I blame it on Media Molecule. Don't know why hey didn't make nicer looking and feeling movement animations.
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Dreams Creator Early Access |OT| Hey Now, This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
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The animation on the default puppet is a bit wonky because it is done using procedural animation. They used procedural animation so that you can create a new character and have it walk around without requiring you to create entirely new custom animations.
Procedural animation is not capable of generating really strong animations on its own, because if that were the case then a lot of animators would be out of a job.
If you need something to animate nice then you just have to keyframe it yourself. The default animation is plenty good enough for a huge range of use cases in an amateur-friendly toolkit like this.
Given the still very limited time this has been available I have to assume this is mainly down to people wanting to get the bulk of gameplay etc working rather than spend huge numbers of hours fine tuning one specific element
I don't disagree that a lot of characters are clearly reskinned puppets, but without those puppets we wouldn't even have what we have so far
Sprout and shadow (both by molecules) show promise. I hope Mm can release a more 'platformy' Puppet with more direct animations
So intrigued by this game, not interested to be a creator but still interested for the playing about with other peoples games and stuff, everything I have seen so far looks fun.
I could be an ideas man, that is I could probably feed ideas to creators who are not sure what to make next, hope somewhere there will be a thread or site of creators who are stumped what to create next & whilst I won't know how to create, I could give off suggestions which they could potentially take bits from.
I could be an ideas man, that is I could probably feed ideas to creators who are not sure what to make next, hope somewhere there will be a thread or site of creators who are stumped what to create next & whilst I won't know how to create, I could give off suggestions which they could potentially take bits from.
This thread from Alex is well worth a read, outlines how dreams' audio parts came into being and how they were integrated.
Probably because making great animations for an arbitrary skeleton is ridiculously difficult. Procedural animations gives an acceptable level of quality, but the systems are in place for people to fully animate things themselves, and that's clearly the intended path for high end creators. Animation is definitely the area of the game which is taking people longest to crack, but that isn't that surprising, people are getting there. MM have also hinted at forthcoming improvements for animation, so it's not a closed book anyway.
Thanks! I hope the exploration part is not too boring, but I also hope that in the end it's worth it. I'm a bit sad to see that less than 45% of players saw the ending scene. That's why there are no puzzle during the exploration, I wanted as many players as possible to see all of the dream.
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To be honest, I think that's a pretty great statistic. Two weeks of play time already and 75% likes per unique user. Those are incredible stats too.
Getting that many people to devote twenty minutes to anything is challenging. One has to remember that games in Dreams aren't like games elsewhere. Dream Surfing is, as MM have suggested, a bit like YouTube for games. When games are free and there's a practically endless supply, keeping people engaged for anything more than a few minutes is a serious feat. For what it's worth, while I think there's something appealing about the purity of Castaway as an exploration game, I think you'll lose as many players for it having few mechanics as you would because additional mechanics are too challenging. I guess that's why some games offer 'no difficulty' or 'story' difficulty settings, so you can have the cake and eat it too.
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I'm a little worried about that actually yeah, the youtube aspect of Dreams. I'm thinking right now, is this a good thing i invest a ton of time in many worlds for my game if probably 2% of players wil go to even the world 3. Maybe games with too much contents are not ideal for Dreams, but i don't know really. And especialyl when the game is hard and you have levels locked like a traditional game, that's a guarantee few people will play the later ones.
Is there a way to breakdown how certain MM elements are functioning?
For a temporary solution I wanted to throw on the footstep sounds into a wall run just to give me more context so I pulled the sound file for steps from the basic character and linked it up to my trigger, this resulted in a knocking like sound from playing that speeds up or down dependent upon momentum so it's only playing one of the files rather than the range (for now this does the job but not for when adding polish). Looking at how the original was set up it's connected to separate foot impacts yet I can't see how this is actually linking up in the sound package, just that the two wires go to the power so I can't figure out how I would create something similar but to my requirements.
For a temporary solution I wanted to throw on the footstep sounds into a wall run just to give me more context so I pulled the sound file for steps from the basic character and linked it up to my trigger, this resulted in a knocking like sound from playing that speeds up or down dependent upon momentum so it's only playing one of the files rather than the range (for now this does the job but not for when adding polish). Looking at how the original was set up it's connected to separate foot impacts yet I can't see how this is actually linking up in the sound package, just that the two wires go to the power so I can't figure out how I would create something similar but to my requirements.
Oh hey, you're on here. Didn't you do the neon-looking platformer where you control time to move the ledges too? That was very smart. Nice work.
That might be related to the wire input blend mode that was mentioned earlier in the thread. L1 + X on a input tab will change how the inputs are handled.
A bit of feedback if you're interested, I dropped it after getting frustrated with platforming on the ruins section trying to get to the non-obvious thing that I needed to activate.
Trying to figure out how to reach it, jumping, missing and then respawning on the ground floor got to me after about 3 attempts.
Thanks for the feedback. In theory, no platforming is required to activate any of the stones, but I can see why this one is confusing. I think it's fixed in the current version : it's more visible and there are 2 ways to get to it. But to make it sure, we are talking about the stone on the green "temple", the one that is on the side of the temple almost above the respawn point? Again, thanks a lot for the feedback, it helps a lot to narrow down issues :)
Yeah, that's the one :) I'll check out your dream again
How can you tell whether a Creation Jam is asking for a scene or elements? I just remember people saying in the Spring jam that it was only elements allowed, but I didn't see where it was specified for the Pirate one.
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it was confusing but it said "Spring Element - Element". but they mention element in the rules thingy.
I'm so on the fence here! I love everything about this on a theoretical level. It's just such a wonderful project, brimming with possibilities and ideas! But I also fear I'm neither creative nor patient enough to sit down, learn everything and create my own worlds.
I've been thinking of buying it and try to create some sort of magical garden - I think I might take the plunge for the sheer lovelyness of it all.
I've been thinking of buying it and try to create some sort of magical garden - I think I might take the plunge for the sheer lovelyness of it all.
They've already shown off Haus of Bevis. That's certainly on the risqué side of things, in the name of art.
Ah, okay. So has every jam only been asking for visual art elements so far? I'd hope to see different jams asking for stuff in all categories - logic jam, music jam, etc. Or maybe "elements" leaves it open-ended?
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most were scenes. but people did whatever most of the time but stick to theme.
youd have to @ them on twitter. they get suggestions from the community. because as time goes on theres going to be way more stuff and it'll just be harder to find unless they only stick to new recent stuff that gets published.
Let's hope he likes what he plays and doesn't leave MM offices in a state of horrification.
Thanks very much.
Is there a way to search for these within the Dreams game or do I need to sign in via my ps4 browser @ in dreams.me ?
I don't understand.
Go into Dream Surfing, there are various searching/sorting options towards the top.
Is there like a known bug list somewhere? Trying to change the color of an object via trigger zone but whatever color I select it just defaults to blue no matter what. Just like how the wall in this tutorial turns blue https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiDPatqMkJs
feedback.indreams.me but have you tried using a key frame to change the color instead of wiring directly to the color?
No, I'll give that a try. Worse comes to worst I was just going to have two identical objects with different colors and have the trigger turn one off an the other on.
You should be able to change a color in a multitude of ways, keyframes being one of the easier ways, however just taking a signal from a trigger zone and wiring it directly into the color input might not cut it since it needs a combined value for Red, Green, and Blue, but the trigger zone only outputs a 0 or 1.
Check your tint levels? They had a similar sounding issue in the dreams stream yesterday and had to turn the tint down to 0% to allow the changed colour to show through
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i have to contact a moderator. but also the first 2 could be removed or should they be changed. i feel like i need to word it better
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1) Only used DS4
2) Only used Move
3) Used both, prefer DS4
4) Used both, prefer Move
5) Used both, like them equally (or something like "Used both, like each for different purposes")
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looks good. i contacted a mod. lets see if its possible.
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when you report a post it contacts all the mods. so whoever is on can deal with it but yeah ;D pretty fast.
And another hour or so for sculpting a few more things. I'm a little worried by the art thermo, I'm at 48% now and there's a ton of assets I haven't gotten around to yet, not to mention stamping down about 400% more rooms. But I guess I could refine the original assets. I just drew a really complex hand sculpture just to get that striking glowing pointer image.
Which makes me wonder... if I simplify one copy of a given asset, do all of them get the same refinement? Otherwise it would be a bit misleading since every simplified version would instead make for another unique object, taking up more space.
Which makes me wonder... if I simplify one copy of a given asset, do all of them get the same refinement? Otherwise it would be a bit misleading since every simplified version would instead make for another unique object, taking up more space.
Do the tutorials and take it easy. Don't expect to master the Moves quickly.
Omg... please tell me there is a way to change these ass-backwards camera controls for the Moves. Everything is inverted and hitting the invert toggle in the options doesn't change them. This is really frustrating. Up should be up. Right should be right. lol you inverted freaks are a gaming plague I thought we'd beaten into submission, scattered to the far corners of sub-menus... ugh but here you are in your full grotesqueness right on the default scheme. This is blasphemous.
Seriously though... wtf how do I change this? Grabbing stuff and rotating the object is normal, but rotating the camera around the object is backwards and offensive.
Seriously though... wtf how do I change this? Grabbing stuff and rotating the object is normal, but rotating the camera around the object is backwards and offensive.
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You don't have a choice in fact.
You're not moving the camera. You're moving the scene. Give it a bit, you'll figure it out.
You don't have a choice in fact.
The asset shouldn't be public / remixable. And yes it's all about making items that you can only get as a prize for doing something in your game.
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