Tutorials:Beginning Theming

Introduction
Welcome to the Beginning Theming tutorial. If you're reading this, you've probably decided to start creating a StepMania theme. That's good! However, you may not be sure how to get started. That's what this tutorial is for.

This tutorial is targeted at StepMania 3.9, as it is a stable platform for development and is much easier for beginners to deal with. Some of the concepts (like metrics editing) carry on to StepMania 4 and StepMania 5/sm-ssc.

Before You Begin
The opening of the tutorial introduces you to the tools you will be using as well as concepts you will need to learn or understand.


 * Required Tools
 * Theming Concepts

Chapter 1
It's at this point we actually start theming. You will learn two of the ways to begin theming for StepMania. Whichever one you choose is up to you.


 * Setting up your Development Environment
 * Understanding the Metrics

Chapter 2
Chapter 2 deals with BGAnimations, which can be used to spice up a theme.

Chapter 3
With metrics and BGAnimations out of the way, you should now know some of the basics of theming. In this chapter, we will start discussing common Screens and what parameters they take.

Chapter 4
Once you've edited the Screens, you've learned the basics. Chapter 4 closes out the tutorial by talking about some topics that were glossed over, such as Fonts and Graphics.