Practice Mode Mod

[Xeer]

I have an idea to add a somewhat makeshift practice mode, by replacing the "Jurgen cheat" with a bit of coding that skips ahead to song a certain amount of time, but I have one question, where exactly is the coding for the "Jurgen cheat"?

Thanks in advance.

[warhol]

I have no idea what you're talking about. Expound plz

[Xeer]

Okay, you know how you can type "uptomytempo" to get Jurgen to play the song for you. Well my idea is replacing the coding of that with something that cuts ahead a certain amount of time to a part of the song.
I.E. You type in "skip2:10" The game would skip ahead to 2 minutes and 10 seconds. The problem with this plan is that I don't know where the coding for the "Jurgen cheat" is.

[qqstars]

guitarscene.py fuction keypressed 3. that define the "uptomytempo" to active the autoplay.

and in run function ,you can find the code "if autoplay:" and the code below is what you want.

[wolferacing]

Wouldnt it be better to code so the game looks in the song.ini for times and skips to that certian time.

for example...

part_1 = 0:00 to 0:45
part_2 = 0:46 to 1:20
part_3 = 1:21 to 2:00
ect...

Then later on you could advance it a bit to allow custom names which then would look like...

part_1_name = intro
part_2_name = insane riff
ect...

I think that would be better than just typing cheats in to make it work.

[ADH]

dude if someone can do this it would be awesome and alot of people would dld it I bet.

[coolguy567]

I don't really think that the design of the cheat system really makes it the best solution.

Also, anyone using "practice mode" would get the big "CHEATER" words which would be kinda annoying.

I think the best system would be to have times defined in the song.ini (I think beat numbers would be neater than absolute times, but do whatever) and have a "Go to Section" option in the pause menu which opens up a submenu with the section names. When you select a section name, a variable is set to mark that you're using practice mode so it doesn't bother with scoring, as well as actually skipping there.

[warhol]

Know what I prefer?

"Start song at x:xx"

[dionzorrr]

Know what I prefer?

"Start song at x:xx"

it shouldnt be that hard really warhol.

this should take much @ all.

it's possible!

[R4L]

How many of these threads were started and ended with no progress? Someone always has a good idea, but no one is going to make it, unless you do it yourself.

[coolguy567]

I think I can do everything except the bit were you actually change what position the song is actually in -_- .

If it's simple to change the song position then someone should actually just do it. Or just tell me how to change it. And if they find that it's actually really hard, then they should tell everyone so we can stop suggesting it.

EDIT: I've tried to make the song start somewhere other than the beginning, and I've only succeeded in making it crash. I've also found this, and I'm not sure what to make of it:
(Song.ini, Song class)

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 def play(self, start = 0.0):
    self.start = start
    self.music.play(0, start / 1000.0)
    if self.guitarTrack:
      assert start == 0.0
      self.guitarTrack.play()
    if self.rhythmTrack:
      assert start == 0.0
      self.rhythmTrack.play()
    self._playing = True

It seems that they tried to make a way to start the song later than the beginning (not sure if it has an effect on the note chart though), but those asserts seem to suggest that they couldn't make the guitar and rhythm charts start later.

[iamnoob]

I hope you are on to something. We need this to make FOF that much better.