Dancing Monkeys: Automatically Generate step files for DDR

DDR_mulletman · Posted: Mon May 15, 2006 9:02 am Post subject:

Great program though, Karl, especially when combined with the GUI icyshadow programmed for it

Got a ton of nice step patterns for songs i'd been wanting to do for quite sometime.

(yeah i edited the post, but that's because i asked a dumb question

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Disorder · Basic Member Joined: 26 May 2006 Location: Oklahoma

Hello, I am getting the ERROR:Invalid fid. I have made sure I have the following slash after the name of the output dir. Here is a screenshot of the process. I have tried fixing the "WARNING: Unable to Output truncated version of song. Please copy original to output directory." error. I have done what it has said to do, and yet, it still gives the error. I have asked a couple other people that also deal with programming, they dont know. Could you help me?

Edit: Oh, Im stupid. I forgot that you cant use quotes for a dir location that doesnt have spaces... >.>
Problem fixed. Sorry.

paulrevere · Basic Member Joined: 05 Jun 2006

Ok. so i downloaded the .Net Framework cuz I needed that, but I open the program and adda song. click start and it errors almost right away. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong, the files are mp3's...

oh and I'm using the windows GUI thing fine..

i hope im not repeating anything i tried to read most of the pages..any help would be much appreciated, im kinda lost from here.

danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

Ok guy its easy just download danicing monkeys from this page

www.monket.net/dancingmonkeys
be sure to download dancing monkeys 1.01

then download the danging monkeys Dancing Monkeys Front End and Batch Utility from this page

His Site http://home.comcast.net/~markransom
Direct Download of the Executable
http://home.comcast.net/~markransom/DancingMonkeysGUI.exe

run it and make your own songs easy

thanks guys

from daniel (El MachuCoN)

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erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

I thought I'd write up a page about Dancing Monkeys and how to use it properly, culled from this thread and my own experiences. Here it is:

http://www.realtimerendering.com/dm/

Please let me know if there are any additions or corrections you have. I hope all our pain and suffering will help future generations.

By the way, I also took Nicolas Gravel's batch program (posted here long ago), cleaned it up a little (if you tried to cut and paste his file, it would not work) and added some comments, and now it's ready for download at http://www.realtimerendering.com/dm/dmbatch.zip. There are comments at the top of the file as to what you need to do, and I also explain it on my page. Extremely handy: just dump the MP3's into your "input" directory and double-click the script, go to bed, and in the morning piping hot step files are yours to use.

Next thing to do: teach myself MATLAB...

Eric

danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

this thing is kinda long but cool jajaja

thanks compa

chido
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erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

hey man if you have the dancing monkeys just put it

to download (beta)

i just wana try it

thank bro

atte: Machucas man
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Ornlu · Basic Member Joined: 19 Jun 2006

Hi, I'm having a memory issue here.

I have 2 gigs of physical ram and 8 gigs vram (had it set to 2, but tried 8 because of this error)

I'm getting a memory allocation error on any song longer than 3 minutes-ish. What's the deal? A song any shorter than that only seems to use like 1 gig of ram + 800 megs of page file... why would a 4 minute file crash? And is there any way around this?

I've managed to get a few other things working, like correct stepping for "longer" songs (not all spread out) however, I'm not sure how to fix THIS memory issue as it lies outside the bounds of the code.

erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

Ornlu (and anyone else with MATLAB),

It sounds like you're editing the original MATLAB code, right? In that case, put "clear" statements in various places in the code when a variable becomes unused. Karl's code was never meant for long songs and general release, so he didn't bother to clean up by releasing memory of various arrays when done with each in turn.

I've put (mostly) cleaned up code here: http://www.realtimerendering.com/dm/dmdev.htm

Just click on the "here" hyperlink near the top of the page. This code has lots of fixes and improvements in it, but at this point mostly with input, output, and memory - see the page for details. I can't promise this will fix the memory issue, but it should help.

I'm hoping to make a generally usable distribution from the MATLAB code, but we'll see. The current version of MATLAB makes distributing the code a pain, with an installer that weighs in at 122 Meg.

Eric

danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

malditos desgraciados no saven aser nada vien putos

vaian a chingar a su madre

puro pedo

I do not understand

just put in simple words

cool
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erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

Good news: I've made a beta v1.02 of Dancing Monkeys. The executable can be downloaded from the link near the top of this page: http://www.realtimerendering.com/dm/dmdev.htm

It's a beta, but I've tried it out a fair bit and so far so good. That said, no promises. See the page for all the fixes and additions to the program.

Let me know of any problems, and enjoy!

Eric

jzero · Basic Member Joined: 29 Apr 2006

Can someone please help me out. When Dancing Monkeys creates the DWI for my mp3 it cuts the song to 1 minute and 30 seconds. What can I do so it'll convert the whole song instead of making it 1:30.

erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

Go to the website and download the v1.02 version (note that if you have v1.01, you just need the new executable). Now when you run the program, just use the new "-l" (for "length") option, e.g.

DancingMonkeys -l 600 your_input_song.mp3 5 7 9

This length option says that if the length of the song is more than 600 seconds, it'll trim the song down to 600 seconds. The default value is 105 (with a 5 second fadeout).

Also, the bug (that was in 1.01) that made less steps for long songs has been fixed in v1.02, the density should now be reasonable. Read the web page for lots more options added.

jzero · Basic Member Joined: 29 Apr 2006

Do you mind sending a picture?

I don't know where to type everything at. The tutorial at the website isn't very helpful.

erich666 · Trick Member Joined: 15 Jun 2006 Location: Ithaca, NY

nereus · Basic Member Joined: 19 Jul 2006

I first just wanna say, very nice program, and very good changes in the new 1.02 version.
Before i bombard this thread with yet more questions, i wanna mention that the length fix confused me a bit (yeah i know i'm stupid

). on the main page http://www.monket.net/dancing-monkeys/
it mentions "WARNING: currently this feature tends to result in songs with sparse step
patterns, and needs to be fixed."

i saw that first as i was reading how to use the new version. But i see here on this thread and later on in the page that it has in fact been fixed, which is awesome. I just wanted to mention that.

Anyways some questions. How much faster is it on matlab? Also, is the memory usage more efficient in matlab?

And i know it's only beta, but the -b switch didn't quite work for me.

Also i'm wondering about the stops thing. These are the pauses/freezes of the arrows during the game right? I'm getting the feeling (from what i've read) that the stops are unavoidable in some cases. I don't like the pauses so i've been try to minimize them. the -ons switch doesn't seem to make a difference. Does the program deliberately put pauses in some places? Otherwise I don't see what the use of the -ons switch is.

And about the pauses, if i just delete the lines that contain info about the stops and pauses, does it bump all the steps after a pause up to appear a little earlier? Or does it come out at the rigth time but just doesn't pause midscreen?

Thanks.

danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

Ok guy its easy just download danicing monkeys from this page

www.monket.net/dancingmonkeys
be sure to download dancing monkeys 1.01
then download dancing monkeys 1.02 executable

then download the danging monkeys Dancing Monkeys Front End and Batch Utility from this page

His Site http://home.comcast.net/~markransom

run it it will start a download , long download , but worth it
downloaded it instal

open the program look for the 1.02 executable

choose songs and step , then look for the dancing monkesfolder open it then open output

there are the forder of al the songs

make a new foder in STEP MANIA songs insert the songs (all folders of songs )

play the game vuala

dance dance dance
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danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

i have an image but how do i insert it ?

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danil_d_ · Basic Member Joined: 29 Mar 2006

you know i tried 1.02 and i do not know but i think there is somthing wrong cause the musica steps do not have rithm anymore y think 1.01 es the best

best rithm , just that do not try to use the long version cause they suck in the 1.01 version

bust thanks bro try to arange that please

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