Dronak
08-6-2004, 11:35 PM
I did a quick search and it didn't look like this was covered so I'll ask since I'm having some trouble. I guess it applies to any game using colored notes (like some songs on FFR), but it's been more of a problem in StepMania so I'll post it here. Maybe a simple/stupid question, but could someone clarify how the note coloring works? They go by placement of the note, not the duration, don't they? Like a straight run of 8ths alternates between the 4th color and the 8th color. They don't all get the same color even though they're all 1/8 notes. I've seen those runs often enough. So a straight run of 16ths will be colored as 4th, 16th, 8th, 16th, and repeat and it's up to you to keep track of whether the 16th colored note is just after the 4th or just after the 8th? Sometimes this is hard to do when the pattern leaves gaps and isn't a straight run. What do they do when you get triplets? Would it be 4th, 12th, 12th, repeat? I haven't seen that much if at all, but I'm wondering for future reference. Sometimes what I see and what I hear don't seem to match up right, so I thought I'd get some help and make sure I understand how it works.
BTW, some song I was playing used colors way down the list for the skin I was using (Note+), but these seemed to fall right on the beats. They could have been so close I couldn't tell, but is it possible for a song to override your noteskin and use colors the way it wants to? Because I swear it looked like a song or few were switching the color patterns back and forth.
Let me know if this was hard to understand and I'll try to use colors (saying what's what) instead. Thanks in advance for the help.
BTW, some song I was playing used colors way down the list for the skin I was using (Note+), but these seemed to fall right on the beats. They could have been so close I couldn't tell, but is it possible for a song to override your noteskin and use colors the way it wants to? Because I swear it looked like a song or few were switching the color patterns back and forth.
Let me know if this was hard to understand and I'll try to use colors (saying what's what) instead. Thanks in advance for the help.