Learning The Chart Editor

Kade Engine has built in chart editor that allows you to make custom charts for your liking! so lets learn about it

Opening Up The Editor

To Open up the editor go into any song and while your in it Press "7"

The Editor should appear

Using The Editor

Lets go over how to use the editor and how you can make charts with it!

Basics

Press "Space" to play the chart and Press "Space" again to stop!

Notes

To place notes go over the checkboard pattern and click on one of the squares to place a note!

To delete a note hover over the note and click it again!

Sections

Sections decide what side gets the notes! You can use the mouse wheel to scroll through sections!

Icons

If The Icon is a bf that means it is the players section, if its any other icon its the cpu(s) turn!

Panel(s)

Now that we know some basic info lets get into the pannels! starting with the top one!

Tabs

The Assets Tab

The Assets tab chooses assets that the .json file will hold!

• you can choose who will be player1 (PLAYER)
• you can choose who will be player2 (CPU)
• you can choose a type of gf asset
• you can choose the backround/stage
• and you can choose the noteSkin

The Note Data Tab

Currently the note data tab is in beta and has no use other then the "Note Sustain Length"

• The Note Sustain Length adjust how long the note tail is!
• To choose the note you want to adjust the length for you will need to place a note!
• The most recent placed note is what the "Note Sustain Length" will take effect on
• So if you have a note you want to edit delete, and or place/replace the note for the "Note Sustain Length" to take place

The Section Data Tab

the section data tab allows you to edit data that involves sections!

• you can choose who will control that section using the checkbox that reads "Camera Points to P1?"
• If the box is checked the player controls the section if not the cpu will control the section
• The "Refresh Section" Button reloads the section just in case notes lag out!
• The "Play Here" Button makes it so that you play that specific section when loading into the game
• The "Copy Last" Button allows you to copy a section, the input box chooses what section to copy into this section!
• The "Clear Section" Button well, uh clears the section...
• The "Swap Section" Button Swaps both sides of the section into oppisite areas!
• The Alternate Animation Checkbox is supposed to lower the quality of the chart by using alt aniamtions (meant for bad pcs)

The Song Data Tab

the song data tab is where most of basic chart options are located

• The Text box is for changin the name of the chart (chartView)
• The Save Button allows you to save your chart to somewhere on your computer.
• the Vocal, and Instrumental Volume control the volume of their respective audios.
• On The Song data tab you can adjust how fast the arrows apear on the screen and the BPM!
• The Buttons "Reload Audio", "Reload JSON" reload there respective files
• The load autosave button atempts to roll the chart back to when you last playtested or saved it.
• The Buttons on the bottom adjust the notes speration or offset!

Other/Extras

Mid-Song Chart Events

in the newest update of kade you can add mid-song events in charts! despise still being in alpha stage it works pretty well!

Adding Events

• to add a event
• you need to click the add event button if one isnt already created for you
• on the box List of Events you can choose what event to edit!
• Then In the box "Type of Event" you can choose what event will happen (there are 2 at the moment "BMP Chnage" or "Scroll Speed Change"
• then choose a name to save the event as!
• You can then choose the vaule of the event! (for bpm change the vaule to the bpm you want, and for scroll speed 100vaule=1xSpeed)
• Then in Event Position you can choose a vaule to save it with!

Placing Events

• to add a event into the song scroll throughout the chart a white line should appear in the middle while scrolling
• wherever the whiteline is, is where you can place the event, once you have a place where you want the event to take place
• click "Add Event" the event should be added

Removing/Saving events

• to remove an event hove over the event with the whiteLine then click "Remove Event"
• to save an event click the "Save Event" The Event will be added into the "List of Event" Box

(VERY EARLY ALPHA) Song Options

• the "Play hitsounds" plays a hitsound then can be chosen in settings using the "debug build"
• the "Mute Instrumental" mutes backround song when in the chart editor