MM just released a small patch: https://indreams.me/docs/updates
There's people who's already lvl 100? WTF?
There's people who's already lvl 100? WTF?
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Dreams Creator Early Access |OT| Hey Now, This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
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Well, the game has been available for what, ten weeks or so now, between the beta and the early access? Even then it is quite an impressive feat, I'm in the mid 40s I think having been part of the second wave of the beta.
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I would love that
So about the collision, something is off or at least weird.
There are different things and it's not clear. The model, if i check the different part, has collision deactivated ok.
But when you check the puppet, there is a collision collider tab, which lets you change the shape and size of the hit box (like i wanted exactly!) except.. in my case, it's a small cylinder that is cleaaaarly smaller than the robot head. YET when i approach my red obstacle, i die even before there is a contact with the round face of the robot and the obstacle, maybe at 5 pixel close or something. WHY ??
Or is the problem with the obstacle model? You can't check the collision of that..
Made a drawing!
Update : found somewhat of a fix anyway.
As i couldn't make the small collider of the robot works, i played with the obstacle. What i did:
_Cloned the model of the red rock in its group. Removed logic and collision from this one. Made the actual model, with collision and logic smaller by half. You now have a fake model that is normal size and the actual killing model smaller inside,which gives you a little margin so you can even touch it slightly and not die!
In my project I seperated collision and art models. So the player model is surrounded by a shape that is invisible but can collide and the same with the environment. It's a bit old school to do it this way, but in my case it makes controlling and navigating the terrain a whole lot smoother
If people level up on the closed beta, then yes you're right. It makes sense then
I am still level 17 or something. Tho, I just find out that there are like some challenges that give you XP lol
Yes, I think 98 was the highest in beta. I think I'm 70 now. Oh, they got rid of OSC I think because someone was able to get the game to crash using it. Hopefully it will be back soon.
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Seems like a the old school way is the way :)
Small update today i replaced some of the old red obstacles (but not all cause in some places it was less a problem).
Also i added a second version of the music with some percussion + some rain sound for the 2 levels under rain, cause it makes for a small variation and is less redondant.
Also i'm Lv31 but not sure what's the point of that level anyway..
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Yeah but that seems kinda random.. I mean sure they gave me graphic design but honestly i'm doing way more level design for now.
Finishing the 6th level. It's real real hard.. I think.. I think it should be the last one of that world and it's getting difficult to create really different levels. The 4th, 5th and 6th ones are pretty unique and marking. I think it's enough for a world! i don't know..
That's the thing with pacing difficulty progression it's an art! You have to avoid to progress too fast or you're quickly peaking. But the thing is i don't like to make similar stuff so i'm trying to find new stuff for each level, so 6 is already pretty much.
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I don't know how their algorithm works, but I'm assuming anything involving sculpting/placing items in the scene counts toward "Art" and dealing with logic counts toward "Design". So while level design does seem like it's more design-oriented, if you're not adding much logic to it it will skew more towards Art.
Yeah that makes sense
Aaand Level 6 online! Last one of this world! Now i have to find what's next cause i have no clue :p
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I'm having some problems rigging up my puppet and doing keyframe animations.
I've connected my puppet's leg to the torso section using a ball joint. I can grab the leg and move it around and it all works as expected. As soon as I start recording the keyframe the leg seems to be fixed in place no matter how hard i pull on it. I switch keyframe recording off, and the leg is now movable again.
What is more bizarre is that the arms work fine, and i connected them in the same manner as far as i can tell. I've also tried deleting and redoing the ball joints on the legs, and still no dice.
Has anyone experienced this?
I've connected my puppet's leg to the torso section using a ball joint. I can grab the leg and move it around and it all works as expected. As soon as I start recording the keyframe the leg seems to be fixed in place no matter how hard i pull on it. I switch keyframe recording off, and the leg is now movable again.
What is more bizarre is that the arms work fine, and i connected them in the same manner as far as i can tell. I've also tried deleting and redoing the ball joints on the legs, and still no dice.
Has anyone experienced this?
uggghh At least I got one night with it, I actually got 1 song in and pretty much done, thankfully. With that when I was working on adding Chopins "Raindrop" Prelude I noticed that the soft piano sounds like trash on the lower keys, so I guess I will try to get a nice Piano interments in Dreams in the mean time. Seems like there is an endless amount of things to do lol
Check if other parts of the leg are animated (i.e. highlighted with a hash pattern. De-animate them if they are and try again.
Oh wow, this morning my PlayStation 1 startup dream made became the number 1 most thumbed up dream in the story category, first time I've ever uploaded anything this well liked.
It would never be able to compete with the heavies in the other categories, they're pretty much locked in, but it doesn't seem like story category is all that popular just yet.
It would never be able to compete with the heavies in the other categories, they're pretty much locked in, but it doesn't seem like story category is all that popular just yet.
Hey thanks for the response. I will give it another go tonight and check, but I am pretty sure the other parts of the leg weren't touched.
Got the game last night and managed to make myself in under 24 hours. I'm proud! XD
That's super impressive for less than a day. I don't even want to tell you how long it took to get my animated robot working during the beta.
https://indreams.me/dream/mpqEwpieajP
Everyone seen this Tetris game. It's pretty good. Has its own aesthetic, slight input delay for the hardcore but amazing none-the-less.
Everyone seen this Tetris game. It's pretty good. Has its own aesthetic, slight input delay for the hardcore but amazing none-the-less.
Got the game last night and managed to make myself in under 24 hours. I'm proud! XD
I fiddle around in dreams since it came out in early access and I didn't create one single thing. Y'all are way too good.Got the game last night and managed to make myself in under 24 hours. I'm proud! XD
Got the game last night and managed to make myself in under 24 hours. I'm proud! XD
Dayim, both of these are so impressive!
Are either of you planning on making them remixable?
What was the logic like for doing the pickups?
Anyone know what's the minimum duration you can set for a keyframe on a timeline, and the minimum duration for gaps between keyframes on a timeline? I'm trying to animate something like rapid eye blinking, and I can't get the gaps between keyframes small enough. I tried turning up the timeline playback speed all the way but it's still not as fast as I want. Any ideas?
If what you're trying isn't working, I'd suggest not using a timeline. A basic approach which might blink too quickly would be to wire a timer into the power socket of a freestanding keyframe. Shouldn't be too hard to get the ratio of open-to-close that you desire :)
That's a good idea, I'll try that. Thanks :) What about a situation where you want to blend between two keyframes with a very short gap between them? I think it's only possible to blend between keyframes on a timeline, but I may have that wrong.
The smoothing between more than two keyframes is timeline specific I think, but between two should work with the right tweaker settings. Not quite sure what settings will do the trick, but pretty confident it is doable.
Ah ok. Will try when I get home later. Thanks for the help, much appreciated.
Yeah this is the same guy that did the COD/Fortnite Lego Worlds trailers too, he's pretty darn talented.
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Damn, I thought it was remixable. Ill try to make it so tonight. Since you cant transfer animations the entire rig will be the remixable thing, and you'll have to take off what you don't want piece by piece.
Logic was honestly hard as hell, took me two days to figure it out and get it looking nice. Had to learn how to use emitters which was it's own brand of annoying.
The code boils down to two states: when you can place an item, and when it's already placed and you can pick it up. The rig has to know which state it's in, and getting that to work right was the biggest challenge.
At least that shows you the thermo can be tamed!
Added some feedback when running with a cute little fire trail behind the robot's ass.
I'm worried about the 1-6. Not sure people have access to it, i didn't see any record yet. Yesterday the connection (always that shitty dream mode scene connection being random) worked but i tried today and it wasn't working.. I randomly changed the port as usual and it worked again.. Tested again and it seems to work.. They have to do something for those things..
Other than that i have been prototyping some stuff to find a cool little twist for the 2nd world, like some sort of contextual control change but i didn't find anything good yet.
Made myself a pretty diorama for the spring game jam and i'm happy with the result.. the long distance camera with enough zoom gives this maquette style a love so much..
https://twitter.com/4lexis4/status/1126149719162609664?s=09
https://twitter.com/4lexis4/status/1126149719162609664?s=09
For something simple that occurs regularly like this, I'd use a signal generator powering your keyframe instead
Can anyone help me out?
My brother is currently sat here playing "Lost Worlds" I think it's called. The platformer with the monkey (very good it is too). Every time he collects a puzzle piece a bit of music kicks in. I'm adamant the music is from LittleBigPlanet but he says it's not. I've been going through soundtracks trying to find it but can't.
Any one have any idea what it is?
My brother is currently sat here playing "Lost Worlds" I think it's called. The platformer with the monkey (very good it is too). Every time he collects a puzzle piece a bit of music kicks in. I'm adamant the music is from LittleBigPlanet but he says it's not. I've been going through soundtracks trying to find it but can't.
Any one have any idea what it is?
I think I got a bit fixated on only using keyframes on timelines. I've never used the signal generator, will give it a try. Thank you :)
Love it. The variety this game/community is creating is insane.
Rigging up a character with a skeleton that deviates from the humanoid puppet is so hard!
I think I finally isolated the issues I was having...
It was a pretty frustrating two-hour session before I finally got the limbs of my character to be hooked up and key-frameable as I was going around in circles for ages. There were a couple of separate roadblocks that were really difficult to diagnose, and they either caused the limbs to be immovable whilst keyframing (but not during regular edit mode), or they caused the limbs to flail wildly for an inexplicable reason.
I think that there were a few issues at play. The main issue that I think was occurring was that I was attempting to make a custom animation without disconnecting all the skeleton bones (which i believe are just used for procedural animation?), and so there was some sort of conflict occurring that causes weird behavior.
The skeleton part in particular was really annoying to muddle through. Nearly tore my hair out when i duplicated a leg, and then immediately went to keyframe both the legs, but only one of them would move. The weird UI in the skeleton tab of the puppet tweak menu also didn't help - Some bones would light up when hooked up but others wouldn't - I still have no idea how this really works.
I hope that the next update includes a masterclass on the topic of creating characters. The current character-customization tutorial is great if you want to give the standard puppet a hat or a jacket, but doesn't help much with making an original character that deviates even mildly from the standard e.g. if you shorten the deluxe puppet's legs a tad and the puppet will no longer animate.
Glad that this is all out of the way though, as i can move on to the fun part :D
I think I finally isolated the issues I was having...
It was a pretty frustrating two-hour session before I finally got the limbs of my character to be hooked up and key-frameable as I was going around in circles for ages. There were a couple of separate roadblocks that were really difficult to diagnose, and they either caused the limbs to be immovable whilst keyframing (but not during regular edit mode), or they caused the limbs to flail wildly for an inexplicable reason.
I think that there were a few issues at play. The main issue that I think was occurring was that I was attempting to make a custom animation without disconnecting all the skeleton bones (which i believe are just used for procedural animation?), and so there was some sort of conflict occurring that causes weird behavior.
The skeleton part in particular was really annoying to muddle through. Nearly tore my hair out when i duplicated a leg, and then immediately went to keyframe both the legs, but only one of them would move. The weird UI in the skeleton tab of the puppet tweak menu also didn't help - Some bones would light up when hooked up but others wouldn't - I still have no idea how this really works.
I hope that the next update includes a masterclass on the topic of creating characters. The current character-customization tutorial is great if you want to give the standard puppet a hat or a jacket, but doesn't help much with making an original character that deviates even mildly from the standard e.g. if you shorten the deluxe puppet's legs a tad and the puppet will no longer animate.
Glad that this is all out of the way though, as i can move on to the fun part :D
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