[Tutorial] How to Add PRO Level Sync in Your Layouts

For over 7 years now we have seen the Gameplay community grow and push the boundaries of layout creating. But if you're looking to improve, or even to just get started, it can be super difficult trying to understand all of the terms, definitions, and "rules" and when to use them. So hopefully todays video can take you all 1 step further in figuring this out for yourselves. If you have additional questions or want me to make a tutorial on another topic, leave a comment and remember to subscribe! I would greatly appreciate it.
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[@ZeroSR]

Apologies for the lack of energy during the tutorial segment, it was late at night and for personal reasons I wasn't feeling the greatest. Not looking for pity, i'll be okay and future videos will be better! Regardless, I hope you enjoyed

[@suupre]

hey Zero love your vids for your personality, no need to force energy into the video if you don't feel like it

[@vlsapphire624]

hope you feel better soon man

[@Flyingturt1e]

completely understandable, thanks for the great tutorial!

[@kaiescario]

Nah it's ok man don't worry

[@gym3857]

also imo forcing energy only makes media more mentally tiring over time, and if anything, i personally enjoy the style commentary used in the tutorial segments more.

[@TheNamesFathom]

It would be so sick if you continued this as a series and brought on popular layout creators to help dive into different aspects of gameplay creating. The first example that comes to mind is an episode on intensity featuring xVoid.

[@dragonfruitreal]

good idea

[@DSH__]

I know xVoid personally

[@Froggy_Rocks]

@@DSH__ I know YOU personally 👀

[@LACChemistry]

Are u still making that white space lore video??

[@TheNamesFathom]

@@LACChemistry gets more and more unlikely every day, I had the idea before getting a job and before high school got way more difficult

[@armali-d1x]

whenever my friends play my level, they say the sync is horrible. thank you for this video!

[@herobrine8763og]

Might have to do with audio issues

[@CentsGD]

@@herobrine8763og nah they're right as a person who plays rhythm games, some of the older levels just don't care about the precise sync

[@gym3857]

two things i'd like to add: -when it comes to click sync, you don't have to follow the song 100%. now, what i mean by this isn't only that "you dont have to click all the notes in the melody/beat, just some! leave visual sync for that!" no, what i mean is that the click pattern could be seen as its own separate rhythm. for the few people that know what im talking about, i like to imagine its like taiko no tatsujin note hits. basically, you're playing your own beat *along with* the song, not *strictly copying* the song. and reminder that this is only an option, you can still go full clicksync or you can go with complete disregard for the song's rhythms like those 1.9 levels. experiment! -knowing some music theory stuff helps. not for the sake of naming stuff (using strict labeling in creative avenues is all too important imo) but for the sake of knowing what parts of a song make it unique and how to generally identify and use those patterns. around 10:25 you mention it, but you like to use elongated, smooth gameplay (dash orbs) for a longer note. once again, this is about knowing options and not making everything up on the spot. it can be demotivating when you're making a layout to a smooth/legato-ish and the only movements you can think of involve short/stacatto jumps and changes in velocity.

[@Hartf3rr]

I do agree that clicksync should be somewhat different from the melody. Makes layouts less boring and more fun to play. As a layout creator myself, I prefer having this type of sync, keeps me motivated in building and finishing actually decent layout.

[@KompadoodleLEL]

lame lame lame

[@falkeborg9432]

Very true, also you’re right that it’s kind of a separate rhythm

[@toastergdofficial]

for the first tip, i feel like a very good (albeit mainstream) example is kyouki. the clicks in it are something that a drummer might cook up when listening to the song, but very much not strictly following the song

[@NauticusGD]

I think that a series like this would be amazing for the gameplay community. I often see new creators leave the art after a little bit of building because they don't know how to continue or improve. Not only that, but honestly some creators give really vague feedback. A video like this, I feel, is really helpful towards these new creators, giving them a good base and understanding of how gameplay works. Please continue this, and I look forward to the structuring video as well, as I still have trouble with that 😂

[@grapejuice6192]

I see some of my friend ONLY make click sync gameplay and it hurts my soul. I’ll send them this video to show them what is possible without solely click sync.

[@Flyingturt1e]

that's lowkey kinda me it's like an addiction that i can't get away from

[@toastergdofficial]

@@Flyingturt1eexactly if i stop it starts giving me withdrawals

[@Tomplayg17]

idk if is bc my main is 4K mania games and not gd as many think (its not like I dont play gd that usual, I have 10 cps lol) but for me a level with not click sync feels wrong.

[@NotSoCasual_]

4:51 PLEASE make a video on structuring I suck at it 😭

[@ukknown6700]

fr that's the hardest part

[@TheNamesFathom]

would love to see this, structuring feels like such a chore to me rn and it's the reason I never fully finish my layouts

[@Itsjustnotreallyme]

Honestly yeah

[@Flyingturt1e]

this is so real

[@HenryDenry]

YES

[@endrr52]

this is the exact video i've been tryina search for for such a long time! i haven't seen a gameplay video discuss how important the playtest trail is and how much it matters when making gameplay, so happy I'm subbed to u so i could easily find this video :D

[@shrimp5303]

Im fairly new to gd but more than playing i find creating much more enjoyable but its surprisingly hard to find any tutorials for level creation. I've been looking through dozens of levels and layouts to learn from and these types of videos are so appreciated :) thanks

[@WheelBarrowYT]

I love levels with insane click sink like tendo they’re just so fun

[@josh_n3174]

how does bro only have 13k subs he should be in like 100k

[@OworiXD]

Personal timestamps for me, might be useful for you guys Intro: 00:00 - 01:12 What is Sync?: 01:12 - 01:31 Category 1 - Click Sync: 01:31 - 14:22 Category 2 - Feel Sync: 14:22 - Category 3 - Visual Sync:

[@trqp_kun9010]

thanks now i will be able to add SYNC to my layouts

[@TylerSevilla]

7:48 what you're describing is ghosting, it's a common thing in a lot of music especially jazz where notes are purposely omitted in a phrase, but implied

[@JojoJere]

Thx

[@EpicGameChangerr]

another banger video. amazing and underrated. love what you're doing man, you're going to make it big in this community for sure.

[@nyancat1690]

Me: A very advanced and experienced sync designer. You: A very advanced and amazing teacher for sync designing. This is amazing!! Keep up the great work 🎉❤

[@ExtremeylZos]

I love the fact that ZeroSR helps small creators in there journey. Thank you! 😄

[@raploky]

Extremely good video! Looking forward for more videos like this!

[@sirpotatoman3248]

Hi skeletor

[@raploky]

@@sirpotatoman3248 sup

[@NyleGD]

You've always been a huge inspiration when I create, so this video is very helpful! Thanks, Zero ❤️

[@maxedout3402]

Man your video quality has been getting exponentially better! Really stoked for more vids like these

[@Vermillion808]

Good video, making a level has never been more difficult lol

[@mobyygd]

really helpful video!

[@MinigunGD77]

sync is essential for gameplay,without sync the level may feel off from the song,now im not saying that every single click needs to be synced to the music 100%,but if you managed to make the gp match and sync with the song,then its perfect

[@KairozSX8]

This is really helpful! I think it'd be very important to make a tutorial of structuring since it's complicated for people that are starting with layout making, and besides it something that it's really important for layouts to really look good I personally struggle with this topic a lot and it'd be really helpful I'm looking forward to!

[@OshaPlayzYT]

As someone who recently got into building gameplay, this helped so much, ty :D

[@Loboxing]

Realmente me fue muy util este tutorial para diferenciar los tipos de sync y aplicar estos consejos a mis layouts, es bastante penoso que la gente sea tan ignorante al momento de hablar de sync y digan ''Meh, la sync en tu layout es horrible''. Muchas gracias por el tutorial Zero, espero que tu canal siga creciendo y crezca bastante! 🙌

[@v0idcaster]

this is better than 99% of us. great job man!

[@justrob7257]

This is pretty helpful! Can't wait for the structuring tutorial

[@frgyr]

wow, i realized i am garbage at creating fast paced layout, with this video it helped me on how to do clcik syifnc. thasnk you zerost

[@Vortrox123]

4:12 i never knew this was in vanilla gd i hate myself

[@Smearier]

GOOD KID MENTIONED 🗣🔥🔥🔥

[@goerofbed]

PLEASE make a video on structuring, that's one thing i have yet to get down even after years of creating 🙏

[@rysel_]

pretty accurate and great video and im glad you also include other types of sync wanted to ask whats the song youve used for the layout, sounds pretty challenging to build to

[@Dragonbl8zer]

Would definitely be cool to see a totorial about gimmick creating like heat/cold meters, new game modes and many more, how to add SFX, and how to create engaging decoration and atmosphere

[@Charii720]

Yo, this is actually really good. Thanks for the tips, big man!

[@youboringo]

bro you just want top comment you did not watch an 18 minute video in 3 minutes

[@BlalikesTM_LDAB]

9:38 i think it’s an 808 (don’t ask me what it is, I just use it a lot when creating electronic music, but idk what it looks irl lol)

[@medaides]

You dont need a crazy good layout for a good level, it can be as simple as you want as long as its fun

[@Vein01]

holy shit this video is so well made

[@meerrwtw]

a structuring tutorial would be amazing

[@PetrosTotskas]

this video was great. you emphasized the most important things 👌🏼 I just think you could go a bit more in-depth with the felt- and visual sync like you did with the clicksync, where you showed the patterns and methods you used on the layout (maybe in future videos)

[@AczeyAce157]

That level Aether was fire by the way❤

[@TheFakeFreech]

yo never seen yo face before man, anyhoo i'm already smh a great layout creator i just suck with the fx yk. something interesting for people new around here should be a structures tutorial, originality and stuff is missin' sometimes anyways thanks for 'em brother !

[@Shotzfiredrobloxandgd]

is it just me or did his voice drop like 10x when he was explaining click sync

[@swan6241]

what is your opinion on floating spikes lmao (moving them one space above a structure

[@ZeroSR]

nothing particularly wrong with it, however for certain decoration styles it can rather difficult translating it (Art and Modern in particular) It can also get difficult when making top extreme demon gameplay, where specific timings are needed, and floating spikes make things impossible. So i’d just be careful to not make it a requirement in your style, but aesthetically it’s super epic 🔥

[@swan6241]

@@ZeroSR I agree, thanks for the advice and btw, I loved the video, it's good advice!

[@kozu44]

Structuring video would be cool, i wanna see your approach to it

[@Nexeggy]

awesome sauce

[@icrazyy1100]

sauce

[@Flyingturt1e]

sauce?

[@mrt_pose]

You should make a series like: teaching my viewer to build ______. And you ask them to make a layout before and after.

[@onionsintrouble.gaming]

this is definitely gonna help me

[@cacekayse]

4:51 I NEED THAT VIDEO. WHERE IS IT

[@OworiXD]

Intro: 00:00 - 1:08

[@goindown]

imagine the world if there was an option on the teleport trigger that makes it only affect p1 or p2 of a dual

[@Disearned]

my biggest goal is to be able to make my gameplay AND deco as good as possible

[@ArcadeAce21]

Trying to inflate my Ego by seeing how much of this tutorial I know already.

[@xenon504gd8]

bruh u are the definition of if GD has a teacher system

[@potatochip700]

Whenever I use rotating gameplay or try to skip a section of a song using the song trigger, it always makes it borderline impossible to keep the level in sync. With rotated gameplay I can never get the music-preview-line to start where I want (even if I’m not trying to make rotated gameplay at that moment, if there is rotated gameplay earlier in the level, sometimes the line will snap to when that rotated gameplay begins, even if I’m well past it in the editor). Using the “playback” button does somewhat remedy this issue but it makes it significantly more tedious. Additionally, if I try to skip to another part of a song with some fade-time to it using the song trigger, the sync will completely break! If the music-preview-line pass through the trigger then it works fine, but if you go any further in the editor, for some reason it starts playing the song too early or something and it no longer syncs. Essentially what my point is: is there any fundamental thing I am missing that could fix these issues? As it stand currently, it makes it extremely difficult to make the gameplay I want while making it sync a bearable process

[@raztuiex5209]

We need a tutorial for those badass effects 🤑

[@ogenflores1644]

Ty so much this was worth it for my stransition for my hard lv that I couldn't beat but it will be verified by zoink or maybye doggie

[@Shotzfiredrobloxandgd]

11:09 Its a DUHHH DUHHHHHH

[@Kyle16-u1x]

Whould really like tips on structuring (nd thx for the advice it helped )

[@lumi2030]

you should have mentioned the built-in bpm finder and guide

[@Aespha2]

BANGER!!

[@Ilovekats1234]

Thank you ❤

[@st1ng851]

First 20 seconds is giving Mario Rios

[@Fortayy]

Let _that_ sync in

[@minecrafter5656]

what about tutorial how to get a featured and rated level?

[@LudanLD]

Do your layouts has an actual concept? I mean, do you actually know how to transmit feelings ONLY with the layout?

[@Itsjustnotreallyme]

Could you release this example layout

[@Lil_NoobieGMD]

I’m a collab host and I’m struggling making gameplay rn lol

[@BakPakGD]

Holy Peak

[@Therealpop]

Oooo I think this gon be w

[@cejocikxd]

why i see it when video is published 18min ago

[@Lil_NoobieGMD]

Zero, Can I use this layout if I credit you and state that it’s made by you??

[@GeorgeBarton-dk3zv]

Ok, I’m sinking, what do I do now?

[@Masterous]

The background music makes it VERY hard to hear the sync

[@ZeroSR]

at the end of the main tutorial the layout plays with music uninterrupted

[@Masterous]

@@ZeroSR yeah, but I would've liked to hear it as you were explaining

[@Cygnus4]

Song id?

[@SamIsPoggers]

19 minutes ago is crazy

[@thedinosaurz]

we need a slow mode for mobile players and fast mode and normal mode and replay mode for mobile

[@aqua_de4th]

Do you decorate Levels?

[@ZeroSR]

I do! Check the “playlists” tab on my channel and scroll down to “ZeroSR Deco” and that’ll have everything deco i’ve made on the channel :)

[@Retsni]

16:49 got me rolling 🤣

[@adriangd5040]

how to add pro level sync in your layouts: get speakers that aren’t .25 seconds off

[@unonok.]

usen el bpm trigger

[@cygern77]

i use bpm

[@stocking_1]

nah, bro sync is too hard for someone like me i just spam objects, see by yourself

[@itzapix]

I'm 7 minutes in the video... I mean, thanks for the tutorial, but the only big problem I see with this video is that, you didn't actually taught us anything practical, just showed us examples with little explanations. I'm not saying I'm any good at greeting, not do I say I'm good at it, but I believe most of inexperienced creators won't actually understand "why" or "how" did you come up with this or that gameplay piece. I see most of creators just doing the same style they've seen on KZbin, without asking "why did you come up with that decision", and "How can I come up with something like this". Edit: nvm you explain it better later😭

[@Itsjustnotreallyme]

W

[@DSH__]

YOOOO!!!

[@SyncronedStuff]

How to WHAT

[@faarann]

since when did kyrie play geometry dash ⚠⚠⚠⚠

[@MrM0gus]

So you really just use your ear?

[@nnadire]

mmmmm

[@CYRNOOO]

hi nadire

[@nnadire]

@@CYRNOOO yo

[@CYRNOOO]

@@nnadire duo when

[@lewkeee]

hi nadire 🗣🔵

[@nnadire]

@@CYRNOOO when you get good

[@Niaomi101]

Early 🤓

[@bobby_man9999]

First view

[@Thegreatcrab]

THIRD hi :3

[@mririrty]

wont even watch that gd creating tutorials are meaningless because the whole point of layouts in gd is how you represent the song and ideas in your own style this includes all the aspects: sync, structuring, dynamic and etc if you straight up tell people whats wrong and whats right in gp making you make them follow your style which is not right dont say guys im wrong because i didnt watch the video, im pretty sure theres nothing objective in it

[@ZeroSR]

whatever you say my man

[@AzvaltY]

Snek ahh opinion

[@striked20]

incoming zerosr clone #42341

[@KayGD]

hi striked

[@gaimnbro9337]

Thank you 🙏