Help Me With Stepmania Editor!

[Collider]

I have done a couple of sim files, but some of them doesn't end after the last arrows. What I have to do to make the song end? This is very weird...

[Ramengan]

Some simfiles will save with extra measures at the end. Open the file in Notepad, and check each difficulty, and delete extra measures. If they're there, they'll be at the end of a stepchart, and look like:

0000
0000
0000
0000
, <--end of blank measure
0000
0000
0000
0000
; <--end of song

<-- denotes my comments, you won't see those in the file.

Double-check that there's only 0s in the rows you're deleting, and delete whole groups (separated by commas), NOT single rows.
Make sure they're deleted on all difficulties; I think if one difficulty ends on a measure after another difficulty, Stepmania will always end on whichever has the latest measure.
EX: Light ends on M50, Standard ends on M55, and Heavy ends on M56. When actually playing, Stepmania will end the song on M56, no matter the difficulty.

[Collider]

Thank you for your reply, but I have only one difficulty in the simfile and the last mark in it is ;

But when I compared two simfiles to each other I realized that the one, which works correctly, has more 0's before the end of the simfile. So I added more 0's in the other simfile and now it works correctly!

I hope, that this helps other to do Simfiles...

[Ramengan]

adding extra measures fixed the file what?

I'm actually quite confused now.

EDIT: I am officially baffled. I now have no idea what causes songs to end late. Adding zeroes to the end of a file just doesn't work. Hmm...

[Collider]

Well.. I added more 0's IN the last measure.

First the end of the simfile looked like this:

, // measure 82
0000
1003
0000
0000
;

But I added more 0's in the end and now it looks like this:

, // measure 82
0000
1003
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
0000
;

And now it works correctly. I don't know why...

[kommisar[os]]

when that happens i change the song location (i put it in another song folder) don't know why it does that

[Ramengan]

Originally Posted by Collider

Well.. I added more 0's IN the last measure.

That changes the structure of your simfile. You now have 24 rows of 0s when you first had 4. That means the quarter (1/4) notes in your original measure turned into 24ths (1/24). Get rid of those extra zeroes and resave. It shouldn't happen again. If it does, do what kommisar said and switch it into a brand new folder.

[Collider]

No, my notes in last mneasure are still 1/4's, but thanks for advices

[Ramengan]

No they're really not.

Originally Posted by Stepmania Readme

Note rows are grouped into measures. The number of note rows you specify in a measure will determine the time value of each note. For example, if there are 4 note rows in a measure, each note will be treated as a quarter note. If there are 8 notes rows in a measure, each note will be treated as a eighth note. If there are 12 notes rows in a measure, each note will be treated as a triplet (1/12th) note. Measures are separated by a comma.

Example:

// measure 1
2010
0000
0100
0000
: // measure 2
0001
0100
0001
0000
3010
0000
0000
0000
;

Shrink it down to 4 rows again, or fix it in the SM Editor. If you look in the editor, that tap note in the last measure would appear purple, as a 1/12th (2/24ths) note would. Reverting back to what you had before will return that measure back to normal.
Anyways, I'd really like to know what causes the problem in the first place. Maybe I'll search/post on the Stepmania message boards. I always thought it was extra measures of 0s, but I'm not so sure anymore.