Howdy!
I've just been going through getting my song library in sync when I started noticing this:
The offset that I'm getting in-game doesn't seem to quite match the offset of the pulsing beat effect (the flashing white border around the song on the Music Wheel).
Here's the scenario:
I play a song. I adjust its offset until it's in sync. I have confirmed the song's BPM(s) is good and all is well. Cool.
I leave the song. I leave the game.
I restart the game and look at the song on the Music Wheel.
The white flashes on the Music Wheel are offset a little bit late.
Just for kicks, I wondered if it had something to do with my GlobalOffsetSeconds. I turned that down to 0.0000.
I went back into the game. Now the white flashes line up "perfectly" (as perfect as I can tell anyway, visually) in sync on the Song Wheel.
Naturally though, now the song is out of sync by that GlobalOffsetSeconds amount I had in there before.
Adjusting the Visual offset has no effect on the Music Wheel, it seems, and changing it only messes up gameplay.
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I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. Can someone englighten me as to why the Music Wheel and the in-game offset seem to be using different values when the GlobalOffsetSeconds is NOT 0? With a POSITIVE Global Offset, the flashing beats on the Music Wheel are consistently a little bit late, even if the sync accuracy of the steps to the music in-game is dead-on. I'd expect the two systems to use the exact same offset value.
A few notes:
I'm running Stepmania 5.0.8.
I'm using .ogg music files.
I've just been going through getting my song library in sync when I started noticing this:
The offset that I'm getting in-game doesn't seem to quite match the offset of the pulsing beat effect (the flashing white border around the song on the Music Wheel).
Here's the scenario:
I play a song. I adjust its offset until it's in sync. I have confirmed the song's BPM(s) is good and all is well. Cool.
I leave the song. I leave the game.
I restart the game and look at the song on the Music Wheel.
The white flashes on the Music Wheel are offset a little bit late.
Just for kicks, I wondered if it had something to do with my GlobalOffsetSeconds. I turned that down to 0.0000.
I went back into the game. Now the white flashes line up "perfectly" (as perfect as I can tell anyway, visually) in sync on the Song Wheel.
Naturally though, now the song is out of sync by that GlobalOffsetSeconds amount I had in there before.
Adjusting the Visual offset has no effect on the Music Wheel, it seems, and changing it only messes up gameplay.
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I'm not entirely sure what's going on here. Can someone englighten me as to why the Music Wheel and the in-game offset seem to be using different values when the GlobalOffsetSeconds is NOT 0? With a POSITIVE Global Offset, the flashing beats on the Music Wheel are consistently a little bit late, even if the sync accuracy of the steps to the music in-game is dead-on. I'd expect the two systems to use the exact same offset value.
A few notes:
I'm running Stepmania 5.0.8.
I'm using .ogg music files.
Last edited: 11 June 2015 12:11pm
