A real guide on how to make a good simfile

[Professor Raine]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

I hate to bug you again Ducky, but you might want to note rolls and how white notes are turned into green ones. (sorry, I'm a tad tired over here, so I'm gonna go to sleep)

[ducky285]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

I hate to bug you again Ducky, but you might want to note rolls and how white notes are turned into green ones. (sorry, I'm a tad tired over here, so I'm gonna go to sleep)

Rolls are pointless in keyboard files so I'm not going to bother.

And...white notes? Are you talking about BMS's dumb stepfile parser turning 48ths and **** into white arrows? That's a Bemanistyle issue, not a stepfiling issue.

[ducky285]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

bump

[omgitznpv]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

great guide! i knew all these things i just chose to not care as much >.>

No wonder you fail at steppage. If you don't like to make your file better, and just submitting a file because it's a file, then don't even bother.

Great thread. I've recently been spending at least two weeks on one file (and actually a good portion of one day working on it).

[dAnceguy117]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

12.5 is the essence of StepMania. It's more like a foul odor, but essence sounds better.

32ND TRILLS SHARPNEL DRAGONFORCE RHAPSODY VSNARES 16TH STREAM JUMPSTREAM JAZZ (THAT DIDN'T REALLY HAPPEN) LAYERING TRIPLE LAYERING

Hey, guys. Good decisions on your own is the only way to keep from falling into the same old crowd. Group decisions, such as "Overuse of X is a problem, so let's all do Y," is not a solution.

[ffreak12323]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

Really ducky. use the edit button.

[ducky285]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

Really ducky. use the edit button.

1. Look who's talking.

2. I was bumping the thread, so I posted since editing my post won't bump the thread.

3. I'm still puking rodent hair.

[moches]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

Thanks a lot for the guide. It helped me understand jumps and making a dummy chart helped me a lot on Sunshine Stone. Thanks again!

[arsonistsgetallthegirls]

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Oh, wow... I am overjoyed at the fact that i am seeing artists say they are taking a longer time stepping as to create higher quality stepfiles. I realize i don't have a line of nifty black text under my name, but i do have experience in stepping none the less.

This is a high-quality guide so if i haven't already requested a sticky here, I do so now.

[Yesssss]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

Because the mods never visit these boards.

If it wasn't for the report post system, you could post porn without the mods noticing.

[Necros140606]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

really cool guide duck

i think i needed this an year ago but whatever :P

[GamerShadow]

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That helped me a bit, but I still need to learn how to do gap, etc.

That I will do on my own time.

[dAnceguy117]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

Really ducky. use the edit button.

Question: how old are you?

[ducky285]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

I'm glad people are liking the whole dummy chart thing.

I was thinking of adding something to the guide today but I forgot what I wanted to add. Keep any suggestions you might have coming.

Also, some of the mods apparently visit this board from time to time, so I'm SERIOUSLY REQUESTING A STICKY.

[Z3ratul]

Re: A real guide on how to make a good simfile

I wouldn't call this a guide, as much as protips from an expert

A few notes: do some clarification on 'flow'. The people that get it, GET IT, but the people that don't... well... yeah. It's hard to articulate; while I could, I'm too lazy, and you'd do a much better job.

Also, I'd like to think there's multiple forms of layering. The layering you described is what I would call simple layering. Each arrow clearly goes to a distinguishable sound, and there's no confusion when you look at it in the editor (think Ossa, he's the best at this imo). The challenge here is you must be incredibly calculating when it comes to your patterns and occurrences in sounds- otherwise, you'll end up breaking/compromising the 'rules' of your layering, and it ends up being a mess.

The other form of layering, I'd like to think is much more harmonious. This is where you make patterns that are trying to encompass multiple sounds without actually individually stepping each one. Hence, you'll get patterns that are somewhat ambiguous as to what is actually being stepped, because it can be interpreted multiple ways. You need to be very aware of how the patterns look, feel, and interact. (sorry, this is somewhat hard for me to explain, hopefully you see what I'm getting at... if not, I can try to find some examples)

Oh, you might wanna cross post this at ODI, although it might just get shotdown as 'lol stepmania theory'. You're pretty respected in the community though so who knows =P