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This page is a good introduction in the program. After Reading this check out the examples, Default WallStructures and Special WallStructures
##The Program
The goal of the Beatwalls Program is to make working with mapping extension walls easier and enable everyone to use cool Walls in their Maps. It is designed to be used easily with good defaults, but still enables lots of options for interested Users.
A WallStructure is a collection of Walls. Bundling them together allows one to scale, repeat and edit them all at once to fit the Song, without having to manually edit each Wall. Combine multiple Wallstructures, to create amazing scenery for your Map.
To make working with Walls easier, I introduce to you a new standard of Values, which define a wall. It defines 1 = one line Index and the center = 0. Everything else scales accordingly.
An example floor Wall:
{ "duration": 1.0, "height": 0.1, "startHeight": 0.0, "startRow": -2.0, "width": 4.0, "startTime": 0.0 }
represents this Wall:
To add a WallStructure at a specific Beat, you have to add a bookmark at the beat, either with a Map Editor or by JSON-editing, which contains /bw $name, where $name is the name of your Wallstructure.
After Setting up your bookmarks, you need to run the program on the song folder (just drag the folder in the beatwalls.exe)
You probably don't want your cool Walls to be only one beat long and only once. That why you can use Options behind the name, to customize the walls.
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Scale: scales the whole structure on the duration. Lets take our Floor, which has a default Duration of 1 and a startTime of 0. If you use
/bw floor 2it will change the duration to 2 leave the startTime at 0. So now you have a floor with a duration of 2. For Structures which only use one Wall, this is kind of unnesecary, but imagine for a Line of Walls. By Scaling it, and not just increasing the duration, you make sure the duration of each wall still fits in the Line. default: 1 -
RepeatCount: How often you want to repeat your Structure after your initial Structure. With our good old floor, we can use
/bw floor 1 3To create 4 (1 + 3 repeats) Walls behind each other. So now we got a floor with a total duration of 4 which consist of 4 1-duration walls. default: 0 -
RepeatGap Lets say you only want your precious floor to appear every second Beat. The RepeatGap controls, how far the gap between the repeats is. With
/bw floor 1 3 2You will have a gap of one beat between each floor. But careful! It is affected by the scale, so with a scale of 2 the Gap will be 2 beats wide default: 1
Our finale wall with /bw floor 1 3 2 now looks like this (enter video here)
If you want to fine tune the walls you can do so by adjusting the Parameters of the Pattern. Each Value will get added to every wall in the pattern. This is done before Scale and Repeat count are applied. The Parameters are as follows:
$duration $wallHeight $startHeight $startRow $width $startTime
For most changes, it is propably the best, to just change the Wall in the BeatwallAsset file and not in the Parameters, since that can get confusing pretty quickly. The complete List is now
/bw $name $scale $repeatCount $repeatGap $duration $wallHeight $startHeight $startRow $width $startTime
The Asset File is the File, where most of the CustomWallStructures are saved! You are invited to look into it, change it and add new structures.
If you create Some cool new structures, please send me, so I can add them to the default asset file!
some Special WallStructures have can have options that are not covered by the default Parameters. to use them put them in
/bw $name -- specialOptions -- $scale $repeatCount ...
note that You need to have them at the beginning. They can enable more advanced WallStructures like RandomLines and soon text.