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Table of Contents
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
Part of the info on this wiki is based on the Rock Band Network authoring docs.
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