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Your mapping style starts to resemble my style on September 2023 (flow and stacking) + October 2023 (geometry).
However...
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The distance emphasises across the map isn't pretty much suitable for the song. For example, 00:45:273 (3,4,5,6,1), there is pretty much nothing big to emphasise except for that e-snare drum(?) on (5). In that case you should only emphasise (4->5) jump but not (5->6->1). Assume you want to use larger angles as your style, make sure to keep it under 120° for individual jumps and 80° for consecutive jumps (except if you want to do square jumps), as I see you using angles of over 150° which is very uncomfortable to players. Also try to use jump angles as emphasis, e.g. a sharper angle for sharper beats and a smoother angle for normal beats. Try to figure out which instruments you should emphasise (snares / cymbals recommended) and change them with either larger spacing or sharper angles.
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Some stacks are pretty weird and not good-looking. 01:01:156 (4,5,6,1) is kinda an example which may confuse players with lower reading skills, considering this is only an insane diff.
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Overlaps. I see you are trying to imitate my current overlapping techniques for aesthetics and emphasises, but try not to use these kinds of overlaps too much (unless you want to use 1/2 stacking with full overlaps, that's an exemption for me). Also, try to avoid circle-circle overlaps which basically destroys everything (lemme tell you that I only knew this when LeomineXD dislikes my mapping style in Kizuna Music, resulting into a huge change in overlapping / slidershapes into December 2023.)
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Flow angles.
Pic. 1 is awkward but Pic. 2 is better. The circular flow angle works the best when the angle formed by the extent of the 1st curved slider to the 2nd curved slider is suitable. IMO try keeping this angle between 0 - 60°, while not making it reverse (denoted as ℝ- (i.e. negative angles)) flow like this unless you want to play some Russian style:
Examples of these awkward flows appear in 01:13:145 (2,3), 02:29:222 (4,1). -
Mapping. Sections in the openings and endings seems to be too simplified. Many of these 3-bursts are instead 4x1/6s. If you want to rank a map, try characterising the song. FYI those 1/6s can be mapped as kicksliders instead to distinguish the opening and ending sections from the other parts. Try finding some special points on each section of a song (can last from 1-2 beats all the way to one whole kiai) and express them with different styles, e.g. a section with lower intensity can use lower sv's and smaller spacings (with smaller distance emphasis multiplier) and vice versa.
Yes this map is slightly better than remember remember but it's still very bad imo, don't get ashamed. We improve 'cause we want to rank.
I've only looked into a bit of the general look of the map, you may want to try figuring out where can the points above can be applied to as this is a key for a professional mapper. btw thumbs up for kudosu :)
Last edited by akivn_shugo .
Small changes:
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00:14:174 (5,6,7) would map the 1/6 with reverse slider 00:18:610 (3,4,5) - 00:21:159 (2,3,4) - 01:48:218 (4,5,6) - 01:49:786 (4,5,6) - 02:21:159 (2,3,4) - a charming part of the song, would include.
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00:14:909 (2,3,4),00:21:184 (2,3,4) - distinctly higher pitched/clearer, should be mapped differently than the triples surrounding - can just be spaced slightly in a line.
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00:11:184 (5,6,1) - percussion warrants a change beyond spacing - pattern-wise.
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both builds 00:49:223 02:43:732 regress in difficulty despite the slow continuous build in intensity, the break before the drop does the job for you - look at the spacing between objects during the build, there should be a steady average increase over time.
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cursor at 00:04:909, this rhythm fits much better and be used on subsequent repeats
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combines the pattern repeated previously but changes appropriately when the melody changes.