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Dreams Creator Early Access |OT| Hey Now, This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
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He hasn't said, but he did say he would be working on this and streaming it for sure over the weekend. He's got two people helping too, also talking on him stream.
I haven't got around to the animation tutorials yet as I have just been faffing with sculpt, but is there a way to animate elements within a sculpture? Being able to animate individual stamp elements that have a slight blend would give me the exact effect I want. I had a quick look but I couldn't see anything.
Also is there a way to stop the opacity on elements that are further away to not see the standard skybox through assets? or is that just bumping up against the draw distance limits.
Also is there a way to stop the opacity on elements that are further away to not see the standard skybox through assets? or is that just bumping up against the draw distance limits.
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Here it is, made a night version. Added and changed a few things so it would give it the feeling that time has actually changed haha.
GC- No, unfortunately you can't animate shapes within a sculpt. I remember this coming up in the beta forum, let me see. Here is John responding to that: https://feedback.indreams.me/forums...w-do-i-animate-the-shapes-comprising-a-sculpt
Not sure about the 2nd question, but I don't think there is anyway to adjust a sculpt's opacity, just visibility.
Looks great egg !!
Not sure about the 2nd question, but I don't think there is anyway to adjust a sculpt's opacity, just visibility.
Looks great egg !!
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Thanks! Played it now. That is a good feeling character. It really is possible.
Oh wow this is super helpful too. Thanks!
Yes you will need two moves to control the game using moves.
Thanks for posting this! I literally just stopped playing a couple of minutes ago because I was trying to make a destructable object and couldn't figure out how to set up the logic lmao.
I gave up on Dreams for now, because I just wasn't able to precisely sculpt (at least not without some frustration) with just the ds4. I was talking in this thread to a couple of others about it earlier and they had the same problems. Unfortunately 2 move controllers and the PS4 camera are a lot of money additionally. That's why I am still pondering if it is really worth it.
I literally stopped bugfixing my game because I'm too lazy and rather work on something else.
But I agree with this statement.
Yeah? Does that mean you can't do something like add character blinks or the like? I feel like I saw Cuthbert changing expressions, but I may be misremembering. Or is it that those behaviors are handled differently than with animations?
You can make characters blink. One method is to have another sculpt for their eyelid and then enable and disable its visibility. If you want to animate it, I think the eyelid would have to be a separate sculpt. I know Captain Shadow has lots of eye movement and blinking and expressive eyes but the head sculpt does not appear to change. I'm sorry, I don't know what Cuthbert is.
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I have only just started the game and I am struggling to move around but I wanted to say the sunken sandcastle is a nice touch.
Cuthbert is Connie's friend you have to save in the creation tutorials. I believe his head is an Imp which is, at least in part, how his expressions work.
I just watched an old Game Informer video that showed a platforming game featuring a teddy bear with a electric guitar. It looked awesome. Is that in the final game?
I'm hoping someone can help me with something. I have actions assigned to different buttons, but I need to make it so that if you try to press multiple buttons at the same time, either nothing happens or only one of the actions happens. I've tried a selector but it only seems to send signals in the order in which the inputs are wired. Like you're going down a list of button presses and if you do it out of order, nothing happens.
I also tried an exclusive gate, but after I hit each button once, that button stops working.
Any ideas?
I also tried an exclusive gate, but after I hit each button once, that button stops working.
Any ideas?
I finally tried the game using the Move controllers, and I think I liked it more that way. I found myself moving and rotating objects easier.
No idea the final game won't release until later in the year. I imagine that bear is part of the Campaign, which isn't available yet
No idea the final game won't release until later in the year. I imagine that bear is part of the Campaign, which isn't available yet
So 3 days in and I'm still complete rubbish, but I definitively notice myself getting more comfortable with the tools and my output improving. Despite the fact that it takes me over an hour to create a bad looking tree and another hour for an incomplete torii, I am having a ton of fun learning the tools and seeing my creations take shape.
In my experience the move controllers have not been working well with Dreams. Very jittery and janky, they need work.
Yeah I tried it out for a day and feel pretty much the same, not a fan of motion controls in general, just don't have nearly the same level of control as analogue sticks or a mouse for instance, move controllers would be much better than the DS4 I'm sure, but like you said it's having to buy additional stuff, will stick to checking out other creations though, there's so much cool stuff out there.
I found this Trex in characters yesterday.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiYlfZu644A
This shit is just insane. The animations are spot on. It also felt great to control.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JiYlfZu644A
This shit is just insane. The animations are spot on. It also felt great to control.
Hmm I remember the speculation that this could be a bit of a wildcard for Twitch so I'm curious no way it can't be that ba-
*Goes and checks*
Uh yeah you're right. What happened here?
Roblox nor minecraft do well on twitch nor will dreams. Watching someone create things for hours isn't really engrossing compared to watching a pvp game.
I'm making some progress on my first game and I love it!
I'm still into gameplay tests and getting the first logic setups and level layout in there. I want to make sure I can make this thing before I start making the art for it, but I'm getting more and more confident that I can pull it off! Starting to record some clips as well for the 'making of' ;)
Without giving away too much; it will be a 2 player couch co-op game, based more on tactics then on skill.
I'm kind of struggling with the physics, though. At first I did not want it to use any physics at all, but it's hard to work around it, because if your object is not moveable then it won't collide with other objects as well (clipping through walls). But because everything is 'force' based (rotation, momentum) you get your elements to 'wiggle' a bit when they are moved around. (and even vibrate when just standing still)
I set the dampening to max and the weight of the object as well, but it still wants to topple over when turning.
I'm still into gameplay tests and getting the first logic setups and level layout in there. I want to make sure I can make this thing before I start making the art for it, but I'm getting more and more confident that I can pull it off! Starting to record some clips as well for the 'making of' ;)
Without giving away too much; it will be a 2 player couch co-op game, based more on tactics then on skill.
I'm kind of struggling with the physics, though. At first I did not want it to use any physics at all, but it's hard to work around it, because if your object is not moveable then it won't collide with other objects as well (clipping through walls). But because everything is 'force' based (rotation, momentum) you get your elements to 'wiggle' a bit when they are moved around. (and even vibrate when just standing still)
I set the dampening to max and the weight of the object as well, but it still wants to topple over when turning.
Is there a way to send a signal to several sculptures that are grouped together? I tried selecting all of the sculptures and then put a wire from the signal origin to the property I wanted to change, but only the actual piece I opened the menu of seemed to be affected
Does anyone know how to make moving eyes?
I've almost finished my first head/face sculpt, and I'm really satisfied with it, but I want to be sure that the eyes will be able to move, before I stamp them in.
I've almost finished my first head/face sculpt, and I'm really satisfied with it, but I want to be sure that the eyes will be able to move, before I stamp them in.
Stamp the eyes as a new separate sculpture, and then either animate them with key frames on a timeline, or the motion recorder.
It takes a really long time to build an audience around content creation, rather than around playing someone else's content.
For example, there are not that many large art streams on Twitch, despite Twitch actively encouraging artists for a long time, and most of the popular ones are anime girl artists. :/
Is it correct that for music creation you can't enter notes via a simple Piano Roll system? But that you can record a piece of music and edit that via piano roll? Asking for my 12 yr old son who's really into music creation at the moment and neither of us can find a way to do it.
Thanks.
Thanks.
So, as an accessory? Like I would stamp a hat on the head ? It would be part of the group but not the sculpture, then.
Thanks :)
EDIT: The eye-lids look a bit puffy, but for a first time, I'm quite satisfied :)
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You can. The piano roll option is located at the top right of the canvas. You have to grab the draw note tool from the menu to place notes or just copy and paste like you would with any other thing in dreams.
It's not really a twitch/streaming game (although you could do some amazing fan interactions in it) but it's defintely not something for the mainstream streamers.
Similar to LBP, Dreams is going to pop up every now and then when someone in the community creates something awesome (and it will then be shat on by weirdo elitists for not being quite AAA quality)
Similar to LBP, Dreams is going to pop up every now and then when someone in the community creates something awesome (and it will then be shat on by weirdo elitists for not being quite AAA quality)
Yeah I was always a bit sceptical about the claim that Dreams would be massive on Twitch. Watching people sculpt and make logic is kinda boring. There doesn't appear to be a great audience for it. I think the audience for watching Dreams Let's Play compilations (or user created content) on YouTube will be the thing to watch.
I'd like a neater way to manage emitters and overlapping objects - eg you have a bunch of 'frames' you want to turn on/off to simulate animation. The UI gets super messy. And with emitted objects it's easy to lose the original reference
Not sure it's simple to solve but perhaps for overlapping objects being able to have relative positioning - eg I put them where I want them to appear but can then move them out of the way but they keep the original location info. So you can more easily wire things up to them and arrange things neatly
Not sure it's simple to solve but perhaps for overlapping objects being able to have relative positioning - eg I put them where I want them to appear but can then move them out of the way but they keep the original location info. So you can more easily wire things up to them and arrange things neatly
I see. Thanks for the answers, and sorry in advance of this multi quotes lol.
Yeah I've not tinkered with the creating yet so I don't know how fun it is either from a perspective of the creator or the viewers. I've done the tutorial along with several of the more popular games and it is growing on me despite my lack of creativity. I hope more people give the game a chance, maybe in the full release who knows.
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