Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

PrayerWarrior35 · Posted: Mon Nov 24, 2003 7:29 pm Post subject:

I also would like a users guide, this would be cool in making .dwi's to songs that my wife likes that I don't want to bother with, or the BPM and GAP alone.
Could you give a complete example in your report as well, I tried this for ~30 mins with nothing working to my advantage. And I read through all 3 pages where everybody had different problems.
I hate DOS by the way and all computer programming, but I would love for this program to work.

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2003 10:42 am Post subject:

It really isn't that hard to run...

*wishes Karl would hurry up and get back

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Turkeyslam · Trick Member Joined: 11 Jul 2003

I must say... this program is unbelievable. Mad kudos to you, my friend. I hope that if this was graded or whatever you'd get a PERFECT score!

One thing I must point out... I set it up to autogen steps for Jurassic 5's "Jurass Finish First" on 6, 8, 9. Oh. My. God. These steps are AWESOME. I am NOT kidding... these steps are SERIOUSLY good enough to be in a Tournamix. I am NOT joking. Near the end it has the weirdest stopping gap, but it fits PERFECTLY. You guys have to try it yourselves. It clocks in at a BPM of like 207!

One thing I might suggest... maybe you should bring EVERY level down one. Like 6's become 5's, 9's become 8's, and so on. It always seems that the rating is one too many. Also, do you think you could maybe support 10's in future versions of this? This is all nitpicking, though. That program RULES!!!

DJBouche · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 6:44 am Post subject:

I think I figured out the fid error, it'll be either one of these:

WARNING: Unable to Output truncated version of song. Please copy original to out
put directory.

If you get this error, do what it says, and put the original song into the destination directory, you won't get this error ever again if you do that.

It could also be when specifying the output directory, add a trailing backslash, example:

DancingMonkeys101.exe C:\airship.mp3 3 5 8 c:\dmstepfiles\

as oppsosed to

DancingMonkeys101.exe C:\airship.mp3 3 5 8 c:\dmstepfiles

Like i said i'm not sure which one of them fixes the actual problem but I did both of these things and I didn't get the fid error anymore.

Hope that helps!

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 10:32 am Post subject:

DJBouche · Posted: Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:21 pm Post subject:

When you put the song in the output directory, did you put it in the output directory itself? Or the directory made in the output directory for your steps/truncated wav? If you did the latter, put it in the root of the output directory since that is why I did.

Perhaps there is a difference in that the WARNING error doesn't appear on your desktop at school while it does on your laptop. (which may mean the way files can/are written) but I don't know.

Good luck and hope you get it to work somehow.

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YmkFX · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: California

I know I know, I'm a complete idiot, but I still can't figure out how to get this to run. I run "cmd", and the "C:\Windows\system32\cmd.exe" window pops up, yes yes.

Then.... Well, all the information given on what to do then is in such little bits and so strewn about this thread, is it that hard to just give us one big Tutorial on what to do? Or do we need to keep fishing through this thread looking at conflicting instructions and different commands?

I just want to get the DWI so I can convert it to an Xstep and edit it into something respectable.
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Dark Dexter · Posted: Sat Nov 29, 2003 10:57 pm Post subject:

So beautiful...

This is truly a peace of art. I put in "Catch Me Someday" by Two-Mix (a Jpop group) and i made beautiful steps for it. Not the most orginal, however never off beat. Amazing.
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Anwsers:
TWEEN: I have a very small processor in both my Laptop(400Mhz) and my Desktop(750Mhz) and I got it to run. However, I got the same error on my laptop cause it's processor sucks. But, I found a solution!!!! The real proble beyond a crappy processor is no enough room for the EXE to correctly execute! To fix this right click on My Computer and go to properties. Under the Advanced Tab click on the performance settings button. Go under advanced again and click on the Change Button under Vitual Memory. Put the size of the drive Dancing Monkies is running on to about 1000MB Max and Min. That should solve that problem. That was fot Windows XP. For 2000 do the same thing up going to My Computer properties. Under advanced click on the Performance options Button.Change the option to Applications and click on change. Yet again set to about 1000MB for min and max. This is changing the memory space for you processor to run on besides your system's RAM. If you have alot of avalible space put it up even higher to get even better performance out of you PC in general. However!!!! DON'T GO TO HIGH. Because, it will take up space to save your normal files on. You should not really need more than 1500MB ever. If you have a really slow processor (even slower than tweens by a lot) this will not help you and you really need to buy a new computer. Hope that helps Tween!

TO EVERYONE WITH FIN ERROR: I have noticed that the program Dancing Monkeys is not very smart about disk writes.

So when in command prompt just drop the output location and it will go the the default. be sure to put the orginal MP3 under the same "Dancing Monkeys\Otuput" folder.

This stopped the FIN error for me.

TO KarlOKeeffe:Great program! I have one question though. What is MATLAB? Is it a C++ editor or Visual Basic?

I am a programmer myself and have never heard of MATLAB. That aside, this is one of the coolest free programs I have ever seen. You deserve a A+ for this.

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YmkFX · Trick Member Joined: 24 Jul 2003 Location: California

Okay, I'm figuring this out as I go along but I have an issue with Start:\run "cmd"

When the box shows up this is what I see.
Basically, I need it to not say "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael ----->" and "C:\Documents and Settings\Michael -----\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>" like everyone elses, but I have no idea how to change this except maybe altering "Documents and Settings"? Because I can't run DancingMonkeys.exe at that point after the >. I really wish I knew more about this, everything else I understand now.
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Dark Dexter · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 12:26 pm Post subject:

TO AMFM:It sounds like you don't know a lot about Command Prompt. Heres a quick tutorial. Use "cd ..\..\..\..\..\" to get to the bottom of your drive. Then use "cd whereyouputtheexe\dancing monkeys\bin\win32\". Finally type "dancingmonkeys.exe "C:\mucis.mp3" 3 5 10" to get it to run. Be sure to use what was said in the last tip i worte to avoid the fid error. Good luck!

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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:15 pm Post subject:

Well, I finally got it to run on my laptop; putting \ at the end of the output directory apparently fixed it, but I could swear I tried that before. At any rate, I've got it running in KornShell right now, with a script continuously processing a list of MP3's and running them through Dancing Monkeys, so whenever that gets done I'll have a good set of dwi's to go through and take BPM's and GAP's from.

One thing that's already shown up is some interesting freezes the program inserts into the dwi. Be Rock U ended up having two points where the arrows simply froze, a la So Fab So Fierce. Not the most obvious places to put them, mind you, but on the plus side the arrows picked right back up with the beat; i.e. the freeze was perfect, rather than getting off, say, like Stoic on Extreme. That information in the dwi file might come in handy if I want to add some freezes like that myself.

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

"MATLAB is an integrated technical computing environment that combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization, and a high-level programming language"

- Taken from The official MATLAB website

Here at Purdue the engineers have to do a bunch of stuff in MATLAB. Its pretty much just its own specialized programming language and environment.

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

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whats this error mean?

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

ups ignore that post

whats the error mean and what do i need to do to correct it?

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

ill just link it http://mi.aacdn.us/bboyflames/error.JPG

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

my bad im new to this

any help is appreciated

bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

frick it jus copy the url and pastye it to ur internet explorer. itll work i hope. sorry for all the post any help is appreciated.

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Sun Nov 30, 2003 11:05 pm Post subject:

Tip: the Edit button is your friend.

Well, I ran Dancing Monkeys through a bunch of Dance/Trance songs as well as some of Initial D's music tonight. I must say, it cranked out some interesting steps and freezes...

I think I ran about 35 songs. Of all those, it couldn't confidently find the BPM for one of them, and I think for two or three the gap was slightly wrong. Other than that, the BPM and GAP were correctly calculated for the songs.

I've got some more songs to run through, including more Dance/Trance tracks, some others I was wanting to do, and I'm going to run Evanescence through just to see what it does with them. I'll try to post some of these up later for you guys to download and see what you think.
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