Modifiying Stepmania To Your Liking (Add Songs, Add Speedmods)

[dieKatze88]

This guide will include adding songs, adding speedmods, all that crap.

ADDING SPEEDMODS FOR COMPLETE MORONS:

CREDITS TO ARCH0WL AND NEWF.



#1 : go to C:\Program files\stepmania\themes\default (or whatever other theme your running) then go into metrics.
#2: Scroll down to the screenoptionsmaster and as you can see looks like this :


[ScreenOptionsMaster]
# Player options
Speed=8
SpeedDefault=mod,1x
Speed,1=mod,1x;name,x1
Speed,2=mod,1.5x;name,x1.5
Speed,3=mod,2x;name,x2
Speed,4=mod,3x;name,x3
Speed,5=mod,4x;name,x4
Speed,6=mod,8x;name,x8
Speed,7=mod,C200;name,C200
Speed,8=mod,C400;name,C400


now what you do is, add in the new cmods you want, or speeds, and see at the top where it sais Speed=8? change it to speed=however many more mods you make. so if u add c500 and c600 change it from 8 to 10.
[ScreenOptionsMaster]
# Player options
Speed=10 <----like so.
SpeedDefault=mod,1x
Speed,1=mod,1x;name,x1
Speed,2=mod,1.5x;name,x1.5
Speed,3=mod,2x;name,x2
Speed,4=mod,3x;name,x3
Speed,5=mod,4x;name,x4
Speed,6=mod,8x;name,x8
Speed,7=mod,C200;name,C200
Speed,8=mod,C400;name,C400
Speed,9=mod,C500;name,C500 <--- like so.
Speed,10=mod,C550;name,C550 <---

THEN go to C:\Program files\stepmania\themes\default (once again, or whatever theme your running)\ languages. double click the english file, and scroll down to where it sais :

[OptionNames]
# Menu option entry text
Exit=EXIT

x0.25=x0.25
x0.50=x0.50
x0.75=x0.75
x1=x1
x1.5=x1.5
x2=x2
x3=x3
x4=x4
x5=x5
x8=x8
C200=C200
C400=C400
Flat=FLAT

add in the mods you made underneath the C400. example again :

[OptionNames]
# Menu option entry text
Exit=EXIT

x0.25=x0.25
x0.50=x0.50
x0.75=x0.75
x1=x1
x1.5=x1.5
x2=x2
x3=x3
x4=x4
x5=x5
x8=x8
C200=C200
C400=C400
C500=C500 <--- new mods
C550=C550 <---
Flat=FLAT

You don't have to keep the old mods or add extra ones. You can change the old 0.25 or 0.50 or any others, to whatever you want. As long as it matches properly in both files how I explained above.



ADDING SONGS FOR COMPLETE MORONS:

CREDITS TO ARCH0WL AND CITRUSCHILD.



How do I add songs?

On your desktop, right click on the “Start” button and go to “Explore”. Under your Local Disk (C:\) there should be a folder listed as “Program Files”. Click it.



Now, scroll down until you find the folder labeled “StepMania”, click it.



A number of new folders will drop down, in the “Songs” folder, create a new folder, label it what you wish, in this tutorial mine is “Stepmania Songs”



Now you have a place to put your songs after you have downloaded and unzipped them.

(Making the assumption WinZip is already installed on your computer. If not, download it here: www.winzip.com ) Once you download a zipped up file, unzip it.



You should now have a normal looking folder, labeled as the song’s name.



Drag your simfile into the folder inside the “Songs” folder



Click on the folder you have just dragged your simfile into. If the simfile shows up underneath, you’re all set.

[garfcore]

I thought i'd ask this here seen as it relates to the situation. I get this problem when i try to add mods:


List "Speed", col 0 has no name


Can anyone help.?!?

Cheers.

[Dream Traveler Klonoa]

How do I deactivate the Solo 6-panel game play option?

[cpubasic13]

Originally Posted by Dream Traveler Klonoa

How do I deactivate the Solo 6-panel game play option?

That'll have to do with metrics. Go to the metrics and scroll down to ScreenSelectStyle. Where it says this:

[ScreenSelectStyle]
Fallback=ScreenWithMenuElements
ChoiceNames=1,2,3,4,5
# The "name" here affects the announcer, eg. "ScreenSelectStyle comment single".
Choice1=Style,single;name,single
Choice2=Style,versus;name,versus
Choice3=Style,couple;name,couple
Choice4=Style,double;name,double
Choice5=Style,solo;name,solo

remove from ChoiceNames number 5. Then as a safety precaution (I usually do) put a // in front of Choice 5. Then to not have it shown in StepMania (as in, not show Solo) scroll down a bit untill you see:

Icon5X=380
Icon5Y=84
Icon5OnCommand=addx,-640;sleep,0.00;decelerate,0.3;addx,640
Icon5OffCommand=bouncebegin,0.5;zoomy,0

Change Icon5X and Icon5Y to 999 and then on the OnCommand, change it all to "hidden,1" and remove the commands for OffCommand.

If done correctly, its gone. Also, you just learned a bit of theming while you are at it.

[DirtyNeedles]

is it possible to add extra sorting methods?

if so, how would i go about adding a method to sort by challenge meter?

[Patashu]

Originally Posted by DirtyNeedles

is it possible to add extra sorting methods?

if so, how would i go about adding a method to sort by challenge meter?

Go into the .ini file, search for where it says hard meter (make sure it has all the other sorts so you have the right place), and insert expert meter after that in the text, making sure to keep the formating consistent. (And I think there are two places where you need to do this; but they're right next to each other.)

After that, go into the theme's graphics; you'll notice there's no graphic denotating the expert meter sort, so copy the one that says 'oni' and change the name to match.

(I know expert meter will work seeing as my itg theme uses that; putting 'challenge meter' instead may work, I'm not certain.)

[healingvision99]

I know that in 3.9, the option in on the C:\Program Files\StepMania\Data with the stepmania configuration settings. But where is it on 4.0? i want to have huge combos. thanks.

[DirtyNeedles]

okay, you know how you can hold the tab button to increase all the animation of stepmania by 4x, or the tilde to slow everything down?

well, where is that inputted?
like, under metrics? or another .ini?

i was wondering if you can assign the speedup to another button other than tab.

[theamazingbender]

how do i add speeds instead of deleting old ones?

[Wan]

Originally Posted by theamazingbender

how do i add speeds instead of deleting old ones?

Oh damn, read well the first post... I'll post again, noting special parts in bold and adding some underlined.

"now what you do is, add in the new cmods you want, or speeds, and see at the top where it says Speed=8? change it to speed=however many more mods you make. so if u add c500 and c600 change it from 8 to 10.

[ScreenOptionsMaster]
# Player options
Speed=10 <----like so. changed value
SpeedDefault=mod,1x
Speed,1=mod,1x;name,x1
Speed,2=mod,1.5x;name,x1.5
Speed,3=mod,2x;name,x2
Speed,4=mod,3x;name,x3
Speed,5=mod,4x;name,x4
Speed,6=mod,8x;name,x8
Speed,7=mod,C200;name,C200
Speed,8=mod,C400;name,C400
Speed,9=mod,C500;name,C500 <--- like so. added value
Speed,10=mod,C550;name,C550 <--- added value"

As Katze said, those added values not neccesarily HAVE to be Cmods... they can also be Xmods
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Now, a little question of mine... does the "multiselect" option work again? (i.e. where you can select more than 1 option from the same row...)

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Ask the people who created the ITG themes for SM 3.9.

[Wan]

Well, I know in 3.9 it works, but since certain 3.95 release it didn't work anymore O.o

EDIT: just tried it on 4.0. It doesn't work

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Well lots of stuff changed from 3 to 4.

[Paycheck]

there is this one guy who put Stepmania Tutorials on youtube, man it helped for me when I first started. Just type in Stepmania and the second tutorial is at the very top learning about adding songs and themes.

[TheFlyingSquirrel]

Thanks for the info. But can you link it for lazy people like me?