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feat(scoring): Rock Band-style drums scoring from a YARG engine port - #20
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Score drum charts the way the rhythm games do: assets/engine.js is a JavaScript port of YARG.Core's drums engine (LGPL-3.0, kept as its own replaceable file with LICENSE.LGPL-3.0, LICENSE.GPL-3.0 and NOTICE.md), driven through assets/session.js (MIT) which adds difficulty levels, star power metadata, assists and timing / roll / drum-solo bonuses. - Per-player difficulty Easy..Expert+ (settings, HUD badge, D/Shift+D). Expert drops x2 kicks; lower levels, star power, fills and solos come from the drum tab's feedpak 1.20.0 gameplay metadata (Expert only without it). - Assists: auto kick / auto cymbals up to a difficulty (played on the drum sound at their own volume), timing presets, Pro cymbals, input offset. - The 2D view marks hits / misses from the engine and draws a score HUD (multiplier, score, streak, stars, star power) with Score on. - Drum-tab accents follow the authored `a` flag; x2 kicks map to GM 35. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: mattromano <42412983+mattromano@users.noreply.github.com>
📝 WalkthroughWalkthroughThe plugin adds Rock Band-style drum scoring, chart difficulty selection, and assists. It connects a new scoring engine and session module to renderer settings, input handling, and HUD displays. Documentation, tests, release notes, and license notices are also added or updated. ChangesDrum scoring and gameplay
Priority: ➖ Normal Estimated code review effort: 4 (Complex) | ~60 minutes Change: Feature Sequence Diagram(s)sequenceDiagram
participant DrumInput
participant ScreenRenderer
participant createSession
participant DrumsEngine
participant ScoreHUD
DrumInput->>ScreenRenderer: provide pad hit and input time
ScreenRenderer->>createSession: submit mapped hit
createSession->>DrumsEngine: process hit
DrumsEngine-->>createSession: return scoring state and events
createSession-->>ScreenRenderer: expose state and verdicts
ScreenRenderer->>ScoreHUD: render score and star-power state
Merge Risk: 🟡 Moderate · up to The new input-offset setting does not compensate for late-registering hits, so latency calibration does not work as advertised. Songs with star power but no fills can charge star power that the player can never activate. Fix both before merging; the remaining issues are minor polish. Pre-merge checks |
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Review comments at @NOTICE.md:
- Line 20: Update the licensing explanations to include both options permitted
for modified library copies: licensing under LGPL-3.0 or under the GNU GPL. In
NOTICE.md, line 20, replace the unconditional LGPL-only statement; in README.md,
lines 145–146, qualify the LGPL statement accordingly.
Review comments at @README.md:
- Around line 84-85: Qualify the Expert-only fallback to note that legacy charts
containing GM 35 double-kick notes may still offer Expert+. Update the
corresponding release-note wording as well: in README.md at lines 84–85 and
CHANGELOG.md at lines 16–17.
Review comments at @screen.js:
- Around line 1858-1866: In the MIDI hit handling flow, normalize the raw MIDI
velocity by dividing it by 127 before passing it to _session.hit, so the engine
receives a value from 0 to 1.
- Around line 1379-1384: Update _syncSession to advance the session on the same
input-offset-compensated timeline used by _inputTime, so note judgments and
misses account for positive input offsets consistently.
- Around line 626-628: Update the scoring initialization catch that resets
_scoringPromise to remove failed, unregistered script elements before clearing
the promise, so a later initialization can retry loading them. Preserve scripts
whose expected scoring globals have registered.
- Around line 1386-1398: Update the MIDI input handling used by the scoring
session created in _startScoring so a key or pad can call _session.activate with
_inputTime() when star power is charged, including charts with no fills.
Alternatively, generate activation fills for those charts so Engine.create
receives a non-empty activation list.
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| loaded at runtime. `screen.js` and `assets/session.js` only use it through its public API | ||
| (`window.DrumsEngine` / `require('./engine.js')`), so they remain separate MIT works that use the Library | ||
| as described in LGPL-3.0 section 4 ("Combined Works"). You may replace `assets/engine.js` with a modified | ||
| version. If you distribute changes to `assets/engine.js`, they must stay under LGPL-3.0 and their source |
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Include the modified-library licensing option. LGPL v3 section 2(b) permits conveying a modified library under the GNU GPL. Both explanations instead present LGPL-3.0 as the only option. (gnu.org)
NOTICE.md#L20-L20: replace the unconditional “must stay under LGPL-3.0” statement with the permitted options.README.md#L145-L146: qualify “stay under LGPL-3.0” for modified library copies.
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| (`bundle.drumTab`). A tab without them — an older tab, a core that doesn't stream them yet, or drums encoded | ||
| as guitar notes — plays **Expert only, without star power**; everything else works the same. |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
Document the legacy Expert+ exception. Difficulty selection can offer Expert+ without gameplay metadata when a legacy chart contains GM 35 double-kick notes. The unconditional Expert-only fallback misstates that behavior. (github.com)
README.md#L84-L85: qualify “Expert only” with the GM 35 Expert+ exception.CHANGELOG.md#L16-L17: apply the same qualification to the release note.
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Qualify the Expert-only fallback to note that legacy charts containing GM 35
double-kick notes may still offer Expert+. Update the corresponding release-note
wording as well: in README.md at lines 84–85 and CHANGELOG.md at lines 16–17.
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| }).catch((e) => { | ||
| _scoringPromise = null; // allow a retry on the next init | ||
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A retry after a load failure cannot succeed.
The comment says that clearing _scoringPromise allows a retry on the next init. But the <script> element that failed stays in the document. On a retry, _loadScript finds script[src="${url}"] and resolves at once. The "did not register" check then throws again. After one transient network error, scoring stays unavailable until the page reloads. Remove the failed script elements before you clear the promise.
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}).catch((e) => {
+ for (const name of ['engine.js', 'session.js']) {
+ const el = document.querySelector(`script[src="${PLUGIN_ASSETS + name + '?v=' + ASSET_VERSION}"]`);
+ if (el && !window[name === 'engine.js' ? 'DrumsEngine' : 'DrumsSession']) el.remove();
+ }
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| }).catch((e) => { | |
| _scoringPromise = null; // allow a retry on the next init | |
| throw e; | |
| }).catch((e) => { | |
| for (const name of ['engine.js', 'session.js']) { | |
| const el = document.querySelector(`script[src="${PLUGIN_ASSETS + name + '?v=' + ASSET_VERSION}"]`); | |
| if (el && !window[name === 'engine.js' ? 'DrumsEngine' : 'DrumsSession']) el.remove(); | |
| } | |
| _scoringPromise = null; // allow a retry on the next init | |
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Update the scoring initialization catch that resets _scoringPromise to remove
failed, unregistered script elements before clearing the promise, so a later
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| // Song time for an input arriving now (between frames), minus the | ||
| // user's input offset. | ||
| function _inputTime() { | ||
| const t = _h ? _h.estimateTime(_clock, _now()) : _clock.time; | ||
| return t - (_cfg.inputOffsetMs || 0) / 1000; | ||
| } |
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟠 Major | ⚡ Quick win
A positive input offset does not work, because the engine clock is not offset.
_inputTime() subtracts inputOffsetMs only from the hit time. _syncSession still calls _session.update(t) with the raw bundle.currentTime. Engine.prototype.hit clamps any time below currentTime up to currentTime. _advance has already missed every note where currentTime > note.t + back.
Example: the offset is 100 ms and a note is at T. The player's late-registered hit arrives at song time T + 0.1. The offset hit time is T. Before the hit arrives, the last frame advanced the engine past T + 0.07. As a result:
- The note is already a miss.
- The hit time is clamped forward.
- The hit becomes an overhit.
A positive offset therefore has almost no effect beyond one frame. The setting's own tooltip describes positive offsets as the main use ("raise it if your hits register late"). The PR also claims that this setting covers the latency calibration request from issue #2.
Run the engine clock on the compensated timeline too. Then hits and misses use the same time base.
🐛 Proposed fix
function _syncSession(bundle, notes, chords) {
if (!_session) return;
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- const t = +bundle.currentTime || 0;
+ const t = +bundle.currentTime || 0;
_clock.prevTime = _clock.time;
_clock.prevWall = _clock.wall;
_clock.time = t;
_clock.wall = _now();
- _session.update(t);
+ // Same latency-compensated timeline as _inputTime(), so a positive
+ // offset does not miss notes before the compensated hit arrives.
+ _session.update(t - (_cfg.inputOffsetMs || 0) / 1000);
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Update _syncSession to advance the session on the same input-offset-compensated
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| // Load engine.js + session.js and build this instance's scoring session. | ||
| function _startScoring() { | ||
| _loadScoring().then(({ E, H }) => { | ||
| if (_instanceDestroyed || !_isReady) return; | ||
| _E = E; | ||
| _h = H; | ||
| if (!_session) { | ||
| _auto = _autoAt(_diff ? _diff.id : _cfg.difficulty); | ||
| _session = H.createSession(E, { proDrums: _cfg.proCymbals, auto: _auto, params: _timingParams() }); | ||
| _chartRefs = null; | ||
| } | ||
| }).catch((e) => console.warn('[Drums] scoring unavailable (engine/session failed to load):', e)); | ||
| } |
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Handle star power when a chart has phrases but no fills.
When tab.star_power is present and tab.fills is empty, the session passes an empty activation list to Engine.create. The engine then enables manual activation. However, the MIDI path calls only _session.hit(...), so no input can activate the charged bar.
Add a key or pad binding that calls _session.activate(_inputTime()), or generate activation fills for charts without them.
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Review comment at @screen.js around lines 1386 - 1398:
Update the MIDI input handling used by the scoring session created in
_startScoring so a key or pad can call _session.activate with _inputTime() when
star power is charged, including charts with no fills. Alternatively, generate
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| if (_session && _h && _E) { | ||
| // The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM. | ||
| const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi); | ||
| if (m) { | ||
| const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity }); | ||
| if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() }); | ||
| } | ||
| return; | ||
| } |
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Normalize the MIDI velocity before you pass it to the engine.
_handleDrumHit passes the raw MIDI velocity (1–127) to _session.hit. normVelocity in assets/engine.js (lines 874-880) divides only values > 1 by 127. A MIDI velocity of 1 is therefore read as 1.0, which is full strength. The softest possible hit then earns the accent bonus, and a ghost note hit at velocity 1 earns no bonus. Divide by 127 here, because this caller knows that the value is MIDI.
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- const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity });
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| if (_session && _h && _E) { | |
| // The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM. | |
| const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi); | |
| if (m) { | |
| const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity }); | |
| if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() }); | |
| } | |
| return; | |
| } | |
| if (_session && _h && _E) { | |
| // The engine scores: a Learn/custom mapping entry wins, else GM. | |
| const m = _h.midiToPad(midiNote, _cfg.customMapping, _E.padFromMidi); | |
| if (m) { | |
| const r = _session.hit(_inputTime(), m.pad, { cymbal: m.cymbal, velocity: velocity / 127 }); | |
| if (r && r.type === 'overhit' && laneIdx >= 0) _wrongFlashes.push({ lane: laneIdx, wall: performance.now() }); | |
| } | |
| return; | |
| } |
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Review comment at @screen.js around lines 1858 - 1866:
In the MIDI hit handling flow, normalize the raw MIDI velocity by dividing it by
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Superseded by #25, which carries this scoring engine plus all the review fixes from this PR, rebuilt from my latest field-tested drums build. |
What
Closes #19 (first of a stack of four; the next three build on this one). Also covers #2 (latency calibration: the new Offset setting).
Rock Band-style scoring for both views, ported from the user's custom Drum Highway (5.8.0) onto current upstream:
assets/engine.js— a JavaScript port of YARG.Core's drums engine (hit window, chord matching, overhits, combo/multiplier, pro-drums lanes, dynamics bonus, star power phrases + fill activation, star thresholds). LGPL-3.0: kept as a separate, unminified, replaceable file with its notice,LICENSE.LGPL-3.0andLICENSE.GPL-3.0(the LGPL incorporates the GPL text). Its header lists every deviation from YARG.assets/session.js(MIT) — the engine for one chart: difficulty levels (Expert+/Expert split onx2, Easy/Medium/Hard fromlevels), auto lanes, seeks/rebuilds, event queue, and a bonus layer (spot-on timing, snare/tom rolls, drum-solo rating). Reads the drum tab's feedpak 1.20.0 gameplay metadata (a,x2,star_power,fills,solos,levels) frombundle.drumTab.screen.js— loads both lazily from core's/api/plugins/drums/assets/route (noroutes.py), feeds MIDI hits to the session (Learn mapping wins, else GM), difficulty UI (settings select, clickable HUD badge + menu, D / Shift+D), assists (auto kick / auto cymbals up to a difficulty — played on the drum sound at their own volume, timing presets, Pro cymbals), input Offset, and a 2D score HUD (multiplier, score, streak, stars, star power bar, live solo %) with engine-driven hit/miss marks, silver star-power notes and green fill bands. The "Hits" toggle is now "Score".aflag (spec rationale: velocity alone can't say "authored accent"); older tabs keep thev >= 100rule, and a hit withoutvis no longer an accent. A kick withx2becomes GM 35 (the engine's Expert+ kick).Fallback (older core / pre-1.20.0 tabs / legacy GM-encoded charts): Expert only, no star power; Expert+ still works for legacy charts with GM 35 notes. Lower levels are not generated client-side — the importer (#1091) already generates and marks them.
Licensing (MIT plugin + LGPL file): acceptable. LGPL-3.0 §4 ("Combined Works") allows MIT code to use an LGPL library through its interface as long as the library stays a separate, replaceable, LGPL-licensed file with its notice and the LGPL + GPL texts shipped — which is how
engine.jsis shipped (seeNOTICE.md). MIT and LGPL-3.0 are both compatible with feedBack's AGPL-3.0 curation policy.Dropped from the custom version (Slopsmith 0.2.9 shims, not needed on current core): the Web MIDI fallback (
_webMidiShim— uses the coremidi-inputdomain as upstream already does),routes.pystatic-file route (core's assets route servesassets/), fetchingarrangements/drums.jsonfor the non-specdrumsblock (data now comes fromdrum_tabvia core), the Clone Hero kit-profile reader and kit auto-pick.Requires core streaming the metadata: got-feedBack/feedBack#1105 (stacked on feedBack#1091; spec feedpak-spec#68). Without it everything works on Expert without star power.
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2D view, star power phrase (silver notes) + score HUD and difficulty badge; difficulty menu offering all five levels from a pack built by
scripts/ch_to_sloppak.py:(b1-2d-star-power-hud.jpg, b1-2d-difficulty-menu.jpg)
Tests
node tests/engine.test.js— 44 pass (LGPL, ported YARG scenarios)node tests/session.test.js— 40 pass (gems, drum_tab metadata parsing, levels, difficulty options/fallback/badge, auto lanes, bonuses, seeks, star power + fills)node tests/screen.test.js— 23 pass (existing 16 + accent / x2 conversion, metadata through session.js, difficulty preference, assists, auto notes)feedBack-plugin-spec/tools/validate.py): ok;node --checkon all JSFEEDBACK_PLUGINS_DIR, a pack built from a synthetic Clone Hero chart withscripts/ch_to_sloppak.py: all five difficulties offered, Medium plays the chart's Medium level, star-power notes and HUD render; audio never played (paused + seek).🤖 Generated with Claude Code
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