Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

tgreyz_ · Trick Member Joined: 27 Sep 2004

Ok I got the program to work....but it wont create steps above 5 footers....why?

Arimasen · Trick Member Joined: 14 Feb 2003

lostsage · Posted: Wed Feb 02, 2005 7:00 pm Post subject:

hey, i saw that there mention in a previous post of a patch for DM to create steps for songs over 100 seconds.

does anyone know where to download this patch, or is this vaporware?

(i'm not talking about the front end patch)

Arimasen · Trick Member Joined: 14 Feb 2003

zombiejesus9001 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Apr 2004

hey if anyone wants to send me the front end for this and the program i would greatly appreciate it

[email protected]

djriverdance · Basic Member Joined: 09 Apr 2002

Is there a Mac OSX version?

LAN040 · Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:32 am Post subject:

The program won't even open for me. It just opens a black box and immediately stops. Why?
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Arimasen · Trick Member Joined: 14 Feb 2003

icywindow · Basic Member Joined: 29 May 2004

Well, I finally got some webfront for my program, so I direct you to the frontend which I programmed a bit back. The site doesn't allow direct downloading, so you'll have to click the link then click to download.

Go here if you want it.

Thanks,
icywindow

gust0208 · Basic Member Joined: 16 May 2005

I just recently stumbled on this project and was very impressed by the work. Thanks to Karl for his programming skills and to Icywindow for a very useful frontend. I have some experience with Matlab and was going to go in and make the changes so DM will allow songs longer than 1:45 and to output a LAME-encoded mp3 conversion of the wav file (or simply copy the original). I read previously in this thread there was a patch to allow for longer songs? Does anyone know where to download this to see their work?

Also, if any matlab gurus or Karl, how did you compile the matlab code to an exe with LAME included?

Cheers,
Tom

p.s. Now I can dance to Strongbad, TROGDOR!

icywindow · Basic Member Joined: 29 May 2004

Since so many people were asking for the patched version (one that killed the 1:45 limitation), I did some mining and found the patched DM exe. I put it up on the frontend page for anyone who wants it.

gust0208:

I haven't messed with matlab at all, so I can't really help you there, but best of luck on it.

Another little bug of which you may want to be aware: there's a 38-200ms gap jump when backconverting to mp3, since it is nixed when converting to wav. It's really all in the encoder (LAME has the lowest latency that I've seen anyways) but it might be enough to throw off the file just so...

Likewise, the patch wasn't modular, so unless you're going to bytewise compare the two files (DMpatch.exe and DancingMonkeys.exe) in hex, it probably won't be useful to you on your end D:

~icywindow

gust0208 · Basic Member Joined: 16 May 2005

Hey icywindow,

Thanks for the work of digging up the patched exe, I just copied it over and am trying it out. Also, good to know about the possible gap formation from back-converting to mp3. I may to experiment it a bit to see if it is worth going to mp3 with possible gap of just staying with wav and not having to worry.

I will keep looking at the code and seeing if or what improvements may be able to be made.

Cheers!

WarFair · Basic Member Joined: 07 May 2005

Can some one help me I try the first step opening up cmd and typing in

C:\Program Files\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32

and it responds by saying C:\Program is not recognized as an internal or external command operable program or batch files.

Anyone know what the hell is going on here?

Tashi · Posted: Mon May 23, 2005 11:33 pm Post subject:

since there are spaces in the name you have to surround it with quotes.
instead of putting C:\Program Files\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32
put "C:\Program Files\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32"
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gust0208 · Basic Member Joined: 16 May 2005

Hello,

Probably the best thing to do would be to download icywindow's frontend. This will solve all the problems with full names and parentheses and possible fid errors. See just a few post of this for a link to the frontend.

Cheers,
Tom

Kokichi · Basic Member Joined: 19 Feb 2003

What I do is I copy and paste a some text from a NoteTab Light file that I saved, then to change the song I just change the song file. Here's what I copy and paste:

cd C:\Documents and Settings\Xander\My Documents\DWI\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32

DancingMonkeys.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\Xander\My Documents\My Music\Astromantic - Miss You.mp3" 3 6 9

Now, first you do Run, then type in cmd and hit enter, then you copy the first line into the prompt (copy and then right click and paste, not cntrl v since that does something else). Note you'll have to change where it says Xander to your own name. Alos, this is assuming that you have your Dancing Monkeys folder in your DWI folder. If not, just take out the DWI part. I personally find leaving it in My Documents either way is useful.

Then, after you enter the first text and press enter, enter in the second one (just copy and paste it all in). The only thing you'll need to change here is, again, Xander, assuming that the music you want will be in your My Music folder. Then just replace Astromantic - Miss You with whatever the mp3 file is. Make sure you include .mp3 afterwards! I'd leave 3 6 9 for the steps since it's best that way.

Hope that helps...it took me a few hours to figure this out...

BTW, can anyone improve DM so it'll do more complicated steps? How difficult would htat be?

WarFair · Basic Member Joined: 07 May 2005

Ya the Front end works ,however, whenever I run it in the CMD all it seems to do is export the song again it doesnt creat a dwi file with steps. Anyone that uses front end know what might be going on?

gust0208 · Basic Member Joined: 16 May 2005

Hey WarFair,

This occasionally happens when Dancing Monkeys hits an error when processing a song, if you watch it while it runs, it will display some sort of error then the cmd window will close since it was launched by the front end. I have had this happen with a few songs, but haven't figured what aspects in general tend to give it problems. I attribute it to lots of gaps, but that is just my hunch.

Try it on a few other songs and see if you get any output, if not, then it may be something with your Dancing Monkeys install.

Hope that helps,
Tom

IamLEAM1983 · Basic Member Joined: 27 May 2005

Heya. As you can obviously tell, I'm a complete newbie. However, I have read through the entire thread firsthand, so I don't think I'll bother anyone with my question. Here goes.

After a few minutes spent unearthing my knowledge of DOS commands (God bless the HELP command!), I managed to have Dancing Monkeys run perfectly. I took the invalid FID error into account and left out the output directory. I double and triple-checked everything, and it worked just fine.

However, when I tested the outputted DWI and SM files on StepMania, I realized that the arrows froze on the screen every now and then, and therefore lost the beat of the song entirely. Are these the normal Freeze Arrows, or is this a bug?

Also, most of the DWIs I create with DM end up causing StepMania to crash after a variable period of time. Should I send a bug report to SourceForge, or is the problem linked to DM? I tried downloading the front end provided by Icywidow, but the one working link leads to a corrupted file. Could anyone send it to me, at daniel_sauve (at) sympatico (dot) ca? I'd appreciate it.

In any case, I'd like to extend my thanks to Karl O'Keefe for making such a convenient little program. Bugs nonwithstanding, it has a lot of potential.
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Kokichi · Basic Member Joined: 19 Feb 2003

Yeah, sometimes the game freezes for me too (well, just the steps, the song keeps playing)...what's up with that, and how can you fix it?