What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

So ive been looking around the .sm files for songs, and it seems quite obvious what some of the lines do, but what does the ',' in the file do?

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

Measure seperator. Marks where one measure ends and the next begins.

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

Thanks, but could you be more in depth? What is a 'measure'?
Does it indicate the amount of hit areas between the beats or something like that?

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

In 4/4 time, a measure is four beats long. A song has x amount of measures in it and Stepmania creates a chart that goes from the 1st measure to the last one. Each measure has a specific amount of rows in the. sm file which indicates what type of notes are in that particular measure (eg. 4ths, 8ths, 16ths, etc.)

So technically yes, it does show how many arrows are supposed to be hit in a particular measure; by showing you how many rows there are it is showing you what notes will be hit

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

Thanks!

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

The comma ( , ) is a punctuation mark that appears in several variants in various languages. It has the same shape as an apostrophe or single closing quotation mark in many typefaces, but it differs from them in being placed on the baseline of the text.

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

It can also be used as fangs for an emoji °,-,°

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

I don't know if anybody that is not familiar with stuff like measures and the general form of .sm files (enough experience in simmaking will get you to intuitively understand what happens there) should play around with notepad to view how they look like.
The help you may need clearly doesn't concern .sm files' syntax.

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

The reason im asking is because im creating my own .sm creator and my program needs to create the same code and have the same syntax as the original.

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

If you're writing code for a .sm creator, just download the stepmania source and look at NotesWriterSSC and NotesLoaderSSC and LoadFromSMNoteDataStringWithPlayer in NoteDataUtil.cpp and NoteDataUtil::GetSMNoteDataString.

Re: What does the comma in a.sm file mean?
 

Yeah ill do that if i get stuck again! Thanks.