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FujiSkunk wrote:

Welcome to the authoring herd! This is a catchy tune, and looks well charted. Pro keys would be welcome! If you want, drop a line describing the issues you’re having with the DB and we’ll work to get those solved.

Thanks for checking out my custom and thanks for the warm welcome. Glad you enjoyed it. 🙂

I sent you a PM regarding the upload issue.

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interesting. i only played dance central when it first came out so i didn’t notice. if it reuses moves, my guess is that it uses the midi file to tell the animation how log to take also.

 

So, looking at the midi, looks like a somewhat similar format to GH2 and Rock Band, and some of Harmonix’s older games.

There is an EVENTS track and a DRUMS track like in Rock Band. There are some tags we’ve seen in other games, such as music_start.

I’m pretty confident the DRUMS track is just the track for the practice, dosen’t look like move programming. Most of the meat is probably in those milo files. Might be another midi inside of the milos or something.

 

Here is a screenshot of the event data for Body Movin’

 

Also wanted to add, running the MILO files from the songs through the Advanced Art Converter tool from the Rock Band C3 tools, I was able to extract the pictures for all the moves in a song.

So looks to be confirmed that the MILO_XBOX files do indeed contain the moves for each song. Unsure if anything else is in those files. Did stumble upon a file called barks.MILO_XBOX

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while not sure how to do that ..try just for kicks put them all in a folder named the songs name. run it through oxyx see what ya get and let us know

Assuming I’m using the right tool, the milo extractor… It makes a bunch of .bin files and gives me this warning…

: Extract C:UsersMatthewDesktopcloser.milo_xbox

Warning: not enough bytes

Context (innermost first):

– position 51

– Parsing .milo structure

Couldn’t parse milo structure; split into simple pieces.

Success! Created files:

C:UsersMatthewDesktopCLOSER

 

 

 

i would imagine you would have to do some motion capture of someone dancing to a song

Some songs reuse the same animations and moves from other songs.

Although I think some DLC songs can introduce new moves entirely.

There must be some sort of “use this move at this time” thing going on.

 

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