::|CONTENTS
- Capabilities
- Quick set up
- Links for further development
- See also
modshroom is a
amigamod to SHO (
ShroomTool) converter made by BotBr
cce.
Capabilities
modshroom uses the first three channels of your .mod module to let you compose Mario Paint songs in your favorite .mod compatible tracker!
It has some limitations imposed by Mario Paint:
- As mentioned above, you are limited to using at most 3 channels
- You can only use the notes B-4, C-4, D-4, E-4, F-4, G-4, A-4, B-4, C-5, D-5, E-5, F-5 and G-5
- The length of the song is fixed to 96 rows
- Note volume and most (if not all) of the .mod effects won't work
You can set a custom tempo for your song through the command line (see the
Quick set up section).
It isn't possible to make songs that are shorter than 96 rows, in other words the
double bar line from
Mariopants as no equivalent feature in modshroom.
Likewise you can't make songs longer than 96 rows, so you won't be able to take advantage of the
extended mode in the
mariopantse (format).
Quick set up
You can get the modshroom source code on the dedicated
GitHub page.
Help wanted
The author cce originally provided a Windows build on lofibucket.com. However the page doesn't exist anymore. Although the modshroom
home page was saved on the Wayback Machine, it isn't the case for the program itself.
If anyone is comfortable with building Visual C++ projects or still has a build from back then, please consider adding a link to it either by editing this page or in a forum post :D
Composing
Always work with a copy of the file template.mod, which is located in the
misc folder
on GitHub. You can only use the samples provided in this module.
As always when working with module convertors, it is recommended to often export your song to the destination format in order to correct possible conversion errors and to hear how your song really sounds.
The command line model to convert your .mod song is:
modshroom.exe input.mod [output.sho] [tempo] [author]
The tempo can be omitted, if this is the case it will be set to 150bpm by default. Specifying a tempo in the command line is the only way to set a custom tempo in your converted .sho song, which means the tempo you set in your .mod module will be ignored. However this is still convenient to set a same tempo both in the command line and in your .mod song so that the later plays correctly in your tracker.
Note: as told by the modshroom documentation, you are not allowed to use spaces in the author field with the command line. Moreover the song name in the converted .sho song is deduced from the title of your .mod song.
For further information, you can read:
- The
readme.txt file, in the
docs folder
on GitHub
- The archived modshroom
lofibucket page
Links for further development
You can visit the modshroom
GitHub page!
See also
All related Lyceum articles:
referencing to:
-
amigamod (format)
-
mariopaint (format)
-
mariopantse (format)
-
Mariopants
-
.mod (file)
-
ShroomTool
referenced from:
-
mariopaint (format)
