Making a Gap

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

I dunno if people will hate me for this or something but maybe a little tut for those who really dont understand and are accidentaly making bad stepfiles.

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Gap is when the arrows are starting so its important. With a bad gap you'll get yellow or orange arrow syndrome, which means you have a problem.
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Step 1.

Finding your gap.

If you dont have it already, download audacity or you'll have a problem (Proggie that I use to find gaps). Link:http://audacity.sourceforge.net/

Now that you (hopefully) have audacity, here is a picture discribing what to do.




Now that you have your gap, its time to open up notepad or XStep.

Since I dont usually use notepad, I decided to pick it first



Okay open up your .dwi (you should know how to create from Synthlight or arch0wls tutorials)

Here is an example (Max 300)

#TITLE:Max 300;
#ARTIST: Omega here;
#BPM:300;
#GAP:0.869464;


Im not really used to making stepfiles with notepad, so hopefully this is how it would start.
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MaKiNg GaP wItH xStEp
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Linkie linkie:http://www.thomasscott.net/xstep/

Okay if your like me and make the .dwi file with xstep, this part should seem pretty simple.

Just take a look at the img and it will make sense (Same song example as in the text one.







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Okay good job. Hopefully this is the correct way to make gaps as this is how I make them
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[plasmix]

http://www.flashflashrevolution.com/...hlight=#122503

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

meh, at least it has pictuars

[plasmix]

Your desktop image is adorable.

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

Mom wont let me change it

[Moogy]

This topic is pointless... that's not even how you get GAP...

[Privateer]

GAP = the time from 0.000 (the start of the mp3) to when the first beat occurs. Sometimes your GAP is not the first "noise" on the stepfile.

So if you had a song that had a GAP of 4550, Stepmania will wait 4.550 seconds before it begins the first beat.

[EDEdDNEdDYFaN]

I know, but usually in most of my songs it starts on first note.

[Ridge]

why does every1 make such a to-do about the gap? just get it at least close to accurate, make the steps, then spend 5 minutes playin with it afterwards.