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Vjmanzo: /* User Tests */

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Vjmanzo: /* User Tests */

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Vjmanzo: /* User Tests */

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Vjmanzo: /* User Tests */

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‎User Tests

Vjmanzo at 03:27, 10 May 2024

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Chigginson: /* Note Blocks */

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‎Note Blocks

Chigginson: /* Note Blocks */

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‎Note Blocks

Chigginson: /* User Tests */

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Chigginson: /* User Tests */

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‎User Tests

Chigginson at 03:35, 2 May 2024

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 The participant with prior Beat Saber experience offered more specific feedback about the rhythm and the pattern quality of note blocks. Many notes included areas that were timed poorly or felt awkward to play. These sections of the song were then investigated for any double directional, vision blocks, or uncomfortable forehand-backhand flows.
-<mediaplayer>File:UserTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
+<youtube>https://youtu.be/BnMxoItf9kg</youtube><br>
 User tests performed for the Edward40Hands map<br><br>

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 The participant with prior Beat Saber experience offered more specific feedback about the rhythm and the pattern quality of note blocks. Many notes included areas that were timed poorly or felt awkward to play. These sections of the song were then investigated for any double directional, vision blocks, or uncomfortable forehand-backhand flows.
-<mediaplayer>UserTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
+<mediaplayer>File:UserTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
 User tests performed for the Edward40Hands map<br><br>

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 The participant with prior Beat Saber experience offered more specific feedback about the rhythm and the pattern quality of note blocks. Many notes included areas that were timed poorly or felt awkward to play. These sections of the song were then investigated for any double directional, vision blocks, or uncomfortable forehand-backhand flows.
-<mediaplayer>userTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
+<mediaplayer>UserTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
 User tests performed for the Edward40Hands map<br><br>

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 The participant with prior Beat Saber experience offered more specific feedback about the rhythm and the pattern quality of note blocks. Many notes included areas that were timed poorly or felt awkward to play. These sections of the song were then investigated for any double directional, vision blocks, or uncomfortable forehand-backhand flows.
-[[File:userTest.MOV|800px|center|User tests performed for the Edward40Hands map]]
+<mediaplayer>userTest.MOV</mediaplayer><br>
 All the user feedback was then taken into account in the next round of edits for the map. After user feedback was incorporated into the map, it was checked over for any final issues before saving and uploading to the Beat Saver website. The Edward40Hands map is now available for download by Beat Saber users (https://beatsaver.com/maps/3c394). Videos of me playing the Edward40Hands map as well as a video of just the map can be found at the YouTube links below.
-https://youtu.be/uo9hNZRhGcI
+<youtube>https://youtu.be/uo9hNZRhGcI</youtube><br>
-Me test playing the Edward40Hands map
+Me test playing the Edward40Hands map<br><br>
-https://youtu.be/gCfpHM_vu-o
+<youtube>https://youtu.be/gCfpHM_vu-o</youtube><br>
-A video of the completed Edward40Hands map
+A video of the completed Edward40Hands map<br><br>
 ==Future Work==

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 [[File:mapping.jpg|thumb|800px|center|The Chromapper mapping environment; note block track on left, lighting block track on right, audio waveform to the left of note block track]]
 ====Note Blocks====
 When mapping note blocks, many different factors need to be kept in mind to create a quality map. Note blocks make up the majority of the Beat Saber map, meaning that the way the note blocks are mapped make up most parts of the rhythm, flow, pattern quality, readability, fun factor, and level quality criteria. Therefore, all these factors had to be kept in mind while mapping note blocks. Note blocks were mapped in small sections at a time and then test played, so that any timing, pattern, or directional block issues were resolved quickly.
 To ensure that the map had good rhythm, notes had to be mapped precisely on time to beats represented in the audio waveform. A key factor in making sure note blocks are timed well is keeping in mind the hit box for Beat Saber blocks. The area where the majority of the saber is supposed to hit the block is actually in front of the block, rather than on the block itself. The BSMG wiki says that players should aim to hit blocks with the tip of their saber so that the rest of the saber slides through the hit box accordingly. Therefore, to make blocks feel on time with the song in-game, they need to be mapped slightly after the beat occurs, making room for the hit box of the block. Note blocks were mapped about 1/16 of a note after the desired beat occurred in the song.

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-| [[File:parity.jpg|thumb|800px|center|Charts displaying the comfort level of directional note blocks when hit with a forehand or backhand swing; the more green a section, the more comfortable it is to hit the note with that swing, the more red a section, the more uncomfortable it is to hit the note with that swing ]] || [[File:flow.jpg|thumb|800px|center|An example of mapping a good, standard flow of note blocks on the same hand, and double directionals]]
+| [[File:parity.jpg|thumb|600px|center|Charts displaying the comfort level of directional note blocks when hit with a forehand or backhand swing; the more green a section, the more comfortable it is to hit the note with that swing, the more red a section, the more uncomfortable it is to hit the note with that swing ]] || [[File:flow.jpg|thumb|600px|center|An example of mapping a good, standard flow of note blocks on the same hand, and double directionals]]
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-| [[File:guitarRiff.jpg|thumb|800px|center|Example of the repeating mapped guitar riff in Edward40Hands]] || [[File:sliderLyrics.jpg|thumb|800px|center|Example of the slider blocks being used for the slow lyrical part of the song in Edward40Hands]]
+| [[File:guitarRiff.jpg|thumb|600px|center|Example of the repeating mapped guitar riff in Edward40Hands]] || [[File:sliderLyrics.jpg|thumb|600px|center|Example of the slider blocks being used for the slow lyrical part of the song in Edward40Hands]]
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 The criteria of how fun a map is to play is also affected largely by the patterns, placements and readability of note blocks and obstacles. A user will have more fun playing a map if there are interesting enough patterns, if it is easy enough for them to play, and if the movement created by the mapped blocks is reminiscent of the song. This category is very subjective, and I think the Edward40Hands map succeeds in this criteria, and user tests performed on the map agreed as well.
 Level quality in a map makes sure the speed of the level matches the song, if there are any poorly placed obstacles, and if there is decent lighting. Because of all the audio work done to find the exact BPM of the song and no modifications to the note jump speed were done, the speed of the level matches up with the song. As mentioned prior, no obstacles were obstructing parts of the level. Lighting blocks were also mapped for the song, and will be detailed in the next section.
 ====Lighting====

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-| [[File:ArrowVortex.jpg|thumb|800px|center|The program Arrow Vortex, detecting the BPM of the song and applying a music offset to the beginning]] || [[File:Audacity.jpg|thumb|800px|center|The program Audacity, applying the found music offset from Arrow Vortex to silence at the beginning of the track]]
+| [[File:ArrowVortex.jpg|thumb|600px|center|The program Arrow Vortex, detecting the BPM of the song and applying a music offset to the beginning]] || [[File:Audacity.jpg|thumb|600px|center|The program Audacity, applying the found music offset from Arrow Vortex to silence at the beginning of the track]]
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-| [[File:MMA2.jpg|thumb|800px|center|The MMA2 user interface (UI) for creating new Beat Saber levels]] || [[File:MMA2Edit.jpg|thumb|800px|center|The map level information entered in MMA2 to create the Edward40Hands map]]
+| [[File:MMA2.jpg|thumb|600px|center|The MMA2 user interface (UI) for creating new Beat Saber levels]] || [[File:MMA2Edit.jpg|thumb|600px|center|The map level information entered in MMA2 to create the Edward40Hands map]]
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 The participant with prior Beat Saber experience offered more specific feedback about the rhythm and the pattern quality of note blocks. Many notes included areas that were timed poorly or felt awkward to play. These sections of the song were then investigated for any double directional, vision blocks, or uncomfortable forehand-backhand flows.
-All the user feedback was then taken into account in the next round of edits for the map. After user feedback was incorporated into the map, it was checked over for any final issues before saving and uploading to the Beat Saver website. The Edward40Hands map is now available for download by Beat Saber users.
+[[File:userTest.MOV|800px|center|User tests performed for the Edward40Hands map]]
 ==Future Work==
 This project was completed in full. For any future work on this project, users should follow the methods taken to complete this Beat Saber map and create a new one