I Need Help!

[LiamX360]

Can someone please tell me what i need to get started on creating my own stepfile? And what is a simfile? How do I make one? I'am sooo confused. I signed up on this site cause I thought I could step some songs I like. Please help me? The FAQs are confusing.

[Ramengan]

Re: I Need Help!

simfile = stepfile

1. Download Stepmania.
2. Choose a song to step.
3. Make the simfile using Stepmania (there's a lot of FAQs out there, not just on this site. If these ones confuse you, look around. I believe there's video tutorials on youtube, too).
3a. Make your steps synced!

The Stepmania editor functions a bit like the DDR Edit mode, so if you've used that, you have a head start of sorts.

[azure_vinh]

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[Ramengan]

Re: this should help you......

this should help you a lot.. i reccomend it

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...ad.php?t=11249

But Liam said the stickies and FAQs were confusing. So it won't help them. Nice try, though.

[Relambrien]

Re: I Need Help!

Now that he mentions it, I don't see anything in there about how to actually start making a simfile, by using Tools and Package Exporter, then going into the program, etc.

Admittedly, stepmania.com has that tutorial, but I suppose some people just don't check. Maybe the Ultimate Simfile FAQ should be updated to include instructions for using Tools and Package Exporter to create the simfile, so that it can be edited? Maybe renaming the sticky to something like "How to make a simfile" would help, too.

There certainly have been a lot of these threads lately, though...

[Ramengan]

Re: I Need Help!

I don't see anything in there about how to actually start making a simfile, by using Tools and Package Exporter

I've never used the Tools and Package Exporter. Creating folders from scratch has always worked well for me.

There certainly have been a lot of these threads lately, though...

Too many... I'm thinking of copying the same response into a text file and pasting it into every one I see.

[Relambrien]

Re: I Need Help!

I've never used the Tools and Package Exporter. Creating folders from scratch has always worked well for me.

Unless you make the SM file from scratch to begin with also, it shouldn't work. 3.9 doesn't seem to recognize a song unless it has an SM file in the directory, which the Tools and Package Exporter creates. I know this from personal experience. I created a new folder in My Creations with the name of the song, and placed the mp3 in the folder, yet it was not recognized. However, as soon as I put in an SM file, it was.

And unfortunately, most people seem to lack the cognitive ability to recognize the patterns within the folders and files to be able to do this on their own, and instead just decide, "Well I'll go to this site with people that do that, they'll help me for sure!"

And another thing I noticed is the description for this forum.

"Simulator Files If you have created a new .dwi file or have found a simulator file online, share it with people in this forum. You can also request files or ask questions on how to create them."

Notice the last clause, "or ask questions on how to create them." Maybe that should be removed...

Seriously though, a thread JUST for the creation of simfiles from scratch would get rid of most of these. And it would give us another excuse to say "look at the stickies," since the ones here really don't offer that much insight into the very first steps needed to make a simfile.