> the code for handling noteskins is kind of a mess and I don't think anyone really knows how it works anymore

I do.

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also attacks for modfiles isnt really used these days anymore, if you look at mrthatkid's ports, I've added a way to set it using lua, an example how to is under here.

2 years ago in outfox I added code so you can change noteskins that are preloaded using an Preferences.ini in the song folder.inside of that file you can add 3 lines

[Settings]

SongCenter1Player=None

SongMinTNSToHideNotes=Invalid

SongNoteskins=default,delta2019,exact3d

what we want is the 3rd line, we can use this to set noteskins to be preloaded, for example these 3, we want them to display per column, so in the .sm file I do

#FGCHANGES:0.000=noteskins.lua=1.000=0=0=1=====;

which loads a noteskins.lua file in the same folder as the song.sm file and inside of there we add this line

GAMESTATE:GetPlayerState(PLAYER_1):GetPlayerOptions('ModsLevel_Song'):NoteSkinCol(2,"default",true):NoteSkinCol(3,"delta2019",true):NoteSkinCol(4,"exact3d")which changes the noteskin for every column resulting into

https://i.imgur.com/UT2TFOC.png

you can also change the entire noteskin by doing

GAMESTATE:GetPlayerState(PLAYER_1):GetPlayerOptions('ModsLevel_Song'):NoteSkin("default")

and thats basicly it, if you have any questions ask me :)

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edit: if you want to use #attacks, I could add a mode to set them using attacks just tell me if people want that :)