How do you make BMS files?

[chaos357]

I'm just wondering, iv been messing around with making Stepmania simfiles for a little bit but now I'm kinda interested in making some BMS sims. Can anyone give me some pointers to get me started?

[Ultra Violette]

First, you'll need BMS Editor and Viewer programs.

I recommend BMSE for editing and uBMplay for viewing. Click and scroll down to the download links on each page (Just prefix each link with an 'h', I'm trying to show the links. I hate bemanistyle's auto-link-replace feature)

ttp://ucn.tokonats.net/software/bmse/
ttp://ucn.tokonats.net/software/ubmplay/

Choose to install both programs to the same folder (Saves time).


Apologies if you already know about how to use BMSE, but just in case, here's a basic how-to.

If you're going to make a non-keysounded BMS (easier to make at first), just get an mp3 of your choice, find its tempo, and assign it to the WAV list (Double-Click on #WAV02 or higher)

Then click on the 'pencil' icon, and place a note anywhere in column 'B01' (Background sound). That location will start the BG music.


Click on #WAV01 in the list, and now you're ready to place notes everywhere. Click the green > (play) button to view how it is so far.

BMS creation gets much more in-depth, more than I could ever explain in a single post.

And if you make a BMS, I want to try it

[eldiablo3005]

Bump.

So, I got all that stuff started to make my own bms and when I tried to preview it, there was no sound. So, I figured that maybe it's just the program, so I loaded the bms with the mp3 in the correct directory and it didn't even show up on my list. I'm sure that I must be missing something, but if any of you can help, that would be great.

EDIT: Well, I got it working with the sound now, but it seems to be playing two song files. Everything on BMSE is fine, there's only one .mp3 on it. But is there a way that you can play sound on the BMSE viewers?

[luppolo]

be sure you placed the mp3 note ONCE at the beginning or at every key the mp3 will restart

[Akira]

assign the MP3 at WAV#001 and put it in the first beat (on the BG lane... not the BGA, the very right)

Use WAV#002 onwards for the keys.

[Ultra Violette]

Also there's kind of a hidden limitation of the BMS format (Depends on the BMS player though)...

All assigned sound and image files need to be in the same folder as the saved BMS file.