How do you do this!?

[errorrrr]

1. Sudden pause in the songs
2. Rit. in the song... like slowing down, or speed up.
2. animated banners? like the credit name spins insted of defult stepmania thingy.

[Jubo]

oh man... this again. You have to read this first so you won't be confused with anything...

http://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=3093

Though I didn't when I first made simfile. I had alot of logical thinking on my part since I have knowledge trial and error and copy and pasting skills hehe!

Well, if you lazy... to click and read than I bold the parts to recognize at!

Originally Posted by Patashu

BPM CHANGES AND STOPS
Bpm tricks are cool. Often songs will have a point in them where noise dramatically drops or nothing at all is playing; these are good places to put pauses. Figure out the length the pause lasts for in beats, then subtract anywhere from half of that to a beat or two (since arrows can't come instantaneously after a pause ends). Multiply this number by 60 then divide it by the song's BPM; this is how long the pause will be. Raise and lower the pause's value with F9 and F10 (again, hold Alt for smaller increments) and you're done. If you insert a pause after stepping after it, the arrows will be too far away now; go just after the pause and use the Delete key to remove blank bars until they're at the right distance.

It's possible that a complete pause in a song may last for a duration that isn't a number of beats; if so, just fine-tune the stop's length until the arrows that come after it are on-beat once more, and lower the rate to 0.3x afterwards with assist tick on just to make perfectly sure.

Bpm changes are simple: Find a point where the song sounds faster/slower, use F7/F8 to bring the BPM to double or half of what it originally was, then go to the end of this fast/slow portion and raise/lower the BPM back to what it should be. If it gets reaallly slow or fast you could even resort to a quartered or quadrupled bpm. And whatever you do, don't insert a bpm change that looks bad/unneccesary when playing the song, and make sure it actually syncs up with the song well.

The Animated Pic spinning around is called CDTITLE. To get you picture to spinning like the stepmania logo just simply...

Go to your .sm file Open with Notepad. Look for this code...

#CDTITLE:;

now insert your image name in there like this:

#CDTITLE:Jubo.png;

And reload your songs... then go to music selection wheel to see your pic spin like crazy

[errorrrr]

thanks! and um... why can't I manually make changes to the .sm? everytime I start Stepmania 3.9, the changes I made into the .sm directly arn't saved... and I DID SAVE my document in unicode format... but the japanese stilll NOT showing up! nvm... it showed up... but it doesn't display the kanji "mori" ”森”

[Jubo]

Originally Posted by errorrrr

thanks! and um... why can't I manually make changes to the .sm? everytime I start Stepmania 3.9, the changes I made into the .sm directly arn't saved... and I DID SAVE my document in unicode format... but the japanese stilll NOT showing up!

Did you save you work in editor with ESC key and Save.

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Did you try...

File > Save As.. then window pops up

near the bottom of the window of that same pop-up you see this

Encoding: ANSI

ANSI is a drop down list. So click that down arrow \/ to choose an Unicode called:

UTF-8

And should show some of the basic characters of hiragana (sp?).
but some of the kanji letters won't show so... (It is translations in your stepmania does not have it, so blame that.)

Well, more info can always be found:

http://www.bemanistyle.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5309

[errorrrr]

cool thanks~~~ by the way, check out the Fate/Stay Night ending I just did XD~~ give me some feed backs

[TougaKiryuu]

Stickies. Read. *sigh*