Kiai adjustments in settings when?

[tutis12]

Basically since the beginning of the game people have been complaining that kiai light strobing effect should be customizable or even disabled at all.

My suggestion would be to do some of the following:

1. add a slider which change how strong the kiai effects are.
2. add an option to have kiai flashes every 1/2/4 beats to reduce strobing on higher bpm maps, could as well do that automatically, take floor(log_2(bpm/200)) and divide the strobing frequency by 2 this many times.
3. add a non-strobing option to kiais: instead of strobing on every beat, could be using a smooth sin wave instead.
4. add an option which does not change luminocity, instead changes the hue/color of objects in some fancy way.
5. add some kiai-only skin elements (rainbow stuff, glitter effects, animations, rotating hitcircle overlays, etc etc)

I think the current stance of peppy on this issue is against his own words:

Won’t people just rip osu! off and make clones? Can I make a clone?

The way I see it, if we all do things right there shouldn’t be a need for clones. We will accept features and fixes into the main branch to cater to the largest majority of the community possible. While we haven’t yet finalised a licence choice, it will likely NOT be legal to re-release osu! as your own game, but you could potentially use portions of the code to make your own unique game.

I'd me more than happy to take on development of this feature.

Proof that people want this (including someone suggesting they wanted to play on a fork with disabled kiai strobing):
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/13357
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/1722858
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/344066
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/590374
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/260745
https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/108257
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/coaer2/how_do_i_turn_off_circles_flashingblinking_or/
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/1bgatas/how_do_i_stop_the_circles_and_sliders_from/
https://www.reddit.com/r/osugame/comments/3kj04q/how_do_i_get_rid_of_kiai_time_or_at_least_make_it/
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[peppy]

The only change I'd even consider is a slider which adjusts how intense the effect is. Where the minimum is maybe 50% of current, but not disabled.

[tutis12]

I'd be very happy if we had at least that.

Lately I was noticing similar flashing effects in song select, maybe that can be touched as well. I am not sure if it's related to my monitor settings or not (I have an OLED, which does dynamically adjust screen brightness to limit itself from burning in when the scene is too bright)