Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

[KarlOKeeffe]

Pkmnrulz241:
It looks like you also had a quote at the beginning of your command. You had:

[FTV]

I ran this thing for the first time with They Might Be Giant's song "We're the Replacements" and it worked like a dream! It came up with really good steps and almost all of them are perfectly on beat! The creator of this is a freaking genious! You sir need to get a job for Konami!

[Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj)]

[choc2771bw]

is anybody getting the invalid fid error or know what to do?

i dont wanna wait until this guy gets back, it also sounds like hes not sure how to fix it? anybody?

[damsquirl]

hey guys... here's what i'm getting when i run this thing.

i've tried several mp3's and several directories, and both .exe files, 101 and the one in the original pack.

C:\DM\bin\win32>DancingMonkeys101.exe "c:\iwouldwalk.mp3" 2 3 8 "c:\"
Initialised.
Can't init outfile '..\..\Temp Music\Temp Song.wav'
ERROR: Error decoding music.

EXITING

this is the result every single time, any suggestions?

thanks

[KarlOKeeffe]

FTV:
Thanks! I'm glad it actually worked for someone

damsquirl:
I believe the

[spoonsman]

I finally got around to uploading some steps that this program made.

You can find them here.

For all of these I gave it a full-length song (around 3ish minutes for most of them), and for all of them except QQQ I specified foot ratings of 5, 8, 9. Most of the files ended up not being those difficulties for reasons KarlOKeeffe explained earlier. I feel that this selection of songs shows both the program's strong and weak points.

For strong I recommend downloading Yoshi Story (techno). It is amazing how good those steps are (remember that these are mainly for your feet).

For weak points download Butterfly (Japanese). Good luck trying to AA it your first try.


As a side note the program outputs in wav but I converted all of them to mp3 to be more internet friendly.

[Arch0wl - GG]

OK, I played those Yoshi steps and they were crap and hardly went to the music at all. So yeah, I thought this program was going to replace the good simfile makers like Cynic, SKoR, Mwerp, BMR, Kamek, and others.

[Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj)]

[spoonsman]

Fox McCloud- all the songs that I gave the program were originally in the three minute range. The program truncates them down to DDR song length (around 1:45ish) so the original mp3s won't work with the stepfiles. When I get home I'll upload the original songs so you can see how it truncated them.

Arch0wl of GG- as Fox said, Karl already stated that it wasn't meant to replace DWI makers like those guys. Another point is that this program puts out files that are made for your FEET, not your fingers. If you want insane steps that go perfectly to the music go play some beatmania. I stand by my original opinion that it made very good steps for Yoshi's Story.


*edit*
Doh, I just realized that when I converted the wav to mp3 it screwed up the gaps on the files. I'll try and get the original wavs up later

[Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj)]

[MokonA]

[Arch0wl - GG]

[Aesir]

He guys, let's see if we can figure out what the problems here are. You guys that are getting it to run, are you using the Matlab version? What OS? What kind of partition (I imagine NTFS, but you never know), or anything else that may be helpful? I'm running XP on NTFS using the standalone version, and I get that "Invalid Fid" error. It happens after its generated the steps and everything, and right when its going to write them to the disk. Anybody know whats up?

[shieldwolf]

ok i'll admit I'm an idiot.

I run c:\dancing monkeys\bin\win32\DancingMonkeys.exe


window pops up for a second then closes

The song I want to do is C:\music\twist.mp3

do I type c:\dancing monkeys\bin\win32\DancingMonkeys.exeC:\music\twist.mp3

and then hit enter?

I AM LOST

[spoonsman]

Your problem is answered earlier in this thread. If you're too lazy to go looking for it, I'm too lazy to go looking for it for you.

The short answer is that you need to be running it from a command line (Start -> Run -> "cmd")

[shieldwolf]

LOL
No,
I'm not lazy. I actually saw that post. However
placing

cmd\c:\dancing monkeys\bin\win32\DancingMonkeys.exe

nor
cmdc:\dancing monkeys\bin\win32\DancingMonkeys.exe

worked. Which is why I asked someone to explain it too me.

I get to the dos prompt. It just doesn't find the files.

Now if you want to try and explain it to me and not criticize my post I would appreciate it.

[Ukato]

I really hate to break it to you, BUT you aren't the first person to come up with this program. At engineering open house at the University of Illinois, a couple of students made a program very similar to this, but they made the ddr program as well. BUT, their program was kinda clunky, and I give you credit, because your program has totally different source code than theirs.
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[Ukato]

i found more on the U of I project.

"How can an engineer learn to dance? The answer could be found at the Digital Dancer exhibit courtesy of SIGArch. Using advanced digital signal processing technology, the Digital Dancer takes arbitrary music and creates dance steps for it in real time. Players dance on a stage following the steps and are scored on how well they match the steps and music. The exhibit won the unofficial audience award and was often cited as a favorite."

taken from http://www.cs.uiuc.edu/news/archives/steoh.html
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[spoonsman]