[osu!lazer] Where do skins and beatmaps get stored?

[AlejandroSuero]

When downloading a skin or beatmap and dragging it or double clicking on it, it will load on the game as expected.

But my question comes from wanting to tweak some skins and/or create my own, is there a location where the game will look up or where are they stored?

Note

I know that the default skins for osu!lazer are drawn on the fly and when exported it only displays in JSON #29525.

I am using a MacOS M1 and when searching for a skin that I downloaded and it is currently being used in the game, it will find nothing.

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Example:

I've downloaded two different versions of the WhiteCat skin, one is already loaded in the game but the other one is not, when searching up WhiteCat it only finds one item matching this.

Note

I used the command find in the terminal and the finder to get the same result.

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I know from last year or so when I played osu!stable on my Windows machine that the game had a directory in which to create skin directories, and if imported as .osk it will be loaded in the game but will not appear in that directory.

How does osu!lazer work in that regard? And in my case, is there a change for MacOS?

[cihe13375]

afaik all map and skin files in osu!lazer is stored in the files subfolder under the main osu!lazer folder (idk what's the default of that on macOS but maybe try searching e.g. framework.ini to find it). All files are named by their hashes (e.g. 00a126dda6ce0811d393a464d04c8b9d3308630e3d62f81ec76dd9aa5d0fb20c) so they can't be found by their original names. Also they can't be edited directly like in stable.

Beatmap files can be manually edited by using the "edit externally" feature in the editor. This is probably not possible for skins yet but it may come one day I think.

[AlejandroSuero]

In osu!lazer is it possible to, for example, create a folder inside files with a custom skin?

└── + osu
    └── + files
        └── + customSkin
            └── cursor.png

Or is there a way in lazer? Or is there anything planned to extend the skin editor to be able to tweak or create skins inside the game?

PS: thank you for telling me about the framework.ini, it really helped

[peppy]

Will be available soon. You can get a preview of how it will work as external editing is already supported in the beatmap editor (file menu).

[AlejandroSuero]

@peppy thanks, I'll be on the lookout for it