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Creating a song for StepMania (and syncing it up PROPERLY), is actually a bit more complex than just placing arrows on a chart when you hear where you want notes to be placed. With this guide, you should gain a general understanding of how to create a SM file, collaborate and input backgrounds, banners, and CD titles to your song, and of course, actually step the song to a decent syncing ability.

It should be noted that newbies to the game should NOT try to create songs until they are good enough players to be able to complete the song they are going to step (in other words, if a song dictates fast guitar paces, or intense drumming sequences, don't step the song unless you are sure you can pass these sequences if you were to step them accurately). This way you will have an easier ability to double check a song's accuracy if you are stepping the file from scratch in the editor.

Creating the .SM file[edit]

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What is a .SM file?

It is an acronym for StepMania file, and it is the format that StepMania generally accepts for arrow placement for a song. This format starts off simple when you put it into a text editor, but it expands and becomes more useful as you edit the .SM file in the StepMania song editor.

Although before you create your SM file, you should create a folder with the song's name as the folder's name, and place it on the desktop (as you will be adding files and making changes, leaving it on the desktop will bypass having to worry about needing any administrative privileges to add, remove, copy, or paste anything to that folder).

After you do this, move your .mp3, .wav, or .ogg file into the folder. It does not have to be named the same as the folder, nor do any of the other files. Renaming files to match the song name only helps you when putting down the information in notepad, or when others are looking for your .SM file among other ones.

If you have a background (640x480 or bigger to avoid stretching), a banner (exact dimensions of 256x80 for perfect sizing in most StepMania themes), or a CD title (under 250x250 if you are sharing it with others), also move them into the folder.

When preparations are complete, open up a text editor, and follow the steps listed:

• Copy and paste the following code into a text editor as is for now:

#TITLE:;
#SUBTITLE:;
#ARTIST:;
#TITLETRANSLIT:;
#SUBTITLETRANSLIT:;
#ARTISTTRANSLIT:;
#CREDIT:;
#BANNER:;
#BACKGROUND:;
#LYRICSPATH:;
#CDTITLE:;
#MUSIC:;
#OFFSET:0.000;
#SAMPLESTART:0.000;
#SAMPLELENGTH:0.000;
#SELECTABLE:YES;
#BPMS:0.000=100.00;
#STOPS:;
#BGCHANGES:;

• Once you have done that, fill in the information necessary for your song name (under title, the subtitle of your song (possibly the album it came from), and the author of the song. They should look something like this:

#TITLE:Song Title Here;
#SUBTITLE:Album name or song sub message;
#ARTIST:Artist's / band name here;

• Now that this is finished, place in your background / banner / CD title / song file information (be sure to include your extension name!!!) It should look something like this:

#BANNER:Your Banner.png;
#BACKGROUND:Your Background.jpg;
#LYRICSPATH:Your Lyrics file.lrc; (Don't worry about this if you don't have a lyrics file, no one pays attention to them anyway, so leave it blank.)
#CDTITLE:Your CD Title.png;
#MUSIC:Your Music File.mp3;

The file extensions above are the most common for each area. You CAN implement .avi or .mpg files for your banner or background if you feel it is necessary..but it can lag the game for slower computers, so use caution when using videos for a BACKGROUND..banner is fine regardless.

• Now you have the rest of the .SM file. Don't worry about any of it for now (UNLESS you know the intro BPM to your .SM file, in which you should input this value right away in the BPM's section). Hit 'Save As' and choose the 'All Files' file type, and then find your folder. Save it as 'Song Name.sm' and you are finished! All you have to do now is move this file into your StepmaniaSongsSong Collection Folder area.

Finding BPM(s) for your song[edit]

This part is tricky, and is the number one reason why people can't sync files properly (aside from trying to create a file even when they have no concept of rhythm at all). You can do one of two things:

• Search online for a BPM analysis program (which usually fails miserably, but still is done by most of the StepMania population)
• Use DDReam Studio made specifically for making SM files and detecting BPMs.

If you use DDReam Studio, you don't even have to create the SM file..it will actually create it for you if you go through the options menu, as well as help you analyze alternate BPM's, use the sound waves to detect beats and patterns, and a bunch of other things that the StepMania default step editor DOESN'T DO which actually can help you create a MUCH better file in the long run. There is a full documentary of how to use DDReam studio to make VERY high quality SM files which is listed in the external links on the main page if you wish to read it (or you can click here), otherwise I will be talking about how to use the default StepMania editor to create SM files.

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If you decide to actually use BPM analyzing software..you should divide up the song into multiple parts using Audacity Download adobe professional free full version. where it seems to have an incline or decline in speed. Once you have your multiple BPMs, you can do one of two things:

• Open up the .SM file in notepad again and put in the BPM changes that way
• Add the BPM changes in through the StepMania editor

Either way isn't much of a difficulty (unless your BPM's are seriously different, like a 200 to 1,000 BPM spike, and then a decline back to 200 BPM again, which will take FOREVER in the Stepmania editor, and should be done through notepad. Now that you have the BPM's of your song, you can begin stepping certain areas of the song through the Stepmania Song editor.

The Stepmania Song Editor[edit]

From the StepMania main menu, select 'Song edit', and go to the folder you put the song in. From here you should be able to find you song, and see that you need to create a difficulty for your step file..so according to what file you are stepping, make an estimation and pick the best one that suits what you are going to be stepping for the song (be AWARE that as you get into much harder groups of songs and very advanced players, BOTH the Beginner and Edit difficulties are commonly used for EXTREMELY difficult or DUMP difficulties for files [usually EDIT signifies something extremely difficult but passable, but BEGINNER usually represents a pretty much impossible / jukebox sim file], while Light, Medium, Heavy, and Challenge, tend to signify their accurately placed difficulty levels). If you intend on your step having multiple difficulties, try to avoid these two difficulties unless you are intending on making one of these types of steps later on.

Now that you have picked your difficulty, you can start to edit your SM file!

• Start by listening to your SM, and pressing 'left' or 'right' to change the size of the notes per measure (4th, 8th, 16th, etc.) and try to place an arrow as accurately as possible on your first beat (try not to worry about holds, doubles, mines, or any of the special stuff just yet), and keep trying to accurately place arrows as close to the beats as you possibly can. To help you, try using assist tick (F4), to make sure the arrow ticks EXACTLY when the beat is played (the more accurate it is, the less you should be hearing the tick and the more you should be able to focus only on the song's beat. Use the numbers 1, 2, 3, and 4 to place arrows (certain game styles might have different keys for different arrows).
• Keep testing song by selecting an area (Holding down shift and pressing up / down arrow keys) and then pressing P to play that selection, or by pressing Control and P at the same time to play the entire part of the song you have stepped so far. Even if you thought it was on sync at first, you WILL find errors, and it WILL happen frequently.
• If you are having trouble with the song, or are getting annoyed of having to play back after every arrow, select about 5 seconds of un-stepped song area and press P to listen to it a few times, and then press Control and R at the same time to 'record' yourself playing the arrows in that area about to where they belong. Then you can test the whole thing and correct the arrows that are slightly off, and correct any other mistakes you may have made. If you mess up during the recording..it is alright! Just press 'Enter' and hit 'clear', and all the arrows you recorded will disappear. Now you can start over again and correctly record the arrows.
• Once you manage to finish the step file, in terms of syncing..go back to the beginning and listen to how the notes hold and how intensely that they are being played. Through this you need to determine what patterns (doubles, hands, quads, and of course hold notes), they should be. After you think you are all finished with this judgment, you may want to save and close the file..and then replay it the next day to see if you still feel it is correctly synced, or that the arrows are what they should be. To save your .SM file, hit escape and then save your changes.
• If you feel everything is in order..give it to some other people to play, if they feel the file is decent, then you are gold..but if they give you some criticism..just follow suit with it and make any corrections that need to be made and ask for their opinions again). If it gets decent reviews..submit it online somewhere and see other opinions. If you feel it is properly synced, along with the reinforcement of a few other SM players, then you should have a decent enough SM file to have some real nice replay value. As you make more and more SM files, this ability of judgment will come more and more easy and making SM files will become more and more part of a natural thing instead of something new and annoying.

Things to watch out for

• BPM, being just 1 BPM off could seriously mess up the sync of your song, especially if you are trying to use a consistent stream of notes an equal frame distance apart.
• Constantly Saving your files, as if you mess up on something major, or StepMania for some reason or another crashes, you might have to step a lot of the file all over again if you don't constantly save your work.
• 64th or 192nd notes, if you are stepping a song, you normally won't need to use anything higher than 16th or 24th notes if the BPM is correct. This doesn't mean you WON'T use them..but if you have to use a LOT of them in order to keep your song on sync for a rather simple pattern..DEFINITELY CHECK your BPM.

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StepMania is a cross-platformrhythm video game and engine. It was originally developed as a simulator of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution, and has since evolved into an extensible rhythm game engine capable of supporting a variety of rhythm-based game types. Released under the MIT License, StepMania is open-sourcefree software.^[3]

Several video game series, including In the Groove and Pump It Up Pro, use StepMania as their game engines. StepMania was included in a video game exhibition at New York's Museum of the Moving Image in 2005.^[4][5]

Development[edit]

StepMania was originally developed as an open source clone of Konami's arcade game series Dance Dance Revolution (DDR). During the first three major versions, the Interface was based heavily on DDR's. New versions were released relatively quickly at first, culminating in version 3.9 in 2005. In 2010, after almost 5 years of work without a stable release, StepMania creator Chris Danford forked a 2006 build of StepMania,^[6] paused development on the bleeding edge branch, and labeled the new branch StepMania 4 beta. A separate development team called the Spinal Shark Collective forked the bleeding edge branch and continued work on it, branding it sm-ssc. On 30 May 2011, sm-ssc gained official status and was renamed StepMania 5.0. StepMania 5.3 is currently in closed-source alpha phase.

Gameplay[edit]

The primary game type features the following game play: as arrows scroll upwards on the screen, they meet a normally stationary set of target arrows. When they do, the player presses the corresponding arrows on their keyboard or dance mat. The moving arrows meet the targets based on the beat of the song. The game is scored based upon how accurately the player can trigger the arrows in time to the beat of the song. The player's efforts are given a letter grade and a number score that tell how well they have done. An award of AAA+ (triple A plus, formerly AAAA or quadruple A) is the highest possible award available on a standard installation and indicates that a player has triggered all arrows with 'Flawless' timing (within 0.0225 seconds under official settings) and avoided all mines and completed all hold (freeze) arrows. An E indicates failure for a player to survive the length of the song without completely draining their life gauge. Default scoring and grading for StepMania is similar to scoring in Dance Dance Revolution; however, timing and scoring settings can easily be changed.

During a song, if the player successfully triggers all arrows with 'great' or better timing, the player will receive the message 'Full combo' alongside their grade. Players can also achieve 'Full perfect combo' for completing a song with all arrows triggered with perfect timing or better, and a 'Full flawless combo' if all arrows are triggered with 'flawless' timing.

StepMania 5.3 adds 'Truly Flawless' timing (formerly known as 'Ridiculous' or 'Blue Fantastic', within 0.01125 seconds under default settings). The development team has referred to a full combo with this timing as a 'Truly Flawless full combo'.^[7]

StepMania allows for several input options. Specialized adapters that connect console peripherals like PS2 and Xbox controllers or dance pads to one's computer can be used. Alternatively, the keyboard can be used to tap out the rhythms using arrow or other keys. Many song charts designed for keyboard are unable to be passed using a pad. In addition, the game possesses the capability to emulate other music games, such as Beatmania itself, o2Jam and DJMax's 7-key arrangement, Pump It Up and TechnoMotion - scoring however, remains similar to old DDR-style play by default (i.e. more weight is given for later notes).

Features[edit]

• Custom Songs ('Stepfiles') also known as 'Simfiles': StepMania allows users to create their own custom dance patterns to any song in .ogg or .mp3 format. The program includes a comprehensive Step editor to aid the creation of these stepfiles. Many Simfile websites exist where users share and distributed Simfiles for songs. Additionally, official DDR and In The Groove songs with their original steps are commonly available for StepMania.
• Background animations: Support for many types of animations behind the arrows onscreen, including sprite-based animation sequences, a single full-motion video or multiple FMV visualization overlays but are disabled if the song contains exclusive video.
• Modifiers: Visual mods that affect the scroll of arrows and either increase or decrease difficulty. StepMania includes multiple modifiers featured in Dance Dance Revolution as well as dozens of additional modifiers created exclusively for StepMania, including custom SPEED options.
• Multiple arrow types:
  • Mines ('Shock' arrows in DDR X): An object that scrolls onto the screen along with the arrows. If a player triggers the mines, they will be penalized by having their dance gauge reduced and, customizing a theme, breaks the current combo chain that the player had going. However, the mines in StepMania are different from the Shock Arrows in DDR X in that the latter also turns the notes invisible for a brief period of time and breaks the current combo chain that the player had going. This step type was developed for the StepMania-based arcade game In The Groove, and was ported into StepMania itself during development of that title. There are several variations of these objects that effect scoring in different ways.
  • Holds (also called Freeze Arrows): A long arrow that requires you to keep your feet or finger on the corresponding panel for its duration.
  • Rolls: A special hold arrow which requires a rapid tap on to keep alive. This step type was developed for the sequel to In The Groove, In the Groove 2.
  • Lift: a special type of arrow (colored Gray by default) which requires the key (or panel) to be held down before the note passes and released when the note passes the target arrows. This is different from freeze arrows in that the timing of the press is not important, only when the note is released.
• Multiple game types, including partial simulation of other rhythm games like Pump It Up, ParaParaParadise and beatmania IIDX.
• Real-time lyrics, which display on the opposite side of the screen for stepfiles that have accompanying lyric data.
• Custom themes: users can create their own skins for StepMania. Themes can vary from simple replacement of images to drastic changes that can be implemented by scripting its Lua backend.
• Dancing characters: 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional character models that dance in the background according to a pre-defined routine.
• Infinite BPMs: an official implementation in StepMania 4 of a bug in the 3.9 series that could be exploited to create 'warps' in stepcharts using negative speeds.
• Network play: support for lobby-based online play, dubbed StepMania Online. Typically, users connect through the StepMania Online^[8] centralized server. Support for network play was added to the StepMania tree in 2005 and is available in all later builds. All players must have a copy of the song chosen by the host in order to play.

Availability[edit]

Some versions of StepMania will run on most common operating systems (Microsoft Windows98/Me/2000/XP/Vista/7/8, Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X), as well as the Xbox console. It has also been used as the base engine in a variety of free software and proprietary products for various platforms.

Use in products[edit]

Several StepMania-based commercial games have been released due to its open nature:

• In The Groove (ITG) is an arcade dance game series developed by the core StepMania developers, and is based on 3.9 and a CVS build of StepMania often known as version 3.95. To prevent unauthorized copying, StepMania was re-licensed under a more permissive license (changed from GPL to the MIT License with the agreement of all coders, in exchange for their names appearing on the ITG credits screen), not requiring source code to be published on derivative works, and thus allowing ITG's copy control to remain proprietary and closed source.
• Pump it Up Pro is a spinoff of the Pump it Up series headed by former ITG developers and musicians. The game utilizes a build of StepMania 4 for its engine, which also led to improved Pump support in StepMania itself.
• Pump it Up Infinity is another spinoff of the Pump it Up series aimed primarily at North American audiences. Unlike the Pro series, however, it is managed directly by Andamiro. The game is based on StepMania 5.

StepMix[edit]

StepMania developers conducted StepMix contest for step builders to create stepcharts/stepfiles that can be played using StepMania. StepMix 1, 2, 3, and 4 were run successfully. Participants need to have a song to be used in the stepchart/stepfile. The song must be under a compatible license for distribution or be authorized for use in StepMix 4, or the entry is automatically disqualified.^[9] Additionally, if the graphics used in the entry are found to have been copied from another artist and used without their authorization (as happened once in StepMix 2^[10][11]), the entry may be disqualified.

Stepmania Download Songs

The scoring is determined by the overall quality of the song, steps and graphics.^[12]

Reception[edit]

StepMania became a quite popular free software game; the game was downloaded alone over Sourceforge between 2001 and May 2017 over 6.3 million times.^[13]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'StepMania 5.0.12 released'. StepMania. holo. 30 Aug 2016. Retrieved 1 September 2016.
2. ^https://projectmoon.dance/index.php?id=2
3. ^'Rock Bands, Guitar Heroes, Recriminations and Comedy Litigation'. Sprong. 2007-04-04. Retrieved 2008-11-02.
4. ^Museum of the Moving Image article
5. ^'Museum of the Moving Image'. 2005-10-24. Archived from the original on 2005-10-24. Retrieved 2017-05-11.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link)
6. ^Danford, Chris. 'StepMania project reboot: opinions wanted'. StepMania.com. Archived from the original on 22 February 2011. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
7. ^https://projectmoon.dance/index.php?id=16
8. ^StepMania Online official website
9. ^StepMix 4 Contest Entry requirementsArchived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
10. ^My art is in a song..but I dont know who took it! - StepMania ForumsArchived 2007-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
11. ^StepMania Forums - View Single Post - 20070310|Dokodemo KawaiiArchived 2008-12-16 at the Wayback Machine
12. ^StepMix 4 Contest JudgingArchived 2008-08-19 at the Wayback Machine
13. ^stats 2000-05-12+to+2017-05-18 on sourceforge.net

External links[edit]

Stepmania Song Files

• Official website

Stepmania Song List