DDR 3rd Mix Graphic Files and Possibly upcoming theme.

So here are the rips for DDR 3rd Mix. Thanks goes to Inorizushi for helping me convert the files to PNG format and reuploading them.


https://mega.nz/#!qwZVSY5K!LshPchHj6hsR66P441HgPJtiO7N29TEyUwqxkWT1HSo

With that said, I would like to work on a 3rd mix theme, if nobody has started on this project yet, but I don't have as much time, so a release won't be for months. If anyone is interested, I can always help contribute. This will be a very interesting theme as we got CDs now, and possibly every mix beyond 3rd mix could have custom CDs if the community wants to make them. If anyone is interested in developing this theme, good luck.

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The existing 3rd Mix theme is pretty lacking. I am only able to put a few songs per folder to really make it work. And I would love to see customized CDs at least for the songs that already have them.

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Where can I find the 3rd mix theme? Maybe I can look at it.

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I always wanted to bring to life a real and better DDR 3rd Mix to SM5, bur due to i dont have the files and at least a base to start with it. I think to make a better MusicWheel for a DDR 3rd theme, you could use the backgrounds of each song, use a mask to adjust the shape of the "disk".

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Check out my STEPMANIA thread. It has

Dance Dance Revolution 3rd Mix

https://mega.nz/#!gYhnVIxR!UegPyoVl91_0TrAIL-u5UlwBWY0hRDBy5Rb5r86Zz-g

Not sure where to get the theme all by itself anymore.

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I will note, that most background images are 320x240. Good luck on up scaling them to 640x480 as this was no longer a problem in the themes for 4th mix and up .

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What I was thinking was to use a modified method of how the 2014 theme handles it. We take the disc images, put them into the theme.
Then have lua load the song's display name, and have it load the corresponding cd image.
And as a fallback, use the mask + bg.

Well I was going to link stepmaniathings.com, but the site is totally tweaked.

I know I have 3rd mix for 3.9. So would you like me to upload this theme somewhere?

I also have 3rd Mix Plus, 3rd Mix Korean V1, DDR 1.5 Mix and 2nd Mix TIM files that need to be converted. For the select music screen all that needs to be done well, is the CDs on the screen. If you have over 100+ songs in one folder, that's going to be a lot of CDs it's going to have to load on the screen. and for the 2nd mix theme, the sizes of the CDs are different in the PSX version than the arcade because there are more songs, so if you wanted to have 1000+ songs in one folder, the CDs would have to be really small in order to see all the CDs.

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I have a theory as to how to get that to be clean.

What would that be?

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So theoretically, we can setup MusicWheelSong NormalPart to only display the specified number of indexed items we want at a time

Basically, the music wheel behaves like normal, but only displays say, 10 at a time and the ones in the VEEEEERY BACK get replaced with the new ones. Kinda like how the top banners are setup in the Konamix theme.

I would love a 3rdMIX theme! There could also be separate modifications of the theme for 3rdMIX PLUS, DDR USA, EuroMIX and BEST HITS, after the original is done of course, but those are not that important. They would be neat though.

I think that for CD graphics it should look for CD image>jacket>background>banner, then mask whichever it finds first into a CD.