[WIP] DDR X2 AC theme for Stepmania 4-ssc

yes, the Moonlight theme for SSC has it.

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I think the theme is awesome so far, but the only thing your missing is the ripples on the background and the timer.

BMP

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Like this?? BPM at the top of CDtitle.
http://www.konami.jp/bemani/ddr/jp/am/ddrx2/howto/pro_mode.html#a04

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I actually did put the BPM gauge in.

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Truuuuuly amazing

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So do the album covers have to be edited in the SM file or is it automatic?

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You have to create new images, hence the big link in my sig. (You can't "edit" any banner image through the SM file..)

Alternatively, you could modify your theme to use cropped backgrounds, but for various reasons that's not a good idea.

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Really? What would those be? height = SCREEN_HEIGHT and the left and right ends would get cut off properly be it a standard def or widescreen background image, right? If you wanted to make backgrounds to account for this you would just centre anything important and make sure it didn't bleed over the cut off edge.

Lots of backgrounds in a banner wheel = StepMania runs very badly.

Hmm... Agreed. That's good idea thought

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are all those graphics made from scratch? because that's a very impressive recreation if so.
also what are you doing about sounds? have you found rips for them or something?

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Ah, that's right. StepMania caches banners to prevent this problem... time to teach it to cache backgrounds too. It can make a lower resolution sample of the image for the coverflow...wheel...thing.

Yes they are. Oddly enough, a lot of the graphics in some areas were just recolored from X or SN2, but most are re-created.

In addition, I believe most of the sounds are reused from X, besides the music of course (I am STILL begging for lineouts of the menu music)

Dr. D seems to have an easy access to a X2 machine.. Try to ask him

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HUD almost complete.

Pretty good ! But the isn't the thing with name of the song and artist is too bold ?

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And the song name and artist name should be very flat if I'm not mistaken.

I'm having trouble getting to the exact font

In other news, here's the almost complete gameplay screen

It looks incomplete without actual DDR arrows. They can probably be ripped from HP3/X2CS (HP3 has solo arrows).