Basic Information

This page covers some basic information about PEC charts. Note that PEC does not store chart metadata such as the song title or charter name, so that information must be obtained elsewhere.
PEC supports a maximum of 30 judge lines. PhiEditor does not allow creating more judge lines.
PhiEditor does not support XY separation.

Coordinate System

In the Editor

The center of the screen is point (0, 0).
The bottom‑left corner has coordinates (-1024, -700).
The top‑right corner has coordinates (1024, 700).
Angles are positive counter-clockwise and negative clockwise.

In the File

The center of the screen is point (1024, 700).
The bottom‑left corner has coordinates (0, 0).
The top‑right corner has coordinates (2048, 1400).
Angles are positive clockwise and negative counter-clockwise.

Chart Offset

The first line of a PEC file is the chart's offset, measured in milliseconds and stored as an integer.

BPM List

In PEC, lines starting with bp are BPM list entries. Example:

bp 0.000 180.000

This indicates that at beat 0.000, the BPM is 180.000.