Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

[shenjoku]

Well I've spent the past hour searching around how to do this and can only find examples that work for older versions of Stepmania. So does anyone here know how to add more rate mods to Stepmania 5? I've tried adding all of the rate stuff to the metrics.ini but it just spits out lua errors that I can't figure out so I'm stumped. I just want to have more of a range between 0.5x and 0.75x for practicing stuff since that's such a huge jump in speed.

EDIT: Figured it out! Here's the details for anyone else that wants to know:

You'll need to modify at minimum two files to get this working. The first is going to be the metrics.ini file found inside Stepmania 5\Themes\_fallback\.

Inside metrics.ini search for RateDefault= to find where all of the rate mods are defined. Following the format of the other entries, add your own mods as you like, making sure to number them sequentially and update the Rate="xx;together" value, replacing the xx with the total number of rate mods.

Second, you'll need to add the strings for the rates you added to the language file that you're using. This can also be found inside the _fallback theme but inside the Languages folder. For example, English will be en.ini. Inside of that file search for [OptionNames]. Right below it there should be a list of numbers like 0.25x=0.25x and this is where you want to enter all of the mods that you added. Again, just copy the format of the other ones.

So for example if you added a rate to the metrics.ini like so:
Rate,5="mod,0.65xmusic;name,0.65x"

Then you would add the rate to the en.ini file like so:
0.65x=0.65x

[axith]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

Find the stepmania setting's folder (on windows it's under your user folder, not quite sure why they did that, I'd rather have everything in one folder). save->machine profile There should be a SpeedMods.txt file that you can edit to include your custom speedmods. I spent about an hour trying to find this thing, too. Nothing seems very well documented with sm. Hope this made some amount of sense.

Edit: Ah, crap. Ignore me...shouldn't of even been up that late last night.

[justin_ator]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

open your browser for your computer, and click in the path area to make it to where you can type. Type in

%appdata%

then find the SM folder. Depending on your computer settings, you may be able to find it in your SM data folder, but most the time I've had to go to my appdata roaming SM folder, then go into the machine profiles, etc, just like axith said. I can provide a picture if you need it.

[sticklydude]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

I don't think he's asking about speed mods. He's asking about rates that changes the song speed.

[shenjoku]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

on windows it's under your user folder, not quite sure why they did that, I'd rather have everything in one folder).

It's the standard for programs in Windows to put any files that are modified by the application in the various application data folders. The application usually does not have permission to modify anything in its install folder. It's supposed to put everything it needs on install and write any additional information in the various application data folders. Probably didn't need to know that but there you go

I don't think he's asking about speed mods. He's asking about rates that changes the song speed.

What he said :P Speed mods were easy to figure out. Music rate mods, however, not so much.

[shenjoku]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

Figured it out! Updated the first post with details for other people that need to know Happy arrow smashing!

[Preg Jr]

Re: Adding rate mods to Stepmania 5

I need help adding mods.. how do I add mods?