Lights?

Fire_Adept · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 12:41 pm Post subject: Lights?

Does anyone know where I can get some sort of computer peripheral that can be used with StepMania for lighting effects in sync with the playing songs? (If you didn't know, SM already has built-in support for it, it's just not documented). Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Also, I'm not positive if this is the right forum, as the topic at hand is fairly ambiguous, so some confirmation on that would be greatly appreciated as well.

-joe- · Trick Member Joined: 08 Jan 2003 Location: lv

well you can get bass sensitive neon lights

tiger direct or ebay has them
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GeeForce · Posted: Tue May 31, 2005 5:12 pm Post subject: Re: Lights?

Fire_Adept · Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2005 2:37 am Post subject:

I've heard of lights being successfully used with StepMania on several occasions, and I have a picture somewhere on the hard drive. Somewhere. -_-; With my hierarchy system, it'll take a while to find it.

For some quick evidence, though, look in StepMania.ini and find "LightsStepsDifficulty", which should have a default value of medium. This obviously determines the stepchart that SM follows to sync the lights with. I'll highlight the section of the source that it's in once I find it, but I have school to go to. >_< Be back later.

Also, thanks for the suggestion, dash, but I'm looking for something that'll follow a set pattern.

jbean3535 · Trick Member Joined: 08 May 2004 Location: KC Kansas

Anyone with info on this...PLEASE POST!
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mDaWg · Trick Member Joined: 07 Jun 2005

If you read on the main page of www.stepamania.com you will see "Windows: Disabled parallel port lights driver due to GPL-incompatibility." However, CNLohr still has the dll file needed for SM lights. He also wrote how to install them and what youll need. He has pictures to

How to install lights

Choujij · Basic Member Joined: 12 Jun 2005

So that GPL problem... Was that removed because of some copyright/patent issues? Or will that cause StepMania to start acting up if I put it back in the RC3?

Also I've looked into it. I have some home pads I bought from eBay that have lights. The DDR machine in the Arcade also controls the lights on the pads. I don't think StepMania can do that too. As far as my understanding goes, what StepMania controls is the 4 blinking lights next the the Extreme Sign, the select buttons on the front of the unit, and lastly the light rings around the woofers on the cabinet. Which is still cool, but like I said it be awesome if it could connect StepMania to my home pads. My family would think I've gone beyond addiction

Is it hard for someone to write up the controls for that pads anyway? All I think they do is allow lighting up when machine is in use, and after a song they (i think) light up in a clockwise motion. I'm sure there are spare pins in the parallel port that we could use?

Thanks to anyone with any info on this.
~Jason

PedanticOmbudsman · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 10:33 am Post subject: