Marathons

[fatty]

Could anyone tell me how to make your own marathon course? I don't want to do any fancy gimmicks like WinDEU does....I just want to make custom marathons lol

[SM MaxX]

I wrote up a guide a little ago on the SM forums:

http://www.stepmania.com/forums/showthr ... on-S-amp-H

[rikame]

Well this is embarrassing, I wrote all this for nothing
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You need to make a course file. These files are found in your stepmania directory\Courses\pack name\ and end with a .crs file extension. The was I do it is by opening a plain text editor and saving it as a .crs file (in Windows you do it by naming it "course name.crs" and save it as a file type of "All Files" from the dropdown menu.

To actually make it, the format is as follows


#COURSE:course name;

This line identifies the file as a course and course name is where you enter the desired name of the course. This comes first.

Example of this:

#COURSE:Hey Look I Made a Course;

#METER:Regular:Difficulty;
#METER:Difficult:Difficulty;

These define the difficulty ratings for the regular and difficult versions of the course. difficulty should be a positive integer that is greater than 0

Example of this:

#METER:Regular:8;
#METER:Difficult:10;

#SONG:song name:difficulty;

This line defines a song in the course. song name defines the song you want to include in the marathon. If you only enter the name and not the directory as well you may get the wrong song and it's highly advised that you include the directory. difficulty this time is a string (a word) that identifies the difficulty rating you want. MEDIUM and HARD are such ratings.

Example of this:

#SONG:First .smPact\Valkyrie Dimension:HARD;

Including multiple of these #SONG tags of course will allow for multiple songs in the course. List them in the order you want them played in.

Some themes have an Edit Course option but I'm not all that familiar with them. This the the DIY way to do it.

[fatty]

Edited because I found out the Deco theme just doesn't scroll through the list >_>


Last question, how to I add a picture to be the banner of all of the songs in the marathon?

[SM MaxX]

Just put it with your marathon (as the same name except .jpeg or .png or whatever) and it should display it.
Wherever you put all your marathons you can put it there.

[fatty]

I did do that, do I have to have it be background.jpeg as the actual title for the file? It refuses to show up >_<

[SM MaxX]

Yes.
(I'm not aware of anything needing to be added in the .crs file for gfx)