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Post by asskickulater on Jan 29, 2012 4:34:13 GMT
well just a minute ago, I thought of an idea.. would it be hard to have PS look at all the midi files in the game, and say, shade out the instruments that don't exist in the diffculties info at the top? |
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Post by Bluzer on Jan 29, 2012 5:02:12 GMT
to expand upon this...When I do songs.. and I have song with no diff_**** = numbers...could I put like = NA...and then in the game..it will instead of having non glowing orbs..but X's or ---NA---..to show its not available. Also.. I add diff_band =...but its not in the list.
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Post by David on Jan 29, 2012 8:07:49 GMT
We were pushing a tag in the difficulties but I this would have messed up FOF. But I'm happy to go with diff_guitar = -1 which would keep the value an integer.
We do support the diff_band tag, but the default theme doesn't display it. However, it is currently used when sorting the list by difficulty.
David
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Post by raynebc on Jan 29, 2012 10:27:27 GMT
If non-existing tracks aren't grayed out during song selection, should EOF start writing the diff_... = -1 tags for all empty instrument tracks? Up to now, I know the following difficulty tags have been established:
diff_guitar
diff_bass
diff_drums
diff_vocals
diff_keys
diff_bass_real
diff_guitar_real
diff_bass_real_22
diff_guitar_real_22
diff_keys_real
However I don't recall there having been tags finalized for the few remaining tracks:
PART GUITAR COOP
PART RHYTHM
PART DANCE
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Post by asskickulater on Jan 29, 2012 11:04:45 GMT
If non-existing tracks aren't grayed out during song selection, should EOF start writing the diff_... = -1 tags for all empty instrument tracks? Up to now, I know the following difficulty tags have been established: diff_guitar diff_bass diff_drums diff_vocals diff_keys diff_bass_real diff_guitar_real diff_bass_real_22 diff_guitar_real_22 diff_keys_real However I don't recall there having been tags finalized for the few remaining tracks: PART GUITAR COOP PART RHYTHM PART DANCE that would be useful, but, i think PS going through the midi would be better... think of this scenario: tou and your friend are playing online, you play guitar... your friend plays drums... assuming you dont have all RB's and GH's you would need to click your song go back to the lobby and ready up just to find out if that particular song has drums, and then youd back out, and repeat the process. that much more of a pain then just looking at the top as you scroll down to find a song that has both. that making sense? or am i just that bad at examples lol |
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Post by David on Jan 29, 2012 11:17:12 GMT
If non-existing tracks aren't grayed out during song selection, should EOF start writing the diff_... = -1 tags for all empty instrument tracks? Up to now, I know the following difficulty tags have been established: diff_guitar diff_bass diff_drums diff_vocals diff_keys diff_bass_real diff_guitar_real diff_bass_real_22 diff_guitar_real_22 diff_keys_real However I don't recall there having been tags finalized for the few remaining tracks: PART GUITAR COOP PART RHYTHM PART DANCE We are currently using diff_dance so that's fine. I wouldn't bother differentiating between 17 and 22 frets as they would be the same values anyway. Adding Coop and Rhythm should be fine though. Thanks David |
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Post by raynebc on Jan 29, 2012 12:01:25 GMT
How do these tags sound:
diff_guitar_coop
diff_rhythm
I agree with asskickulater that it would be good for Phase Shift to be able to check the MIDI to see which parts are present, but I suggest that if song.ini has any difficulty tags, Phase Shift can skip that parse and assume that the difficulty tags present are exhaustive (all tracks either have a difficulty defined or are defined as vacant with a difficulty of -1). This will have the benefit for improving performance for charts that have the complete information, and having a fall back method that will work for older charts.
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Post by Bluzer on Jan 29, 2012 12:04:13 GMT
alrighty, -1 it is. thanks.
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Post by David on Jan 29, 2012 12:17:31 GMT
How do these tags sound: diff_guitar_coop diff_rhythm I agree with asskickulater that it would be good for Phase Shift to be able to check the MIDI to see which parts are present, but I suggest that if song.ini has any difficulty tags, Phase Shift can skip that parse and assume that the difficulty tags present are exhaustive (all tracks either have a difficulty defined or are defined as vacant with a difficulty of -1). This will have the benefit for improving performance for charts that have the complete information, and having a fall back method that will work for older charts. This sounds fine. Thanks David |
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