-beatmap browser in Holodance, the most likely explanation is that you either have a huge library (we're also working on making that work fast and reliably - I'm talking about players who have 5000, 10000 or more songs), or you have run into a bug that no one else has run into, yet (we fixed a lot of issues already but that doesn't mean there could not be bugs we haven't discovered, yet).

EDIT: You may want to check the alpha-branch, because in addition to the "refresh" button that only reloads the cache, we now also have a "rescan" button that will repeat scanning the file system. That should fix some potential issues, or at least provide a decent workaround if something get corrupted in the cache.
最后由 jashan 编辑于; 2017 年 1 月 19 日 上午 4:21
Jax 2017 年 1 月 20 日 上午 3:17 
引用自 GrouchoMarxism
I followed your instructions and everything happened according to what you said but when I open Holodance how do I access the songs? I go to Free Mode (where the OSU is listed) but no songs are listed nor is there an option to access them.

Try to load Osu once and hit play until you get the song list. I had similar problem before and that's what worked.
Thrash Bandicoot 2017 年 1 月 20 日 上午 8:57 
I think the first thing to check is to make sure you installed osu! to the default location. The osu! program should be located in C:\Users\YOUR_USERNAME_HERE\AppData\Local\osu!
The game will not load the songs if you chose to install osu! somewhere else. This is an important point I forgot to mention.
jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 21 日 上午 7:12 
Yup, having osu! installed in the default location certainly helps. Meanwhile I did add some checks so that it should immediately work even if you have installed osu! in another folder or have configured osu! to store its files in a non-standard folder ... but unfortunately, these things sometimes fail.

What you can always do in such cases is manually enter the correct songs-library folder in Holodance. There's a limited UI available for that in the flatscreen Window (i.e. on the monitor). You can access this by clicking the button "Activate Full UI" and then, in the are that has the "Player Height" button, check the "Paths" checkbox. The idea is to look for the correct path in the Windows file explorer and then simply copy that path over into "osu! Songs Path".

Alternatively, you can edit the file "Configuration.json" which you find in: <pathToSteam>\Steam\steamapps\common\Holodance. Usually <pathToSteam> is "C:\Program Files (x86)". This file also lets you change where Holodance stores its replay sessions and a few other things.
GrouchoMarxism 2017 年 1 月 21 日 下午 2:49 
So I did have OSU installed as mentioned above on the C drive but Holodance on another drive. I reinstalled Holodance on the C drive. Still no songs listed when I open the Free Mode.
VGDragon 2017 年 1 月 22 日 下午 1:02 
引用自 GrouchoMarxism
So I did have OSU installed as mentioned above on the C drive but Holodance on another drive. I reinstalled Holodance on the C drive. Still no songs listed when I open the Free Mode.

Maybe I know the problem

- go to "C:\Users\*yourUserName*\AppData\Local\"
-search for the osu! folder.
- if it doesn't exist make a "osu!" folder
in this folder have to be osu! (and the "songs" folder form osu!)

if you don't want it this way
- open "steam\steamapps\Holodance\Configuration.json" with the editor
- search for "pathOsuSongs" (or push Strg+f and search for it)
- after the ":" you have a path that looks like "C:\\Users\\Dragonking3x\\AppData\\Local/osu!/Songs" ....
swith that path with you osu! song folder path



jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 22 日 下午 1:12 
引用自 GrouchoMarxism
So I did have OSU installed as mentioned above on the C drive but Holodance on another drive. I reinstalled Holodance on the C drive. Still no songs listed when I open the Free Mode.

Holodance and osu! certainly don't have to be installed on the same drive. I have Holodance on D: here, and osu! on C.

Holodance *should* recognize where osu! is installed regardless of whether it's installed in the default location or in some other location. But it's possible that for some reason, this fails under certain circumstances.

I'm about to upload a new version to the alpha-branch ... could you try that one? And if it fails, please send the logfile so I can check what's going wrong there.
jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 22 日 下午 2:39 
That new version is now on the alpha-branch. At the moment, only the "minimal" version has V0.7.5b (you can select that when you start up Holodance through Steam). I'll do my best to finish everything up tomorrow for a full build that will also go to the default-branch then.
Avatar 2017 年 1 月 27 日 下午 11:33 
This single thread is what's getting me to change my negative review to a positive review, now that I've worked out how to get songs that I recognise.
jashan  [开发者] 2017 年 1 月 28 日 上午 2:25 
Wow, thank you! I really appreciate you changing the review - and apologize once more for the hassle that using osu! beatmaps with Holodance has been for quite a few users. It's not perfect, yet, but I believe we're getting close to awesome.

One thing I haven't said much about in the release notes but that is actually fairly big is that Holodance now automatically downloads and unpacks beatmaps that it finds in Favorites or Last Played, that aren't available on your computer. At the moment, this is only half useful but it's the foundation for two upcoming features that I am very excited about:

First: Currently, you can only have one file with favorites. I'm working on letting you have any number of favorites files that you can then select on the top level of the favorites sorting/grouping. This will let you directly import your collections from osu! but - and here's the awesome thing: This will also make it possible to share your favorites with friends. So, if you have a nice collection, like the one in osu! Beatmaps that you should try in Holodance - add yours!, instead of clicking each link, downloading the file, putting it to the right location, opening osu, then finally being able to play it in Holodance ... after having to search for it with the browser ... it's just "download favorites file, start Holodance, open these favorites, wait for downloads to complete, play". For new players that don't have osu! installed, we'll provide a few "starter packs". This should significantly streamline the experience for new players interested in playing osu! beatmaps.

Second: Kind of similar but still noteworthy: Eventually, we'll have a server that we upload each session to. With that in place, there will be two areas "Stream" and "Friends' Stream" that show you the songs that anyone, or your friends have recently played. It's similar because it's about sharing songs you like with friends - but it's much more immediate. With this, you can literally play Holodance while a friend is playing Holodance, and "follow their trail" through the beatmaps they play.

And third ;-) ... you'll be able to browse the full osu! library from directly within Holodance and download whichever songs / beatmaps you are interested in.
Red Panda 2017 年 3 月 12 日 下午 4:36 
I just got the game and so far i've been trying to set it up for an hour. I already had hundreds of osu! songs but they were on my external hard drive, or (:E) Drive. I kept trying to mess around with the path directory and nothing was working.

I finally figured out, after an hour, that in the Configuration.json file that there was an unused extra song folder within the HoloDance files. I imported most of my songs into C:\SteamLibrary\steamapps\common\Holodance\GameData\Songs\osu (change drive letter depending on the hard drive the game is downloaded on) and then set ("useOsuExtraFolder": false) to ("useOsuExtraFolder": true), on the Configuration.json.

I don't really know why changing the path directory didn't work, but this method apprently did. Just posting my solution to a problem I had because I didn't see anything on this forum about using the extra song folder.
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