About Creating Audio-Based Scripts

[Yaaaaaa (Tamamo1208)]

So far, I’ve only created action-based scripts, but I’m thinking of starting to make scripts that incorporate audio-based elements as well.
What’s the best approach to creating audio-based scripts?

Is it a valid method to listen to the music and place points intuitively, almost like playing a rhythm game?
Or is there a more reliable way to accurately match the beats?

[randomus]

Heya(aaaaa)

First Off: Tempo mode in OFS. Helps keeping things to the beat if you have the right BPM and offset.

I’ll link an answer to a similar topic, wherein I mentioned some tools and OFS extensions people can use depending on what they are going for:

How to start scripting

Hi @RG2021 Always good to see people taking up scripting … and making videos! As the other commenters suggested, OpenFunscripter 3 is your best bet. Even if you use some more automated tools to create a raw script, it is a good idea to refine it in OFS afterwards. You don’t need one, but it makes it easier. You can use FunscriptGenerator to quickly generate a simple funscript from a beat file (or if you properly edit the audio of a video in Audacity for example). If the Cock Hero has a beat…

There’s also a new OFS extension, that dropped today and helps with fading in/out if other extensions don’t work for you. And there’s this tool helping with auto-generating beats from beat bars, that was released after my comment.

@Yaaaaaa

Is it a valid method to listen to the music and place points intuitively, almost like playing a rhythm game?

In my personal opinion, it is only as a starting point for post-processing, but I know that I’m overly sensitive to things being out of sync/rhythm. And to place everything precisely with a lot of dragging and equalization is cumbersome. So shameless self-plug: I wrote BPM Tools to expedite the process while making it precise (WIP).

It also helps to know a tiny bit about music theory:

How I Script a PMV

It helps to know a little music theory. A song is a series of notes (duh), but those notes are grouped into measures (or bars) The measures are always the same length (very important!) Measures are split into 2, 4, 8 or 16 beats, and notes start on a beat. But not every beat; that would be boring The pattern of notes in a measure (a phrase) will repeat in subsequent measures There are (usually) at least 2 phrases (let’s call them A and B), many songs have 4 (A, B, C, D), some have more The phr…

Hope this helps to give a short overview of relevant resources.

[Yaaaaaa (Tamamo1208)]

Good evening, bro!
I didn’t even know there were tools specifically for making audio-based scripts.
That’s honestly news to me…
I think I’ll spend some time studying that a bit.

As for the part about music theory, that never even crossed my mind.
But now that you mention it, if you’re syncing to music, measures obviously exist—and that means you can align movements to them as well…
That was incredibly helpful.
Thanks a lot, bro!

[Islanti]

Easy mode:
PythonDancer - A port of FunscriptDancer to Python - Software - EroScripts

[Yaaaaaa (Tamamo1208)]

Thanks! I didn’t know about PythonDancer, I’ll check it out

[CertainlyWicked]

@Yaaaaaa

about PythonDancer, I’ll check it out

Don’t waste your time on that thing.
I’ve tested myself a simple beattrack of a chc where only those stroke beats in, and even on that most simple task for a beat/audio tracker it failed hard.
Consider it a gimmick for those who wanna have their toy moving SOMEHOW to the music, but it’s nowhere of any use for real, serious audio based scripting.

[Yaaaaaa (Tamamo1208)]

That’s good to know!
You’ve saved me the trouble of looking into it myself.
Thanks a lot for sharing

[Islanti]

I think that’s overstating the limitations significantly. With most songs it does a decent job if you have the right settings.

There are more complicated methods that yield somewhat better results, but as I said in my original reply - easy mode.

[Falafel]

If your audio track has very obvious beats (seen in JOI and some FapHero), the “funscript generator” tool mentioned in this post can automate the process:
https://milovana.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=24040&hilit=funscript+generator