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WORK IN PROGRESS!
Welcome to the Lane Breakers charting guide to authoring Rock Band 3 customs! This guide will aim to be a more modern and updated take on the original RBN docs written mostly from scratch to help beginners and veterans alike.
THE BASICS
- Tools - What you need to chart and build customs
- Audio - How to mix audio for use in-game
- Tempomap - How to make the audio line up properly with the chart
CHARTING
- Guitar & Bass - How to chart 5-button Guitar and Bass charts
- Drums - How to chart Drum charts
- Vocals - How to chart Vocals
- Harmonies - How to chart Harmonies after learning how to chart Vocals
- Keys & Pro Keys - How to chart Keys
- Overdrive - An important gameplay mechanic and how to implement it
- Events - How to add practice sections, crowd animations and other important background stuff
- Venue - How to make a killer stageshow for your chart
- Big Rock Endings - How to add a freeform jam section at the end of a song
- Pro Guitar & Pro Bass - How to chart the mystical Protar
BUILDING
- Metadata - What to put for the in-game metadata
- In-game Audio - How to set up the audio for use in-game in Magma
- MIDI & Gameplay - That last tab in Magma with all the confusing words in it
- Building Process - Additional info about building the custom
PLAYTESTING
- In-Game Testing - Checking the chart in-game
- Common Charting Mistakes - Some of the most common things to keep in mind
- Additional Charting Mistakes - More stuff for when something doesn't work quite as intended
ADDITIONAL INFO
- Genre List - More info about genres and subgenres for metadata
- Reduction Advice - Some examples and suggestions for how to reduce certain things on Hard, Medium and Easy
- Lyrics in Different Languages - Some info about how to chart vocals for songs sung in languages other than English
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