tiers in gs

[flipsk8r1409]

incase everyone else was to dumb to figure it out(jk) the way to make tiers in the new guitar star beta is to make seperate folders for the tiers you want like this guitarstar\songs\1. Starting out Small <-- thats the tier name\some song <-- then the name of the song folder\

thats how the hierarchy should be

[tripled]

I'm dumb how do you put the songs in same as guitar zero or what?

[flipsk8r1409]

no you just copy the files and past them into the folder you want them in it goes like this
tiername\song folder\(song.dat\notes.mid + .oggs)

[tripled]

i haven't seen any tutorials for guitar star i understand the song.dat, nut i don't know how to get the notes.mid or notes.ogg do i need a specific program

[flipsk8r1409]

ok the notes.mid are frets on fire midis you dont need them but the oggs are the music for the song not notes.ogg it like guitar.ogg and song.ogg you dont need both notes.mid and song.dat but you need at least one and you need at least one of the oggs (sometimes you need two)

[tripled]

alright now it's clear thank you seeing all of them made it seem like you needed all as opposed to 2 or 3

[grodus5]

If you want to call this a tutorial, there is a wonderful little tool call sequencing. Thats right, could you give us a step by step deal instead of throwing it into a blender, and putting the belnded product in one paragraph?

[bob78h]

I think that flipsk8r's paragraph is perfectly clear. But if you want a step by step process here:
1. Make a seperate folder for each tier like this. 1. Starting Out Small.
2. Put the songs in the folder. To order them, put a number at the beginning of the names of each of the song folders.
3. Move the tier folders to %guitarstar%(guitar star directory)/songs
4. Thats it. Learn how to read paragraph tutorials.

[grodus5]

bob78 said:

I think that flipsk8r's paragraph is perfectly clear. But if you want a step by step process here:
1. Make a seperate folder for each tier like this. 1. Starting Out Small.
2. Put the songs in the folder. To order them, put a number at the beginning of the names of each of the song folders.
3. Move the tier folders to %guitarstar%(guitar star directory)/songs
4. Thats it. Learn how to read paragraph tutorials.

Lol, I wish I could. Its just me. I can't really understand paragraph tutorials. My brain works in very different ways then most other people's do, so something that is perfectly clear to you may not be clear to me. Sorry, thats just me:(

Also, I'm missing on peice of info. What all do I put in the tier folder, the foler that contains the song.dat file and the ogg files (like guitar zero), just the .dat file, or just through everything in there without a folder

[bob78h]

Yeah its ok sometimes I have trouble understanding paragraph tutorials. I just lose my focus and once that happens everything is just really confusing,,,

[grodus5]

bob78 said:

Yeah its ok sometimes I have trouble understanding paragraph tutorials. I just lose my focus and once that happens everything is just really confusing,,,

Yeah, exactly what happens to me. I just like everything to be organized in a nice step by step fashon. Also, I did everything that you said, I start the game, and select GO PLAY and I get an error. Do you know whats up with that?

[bob78h]

Did you get all the updates? Install XNA Game Studio 2.0? .NET Framework 2.0? Run the DirectX web installer?

[grodus5]

I think I did... I'l go try and download the last one. I think I downloaded it before but I'm not sure, but I remember downloading everything else.

[bob78h]

Whats the error message?

[grodus5]

Ok, I tried downloading everything again. I don't get an error message. I just of to input, go to Gamepad 0, then when I go to enter a button, it simply doesn't register. Its odd, its acting like I didn't press a button at all.

[bob78h]

Use the Microsoft drivers for your X-Plorer, not the XBCD ones.

[grodus5]

Ok, where can I get these?

[bob78h]

It should be from Windows Update, thats how I got mine.

[grodus5]

I open up Windows Update, but I only can get like some graphic card stuff, internet explorer sercruity, dell, and vista updates...

[bob78h]

Wow I would install those sometime soon...

[grodus5]

Lol, I probably should. But I got it working . But now it won't work for plain old Guitar Zero:( Oh well.

[bmarko]

Even if you create folders every song you have shows in one big list. Is there a way to have the songs in folders in the game like if FoF? I have to scroll every song I own to get to the last song....

[flipsk8r1409]

yes they will always show in one big list nomatter what but if you do it right it makes it have different tiers and therefore is WAY more organized

[mentalpreouts *aka* rkctkc]

im not so sure on how to add a song in mid format. someone plz explain. can i just download a mid from scorehero and throw it in there? do i need to open it in anvil and do something to it? alot of my .dats arent working properly because of all the tempo changes throughout the song. id like to know how to add mids. do i just need .mid and song.ogg? do i need some config file for it? plz elaborate.

[mentalpreouts *aka* rkctkc]

nevermind, i got it. open the mid in anvil and delete everything but guitar. save, not export as format 0. create a song.ini and have song.ogg and guitar.ogg all 4 in same folder. song.ini is just simply this:

[song]
name=Cemetary Gates
artist=Pantera

in notepad.

substitute pantera and cemetary gates for the respectable artist and song title, and save as song.ini

must put the .ini

Thanks bob78h, appreciate explaining the song.ini

[txf]

Does anyone know if theres a way to do this with the Folder Option on?..(in beta 2)

Like..

*Folder* Guitar Hero 1
......> 1. Opening Licks
..............>Song
..............>Song
..............>Song

But not have 1.opening licks as a folder, just have it above the songs. I wanna have all of the GH1 songs in a big list, but have the 1.opening licks stuff in it.

If any of that made sense. Thanks.

[bob78h]

Ok well if you do this:
Songs
GH1
1. Opening Licks
Song
GH2
1. Opening Licks
Song
Were GH1 and GH2 are folders in the song folder
and the config.xml is set to list, not folder, it will show GH1 and GH2 as folders in the setlist.

[txf]

Ok, thanks. I'll try it ^_^..

I hate asking questions<_<(makes me look like a noob)..But sometimes I just don't know the answers

edit: WOO. thanks. Got it now ^_^

[bob78h]

Sure no problem!

[darthslaw]

mentalpreouts said:

nevermind, i got it. open the mid in anvil and delete everything but guitar. save, not export as format 0.

I never have to do any Anvil converting to get my midis to work. I can use straight up Guitar Hero midis, and also custom charts, some from my own work and others from ScoreHero (converted to midis via ghex).

As for midis downloaded from ScoreHero, I can't really say, since I've either converted to chart for additional editing or gotten rid of it because I didn't like it or couldn't make it work (trying to convert to chart is sometimes a pain; Seems to be a toss up though and you just have to be lucky. I suppose this difficulty might possibly be linked to your problem or something).

Which ScoreHero midis were you trying to use (or charts, or whatever it was) that gave you problems?