Magma Error: invalid section name

[ethicalpaul]

Nice reverse engineering!

[qwertymodo]

Thanks, I first got into this whole custom songs scene over at ScoreHero with Guitar Hero customs... which is ENTIRELY reverse-engineered. creators.rockband.com was like the holy grail of information, so filling in the blanks is immensely easier than it used to be. Now if I could just figure out how to manually create lip-sync data... I know Magma does it automatically, but I don't have an XBox 360, I have a Wii, so for testing I use... other methods I won't name here because I'm not sure what the policy is on discussing such things...

[socrstopr]

Originally Posted by qwertymodo

6. The last value of yy should be one step short of 100, i.e. your last section should be 5_95, 10_10, or 20_80.

That should be 10_90

Great info, this is actually really good news if HMX is going to be OK with people editing these. There still isn't a way to QA the placement of them, but I would hope nobody would be abusing this, and honestly the worst case is a 2 minute song has 20 sections in it. Thanks for posting this, I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.

[qwertymodo]

...ah yes, good catch, I'll fix it.

[HMXMister_Game]

There are cases (with very short or very long songs with odd time signatures, or very many time signature changes) that will cause the auto-generation of the practice sections to fail. In this case, we create just one big long section for the whole song.

So given that it can fail automatically (though this should be a very rare case), I think we'll be OK with people manually editiing these. I'll check with my Overlords and try to get a final answer for you.

[X Bad Daddy X]

And while we are looking at auto generated Events tracks, what the heck is the deal with D0 (26) getting a midi note on every beat?

[HMXMister_Game]

After further review by the coding Gods here at Harmonix, I'm sorry to inform you that the Magma compiler will stomp the practice sections that you create (essentially it will regenerate them every time you create an .rba).

We'll definitely look at adding this as a user-editable feature for a future release.

[qwertymodo]

Yeah, I just managed to extract the chart out of the .rba and I can confirm Magma regenerated them all, so bummer... but adding it in as an option would be really nice