iminashi

Added a new section about crowd events (9.).

I would guess that it happens because DDC moves the END phrase to the first beat of a bar.

Chords and linknext are a bit of a special case, I guess. In official content, chords that have any chordnotes with linknext always have linknext too.

Besides, the current implementation in the toolkit only checks if the chord itself has linknext.

http://i.imgur.com/lh3yRhk.png

This is not exported into the XML properly.

<chord time="16.998" chordId="3" >
  <chordNote time="16.998" string="1" fret="5" sustain="1.000" linkNext="1" leftHand="1" />
  <chordNote time="16.998" string="2" fret="7" leftHand="3" />
  <chordNote time="16.998" string="3" fret="7" leftHand="4" />
</chord>

The chord should also have linkNext="1" instead of just the chordNote. 

@@raynebc That doesn't work. Chordnotes cannot have different sustains.

I can think of two ways to make it work:

1. The simple way

Since the problem is caused by how RS draws open notes into the anchor zone, you can simply remove the FHP changes from the slides:

http://i.imgur.com/HIBp5Iz.png

If the fingering uses the first finger, EOF will give a warning every time you save.

2. The hackish way

If you absolutely need to have the FHP changes (why?), it is possible to keep them. Remove the open D note(s) from the chords, then edit it back into the XML as a note 0.001 seconds before the first chord, and set the correct sustain (if you put it exactly on the chord it seems like the chord's linknext messes things up).

http://i.imgur.com/F4Xaqjz.png

EDIT: Or you could also try to do it in EOF:

http://i.imgur.com/r68oVo9.png

I'd go with the simple way.  :)

@@Alex360 Well, I haven't seen any other notes being used in the DLC that I have, and how quickly you can change the color isn't limited by the song bpm. For example, changing every 0.033 seconds (1/30s) works. ...That gives me an idea to see what it looks like when you make the color changes faster gradually.

@@Rockfirstlast There's no way to shut off all the lights, not that I know of anyhow. The closest thing would be beams off (note 42) and dark purple fog color (35).

The strobe effect can be achieved by simply changing between two colors very quickly. For example, in "Cold Company" there is a part where it switches between 28 (dark blue) and 35 (dark purple) about every 0.2 seconds. You'd preferably need an algorithm to generate it, otherwise you're in for some tedious copy-pasting/editing.  :P (I've thrown together such an algorithm in Ruby, but haven't tested what kind of crazy stuff you might achieve with it.)

Finally got around to doing a bit more substantial update.  :ph34r:

Added some stuff about FHPs (1.3) and chord fingerings (1.4).

Added links to illustrative animated gifs in 3.2.

Added a tip to 4.2 (High density repeats).

Might add something about showlights and crowd events later.

 

Did you notice an issue or a special behaviour in RS2014 due to this first beat position ?

 

Only the leading silence thing I mentioned. I don't think there are any other issues.

 

  About the first time position of a beat, I setted it like that because EOF generates the "0.000" beat by default. 

Not sure what you mean by that. EOF sets the startBeat and the first beat at the time where the beat map begins, not at 0.000.

It only matters if people want to use ODLC-like leading silence (10+ seconds of silence). I've tried it, but haven't noticed any merits in doing so myself. Anyway, Firekorn advises that people do that in his tutorial. And if you move the first beat from 10s to 0s, it will mean that about half of that silence will not be skipped like it is in ODLC.

 

 - New process to add measure 0 at time 0.000 when startBeat is greater than 0.000

What's the reason for this? Since in ODLC the first beat is at 10.000.

Also, I'd really prefer if DDC didn't move sections/phrases to the first beat of a measure. Having to create workarounds like 1/4 measures to get a section to start at the right place feels silly.

@PC Plum You could use my chordshapes file. That C chord is included.

http://customsforge.com/topic/35879-improved-chordshapesxml/

Don't know if this has been discussed before, but it is possible to make an arpeggio using a handshape and display the chord name by making a chord with one note:

http://i.imgur.com/jWLIAoO.jpg

What do you think of such a contraption? Looks a bit weird when you're not used to it.

The abridged XML for that's pretty simple:

    <chordTemplate chordName="A" displayName="A-nop" fret1="0" />
    <chordTemplate chordName="A" displayName="A" finger2="1" finger3="1" finger4="1" fret1="0" fret2="2" fret3="2" fret4="2" />

...

    <chord time="11.996" chordId="0">
        <chordNote time="11.996" string="1" fret="0" />
    </chord>

...

    <handShape chordId="1" startTime="11.996" endTime="15.246" />

Customs that are made with a really old version of the toolkit (v2.2 I think) also may not be affected. And if an arrangement doesn't have any chords, it won't be affected by the mastery bug regardless of the version of the toolkit used.

Updated with 16 more shapes.

Well, I took a peek into the game's executable and found this list:

I haven't tested that, but in ODLC E3, D3 and E13 are always uppercase and e0, e1, e2 are always lowercase.

Yeah, most likely leftover stuff that shouldn't be there.

@@Alex360

As a matter of fact, I did come across some events that only appear in DLC, not in any on-disc songs.

Here are the event codes:

sp

wedge_25
rwedge_25
wedge_50
rwedge_50
wedge_cutoff

pa_1:5
pa_2:5
pa_7:4
pa_1:7
pa_2:7
pa_18:7
pa_29:7
pa_6:9
pa_4:14

ct_17:3,10,17

del_3:start
del_3:end

My guess would be that they don't actually do anything.  :)

It should be noted that there is a lot of official content that have solo phrases where solo=0.

Also, in the manifest files, sections have the attribute "IsSolo", which is set to true for sections named "solo".

They are all used in both RS1 and 2.

• GP import only imports the transition (slide, bend, hammer) of a grace note when it is set as "before the beat". If it is "on the beat", the transitions are not imported at all. Also, the way the bend grace note is imported doesn't make sense.

• Something I noticed as I was looking at how the ignore status is used in official content: In ODLC, when a chord is set as ignore, the individual chordnotes don't have the ignore status and EOF's RS import will import the chord without the ignore status.