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Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby aduro » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:16 pm

http://creators.rockband.com/tools/download

They released the midi stuff for making songs for RBN, and it includes a whole bunch of graphics for the in-game preview.

Some cool stuff it has that we can use:
great looking animated hitflames
Animated bass drum hitflames
Sustain graphics
2d notes (Although they look like crap compared to the real game ones)
beat & measure lines

I haven't messed around too much in the song creator itself, but Reaper only has a 30-day trial. You CAN output to mid so I'm sure you can make FoF songs with it

http://creators.rockband.com/spec/Authoring
This page has a ton of info on how 2 chart from the guys who pretty much invented charting. Pretty much everything you ever needed to know about the RB midi format. This is pretty incredible

It's really cool, check it out

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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby OzzyOzrock » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:33 pm

WHOA! AWESOME!

Now we need to find a way on how to input that into the game.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby aduro » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:37 pm

http://creators.rockband.com/spec/Authoring
This page has a ton of info on how to chart from the guys who pretty much invented charting. And it's got pretty much everything you ever needed to know about the RB midi format. Awesome awesome awesome awesome
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby Tormann71 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:42 pm

aduro wrote:http://creators.rockband.com/spec/Authoring
This page has a ton of info on how to chart from the guys who pretty much invented charting. And it's got pretty much everything you ever needed to know about the RB midi format. Awesome awesome awesome awesome

That. is. awesome.

This will help a ton with charting lower difficulties, and will be great for referring people to when they are still learning to chart.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby death_au » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:53 pm

Yes! Thank you Harmonix!
I've just skimmed it quickly, but I like those charting rules they've laid out.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby evilbobthebob » Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:53 pm

Best part of that is the charting guidelines. Tells you what each chord selection should represent and what to do with difficulty levels. Awesome :woot:

Edit: heh seems like everyone got in before me :tongue: Where did you find those notes images? I couldn't see them anywhere in the downloads section :unsure:
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby Tormann71 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:03 pm

evilbobthebob wrote:Best part of that is the charting guidelines. Tells you what each chord selection should represent and what to do with difficulty levels. Awesome :woot:

Edit: heh seems like everyone got in before me :tongue: Where did you find those notes images? I couldn't see them anywhere in the downloads section :unsure:

Download the RBN installer plug-in thing for Reaper, and then just run the .exe pointing it to just any folder. The images and stuff are in there.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby aduro » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:07 pm

evilbobthebob wrote:Edit: heh seems like everyone got in before me :tongue: Where did you find those notes images? I couldn't see them anywhere in the downloads section :unsure:

When you install the reaper addon, they are in REAPER/Plugins/FX/rbprev
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby evilbobthebob » Tue Oct 06, 2009 7:07 pm

I see them now, thanks :smile: The notes are pretty awful, but the RBN background may come in handy at some point. I got the Reaper trial so I think I'll mess around with some RB ripped tracks.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby caramba2654 » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:52 pm

How can I add a black background to it to turn it to a hitflame?
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby death_au » Tue Oct 06, 2009 9:56 pm

caramba2654 wrote:How can I add a black background to it to turn it to a hitflame?

It's called a paint program. For example, Photoshop, Gimp, etc...
Chances are even if you set it up "correctly", it's not going to work in FoFiX, as those pieces have to fall a lot further than the FoFiX hitflames currently allow.
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby weirdpeople » Tue Oct 06, 2009 10:36 pm

evilbobthebob wrote:I see them now, thanks :smile: The notes are pretty awful, but the RBN background may come in handy at some point. I got the Reaper trial so I think I'll mess around with some RB ripped tracks.

lol im trying to get the rbprev thing to work but no luck :/
i gots it to work now :tongue:
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby aduro » Wed Oct 07, 2009 1:48 am

I've been trying to mess around with reaper, but I don't think my rock band plugins are even working

It looks exactly the same as vanilla Reaper and none of the special key shortcuts they talk about do anything. I've tried reinstalling it but still no dice
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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby crazyman08 » Wed Oct 07, 2009 2:56 am

i made this out of the the notes that came with it :woot:

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Re: Rock Band RBN tools and RB2 theme materials

Postby RC_001 » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:01 am

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aduro wrote:It's really cool, check it out

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how to use that on rb2 theme?
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