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Patashu · 07-16-2006, 10:30 PM

ACTUALLY STEPPING THE SONG

Once you've got the .sm file set up and everything, start up Stepmania, go to Edit/Sync songs and create a difficulty for the song to edit. The very first thing you should do is hit esc, go to song options, turn assist tick and auto play ON and lower the rate to 0.6x or less. (This slows the song down to make accurate stepping easier.)

BEAT 0 OFFSET

Once you've done this, place a single note on the first measure and play. Does the single arrow's clap go at the same time the first beat does? It probably won't. If it doesn't, you can use F11 and F12 to move the first beat along (F11 makes the first beat happen later, F12 makes it happen sooner), and hold down alt while pressing the F-keys for greater accuracy. Once you've got it spot on, you can either go back into song options and lower the rate to 0.3x to make sure it's perfect or you can save it and move on.

BPM

If the song has a nice, constant BPM through it, simply google search for Mixmeister and download it. Put the song in, get the bpm and use F7 and F8 to adjust the bpm to match that. (Again, hold alt for small increments.) And to make sure, put 16 red arrows ahead of you and play the song to make sure it syncs up right. If Mixmeister fails to find the bpm, you can find it yourself by putting down several measures of red arrows, with assist tick on, and playing. If the claps fall behind the beat, the BPM is too low. If the claps go ahead of the beat, the BPM is too high. Adjust and re-play again and again to make sure you've got it, and if it goes off later on in the song just adjust it again. And if it just doesn't fit no matter how hard you try, your song may have a varying BPM, in which case you may want to try a helpful program at http://www.geocities.com/jyris1 known as DDReam.

PLACING THE ARROWS
First thing first, hold ctrl and push down to expand the measures. You'll need the visual aid if you go any finer then 8th notes. The controls are all listed when you push F1. The most important rule of all is make sure every arrow is going to an sound in the song. People hate, hate, hate it when arrows are poorly placed or BSed. And make sure you can recognize the difference between triplets (purple arrows) and yellow arrows; they're placed quite close together. Finally: Save early, save often and include as many difficulty levels as you think you can do and the song can work with (if it's not a song suited for anything below heavy, don't put anything below heavy)

07-16-2006, 10:30 PM	#2
Patashu //bemanistyle::[Regular] Patashu is offline Join Date: Jun 2006 Patashu's Collection Posts: 639 Marketplace Rating: 0 Tokens: 3,469.57 Bank: 28,300,951.45 Total Tokens: 28,304,421.02 Donate Tokens	ACTUALLY STEPPING THE SONG Once you've got the .sm file set up and everything, start up Stepmania, go to Edit/Sync songs and create a difficulty for the song to edit. The very first thing you should do is hit esc, go to song options, turn assist tick and auto play ON and lower the rate to 0.6x or less. (This slows the song down to make accurate stepping easier.) BEAT 0 OFFSET Once you've done this, place a single note on the first measure and play. Does the single arrow's clap go at the same time the first beat does? It probably won't. If it doesn't, you can use F11 and F12 to move the first beat along (F11 makes the first beat happen later, F12 makes it happen sooner), and hold down alt while pressing the F-keys for greater accuracy. Once you've got it spot on, you can either go back into song options and lower the rate to 0.3x to make sure it's perfect or you can save it and move on. BPM If the song has a nice, constant BPM through it, simply google search for Mixmeister and download it. Put the song in, get the bpm and use F7 and F8 to adjust the bpm to match that. (Again, hold alt for small increments.) And to make sure, put 16 red arrows ahead of you and play the song to make sure it syncs up right. If Mixmeister fails to find the bpm, you can find it yourself by putting down several measures of red arrows, with assist tick on, and playing. If the claps fall behind the beat, the BPM is too low. If the claps go ahead of the beat, the BPM is too high. Adjust and re-play again and again to make sure you've got it, and if it goes off later on in the song just adjust it again. And if it just doesn't fit no matter how hard you try, your song may have a varying BPM, in which case you may want to try a helpful program at http://www.geocities.com/jyris1 known as DDReam. PLACING THE ARROWS First thing first, hold ctrl and push down to expand the measures. You'll need the visual aid if you go any finer then 8th notes. The controls are all listed when you push F1. The most important rule of all is make sure every arrow is going to an sound in the song. People hate, hate, hate it when arrows are poorly placed or BSed. And make sure you can recognize the difference between triplets (purple arrows) and yellow arrows; they're placed quite close together. Finally: Save early, save often and include as many difficulty levels as you think you can do and the song can work with (if it's not a song suited for anything below heavy, don't put anything below heavy) __________________ Patashu Simfiles: for the modern thinking man (mostly spread, some index/pad) Last edited by Patashu : 07-20-2006 at 06:24 PM.