How do you put lyrics in it?

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

You can include a lyrics file in your song folder, and Stepmania will read the file and place lyrics at the times specified in the folder. For example:

(Taken from Wuki Wuki)
[0:20.95]You can run away|Or you coulda stay
[0:23.50]But you can't refuse my love now

I believe this says at 20.95 seconds, display "You can run away" and "Or you coulda stay" on separate lines. Then, at 23.5 seconds, display "But you can't refuse my love now". The entire file is basically a time in square brackets, lyrics, another time on the next line, more lyrics, etc.
There also seems to be an option to change the text color ([COLOUR]0xFFFF00), and it looks like it reads hexidecimal numbers to determine what color to use.

I think that's everything. I'm no expert in lyrics files, though. I've never even made one.

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

Do you know what you use to make them?

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

You use the NotePad program to make .LRC files.

However, when saving, select "Save As..." from the File menu, and, from the "Save As Type" box, select All Files.

For example, say you got the lyrics to Here's to Life.

Save it as Here's to Life.lrc.

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

Thanks!

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

Here's a bit more detailed version of the above instructions

Open Notepad.

On each line, put something in the following format:
[xx.xx]Lyrics

The xx's are, in order, minutes, seconds, hundredths of a second. So for 1 minute, 24 seconds, and 34 hundredths of a second, you would put [1:24.34]. Time in seconds and hundredths of a second is shown on the right side in the StepMania editor for each beat.

To make separate lines, place a vertical beam where you want the line break to be. The vertical beam key combination is shift+backslash, which is right above Enter. The character looks like this: |
So if you want "These words" and "are on different lines" to be on separate lines, you would do this:
[1:23.45]These words|are on different lines

This displays with two lines appearing at once, "these words" on the top line and "are on different lines" on the other.

To change the color of the lyrics, add as a completely separate line:
[COLOUR]0x******

The asterisks represent a six-digit hexidecimal color code in the form RRGGBB. Go to http://www.questy.com/learn/colors.html to see a list of many hexadecimal color codes and their corresponding colors. For instance, bright red is FF0000. To make some lyrics this color, you would type:

[COLOUR]0xFF0000
[0:12.34]These are lyrics

The words "These are lyrics" would appear red. You can change the color at any time by inserting another color line above the lyrics you want to have the new color. The color stays the same for all lyrics below the line until a new color line is added. For instance:

[COLOUR]0xFF0000
[0:12.34]These are red
[0:18.11]These are too
[COLOUR]0x0000FF
[0:22.22]These are blue

The above makes the words "These are red" and "These are too" appear in red. The words "These are blue" appear in blue.

After you've finished the lyrics and colored them to your liking, go to File-->Save As. In the "Save as type" box, choose "All files." Then, as the file name, type the name of the song, followed by ".lrc" (that's a lowercase "L," not a capital "i") Make sure you save the file in the directory of the song you want it to be for.

So if your song name was "Hello," you would name the lyric file "Hello.lrc" (without quotes of course).

Now, the lyrics display like this: They start out a darker color, but light up to the color you selected as time passes. Depending on the number of words in the line, each word will light up faster or slower. I'm currently wondering if there is a way to light up certain portions at a specific time, allowing the lyrics to "activate" as they're sung. If anybody knows, tell me.

Whew, another long post from me. Hope it helps.

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

Thanks! That really helped!

Re: How do you put lyrics in it?

Nice. I was wondering about that myself