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Greetings!

I'm here asking this question because I do not know how to do it myself. I would like to make a complete overhaul theme for an edited version of Stepmania 5 but do not know where to start. I've searched everywhere, but could not find anything documenting the theming system in Stepmania 5, because of this, it has brought me here. Any thread I see here asking how to theme is usually brought by having the knowledge of programming. I have alot of programming experience with C# (somewhat), GML, and Lua (have to relearn this...), I also have programmed some websites in HTML. This has brought me to my question, is there anyone here who can point me in the right direction or give me some documentation to go off of?

Last edited: 6 July 2015 11:53am

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this is a pretty good resource.

http://kki.ajworld.net/wiki/Main_Page

Last edited: 6 July 2015 11:14pm

-dn0

(i.e. darknote before it became an icelandic death metal band)
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That resource doesn't do a complete job of explaining what everything does, which is what I need.
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Documentation in general is kinda bare. You'd have more luck just asking around on the #stepmania-devs freenode irc for theming questions.

Work in Progress
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How often are the developers on IRC and often do they get asked these type of questions?
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the irc is more active than the forum, and people ask theme questions all the time
Its not a bug its a FEATURE!
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I don't know where the IRC channel is, I've looked around on the forum and can't seem to find it, can someone point me in the right direction?

EDIT: Nevermind. I found it.

Last edited: 9 July 2015 1:57pm

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Start here: http://www.stepmania.com/forums/themes/show/3227#post6888

...and then ask questions on IRC when you get stuck.

I apologize for the lack of good educational resources at this time.
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