Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

It's because I'm an buttocks. Seriously. No hard feelings, though I wouldn't count that as "flaming", more like "exasperation", and I even went through and linked you to all the relavent info.

This thread has been going for over four months and I still remembered that he mentioned the source on the very first post. That's all.

dieKatze88 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2003

Im getting a "corrupted zip file" error message when i open it up. its the standard issue "cannot open zip file, it is corrupted, if you downloaded it, try downloading it again" message that winzip gives. any suggestions?
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prncofdrknes · Trick Member Joined: 02 Dec 2003

yea im gettin the same thing... can someone who has the program upload it to a server so we can d/l it...
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Dancing Dan · Posted: Wed Mar 17, 2004 5:58 pm Post subject:

Yeah im just discovering this lovely toy, and im sucha noob with command lines etc, so i have no clue what im doing right/wrong but anyways heres the message i get. I cant even seem to access the program at all. I put it directly into my program files folder and it doesnt work.

C:\Program Files>Dancing Monkeys
The system or path cannon be specified.

C:\Program Files>cd Dancing Monkeys
The system or path cannon be specified.

C:\Program Files>Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32
The system or path cannon be specified.

C:\Program Files>cd Dancing Monkeys\bin\win32
The system or path cannon be specified.

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

Make sure you're at a command prompt then try

prncofdrknes · Trick Member Joined: 02 Dec 2003

hey spoons do u have the file?... and if u do can u zip it and post a download or send it to [email protected]... that would be awsome if you could..
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Dancing Dan · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

still not working for me........ maybe im confused as to what a command prompt is haha. What exactly should i be typing.

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

prncofdrknes - Hmm, this is kind of weird. I just downloaded the file using Opera (my regular browser) first and it downloaded just fine. I then tried to download it twice using Internet Explorer and it stopped both times 67kb shy of what the total file size should be.
Bah, I'll update later with a link on my own webspace hosting the file but only for a couple days (or until I remember to delete it).

Lukino - go to your Start menu -> Run -> then type in "cmd" without the quotes to access a command prompt. When the prompt pops up type in the stuff I told you earlier.

spoonsman · Trick Member Joined: 01 Dec 2002

You can download the (complete) program here, but don't expect it to be up there forever.

prncofdrknes · Trick Member Joined: 02 Dec 2003

thanx spoon
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dieKatze88 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2003

thanks, you da man
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dieKatze88 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2003

well, for someone whos been using DOS since the age of 8, i got it to run ok. But then i got this:

ERROR: Subscript indices must either be real positive integers or logicals.

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Slowpoke · Trick Member Joined: 28 Oct 2003

It sounds more like maybe the command line syntax you used wasn't quite right... like maybe it's interpreting something else (ie non-integers) as the step level difficulty parameters.

dieKatze88 · Trick Member Joined: 10 Aug 2003

nah, it gives this after calculating freeze arrow posistions.
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Shin WFROSE · Trick Member Joined: 31 Aug 2002

F:\DMONKEYS\BIN\WIN32>dancingmonkeys.exe "D:\lover.mp3" 4 6 9 "D:\"

Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
Initialised.
input: D:\lover.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# 4999/4987 128 kbps MS
Decoded Mp3 / Copied Wav
Loaded song.
ERROR: Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

EXITING[/quote]

Um... help, please?

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Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Tue Mar 23, 2004 9:50 pm Post subject:

Well, it does say that it found 4999 frames out of only 4987; I've never see DM do that; the first number should always be less than or equal to the second number. Maybe that's what it's talking about. No idea how to fix that, though.
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bboyflames · Trick Member Joined: 24 Nov 2003

i like this program and i got it working fine the only thing i donot like abut it is for some reason maybe im using the program wrong the stepfiles arent that hard like i made a heavey 9 footer and it felt like i was playin a 6

Cyan Garamonde (Nosaj) · Posted: Mon Mar 29, 2004 10:11 am Post subject:

No, it's not that. Dancing Monkeys simply isn't that very complicated when it comes to coding up steps. I think all that it does know how to code up is 1/4th and 1/8th notes, jumps, and freezes. I don't think I've ever seen DM produce a file with 1/16th's in it. The program also basically just codes steps that go with the beat; it's not very dynamic for following the music, so you'd never see something like INSERTiON's steps come out of DM.

DM's great for finding the BPM and GAP, though, so do that much and then remake the steps in Notepad.
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AlbertF · Basic Member Joined: 12 Apr 2004

For anyone who is interested, here is a quick way to remove the time limit restriction of 105 seconds :

Open up dancingmonkeys.exe in a hex editor like UltraEdit32 and change the values at the following offsets:

0003446D: from 40 to C0
0003446E: from 5A to 82

This will increase the limit to 10 minutes, which I suspect should be enough for anyone.

By the way, I think this program is excellent. I was just about to start the exact same project last night when I came across it. Some songs work better than others, obviously, but it's a really nifty little tool. It's not very often that I find an agreeable combination of a song I like and steps that aren't ridiculous and keep to the beat. The steps generated by DM may be somewhat generic, but now when I find a song that I would like to use in Stepmania, I can actually use it without spending hours generating my own steps. While it's true one gets a sense of satisfaction out of making your own steps, the end result is no surprise - you've practically got the entire thing memorized before it's 100% done. It's more fun to play something where you don't know what's coming next. (Most of the time, anyway.)

Jesizzle · Basic Member Joined: 16 Apr 2004

i get stuck at the loaded song line for over 10 mins...how long does the song take