
If you don't know what any of those are, just keep it on dance-single and go down one. Now, select the difficulty that you want to edit.You can choose Beginner, Easy (aka "Light" or "Basic"), Medium (aka "Standard" or "Trick"), Hard (aka "Heavy" or "Maniac"), Challenge (aka "Oni"), or Edit. Since you have Stepmania downloaded and you're trying to either create your own stepfile or edit a pre-existing one, I'm sure you know the summaries and differences between each difficulty and shouldn't need an explanation of what each of them would normally contain.Highlight "Edit Existing" and press Enter.If there are pre-existing steps on a simfile on one of the difficulties but you want to create steps on a different difficulty or a different Stepstype altogether and there is no existing stepfile information for this difficulty + Stepstype combination, some more options are left for you.



Up and Down arrow keys take you up and down on the Step Chart.Ĭomes in handy.) and to the right is the information on the stepfile.

F7 shifts the BPM down while F8 shifts it up.Left and Right arrow keys scroll through the Arrow Timings (such as 4th or Quarter Notes, 8th or Half Notes, 12th Notes, 16th, 24th, 32nd, 48th, and 64th Notes).1, 2, 3, and 4 make the Left arrow, Down arrow, Up arrow, and Right arrow.closer to the top of chart, closer to the beginning of the song farther from the top, farther from the beginning of the song. After doing so, place the arrows on the stepchart using 1, 2, 3, and 4 and all the other keys mentioned before.The very first things you want to do are to establish a BPM for the song and to sync the stepchart with the song.Even if the BPM is correct, the step chart could start too soon or too late in accordance with a song that's what this fixes.į11 and F12 both shift the Step Chart along the song.F9 shifts a BPM freeze down (if there's one there to begin with) while F10 shifts a BPM freeze up.Try to avoid it unless you know what you're doing.
