Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

Demmin3030 · Posted: Fri Jan 30, 2004 11:09 am Post subject:

Very impressive Karl, thankyou for making my dreams come true.

SO! loves Electroplankton · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2004 8:07 am Post subject:

For me, it stopped right after it said "Caculated Peak To Beat Offset" help!

Edit: Figured out you had to WAIT. I did two songs:

1st: Pretty good. VERY wierd places to put freezes. It didn't even put one where the song stopped completely! 1 foot over each level, except on light.

2nd: Not too good. I had to edit the beggining because it had eighth notes where there was NO beat that even HINTED at eigth notes. I guess the eigth notes were it's answer to freeze arrows. Anyway here;s how each level went:

Light: Specified a 4, but it gave me like... a high on the scale of 5 footer. Lot's of eigth notes, quantized it, easy enough. Now it's okay.

Standard: Perfect. just edited the beggining, and that was it. Seemed like the 7 footer it was uspposed to be.

Heavy: Came out like an 8 footer. but not to the rythm at all. So I recreated the steps, except for a section in the middle. Now it's an awesome 9.

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Well problem I don't even know how to start the thing. I click on the Dancing Monkeys file thing and it starts for a second or two then shuts off.
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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Tue Feb 10, 2004 7:11 pm Post subject:

tekkie · Trick Member Joined: 19 Dec 2003 Location: Albuquerque

Well maybe you can say something useful.
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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Thu Feb 12, 2004 10:24 am Post subject:

MadRhetoric · Trick Member Joined: 03 Oct 2003

OK, I can't seem to get this to work for the life of me. I go to start -> run and this is exactly what I put in:

"C:\Program Files\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32\DancingMonkeys.exe" "C:\my shared folder\In Flames - Man Made God.mp3" 3 5 9 "C:\program files\stepmania cvs\songs\dancing monkeys group\"

I read the instructions and I think that should be right. The program does run and it seems to be working through everything, but at the end I get a bunch of files in ....bin\win32 and one in the specified step directory. I think that has to do with the spaces in the song title. I tried a song with no spaces, and it went through everything, but when I checked the file in my song directory, there was nothing in the folder. Any help??

MadRhetoric · Trick Member Joined: 03 Oct 2003

SUCCESS!!

I got it to work by taking out the directory to place it in and letting it put the new files in the output folder. That worked out great.

erth · Basic Member Joined: 22 Feb 2004

I'm using Stepmania 3.9 alpha 12 and 3.9 alpha 13b

Whe I create a song with Dancing Monkeys, everything is amazing except the freezes just stop the arrows from moving, instead of them continuing with the yellow/green "freeze" arrows. They continue moving after the freeze is over, but until then all arrows just stop moving.

Is this normal ?

What version of SM is everyone who use Dancing Monkeys using ? 3.0 Final ?

I've tried using just the dwi and just the sm, both return the same results.

Thanks
Joel

KillerJello · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 12:43 pm Post subject:

EDIT: I must have missed the post above that said how to fix it... Its working now

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Jason>CD C:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32\

C:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>DancingMonkeys.exe "C:\Documents and Settings\Jason
\Desktop\MD002\Tanz mit Laibach.mp3" 4 6 9 "C:\Dancing Monkeys\"

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Initialised.
input: C:\Documents and Settings\Jason\Desktop\MD002\Tanz mit Laibach.mp3
(44.1 kHz, 2 channels, MPEG-1 Layer III)
output: ..\..\Temp Music\Temp Song.wav (16 bit, Microsoft WAVE)
skipping initial 1105 samples (encoder+decoder delay)
Frame# 9922/9924 192 kbps
Decoded Mp3 / Copied Wav
Loaded song.
Normalised song.
WARNING: Unable to Output truncated version of song. Please copy original to out
put directory.
Outputted truncated normalised song.
Monoed song.
Smoothed song.
Normalised mono and smoothed data.
Thresholded data
Found peaks and troughs.
Found beat positions.
Calculated peak to beat offset.
Brute forced the interval tests.
Calcualted Gap and BPM.
Calculated Energy
Computed Self Similarity
Calculated Bar Similarity.
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Divided song into groups.
Found pauses.
Found freeze arrow positions.
Foot Rating: 5
Foot Rating: 7
Foot Rating: 8
Created arrow patterns for each difficulty level.
ERROR: Invalid fid.

EXITING

C:\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32>

Please help... No matter what I do it always gives me both those errors...

DDRtimmyDDR · Trick Member Joined: 05 Oct 2003 Location: alabama

dancing monkeys on my pc says this error

This application has failed to start because libmmfile.dll was not found. Re-installing the application may fix this problem.

zreLmar · Trick Member Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Location: West J

Could someone please explain how to get around the "Cannot Find LAME Encoder" error?

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erth · Basic Member Joined: 22 Feb 2004

Cannot find LAME Encoder:

Must run the program FROM the folder/directory it is in:

Start, Run, cmd (or command if windows 95/98)
cd [Dancing Monkeys Folder] on my system it's C:\dancingmonkeys\
cd bin
cd win32

NOW run the program :

Dancingmonkeys.exe "C:\music\mp3\techno.mp3" 3 5 8

I leave off the output folder to avoid the invalid fid error on my system. Everything gets put into the [dancing monkeys folder]\Output\

INVALID FID

just leave off the output folder - I had the same problem and when I removed the output folder:

Dancingmonkeys.exe "C:\music\mp3\techno.mp3" 3 5 8

Everything started to work. As above - make sure you are CURRENTLY in the bin\win32 folder of your dancing monkeys folder for this to work.[/u]

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

zreLmar · Trick Member Joined: 08 Sep 2003 Location: West J

So...
Is this the right code?

"G:\ZreLmar!!!\Stepmania\Dancing Monkeys 1.01\Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32\dancingmonkeys.exe" "G:\Downloads\Full Albums\Linkin Park - Reanimation\8 X-Ecutioner Style (Feat. Black Thought).mp3" 3 5 8

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erth · Basic Member Joined: 22 Feb 2004

ZRelmar: No, UNLESS:

You are in the bin\win32 directory of the dancing monkeys folder.

You can't just click Start, Run and paste the commands in the dialog.

You actually have to delve into the command line by Clicking start, Run, cmd or command (depending on your OS - See my post above)

THEN change your current directory to the dancing monkeys installation then bin, then win32. On my system this is the exact command I type in:

Start -> Run -> cmd

cd \
cd dancingmonkeys
cd bin
cd win32
dancingmonkeys.exe "C:\music\mp3\techno.mp3" 3 5 8

Thats it!

I suggest unzipping the Dancingmonkey files to a folder off your root to make it easier, and renaming the folder ro DancingMonkeys (no spaces) just to make it even easier. If you're having problems, all problems have been discussed in this thread, so don't be lazy - read! (Ut's only 7 pages, so don't complain that you're lazy!)

Joel

Mogki · Posted: Wed Mar 03, 2004 10:06 pm Post subject:

Should the program hang on "calculated peak to beat offset" for awhile? Like, is that normal?

I apologize if this has been brought up already, if it has I must've missed it when I went through the thread.

Ryvvn · Basic Member Joined: 13 Mar 2004

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Ryvvn · Basic Member Joined: 13 Mar 2004

Jeez man, sorry, you seem to be getting on everyone's case through this whole thread... and YES I did read the whole thing, but after like 7 pages of posts, not to mention having to wait 3 hours after registering on DDRFreak before I was even allowed to post (don't understand why that happened), I can't really remember ever little detail about every post that I had read 3 hours previously. My sole reason for signing up to DDRFreak was to make the simple comment about that person's idea for the groove radar thing... but if I'm gonna get flamed after my first friggin post, I'd rather not be a member here...