Hi, folks.

I'll be using this thread to maintain the latest versions of EOF in one place. To start, download and extract EOF 1.8RC13:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof

You can keep that zip file handy to avoid downloading it more than once. When I release a new hotfix, all you have to do is replace the files from the above zip file with the ones from the hotfix.  The latest hotfixes get posted in the same place:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof

*If you use a non QWERTY US English keyboard layout, and keyboard controls/shortcuts aren't working for you, please make a post describing what keyboard shortcuts aren't working, and what the Info panel says the "CODE" and "ASCII" values are after you use each of the keyboard controls in question.

I used to make Mac releases, but Apple dropped support for 32 bit applications so the user base dwindled away and I can't port the entire application to 64 bit at this time.  The latest Mac build (2-7-2025) is here:
https://ignition4.customsforge.com/eof/download/17
Unless you have oggenc and LAME installed (these don't come with the Mac build for licensing reasons), you won't be able to have EOF automatically convert from MP3 to OGG when you create a new chart. If you have trouble getting those set up on your system, here is a package that should get them installed and usable by EOF:
http://www.t3-i.com/apps/eof/downloads/eof_utilities.pkg

Please provide any and all feedback, including bugs and feature requests. If possible, also please review the included documentation (manual, tutorials) and let me know if you find any room for improvement there. Eventually I plan to add a Rocksmith authoring section to the pro guitar tutorial, but the community's knowledge of the Rocksmith songs' makeup changes pretty quickly so it's hard to know when particular features are considered fully known. For any features that ARE fully known (like anchors), please feel free to remind me if they aren't incorporated into EOF yet, in case I missed any information being passed around on this forum or the Google group.

Note: If you are reporting a bug, please specify which hotfix (date) you're using. I release hotfixes on a somewhat random schedule, sometimes more than once per day, so the issue being reported may have been fixed in a release you haven't tried yet.

Silly me, I got that fixed now. I think any other hanging problem may be coincidental. New link posted.

I'm playing around with the latest hotfix. My lead guitar part will now compile without errors, but my rhythm and bass charts still fail. The XML errors point to a handshape bracket in each chart that end with a /, though neither of the chart have handshapes charted.

 

The error'd ones never contain any information either:

<handShapes count="0"/>
</handShapes>

I'm guessing that / shouldn't be there on the first line.

 

A few side comments:

 

I noticed in my project that if a handshape crosses the boundary of a phrase then in-game the handshape will cut-off when that phrase starts.

 

Would it be possible to set a handshape with just a single note? I'm still throwing in ghost notes for the section where the handshape changes for one note before moving.

The XML errors point to a handshape bracket in each chart that end with a /, though neither of the chart have handshapes charted.

I'll get that corrected for real with the next hotfix.

 

I noticed in my project that if a handshape crosses the boundary of a phrase then in-game the handshape will cut-off when that phrase starts.

If this is a limitation with Rocksmith, authors may just need to be aware of it and re-author the handshape at the beginning of each phrase that interrupts it?

 

Would it be possible to set a handshape with just a single note? I'm still throwing in ghost notes for the section where the handshape changes for one note before moving.

I don't know how this would be useful, in-game I'm under the impression that it has to be associated with a chord of some kind. EOF is designed that way too, and short of EOF automatically throwing in ghost notes to automatically force the use of notes on more than one string in a handshape there's probably not a clean way for me to design such a change.

Hi, folks. The latest hotfix (r1428) is in the first post. Changes are as follows:

*Added a Bandfuse color set, which uses color to indicate the fingering (open string = purple, index = green, middle = red, ring = yellow, pinky = blue, thumb = orange). If a note's fingering isn't defined, EOF will guess based on any fret hand position in effect, otherwise if no suitable fingering is determined, the note is drawn in white.

*Fixed another RS export bug from the last hotfix where if an arrangement had no handshapes (ie. no chords) then an extra closing handShapes tag would be written.

I noticed in my project that if a handshape crosses the boundary of a phrase then in-game the handshape will cut-off when that phrase starts.

 

This is the expected behaviour in Rocksmith (and not a limitation).

As difficulty level of phrases can evolve differently, a phrase can't depend on events of the previous one (like linknext status, handshapes, ...)  

Right, good point there.

 

Thanks for the hotfix again, raynebc, you're a champ.

 

I'll try to play around with my project more tonight and get something worked out.

When I try to use EOF, Guitar Pro import is grayed out for me. Any fixes?

When I try to use EOF, Guitar Pro import is grayed out for me. Any fixes?

You have to select a compatible track first (PART REAL GUITAR for example...)

Hi, folks.

 

The latest hotfix (r1432) is in the first post. Changes are as follows:

*Added functions to Note>Drum to mark yellow, blue or green cymbal notes as being both cymbals and toms simultaneously, for future use in Phase Shift. Such cymbal notes will render as having a black hole in the middle.

*Fixed a bug where if the "3D render bass drum in a lane" preference was enabled, cymbal notes would 3D render as normal drum notes instead of cymbals.

*Added logic so that if Rocksmith export fails due to chord or handshape errors, EOF will seek to the offending track and position.

*Added a "Ghost notes trigger clap" option to "Song>Audio cues". Ghost notes will no longer trigger the MIDI tones sound cue or export to musical MIDI files.

*Fixed a bug where using "Note>Drum>Mark as non cymbal" wouldn't mark the chart as altered and create an undo state.

*Added logic if RS2 export is enabled so that arpeggio and handshape phrases will automatically add an additional ghost gem at their start position (to form a chord) if they don't contain gems on more than one string. This is required for RS2 export of such phrases to succeed.

*Changed fret hand position generation logic so that a position is generated for the note at the beginning of each arpeggio/handshape phrase, but not for the other notes within those phrases.

Hi @raynebc, I think arpeggio mark shortcut (ctrl + shift + G) was lost since the last hotfix. Not sure if problem might be in my end but tried to restart eof without luck.

Thanks, I've fixed that.

Thanks for all the updates.

 

I created two notes with crazy sustain.  Then I CTRL+SHIFT+H the notes. After saving (and restarting EOF) the sustain length of the first note stops at the second note.

 

http://i.imgur.com/re2pKi7.png

 

 

 

It's not that crazy sustain doesn't work within handshapes (cause it does here:)

 

http://i.imgur.com/3VFTix2.png

 

but it cuts that first note short cause it's a "chord".   Is there a way around this?

 

If not, no biggie I can just edit the XML it's a pretty rare occurrence.

The issue is that the base chord for the handshape can't overlap any gems in the handshape. Your best bets are to edit the XML or author it so that the handshape begins a little earlier with the base chord defined as ghost notes:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a354/raynebc/handshape%20overlap%20note%20workaround_zpsiap43xqp.jpg

Thanks, I did what you did in the picture, except kept the chord where it belonged, link nexted, and pushed the blue 4 up a bit.

I hadn't considered linknext, but it's good if that works also. I'm not sure in what circumstances Rocksmith may not like that status being used.

- When the same chord appears more than once in a song -

 

If you try changing the name of a single chord using the N key menu, the new name will not save in the XML UNLESS you select YES to "Update other matching notes in this track to have the same name".

 

One might think "If it's the same chord, why would you give it different names at different parts of the song?"

 

Sometimes the chord name overlaps onto the next note on the highway and it's cleaner to remove it in that instance.  You can hide it by giving it a single space for a name.

I noticed that tehre is an alert message regarding no intro section for RS2 Export. I think it is not needed anymore. Because I tried to create a custom with not even one 'intro' section and the custom just work fine so maybe if only RS2 export is selected you can remove this alert message.

I'd like to get confirmation from multiple people before removing something that had been expected to be a base requirement for an arrangement. Can you verify that section never actually ended up in EOF's XML file? Can anybody else test this out?

A section must be created before the first note whatever its name. If not, RR functionality doesn't work....

Ok so it's a section not an 'intro' section :D

Does it have to be before or can it simply be at the same timestamp as the first note? Does it likewise not matter for RS1 what the name of the first section is (even though most official charts followed a particular pattern)?

The first section must be on the first beat of a measure and before or at the same timestamp of the first event (note or chord).

I got around to checking, EOF isn't enforcing any default section to be on the first beat of a measure, just to be on the first beat that contains notes.

Hi, folks. The latest hotfix (r1434) is in the first post. Changes are as follows:

*Fixed a bug caused by r1431 where the mark arpeggio shortcut (CTRL+SHIFT+G) no longer worked.

*Changed backup logic so that backup copies of the active project use file names ending in .bak.

*Added logic so that when the Bandfuse color set is in use, tapped notes are drawn in black as they are in-game.

*Fixed a bug with "Flatten this difficulty" where the project would not be marked as modified if no notes were changed, but if other items such as fret hand positions were.

*Fixed a bug where arpeggios/handshapes that began with more than one non ghosted gem would cause RS2 export to fail.

Is it possible now make handshape sections with single notes and chords in boxes with this hotfix? Or this can just be made by modifying the XML tracks?