First off I apologise if I come across as foolish in this post but please understand that a week ago I was incredibly happy that I could even download customs, nevermind attempt making my own!

Over the last week I’ve made my first attempt at creating a custom, in an effort not to overwhelm myself I’ve kept things as basic as possible on this first try. My focus has been on creating guitar and bass tracks as these are what I play in game, I rarely play keyboard and I never play on drums.

I did my song tempo map and I got the guitar and bass tracks to a level where they are enjoyable for me to play in the game, I don’t consider them to be up to the standard I see from the great creators who share work on this forum but for a first attempt I don’t think I’ve done a bad job.

My problem is with the Dryvox track, I’ve recorded a few different versions now and it still produces no lip movement from my vocalist in game, He moves around like he’s singing and the timing looks pretty good, but no lip movement.

Is this because i’ve not laid down a full vocal chart? I laid down enough for Magma to register a vocal track but I wanted to avoid doing it on this project as this is just a beginner attempt for me and a few friends and none of us play vocals.

I read that the game does not draw the lipsync animations from the vocal chart and it gets all the animation cues from the dryvox file? Is this true or am I wasting my time by doing step B when I cannot skip completing step A?