[Til Death] Gimmick Radar

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Introduction

Gimmick Radar is an Etterna addon that displays a hexagonal radar visualization on the songwheel, giving you a quick visual breakdown of specific chart characteristics. Inspired by IIDX’s radar system, it shows six categories that help you understand what you’re getting into before you play. These categories aren’t your typical skillsets, though. They cover an array of gimmick-types that aren’t found anywhere on the songwheel that some players might have been previously unaware of.

This also works for Rebirth, you can mess around with it and change the position. There are tweaks at the top of the file, make it your own.

Ideally, you should be able to know what a chart is like just by using this radar.

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How To Install

  1. Create a backup of your existing files before making any changes.
  2. Navigate to Etterna/Themes/Til Death/BGAnimations/ScreenSelectMusic decorations/.
  3. Download radar.lua and place it in the folder.
  4. Open default.lua in the same folder.
  5. Add the following line with the other LoadActor calls:
t[#t + 1] = LoadActor("radar")
  1. Open wifeTwirl.lua in the same folder.
  2. Comment out (or delete) lines 448-450, 468-470, 488-490. This is so the top three skillsets don’t get in the way of the radar. You could also move them out of the way on your own if you’d like.
  3. Save and restart Etterna.

What Each Category Represents

  • POWER: Stamina; not really that gimmicky, but worth including for balance.
  • CHAOS: Spikes; factors in unorthodox skillsets like jackspeed and technical. Basically, jachnical.
  • EARTH: Density; factors in dense skillsets.
  • MACH: XMOD; finds warps, speeds, scrolls, and stops.
  • HELL: Gimmick notetypes; mines, rolls, fakes, lifts.
  • FREEZE: Difficulty of holds, not amount of holds; notes during holds increase this value.

The radar blob color matches your selected difficulty. Values exceed 1.0 for extreme cases and cap at 2.5x.

Hover over the radar to view breakdown.

Addendum

I felt like there was a bit of need for something like this considering the fact that charters have been getting a little more comfortable with their use of gimmicks lately. If you value knowing what gimmicks you might find in a chart more than you value what basic skillsets you’d find, I would recommend slapping this in your game.

If you run into trouble or have any questions, feel free to reach out.
Discord: @sphereofnoform

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this actually rules i wanna see how i could work it out on rebirth

edit: it fit like a glove wow i didnt need to do anything

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I like how this post also works as pack/songs recommendations

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for it to work on SCWH, you’ll need to:

  • remove the reference to getTabIndex (this doesnt exist in SCWH and isnt necessary because screens in song select are overlayed on the music wheel)
  • adjust the the position (i set mine to 420, 270 and it fits nicely)
  • adjust the spacing of the difficulty display list in metrics.ini, find [StepsDisplayListRow] and change ItemsSpacingY (i set to 80).
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GIMMICK RADAR v2.0 DOWNLOAD

  • If you downloaded or installed a previous version of this (Before Feb 22, 2026), you must reinstall.
  • BOMB has been merged with HELL. There is already a limited use of notetypes in HELL, and because of the breakdown that’s viewable now when you hover the radar, you can see what weighs higher for that axis.
  • We found a better way to represent FREEZE. Thanks to Windoze, we discovered a way to get notes during holds. By weighing these, we can determine how difficulty holds and rolls are to keep active while other notes surround them.
  • EARTH has been added. It’s density. Because of this addition, you should be able to use the radar tell what a chart is before playing it or previewing it.
  • MACH now counts #SPEEDS. Forgot about that.
  • We found a better way to represent CHAOS. SSR. If a chart scales high, it’s more than likely it’s spiky.
  • All values now properly display their relative points.
  • Each of these axes are a little more complicated than how I’m explaining them. Explore the code if you wanna dig into it.
  • Much more customization options have been added. If you don’t like the size, position, size cap, you can change it.