How do I make a new stepfile?

[Acidic Rage]

Re: How do I make a new stepfile?

I'd highly suggest against using TTFATF as your first stepfile considering it's length and technical difficulty, that and it's the most overstepped song ever made, pick something from your music library that is shorter and would be easier to make.

If you're confused about how you create the song file yourself, here's something you can do: Go to "All Programs" in your start menu and look for Stepmania, then select "Export song packager" or something like that, i'm not sure exactly. Click "Create Song" at the bottom and pick your song. It will automatically create the file and put it in the right place, you just have to go make it from the Song Editor in the game and be sure to save it when you're done.

Also, i know this is a little bit late but... wrong forum >.>

I went through your instructions and everything, but I don't get the "Create Song" option.

[DarkAdrian]

Re: How do I make a new stepfile?

O.K, I will help you out on this, follow my steps.

1. Your song choice for a first time song is well, a very difficult task for a first time stepper so I would recommend any song with the following aspects.

- A short song ( at least 1 or 2 minutes )
- A song with the same beat throughout the whole song.

Once you have picked out a song that fits into those categories, you should have a program to calculate its BPM. The best program that calculates the BPM is called MixMeister BPM Analyzer, you can find a download to it by going to google and search for it. Open the BPM Analyzer and open the song on the program to get the BPM of the song, remember it for when you actually begin stepping it ( writing it down on a piece of paper is useful if you forget a lot ).

2. So you have found everything needed to start editing the song, cool now your able to begin stepping the song but you have to create it into StepMania. First off go to All Programs > StepMania > StepMania Tools and Package Exporter. You should have a window of a bunch of options pop up, you then select Create Song and select the song you want to step and once you have successfully created the song go to All Programs > StepMania > StepMania 3.9. You should have the game loading, once it has finished loading you can go to Edit/Sync Songs and find the group My Creations, once you have found that under it should be the song you want to step, select the song you want to step and select the StepsType and Difficulty the way you want it and once you have accomplished all that in the bottom of the list it should say Create with Blank, select that and it should have created the data for the song to be edited under, select Edit Existing to begin editing the song. You should be at a step editor, hit F1 to show some keyboard shortcuts used when editing the song.

Additional Information

http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Create_Your_Own_Songs - read this to learn how to step properly.

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...05&postcount=1 - a lot of tips that you should follow, follow those and you could get really good at stepping.

Remember, the first few songs you step won't be as good as you have wanted them to be, don't give up continue practicing and the more you make the better you get. Also let others try them out and get some tips from them on how you can improve on the song.

Hope you find this very useful, and I wish you luck on making that first song.

[Patashu]

Re: How do I make a new stepfile?

Just so you know, if you use the stepmania tools program to put the song in successfully you don't have to do the steps I listed for it.

[kommisar[os]]

Re: How do I make a new stepfile?

just to warn you in advance, never step dragonforce

[Reknarock]

Re: How do I make a new stepfile?

When it's installed, go to the /Songs/ folder. Make a folder with any name, this is now your group folder. Any song must be in its own folder within a group folder, and it has to include an .mp3 or .ogg plus a .sm file (you can just make a blank text file and rename it blah.sm and it'll register).

i've a problem... because it doesn't register

what can i do?

I have
Stepmania/Songs/My Creations/Funky/funky.mp3 and the
Stepmania/Songs/My Creations/Funky/funky.sm (empty textfile)

but i can't edit it in SM Oo but why?

edit: got it...

just used the smpackage programm to create the files