SDVX Charts for KShootMania

SDVX Song packages meant for use in KShootMania.

These charts follows the offical sdvx charts closely to emulate the original experience.

SDVX and SDVX II Song packages

They are completed and playable. Due to github not able to support repository above 1GB in size, SDVX and SDVX II songs are removed from the repo and archived. The song packs can be found here.

SDVX III Song packages

How to setup for playing

1. Empty out the directory of "kshootmania\songs"
2. Clone the repository directly into "kshootmania\songs"
3. Optional Revert your directory to its original state (This repository is configured to ignore all other songs)
4. Start KShootMania
5. Enjoy.

The repository is configured this way for easy editing and playing the charts.

Video Walkthrough

Contributing to this project (Under Edit)#

This project has completed all SDVX and SDVX II charts. They have been archived and released.
This repo will now only accept SDVX III charts.

Processing the charts##

1. Fork this repository & create a new branch
2. Navigate to KShootMania SDVX Song Status to check for collaborator status
3. Look for the song you want to process in the spreadsheet
   • Set the relevant cell to "In Progress" if you are working on it
   • To prevent conflicts, work only on songs that are not marked "In Progress"
4. Navigate to \incompleteChart and find the song folder you are working on
5. Cut & paste the whole folder into to \sdvx
6. Processing the songs
7. Processing the jacket
8. Processing the Song preview
9. Chart Proofing
10. Processing Lane effects
11. Play Test
12. Once everything is in order, save the chart and commit your changes to your fork.
13. Feel free to process other songs. (Repeat from step 4)
14. When you are ready, make a pull request!

Download & Processing the songs

Songs are downloaded from Youtube and processed. The objective here is to preserve the quality for the best experience.

Step by step guide

1. Navigate to SDVX譜面保管所 and find the song you are processing
2. Download the FX tracks and No FX tracks from the links (Youtube)
   
   If you do not have a downloader, you can try using Clip Converter or 4k Video Downloader.
   To prevent more re-encoding, download the sound as .aac or .m4a, then process them.
   Disclaimer: I am not afflicated with either products. Feel free to use them as you like
3. Trim the tracks, offseting them if required and save them into .ogg format (Repo only takes .ogg)
4. Rename the FX track <diffculty>.ogg

• Novice charts nov.ogg
• Advanced charts adv.ogg
• Exhaust charts exh.ogg
• Infninite charts inf.ogg
• Gravity charts grv.ogg

5. Rename the No FX track nofx.ogg
6. Place the tracks into \sdvx\<song you are processing>
7. And its done. (Charts are mapped to the song filenames too)

Processing song jackets

Finding song jackets is mostly a google image searching task, there isn't a real method to get them.

Here are some places you can find images for a start:

Remy Wiki	Google Image Search	SDVX.be
Click the image for high res version	Search by Image works well	Use this if you can't find high res jackets
Not always available	Not always available	Always available

Guidelines

• Check if there is existing jacket (I've put some in)
• Always use the highest res version you can find.
• Take note that this repository accepts only .png and .jpg files.
• For convenience, all charts are mapped to jacket.png
  • Convenient if your jacket is .png and all difficulty share the same art. (Just name the jacket jacket.png)
• If the song has different jackets for different difficulty, name them appropriately.
  • Novice Chart nov_jacket.<extension>
  • Advanced Chart adv_jacket.<extension>
  • Exhaust Chart exh_jacket.<extension>
  • Infinite Chart inf_jacket.<extension>
  • Gravity Chart grv_jacket.<extension>
  • You will have to edit the meta of the relevant chart to accomodate this

Processing Song previews

Find the song's chorus timing and add it to song preview.
It is not necessary to have 1:1 song preview with SDVX. Find what works well and use it.

Tips for song preview timing

Chart proofing

The charts are directly extracted from SDVX 譜面播放器 and they are prone to minor errors. You will need to correct the minor errors.

Simply navigate to SDVX譜面保管所 and find your chart for reference.

Common errors

Red laser is quite prone to errors, so keep a look out.

Tip: Use selection tool to select laser segment & ctrl + ← → to shift laser endings

BT & FX note errors are rare but may happen, keep a look out for them too.

All the charts are trimmed to their first measure, so there might be padding errors like this.
You can either offset the track or just shift the notes to fix this.
Tip: Use ctrl + a to select all notes, then ↑ ↓ keys to shift them

Gravity Charts

K-Shoot MANIA does not support laser notes going beyond their lanes at the moment.
You will have to intepret the pattern and make it playable in KSM.
The objective is to emulate the original track.

Processing Lane Effects

There are multiple lane effects in a SDVX track. Unfortunately, to find out what lane effects a track contains, you will need to find gameplay videos of it. From there, you will need to plot out the effects referencing from the video.

Here are some good youtube channels for reference

김광민	LIRINSKY	PmD Terra

Here is a breakdown of what needs to be done:

• [x] ~~BPM Change~~
• [ ] Lane Spin
• [ ] Lane Tilt
• [ ] Lane Zoom

Play test

Please start K-Shoot Mania and navigate to the song you have created.
Here is a simple check list to look out for:

• Jacket check (If it doesn't load, please check your files)
• Meta check (Artist, Effector, illustrator, Level, Diffculty)
• Song Preview (Is the song preview correct?)
• FX Track check (Play the song and try missing & hitting laser or long FX notes)
  • If FX track is distorted / glitchy, your nofx.ogg and <diffculty>.ogg are not synced.
• Lane Effect check (Check if they are working as intended)

Project Status & Milestones

• [x] Extract data from SDVX 譜面播放器 and convert them into .ksh charts
• [x] Populate extracted data with meta data
• [x] Process extracted .ksh charts
• [x] Create remainder SDVX songs charts with meta data
• [x] SDVX Song requests | Plot remaining SDVX songs
• [ ] In Progress SDVX III Songs

Special Thanks for contribution

• Kyanern
• Dessard
• xheres
• Subreezy
• ChickenNotHD