bob64

I want to set the default browse folder for the current template location, instead of last used folder. All the "save/browse" options start browsing at the last used folder. I want them all to start browsing in whatever folder the template is saved in.

For example. I have two folders

c:\song1\

c:\documents and settings\user1\desktop\song2

If I open song 2, and click on a browse button to import the album art, for example, I want it to start browsing in the song2 folder.

If i open song 1 and do the same, I do NOT want it to start browsing in the song2 folder, forcing me to navigate to song1.

If I go back to the song1 toolkit window and hit browse for tone in the toolkit on song2, I want it to stay in the song2 folder, instead of defaulting to the last used folder, which is now song1.

If you do want it to default to last used, at least make it independent between .dlc.xml files.

If you've saved your eof files by default, it should have created a folder with all the stuff. Lets say that going with that workflow, you decide to save the package.dlc.xml file there with all the stuff filled in so you can tweak the tones and whatnot.

However, lets say you've imported from some random location on your hard drive or you work on multiple customs. It really sucks to keep browsing from

c:\customs\eof\song1\

to

c:\customs\eof\song2\

...all the time because you keep moving back and forth between different toolkit projects.

I want there to be an option to have my .dlc.xml

in my \song1\ folder to look for tones, save my generated package, import my album picture, import tones to always start there instead of in \song2\.

Argh? It's finally gotten annoying enough to start suggesting a preference option. Anyone agree?

I think there should be a "generate fret hand positions for all tracks and all difficulties" option. That way I don't have to switch to all my tracks and tell it to generate hand positions.

Sounds like it'd be easier to fix programmatically then fix chart-by-chart. Have you contacted the EOF developer?

make sure you don't have duplicate songs... for example, if the update has a different filename. Don't put both version one and version two in the dlc folder.

Just started noticing something strange:

Customs that you can find in the search, but don't correspond to a record page on the forum.

No idea how to do the query thing in ignition so here is it using the classic search:

examples:

http://search.customsforge.com/?q=Trololo

http://search.customsforge.com/?a=Death%20Note

Anyone know whats going on? Are they partially deleted or something?

What if.... we had a mandatory tutorial of some sort.

Basic stuff, create an eof file based off a simple sample song. You download said song with maybe like 10 notes on it. You're then walked through on how to create phrases/sections, add notes, add a bend of X strength, add a slide. All the basic techniques needed to make sure it's decent quality and doesn't crash.

Here's the kicker: they upload the competed .eof file to some service that hashes and compares with "the gold standard" one. Since the tutorial would guide them step by step, chances are 90% of the completed .eof files would match the "gold standard" file. Bam. New posters now have song posting rights.

If people are uploading trash constantly, they should get their upload permissions revoked.

Simple as that.

Changing the platforms selections seems to blank out the tones section and the audio file location.

I think the row spacing is too large at the moment, probably caused by the + button to the left, I think that making it more dense would make it easier (less scrolling) to view what's new and browse.

Second thing: For the people that need the non-pc version, the links for alternative downloads are left un-url'd as plain text.

Alex, I know how to use technotes, I just never noticed that the UI displayed the presence of technotes until now. Thought I accidentally added a "problem note" somewhere. The root cause was when I created the gp5 by painstakingly transcribing it from a score, I didn't notice that the gp5 I imported somehow had 5 technotes hidden in 1799 normal notes. And its not like the forum lets you search for "(*)". And since google apparently doesn't index these forums, so even google searches didn't help. I even searched for some combinations of bracket star bracket in these forums before asking.

Bottom line, when you've got 5 technotes hidden somewhere in five and a half minute song containing 1799 notes, it's kinda hard to notice where the hell they are, especially when no ones got any idea what (*) symbolizes to determine what to even look for. Yeah I know there's a tutorial section, but that's a lot of ground to cover when you can't search the entire forums for it.

Anyway Raynebc, any way to add tooltips? Would be nice to hover over more subtle UI elements to figure out what they mean.

Oh that explains it. Found the technotes which were apparently imported with the gp5.

Had to delete all normal notes and scroll until i saw something.... is there any easier way to go to the first selected note (noticed 5 notes selected when did a CTL+A)?

These are my current settings. Am I missing something because it still generates these fret positions at r1372?

Also, what does the (*) symbolize at the end of the difficulty?

http://i.imgur.com/jR4TNCt.jpg

Just noticed that EOF isn't generating fret positions higher then 19 when there are gems at 23/24. Some sort of rocksmith 1 compatibility setting I forgot to uncheck?

http://i.imgur.com/FgIYv57.jpg

One of my current pet peeves is the inability to add the exact amount of silence to keep the bpm the same when I've got everything synced up, but when I reset offset to zero, it adds whatever other bpm in front, which totally fucks up any gp5 imports I do later.

Any way to just tell either gp5 imports to stop following the eof beatmap OR stop moving my freaking notes when I drag the first BPM line OR add a function to eliminate the problem entirely by combining it with the insert silence function to insert whatever is + whatever extra needed to maintain the bpm?

Invert one of the audio channels in your video. Either the LEFT channel or the RIGHT channel. not both. This will allow you to circumvent the copyright robots without messing with the pitch/speed of the song.

Invert one of the audio channels in the video. Either left or right, not both. This will cause the two channels to "cancel out" when the fucking copyright robots go after it. = The bot hears nothing of value.

I've noticed strange things when importing ASCII, but if you save a blank GP file as ASCII and append the ASCII tabs to that file, it can fix alot of the import issues...

Not to advertise but this guy apparently does tab stuff if you toss some cash at him. I found tabs for a pretty rare song there that someone apparently requested. I do have to mention that I've never used him myself.

http://www.guitartabmaker.com

using r1341. I think i added an no-guitar section somewhere. The next thing I've noticed is that pretty much most of my sections/phrases are gone. Is there anyway to import all the sections/phrases from a previous backup eof file?

edit: i think i forgot to save my recovered eof file and computer must have crashed. Anyway, loaded up the undo/redo info from the last date before today and it looks like everythings back.

I've already though about it but the better the lyrics are done in the first place the less you have to handle those "issue".

Not really. I've worked with many of lyric programs and they aren't designed to snap to a specific bpm value. So when you import lyrics, they'll be off slightly. Plus, you also have to account for rocksmith's maximum display length and split lines accordingly.

You know how you have to set which lines are "together" by using the lyric line marking too? You know, so it knows when to show a given string and it highlights the words/syllables in eof?

Well, I hate how you have to ctrl-m it again if you tweak a word length or move it to an earlier/later position.

So my suggestion: Can you change it once a group of words/syllables are marked as a "line", have it automatically change the CTRL+M highlight to match any modifications to the length of the word/syllable "notes"?

Argh, I'm not sure if I'm explain things clearly enough, so let me know if you need some pictures to demonstrate what I'm talking about.

Here's a question. Are all the speakers the same sounding ones? I've yet to find a speaker that's definitely different.

Also, If I make a request, does it have to be published in the DB? Can I just upload it somewhere and PM the link to you with a promise to publish it in the DB? IMO publishing a custom certifies a certain level of completeness. I don't want to publish something for people to download without tones set. I think they'd play it and think it's total trash and then have them skip downloading the custom again when they see an update for it. Tones are really important because I think for people to enjoy a custom, it needs to sound like the song.

Thanks. Unchecking that box worked. I guess it is labeled a bit counter-intuitively. Perhaps it should be renamed to "extract official dlc song xml"? or something.

So I'm trying to recover some work from a compiled package. The .eof file is lost on a crashed hard drive.

I'm running the latest toolkit  v2.6.1.0

I'm able to extract the xml file. However, when I try to import the xml file, I get an error and this shows up the in the eof log:

642:  Processing line #630642:    Processing <chordTemplates> tag on line #630642:  Error reading chord name on line #632.  Aborting

Looking at the XML file on line ~632, and deleting chordtemplates until it errors out at a later step (missing chordid) it looks like its not accepting this:

  <chordTemplates>    <chordTemplate displayName="C#5/A" chordName="C#5/A" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="7" fret3="6" fret4="4" fret5="4" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="-1" finger4="-1" finger5="-1">      <ChordId>0</ChordId>    </chordTemplate>  </chordTemplates>

But it does accept this:

  <chordTemplates>    <chordTemplate ChordId="0" displayName="C#5/A" chordName="C#5/A" fret0="-1" fret1="-1" fret2="7" fret3="6" fret4="4" fret5="4" finger0="-1" finger1="-1" finger2="-1" finger3="-1" finger4="-1" finger5="-1"/>  </chordTemplates>

So it doesn't like the nested chordid value in the chordtemplate. Is this a bug?