Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

gasm · Trick Member Joined: 27 Apr 2005 Location: Montreal

IT WORKS

thanks PedanticOmbudsman
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Dancerman · Basic Member Joined: 16 Apr 2005

I got a question for you. HOW THE HELL DO YOU GET THE THING TO WORK

? I am doing exactly what you told me to do and all I see is a black screen that quickly flashes a thing out and then nothing happens. A program doesen't pop up or anything. The screen doesen't even last 1 second(A.K.A. Not enough time to get the file or anything out). I am using a Windows XP(in case you wanted that info). Please e-mail me if you know how to work this thing because obviasly you know to work it and I don't cuze the instructions are crap. My e-mail address is:

[email protected]

Kles · Trick Member Joined: 23 Aug 2005

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Run from a command prompt. Press WindowsKey+R (or go in to start -> run) and type cmd. Navigate to the Dancing Monkeys folder and go.

Dancerman · Basic Member Joined: 16 Apr 2005

What do i do after that doesn't work

Seriously it didn't work. please specify what to type in the command box

Rugabug · Basic Member Joined: 02 Oct 2005

I'm having problems with v1.01.

I typed >DancingMonkeys.exe "D:\dm\songs\hava nagila.mp3" 3 5 8 "D:\dm\songs\"

It starts doing its thing for about 30 minutes then the following comes up:

Calculated Bar Similarity.
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Ignoring a too large clique
Divided song into groups.
Found pauses.
Found freeze arrow positions.
Foot Rating: 1
Foot Rating: 4
Foot Rating: 7
Created arrow patterns for each difficulty level.
ERROR: Invalid fid.

EXITING

When I look for the stepfiles in the folder that the program created the folder is empty. Can anyone help?

[TCO] Patrick · Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2005 10:25 pm Post subject:

^ Dont put an output directory. That should fix it IIRC.
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Rugabug · Basic Member Joined: 02 Oct 2005

I finally got it to work. The steps aren't great and it is a very easy 7 footer but the timing is perfect.

Dancerman · Basic Member Joined: 16 Apr 2005

I'm Confused. How can you all get it to work but I can't? It Just keeps on saying that it couldn't find it. Its unziped and in its own file but it just won't work. I keep on trying the run program and that won't work.

Can someone give me an example of what I must put in the run(black box) to make the program run. Exactly how it should go in please.

ddrfanman32 · Basic Member Joined: 01 Aug 2005

when I tried to use it,
I got the error: ERROR: Index exceeds matrix dimensions.

EXITING

help?
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heb786 · Basic Member Joined: 08 Oct 2005

When I try to run my program it says "Unable to find LAME mp3 decoder Or it says cannot find Music File. On this song it says unable to find Lame mp3 decoder . This is what I put.

Puldi · Basic Member Joined: 09 Dec 2005

I got this when tried the program:
ERROR: Subscript indices must either be real positive or logicals

It came right after the "calculated peak to beat offset" thingie.
Any help? :I

Kessibus · Basic Member Joined: 22 Dec 2005

does anybody even look at this thread anymore?
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Laundry · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:22 am Post subject:

Don't ever do that. NEVER EVER bump a thread just to bump a thread. That is postwhoring. You can get warning points for that.

People look at the thread sometimes. They only post when they need to get a bug fixed.

Skit · Posted: Sat Dec 24, 2005 7:01 pm Post subject:

Wow randumb are you his parent or something?

yagsimit69 · Trick Member Joined: 05 Jan 2004 Location: rochester

i think hes trying to be a cheap rent-a-cop version of a mod.

dballin4 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Nov 2005

Dancing Monkeys is a terrible way to make steps. What ever happened to working hard to make a simfile? People always trying to take shortcuts ends up in poopy quality simfiles coming out more and more everyday. Use notepad or something lol. It's how all the cool kids used to do it.

Nightime · Trick Member Joined: 28 Jan 2002 Location: anywhere else

MegaMark16 · Basic Member Joined: 28 Dec 2005

When I first found it, I was quite impressed with the Dancing Monkeys project and I have used it on numerous songs. And while (as others have said) the steps themselves aren't particularly imaginative, the program finds the BPM and Gap to just about any given song beautifully. Given the amount of system resources that it requires I usually like to run it at night, but I can only do one song at a time, and while there is a front end available for those not so proficient in DOS commands, I found that it was not very impressive and errored out on me when I tried to use it (which could have been my own fault, we'll never know). So I decided to write my own front end for Dancing Monkeys, and added the ability to queue up songs to run one after the other. FYI, I wrote this app in VB.NET, and it requires the .NET 2.0 framework to run.

I think that given this apps ability to queue up songs to run consecutively, it can be a useful tool for everyone, weather or not you know your way around a DOS prompt.

you can download the (very small at 56KB) app from http://home.comcast.net/~markransom

Please let me know if you run into any errors with this app and I will attempt to address them.

I can be reached at markransom(at)comcast.net

paranoidmaxxmachine · Trick Member Joined: 08 Nov 2005

dballin4 · Trick Member Joined: 28 Nov 2005

you quoted me why? and who said anything about ddr sims?

you use notepad. congrats.