Demon Forge; A Drums Rock Editor

A custom song editor for Drums Rock that supports editing and previewing charts.

Installation

Download the .exe from releases and run it, no further configuration required

Usage

• Make sure that your audio is snapped properly first in a program like Audacity Tutorial
• Put all your files (song.ogg, preview.ogg) in 1 folder for save keeping
• Press new file (File > New File)
• Set up all the right data in Properties > Song Properties
• Go to File > Save File to save a .json of your chart
• Place notes by left clicking on the chart, remove notes by right clicking on a note. You can change drum roll intervals by left clicking on a note and changing the interval on the bottom left
• When you made your entire chart go to File > Export project
• Make sure that the custom folder location is right
• Put a name for the folder where the program will put your files in the custom songs folder
• Fix any issues that it's screaming about
• Test your chart in the game
• If your chart has a mistake, fix the mistake in the program and press export again, it will overwrite the files

Custom assets

In order to make your custom assets work, you have to do the following:

1. Make a new folder next to the executable called custom
2. name the files appropiately like this:

• note.png
• marker.png
• background.png
• background.jpg
• snare.wav (yellow note)
• kick.wav (red note)
• tomhigh.wav (Orange note)
• tomlow.wav (Purple note)
• crash.wav (Blue note)
• ride.wav (Green note)

3. Start the application, the custom assets should now be loaded in

You can also download the files directly in the custom folder

Future features

• Visualise the notes in sync with the music
• Save charts in a custom json format
• Read the original game format (.csv)
• Editing charts inside the application
• Figure out how to properly play sound for drum rolls
• Snap editing
• Adjustable client settings (scroll speed, note size,volume etc)
• Custom asset support for audio/sprites
• Undo/Redo button
• Support other timing signatures
• Support dynamic time signatures and bpm
• Set preview time stamp and length to automatically export preview
• Export project to the custom songs folder
• Audio offset for syncing up audio

Compiling

Development version is Godot v4.4.

• Import project into godot
• Project > Export
• Select Your OS
• Press export project

The executable should be exported into ProjectFolder/Build/*

Possible future features

• Drum track seperation with something like OpenVINO

Contributing

Other than fixing some bugs I am currently not accepting contributions until I at least finish the editing part of the application