EpiCreeper
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3 months ago i love this idea! it would make skinning much easier, but i have a way to implement it that might work better:
instead of naming the redir file after the object that will use the image, it would be named after the picture itself. the content of the redir file would have the name of every object using the image. each object could also modify the image by changing its scale, rotation and color. here is what the content of a arrow.png.redir file could look like:
note-hitobject-1(s=100, r=180, c=#ff0000); note-hitobject-2(s=100, r=-90, c=#00ff00); note-hitobject-3(s=100, r=90, c=#0000ff); note-hitobject-4(s=100, r=0, c=#000000); //uses the default settings
this way skins file sizes could be really light weight, and snap colored skins would not be limited by the hitobject sheet.
Enanout
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
when making a skin, sometimes you would use the same texture for different columns, which would require to copypaste the texture, for example when skinning long notes
Describe the solution you'd like
instead of duplicating the texture, create text files with a .redir extension and rename it to the texture, and inside the text file, write the texture that it is redirected to. you only store the image once and then make redir files for each texture that would look the same. so that, instead of having 4 copies of the same long note texture, you have only the image and the rest are redir files which would look something like this
This could be used not only for ln's but for note skins if they don't use a sheet instead of duplicating hit objects of the same sprite, you replace them by redirs
Describe alternatives you've considered
i'm fine with duplicating the textures for now, but i would really prefer this, since it's atleast a bit more optimized
Additional context
yes this is literally just a feature from stepmania skinning but we don't talk about that🤫