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I fixed the Firefox flickering issue in that one thing we're not linking to! Speaking of That Thing, progress is still being made. Hopefully it'll be up this afternoon or evening (EST).
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Goon brethren! That One Thing, possibly known as The Thing That Shall Not Be Linked, is now back up. The database part, anyway; the rest of the team is editing posts on other forums and the rest of the official-announcement stuff. We have a bunch of cool songs in the pipe, so hopefully we'll be able to talk about it in this thread. v  v If you have any recommendations for the song database, please let me know!
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Apr 10, 2013 02:03
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The T posted:They're mentioned in the Announcement post, the extra Beatles: Rock Band exports, but they don't appear to be on the database yet. We had debated whether to include them or not, and decided on "what the hell, let's do it" -- but a little late for me to include them in the DB for launch day. We're gonna have a big TBRB push this Friday (4/12). SatansBestBuddy posted:what songs can we not play in RB3 that we could before? IE what songs were available before that aren't now? Pretty sure, but not entirely sure, on these: Songs that were pulled or never formally released, but still play if you have them Metallica - Blackened Metallica - ...And Justice For All Metallica - Ride the Lightning Airbourne - Runnin' Wild Snoop Dogg - Snoop's Upside Ya Head (a bunch of RBN songs) Songs that will not play in RB3 even if you own them Die Toten Hosen - Hier Kommt Alex Oasis - Rock 'n' Roll Star Songs that don't export to RB3 Metallica - Enter Sandman Black Sabbath - Paranoid (cover) Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (cover) Journey - Any Way You Want It Metallica - Battery AC/DC - Let There Be Rock Orange Harrison posted:I tried "Old Time Rock n Roll" We don't really have "quality control", unfortunately. The downside of a customs-based project. The upshot, though, is that we can and will release updates for songs with bigass bugs like that. Very soon, the site will have a "Report Song Issue" form that you can use to bitch at us about problems in songs. pksage fucked around with this message at 16:25 on Apr 10, 2013 |
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Apr 10, 2013 15:40
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Minidust posted:Is this a specific bug, or just the author leaving stuff out? Almost certainly the latter.
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Apr 10, 2013 16:07
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Kaboobi posted:Whoever did this masterpiece I was expecting this to be some lovely song because of allears and this thread's penchant for sarcasm, but holy poo poo, I want it. We will be reaching out to people who have authored full-band/full-difficulty customs and basically saying "hey, can we put your song in C3 and credit you?" It won't just be the listed dedicated authors.
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Apr 11, 2013 18:09
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The T posted:Also, just found out there is a group/site that has done Rite of Passage and Metropolis Part 1 by Dream Theater, and while I haven't played them Rite of Passage looks quite good, and I'm a dork who loves (the with Mike Portnoy version of) Dream Theater, so. I'm happy. This is actually the center of some drama for us right now. A bunch of work for that song was done by one of the guys for our project; 1) our guy wasn't given any credit for it, 2) none of us want there to be two customs sites, and 3) that guy happens to be hosting his files on our web server. We're hoping we can convince him to just drop the work on his site and join us, because otherwise we have to drop his songs from our hosting, and ugh drama I spiffed up the info/download panel a little bit, it's a little less terrible now. Oh, and before I forget, I'd like some more opinions on this. There exists a project that has ported songs from The Beatles: Rock Band to work as RB3 customs, and we can't decide whether to roll that into C3 or not. On one side of the argument: We want all high-quality customs to be in one place, we're already hosting GH conversions, and if we're gonna get a C&D we'll get one whether or not we're hosting TBRB songs. On the other side (the side that I am on): We want to respect Harmonix with this project, it's not that hard to Google for the Beatles customs as it is, and Harmonix cares so deeply about TBRB in particular that hosting those songs makes us about twice as likely to get a notice from them. What do you guys think?
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Apr 11, 2013 21:08
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Orange Harrison posted:"Old Time Rock & Roll" crashes the game if you try to play Pro Guitar or Pro Bass. This is known and fixed, the new version just needs to be uploaded. edit: Our first regular weekly release is up! We've got the RBHP update, with about half of Lego RB (keys on The Final Countdown!) and a bunch of RBN updates, and two new singles: Rush's "Xanadu" and Taylor Swift's "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together". pksage fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Apr 12, 2013 |
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Apr 12, 2013 14:50
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Minidust posted:Which program is it that actually opens a con file to view the metadata and stuff? Is it that Fluffy thing? That one works, but "Horizon", "Modio", and "wxPirs" will do it just fine as well. We have a sticky for those tools on our new forum on The Site That Must Not Be Linked.
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Apr 15, 2013 01:06
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Huge week for CCC today. See the blog post for the official copy, but we've got the following: Led Zeppelin 6-pack
And we've released every single GHtoRB3 back catalog song, which is a total of 185 more songs. For the full list, check the blog post.
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Apr 19, 2013 15:06
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Minidust posted:GHtoRB3 tracks haven't been changed in any way, correct? So if I had downloaded them from a central GHtoRB3 document over the past few weeks, I should have the same files that are now being linked via C3? Correct. We're just hosting and promoting them as part of our project. You can continue to download files from their spreadsheet or use our database; all links lead to the same place.
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Apr 19, 2013 17:18
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Waldorf Sixpence posted:So since installing customs a whole buttload of my dlc has gone missing. All of the acdc pack. Still alive. Date with the night. And others I'm sure. They're still downloaded on the hard drive, but not showing up in game. What gives? Are they saved in cloud storage, or tied to a profile in cloud storage? Do they show up if you boot your 360 without the customs drive plugged in and connect to Xbox LIVE?
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Apr 20, 2013 02:28
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Douwe posted:I wonder if RBN will be a thing again when/if creators goes back up, they were still releasing some fun songs (for me Terror and Dillinger) once every few weeks before creators went down. I have one more Dance for the Dying song ("Ophelia") that I'd rather release through RBN than through C3.
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Apr 24, 2013 19:41
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Below are the 4/26 CCC releases, also known as "Oh poo poo, We Really Have To Do This Every Week?" Mega props to Orange Harrison!
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Apr 26, 2013 15:00
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Douwe posted:Now that you incorporated the customs made by GHtoRB3, why not mention and include their weekly releases? Unless I missed something, there were no new releases this week. Last week's songs were all released last Friday.
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Apr 26, 2013 17:29
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Flops posted:One thing I've always wondered about is writing the charts for vocal tracks. Making charts for any instrument is not an easy task, but trying to pin down pitches for each lyric seems like a nightmare. Then you have the case of harmonies which turns it into a matter of transcribing chords. How do you check that all of those pitches are correct? You definitely need a good ear for pitch. Having separated vocal stems helps, but for the most part you simply play the guide pitch over the actual track until it sounds right. If you know a little more about music, you'll nail down the key in which it's sung pretty quickly and place your pitches based on that. IMO, accurate placement of the beginning and end of vocal tubes is a much bigger pain than pitches.
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Apr 29, 2013 15:31
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Though if you're only planning to author 5-lane, several years of Expert-level Rock Band experience will generally work for everything but vocals. edit to expand: More specifically (for 5-lane), knowing how to make "fun" chord progressions on G/B is a big thing that many people don't get. I've seen people with a background in music theory botch their 5-lane charts because they haven't played enough plastic guitar to know why GH3 had lovely charts and RB didn't.
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Apr 29, 2013 15:46
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Minidust posted:Played around with the modified Le Fluffie posted on that site. Successfully added in-game album art to a custom that didn't have any! That's in the MIDI, easily editable with REAPER (whose trial version is free forever). Extract the MIDI from the CON, import it to REAPER (there are guides on google for this if you need help), open PART VOCALS or HARM1/HARM2/HARM3, find the lyric on the bottom, fix it, re-export the MIDI (be sure to embed tempo map), replace it in the CON, done!
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Apr 30, 2013 17:49
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Minidust posted:Awesome! Should I be loading the "Custom RB3 Template" first, or is MIDI importing a more direct thing? The latter. Step A:  Step 2: 
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Apr 30, 2013 19:02
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Minidust posted:Thanks! I'm definitely getting MIDI files open at this point. Still can't find lyrics anywhere though... most I got was a chart that had "Phrase" markers. It was on the bottom half of the screen, kinda split horizontally into two parts. Hmm. I should probably check out a tutorial or something, the amount of options in Reaper is pretty daunting! That was probably the right chart. To make sure, double-click the red area of PART VOCALS:  Then make sure the bottom part of the MIDI editor (piano roll) says "Text Events", and you should see lyrics:  edit: I use REAPER 3.x, because REAPER 4 broke some RBN stuff when it came out and I haven't bothered to see if they're fixed yet. Also, I totally have a paid version on my home PC, but I'm too lazy to import my license here at work. pksage fucked around with this message at 20:13 on Apr 30, 2013 |
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Apr 30, 2013 20:06
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The T posted:And so the question is... how do we actually get to the docs? For now, you need a VPN login key to get at the site. Once the dust settles from this initial rollout, we'll see if the docs are public anywhere and see if they can be made public if not. Worst case we can stand up a mirror somewhere.
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May 1, 2013 17:06
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Minidust posted:Another Reaper question: how exactly should I be saving the modified MIDI? I've been using the "Export Project MIDI" command, but when I swap the resulting file with the original .mid and rebuild in Le Fluffie, the package shows up as corrupt in the Xbox dashboard. Tried the process again to make sure the only thing I changed in the package was replacing the .mid file, still no dice. I saw you ask this on The Other Forum, sorry I didn't answer you there. Your export MIDI window should look like this (note "embed tempo map"):  Otherwise, the problem may be your tool. Try replacing in Modio or one of the other tools; the new Le Fluffie still has some bugs.
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May 1, 2013 17:16
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Today's C3 releases (5/3): Guns N' Roses 4-pack
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May 3, 2013 15:00
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DancinBrud posted:Can't believe customs creators are actually putting out full albums. That has to be just an insane amount of work. The guy who did this particular album (and does the majority of our non-GHtoRB3 releases) is insane. Authoring customs is pretty much just...what he does.
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May 3, 2013 15:35
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The T posted:All 4 G'n'R songs are "From the Vault". They are slightly updated, however. Yep. If we release a song as "From the Vault", it's songs that are already out there, but have now been officially vetted by the C3 team and are included in our database. This doesn't mean they're error-free, because our QA kind of sucks, but it does guarantee all instruments, all difficulties, etc. In particular, I think Paradise City got a lot of clean-up and newly added Pro Keys?
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May 3, 2013 17:07
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Over on The Forum That Shall Not Be Named, look for "Now soliciting playtesters!" in Authoring Tools, Support, & Advice.
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May 3, 2013 21:13
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Minidust posted:I'm sure the C3 dudes have their hands full with the important stuff, but yeah, their "mature" labeling has been off. They listed "Given Up" by Linkin Park as Mature, but it doesn't show up that way in game (and the actual song audio is the clean version anyway I am personally responsible for 100% of those ratings, which are done at the last minute before shoving a blog post out the door. I "sanitize" the data a bit so that the DB looks more consistent than the actual data is.  Given Up was my bad, though, thanks for the catch! (fixed)
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May 9, 2013 14:27
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Lord Zedd posted:But if you are like me and hate staring at all the furry poo poo (And that chat sidebar that redirects to some spammy site nowadays) TrojanNemo of the C3 team made a version of Le Fluffie that strips out all of that and has some other helpful features (album art converter, automatic package creator). You can get it right here.
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May 9, 2013 14:49
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Psh, impatient? We're just continuing the fine Hamronix tradition, son. C3 releases for 5/10:
Once again, props to Orange Harrison for his awesome work on multitrack extraction!
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May 10, 2013 15:00
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Minidust posted:Are there limitations on what type of songs can be included in the same .dta file? I've consolidated different categories of songs, but it's still amounting to about 16 con files, which is annoying to move around when I end up doing a cache rebuild. If I could maintain a single .dta, and just add to it when I want to change something, that would be great. I don't think so. The official export packages (RB2 export, etc.) are all one big DTA.
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May 14, 2013 20:59
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C3 releases for May 17: New! Pantera Cowboys from Hell 4-pack (farottone)
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May 17, 2013 15:12
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edit: nope I am dumb it was for something from the '90s
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May 17, 2013 18:46
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Also, however you set up your flash drive shuffle, make sure your current cache/save data/etc. are all backed up somewhere, just in case.
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May 17, 2013 20:57
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We've also just put up a mirror of the official RBN docs, which were free to the general public until the recent Creators downtime: http://pksage.com/rbndocs/
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May 19, 2013 22:07
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Brocktoon posted:Are there any good indie customs? Pavement, Superchunk, Modest Mouse, Archers of Loaf, that sort of thing? I'm not sure, but I can tell you that a good number of my customs will fall under this umbrella whenever I get off my rear end and actually make them.
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May 20, 2013 17:50
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The C3 releases for May 24 are all covers! Nyx's releases are "from the vault", but the rest are brand new:
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May 24, 2013 15:06
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"Hardware Store" doesn't really need a final-tier rating for actual engine difficulty, since you can just hum and it'll work. If it were given a 5- or 6-dot rating, it'd be for trying to actually enunciate all of it as you suggest, and how to rate vocals is a matter of some contention. OH, we gotta fast-track that bad boy for C3, Weird Al is one of the biggest omissions in Rock Band. 
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May 30, 2013 02:10
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C3 releases for May 31, 2013: New Singles
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May 31, 2013 15:04
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Interesting that they're announcing tomorrow and not closer to E3, but I'm not complaining!  What's the over/under on it being for 360 vs. Xbox One? edit: VVV Oh yeah, mobile. Don't they have multiple new IPs? If this one is mobile, odds are the next one is console.
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IIRC they have 3 unannounced new IPs right now (not sure of the source on that, though), so I'd imagine it's a mobile game, a Facebook game, and an Xbox One game. I could see this one being mobile, and the Xbox One title being rolled into the Microsoft press release, since they're trumpeting a bunch of exclusive game reveals for that.
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