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Mapping songs with Edda

By PKBeam

Edda is a program designed for mapping songs in Ragnarock. It was created to provide a better user experience for mappers (in comparison to MMA2).

This guide will go through the basics.

For a comprehensive guide to using Edda, check out the website: https://pkbeam.github.io/Edda/.

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Overview

What is Edda?

Installing Edda

Using Edda

Comments

What is Edda?

Edda is a program that lets you make beatmaps for Ragnarock.

Unlike MMA2, Edda is built for (and only for) Ragnarock mapping. This means that
- maps are faster and easier to set up,
- no Beat Saber mapping knowledge is required,
- no .dat file editing is needed.

For more information, check out the website at https://pkbeam.github.io/Edda/.

Note: This guide is for an older version of Edda. For a fully up-to-date guide, check out the website above.

Installing Edda

You will need Windows 10 to run Edda.

The latest release can be found on GitHub: https://github.com/PKBeam/Edda/releases.

Each release comes with two .zip files - download the larger one (that is not marked with NoRuntime).

Extract the .zip to a folder and open Edda.exe to get started.

Using Edda

To create a new map, click the "New Map" button in the toolbar on the top.

Choose a folder for your map to go in, select a .ogg Vorbis song file, and you're ready to get started.

In the left and right sidebars you can:
- fill out map information (such as song name and environment)
- add a cover image
- generate a preview audio file to be played in-game
- specify medal distances
- set your song's BPM (including any BPM changes)
and more.

You can add notes by left-clicking on the editing grid in the middle.

Drag to select multiple notes, and hold Shift to add to a selection.

The usual delete, copy, cut, paste, undo and redo operations are supported with their normal keyboard shortcuts.

To add multiple difficulties, use the right sidebar. Edda will sort and arrange them automatically for you.

Bookmarks can be added in the navigational waveform on the right using Ctrl-B. They can be renamed by double-clicking on them.

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Yor 14 Aug, 2022 @ 9:25am

I second that wish for the song speed adjustment : ) So far I only mapped two small songs, but that feature would be really helpful for other songs I'd like to map. Great tool!

Torbjorn 23 Jun, 2022 @ 5:30am

One really awesome addition would be song speed adjustment for the preview. Say you're editing the map for a fast song, and you want to slow the song down while editing so you can get the tempo just right. I don't know if that'll be possible, but if it can be added, that would be really cool!

Torbjorn 23 Jun, 2022 @ 5:04am

I will be back after trying this out with a simple track! Thanks for the tool.

SirCrezzy 30 Jan, 2022 @ 2:25am

Im unable to get my cover to work when uploading to a site like Ragnacustoms.com i have a 500x500 jpg image but it refuses to acknowledge it. Any ideas?

Tony 21 Dec, 2021 @ 5:51am

I'll try this, thank you for your fast answer :)

PKBeam [author] 20 Dec, 2021 @ 5:03pm

Song Offset has been removed because it's prone to bugs and it's not compatible with the rune system that Ragnarock uses.

If you want to use an offset, add a Timing Change (Ctrl-T) and drag it to where you want the song to start. See v1.0.0b1 Release Notes for more info.

Jelly 20 Dec, 2021 @ 12:16pm

Alternatively crop the song in an editor like Audacity.

Jelly 20 Dec, 2021 @ 12:16pm

As Tony says song offset isn't available in my client either.

You might be able to work around it using the Song Timing editor for now, although it will take a lot of trial and error.

Tony 20 Dec, 2021 @ 4:31am

Thank you for thie guide ! :)
I have a question, I selected the BPM properly, but the song doesn't start exactly on the first beat, so it's like I have a delay of 2 beats all the time. Is there a way to tell the program to start beating when we want ?
THank you ! :)

PKBeam [author] 18 Dec, 2021 @ 9:39pm

Thanks for the report - the next release will have a fix for it

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