We're working on a page that resumes the contribution and and content of each volume, we'll update his section when it's done!
OutFox Serenity is the official community song pack project made primarily for Project OutFox. Its purpose is to produce packs of "libre" songs for the game that can be freely redistributed (including as part of its default, bundled songs), and to showcase the functionality of Project Outfox by offering charts for multiple game types beyond just 4-key/dance.
During Project OutFox Alpha 4.8.0 development, we started to release many modes, however, some of those modes have complicated chart standards or no longer have support. We decided then that it was right to create a community pack based on StepMania StepMix where the community would contribute for songs to be bundled with the game, but this time, songs for every mode OutFox supports.
- Go to the Submit Song Page.
- Read the important notes bellow and the rules for song submission.
- Fill out the Serenity User Register form, since you're interested in music, be sure to check the "Interested in submitting music?" option, include contact links if possible or any other information that could be of use.
- Fill out the Serenity Song Submission to submit your music, you can use this form as many times as you want to submit more than one music.
- Done! Join our Discord Server to follow the creation of charts/art or discuss with other members who are also contributing to OutFox & Serenity.
- Go to the Submit Chart Page.
- Read the important notes bellow and the rules for chart submission.
- Fill out the Serenity User Register form, since you're interested in charting, be sure to check the "Interested in submitting charts?" option, include contact links if possible or any other information that could be of use.
- Join our Discord Server, discord should ask what roles you want as soon as you join the server, be sure to get the Serenity role, if it does not show up as a option then use the "Channels & Roles" channel, scroll down to "Are you interested in the following projects?" and select "OutFox Serenity"
- You should now be able to see a new category called OutFox Serenity and its serenity-related channels, use "#simfile-templates" to get the base files required for you to create charts for our songs. If you already know which song, mode and difficulty you want to create, go to "#follow-progress" and go to the spreadsheet of the volume you want to contribute to, find the slot for your difficulty and comment that you're working on it so that other members are aware too.
- After you're done making your chart, use "serenity-space" to submit it, you can also use it to ask for feedback before doing so, pay attention to your created thread! That is it.
- Go to the Submit Graphics Page.
- Read the important notes bellow and the rules for chart submission.
- Fill out the Serenity User Register form, since you're interested in graphics, be sure to check the "Interested in submitting graphics?" option, include contact links if possible or any other information that could be of use.
- Join our Discord Server, discord should ask what roles you want as soon as you join the server, be sure to get the Serenity role, if it does not show up as a option then use the "Channels & Roles" channel, scroll down to "Are you interested in the following projects?" and select "OutFox Serenity"
- You should now be able to see a new category called OutFox Serenity and its serenity-related channels, go to "#follow-progress" and check if no one is already working on the graphics for the song you're thinking about, if not, then comment on it.
- After you're done making your graphics, use the "#serenity-space" channel to submit your work, you can also use it to ask for feedback before doing so, pay attention to your created thread! That is it.
No, the packages we provide include content which will not work with other StepMania forks and can even cause crashes when trying to load them.
Contributors and the Serenity Team prepare the pack with Project OutFox performance and behavior in mind, even if some individual chart works with those older forks.
When a new version comes out, we release multiple packages, usually it will be like this:
- All in One, this package will include all content from all volumes
- X Volume Only, this package will include only the new volume and its content. (It WON'T include new content for older volumes that were produced during the development of the new volume)
We recommend you to download the "All in One", delete the content inside your local OutFox Serenity groups and replace with what is inside the new All in One package, this way you avoid losing scores (Unless the chart has been updated), the general idea is to keep everything with the same directory path. It is not recommened to just add an replace content this can introduce problems in the future.
Volume 3 will work very different from past volumes, but to make it simple:
- We will reveal 3 songs with SSC Templates and that will be a season.
- Contributors can contribute with charts and graphics.
- After 3 month from the season reveal, we will release that season package and start development of the next season.
Important:
- TTC (Time to Chart) for every season will be 3 months.
- There's no Testing Weeks, make sure your content is final and meets all our requirements before sending.
- Each season will always have 3 songs at max.
- If a song has charts but no graphics yet, it will use the pack graphics, if after 2 months of the song reveal there's still no graphic for that song, then it will be made by members of the Serenity Team.
¶ Can I Stream/Record and Upload Videos of me playing Serenity Songs or use them in a Arcade?
Yes! In case you want to be extra secure, each song folder in our package includes a text file with licenses for the Song and Graphics. (If a section isn't include for one of those, you can assume you're safe.)
Serenity Volumes are what separate contents between a large time period, before Volume 3, each volume had 10+ songs with many months of production period, while Winter Updates had 3 songs and 2-3 months of production period. Starting with Volume 3, Volumes take an entire year of production and introduce the concept of Seasons, timed by the Meteorological Seasons, each season takes 3 month of development and the whole volume will only launch after the last season ends, however, for those who really want to play with that has been created, a Temporary Pack is released right as another season starts.
Yes. But make sure its gimmicks only work with your specific chart/difficulty, no chart should impact other's charts in any way.
Our team has a list of music submitted by members of the community, we try to select a safe amount of music that guarantees a healthy amount of charts will be made for each one since chart and graphic submissions are made purely by the interest of the authors and at the moment of writing this document, Project OutFox has no dedicated Chart Creation Team.
Another possible reason is that your submission does not follow the music guidelines, if you think that is the case then you can contact us using the following socials:
Make sure to check any of the socials you provided to us, if we are considering using your music but it's missing something, we will try to contact you.
Those are special as they use a license that doesn't allow us to publicly host them on Github, they are still bundled with our release zips.
Most of the work is handled by OutFox Community Team with occasional help from OutFox Design Team and feedback from OutFox Development Team. In Specific:
- Moru Zerinho6: Serenity Project Lead, Serenity Server Organization, Music Selection, Pack Organization, Serenity Website Section, Serenity Wiki, Simfile Templates.
- Lirodon: Pack Assets, Serenity Trailer, Serenity Website Section, Guidelines Rules, Pack Advertisement.
- Daniel Rotwind: Creation of templates for be-mu/po-mu game modes, Pack Assets, Chart Creation.
- shockdude: Creation of GH game mode templates, Chart Creation.
- Melone: Chart Creation, Chart Feedback, Music Selection.
- Jose_Varela: Chart Creation, Pack Assets.
- Colin: Chart Creation, Music Feedback.
- dj505: Chart Creation and Feedback.
- Moneko: Music Selection.
We're looking for people to join the serenity team to help with the creation of simfile templates, by defining song metadata such as BPM, Artist, Stops...etc, if you're interested then join the Project OutFox Discord Server and contact the moderators.
Written and Maintained by Moru Zerinho6