.sm file extension problems

[makdaddy]

Yeah, so I'm wanting to step files on a mac and I read this and it tells me to save a textedit document as a .sm but it only comes up with the following extensions:


I need help creating the file extension .sm on a mac

any suggestions?

[who_cares973]

you're stepping songs using notepad? what?
just use sm lol

[makdaddy]

I have to create the song file first dip****

I need to put this:
#TITLE:;
#SUBTITLE:;
#ARTIST:;
#TITLETRANSLIT:;
#SUBTITLETRANSLIT:;
#ARTISTTRANSLIT:;
#CREDIT:;
#BANNER:;
#BACKGROUND:;
#CDTITLE:;
#MUSIC:;
#MUSICBYTES:0;
#MUSICLENGTH:;
#OFFSET:;
#SAMPLESTART:;
#SAMPLELENGTH:;
#SELECTABLE:YES;
#BPMS:0.000=140.000;
#STOPS:;
#BGCHANGES:;


in notepad, then put that into a file in stepmania, but I need to save the notepad as a .sm and macs can't do that

[who_cares973]

no you dont you retarded dumb ****

go to the stepmania folder in your harddrive then go to programs and click on smpackage and then create a song


you stupid ****

[sc979]

Save it as something else, and rename it with the .sm extension afterwards?

[COTMFreak]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

no you dont you retarded dumb ****

go to the stepmania folder in your harddrive then go to programs and click on smpackage and then create a song


you stupid ****

That doesn't work on a Mac as far as I know.

sc979 is right.

[MooMoo_Cowfreak]

Originally Posted by who_cares973

no you dont you retarded dumb ****

go to the stepmania folder in your harddrive then go to programs and click on smpackage and then create a song


you stupid ****

Despite the foul language, this is true. Go to Stepmania tools and packages explorer in your program files, or under Start/Programs/Stepmania and it'll be there, and on the bottom press create song. Choose your mp3, and there ya go.

[makdaddy]

here's my stepmania folder:




I can't find any "smpackage" or "tools". When I go into packages it only has the instruction.txt in there.

Originally Posted by sc979

Save it as something else, and rename it with the .sm extension afterwards?

tried this too, got it to be a .zip but that's it

[who_cares973]

go into the data folder and look for the smpackage in there

[makdaddy]

my data folder:



god, never thought i'd say it but...f**k macs file incompatibility

[Mr. Bob]

http://www.stepmania.com/wiki/Create_Your_Own_Songs

try something from here

idk i have no clue how macs work hehe

[sc979]

Download any random file, take the .sm from it, clear it's data, and put in yours.

[who_cares973]

what Mr Bob said

[makdaddy]

hey, thanks for all your help guys!

also, thanks for putting up with my stupid s**t I got it working

[Mr. Bob]

woot

[ddr_f4n]

Go to Start/All Programs/Stepmania/Stepmania Tools and Package Exporter/Create Song/(insert whatever song you want to step)

Then it will automatically create a .sm file.

EDIT: ninja'd

[COTMFreak]

ITT nobody reads the OP.

Seriously, he's on a Mac yet you people were telling him to do stuff on XP, the screenshots even point it out. lmfao

EDIT: Sorry, it just bugs me when ever people assume that everyone uses Windows.

[makdaddy]

goddammit, I can't change the bpm now.

You know how you use the F7 and F8 keys to change bpm, well my ****ing macbook can't do that **** because it has the rewind and pause/play hotkeys there...****!

edit:

yay! got it working again!

[xxtakeshixx09]

Im trying to grab step files off of the FFR simfile database, but they are compressed zip files (i think). Those cant be used in Stepmania. How do I convert them or otherwise make them playable in Stepmania? I dont care if it changes it to .sm (which i think has to be done) or it some other random method. It just has to be free and not too time consuming.


Thanks.
(pc, btw)

[foilman8805]

Mother****er would you please stop bumping every SM thread because you don't know how to unzip a god damn zip file?

****. Gettin' on my god damn nerves.