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Dreams Creator Early Access |OT| Hey Now, This Is What Dreams Are Made Of
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Okay, I need help with animations again.
I've removed the procedural animation and I'm building a purely hand animated run cycle. Now, I had it all figured out. I added a keyframe that tilted the entire figure and turned her head forwards to add the overall pose (her upper body is fairly static since she's holding a sword). Then I added a cycle of leg positions. Then I added secondary animation to have the arms bob a bit. Then I added secondary animation to bob the entire figure up and down for each step.
However, when I run this animation she's locked in place. It only moves her around when I remove the pose keyframe. So somehow it's also recording her position in the world and keeping it set there. Is there any way to tilt the entire figure without also doing this? I just want to record her rotation.
Edit: I might have found the solution. I was hiding the waist part since it's inside her armor anyway, but it turns out that you can rotate just that and it seems to work so far. If I can just rotate the hip part and rebuild my animations from there I should be fine.
I've removed the procedural animation and I'm building a purely hand animated run cycle. Now, I had it all figured out. I added a keyframe that tilted the entire figure and turned her head forwards to add the overall pose (her upper body is fairly static since she's holding a sword). Then I added a cycle of leg positions. Then I added secondary animation to have the arms bob a bit. Then I added secondary animation to bob the entire figure up and down for each step.
However, when I run this animation she's locked in place. It only moves her around when I remove the pose keyframe. So somehow it's also recording her position in the world and keeping it set there. Is there any way to tilt the entire figure without also doing this? I just want to record her rotation.
Edit: I might have found the solution. I was hiding the waist part since it's inside her armor anyway, but it turns out that you can rotate just that and it seems to work so far. If I can just rotate the hip part and rebuild my animations from there I should be fine.
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Status update: I managed to get most of the animations working. Running works, it just needs some better timing. Attack animation is wonky so I probably need to turn off some other timeline that is running concurrently. She can jump and has an idle animation. Now I think I will try out some specific motions for a game I had in mind for her. Oh, and as you can see I need to shift her idle pose a bit higher so she isn't clipping the ground. I dread how much will break once I do that...
Man people are so good at sculpting on this game. I can barely do characters with basic shapes lol.
Yeah, doing anything in Dreams makes me appreciate other games. Even with these tools, there's so much that needs to be considered.
I'm officially into the final stretch of my jam creation. The logic and gameplay events are 99.9% done, so all I have left to do is keyframe the camera movement on a timeline.
I thought the jam ended tonight, although it seems to actually be tomorrow (Monday night), which thankfully gives me some extra time to polish the camera flow.
I thought the jam ended tonight, although it seems to actually be tomorrow (Monday night), which thankfully gives me some extra time to polish the camera flow.
But that would totally be a spoiler :p
The tweet I posted a couple of days ago shows the initial tone of the Dream fairly well. I'm planning on making a short trailer when I release it. I might try making a video later which shows the weather change, however it won't have any gameplay.
Wait so you're telling me I'm finally getting War of the Monsters 2
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nice. i'll have to check it out just in case i don't see it in the jam entries.
Theme is going to be Summer. i was going to say Summer Jam but thats just redundant in their wording.
Oh, heh. I guessed it was Rock Star, but that required reading it backwards.
Everyones stuff sure is looking awesome!
Ive fallen behind on the updates ill dedicate some over night bandwidth to it soon!, And I still need to spend way more time working with art. Ive basically been setting up Reboot like environments and working on logic all this time. One curiosity begets another begets another. i will start making games as soon as i finish all these logic widgets I promise! I still have quite a few areas i haven't explored at all, i have no clue how variables carry over from scene to scene. But ive got a few variations on projectile logic. I like to watch things play out so i find myself trying to work out different modes of pathfinding logic alot too.
Something i havent been able to figure out
If im restricting movement to x and z and i get moved in y how do i restore that object back to the original y position?
Edit: or just basically how do you check things are where they should be and get them back there?
Ive fallen behind on the updates ill dedicate some over night bandwidth to it soon!, And I still need to spend way more time working with art. Ive basically been setting up Reboot like environments and working on logic all this time. One curiosity begets another begets another. i will start making games as soon as i finish all these logic widgets I promise! I still have quite a few areas i haven't explored at all, i have no clue how variables carry over from scene to scene. But ive got a few variations on projectile logic. I like to watch things play out so i find myself trying to work out different modes of pathfinding logic alot too.
Something i havent been able to figure out
If im restricting movement to x and z and i get moved in y how do i restore that object back to the original y position?
Edit: or just basically how do you check things are where they should be and get them back there?
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OK, I've just seen some videos of The Stanley Parable remake in Dreams. It's absurd; they've basically remade the whole game (or most of it).
I'm not a massive fan of of direct recreations in Dreams, however this one goes above and beyond the quality of all others I've seen.
I'm not a massive fan of of direct recreations in Dreams, however this one goes above and beyond the quality of all others I've seen.
Gah, this is why my games suffer from scope creep, that effect would be perfect in my game...
Hmm, I wonder how close you have to stick to the theme in order to do well in these things. My current WIP game is coincidentally quite summery, but it doesn't have much to do with festivals.
Kareem and Mark's MCV interview is free to read here and well worth taking a look: https://issuu.com/bizmediauk/docs/mcv_948_july_2019
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Just add dozen more characters and put flower crowns on them and add music :p
i don't think this was posted yet. seen it, haven't played. people from MM talked about it.
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So obviously there's been no word on it yet, but if you HAD to guess, when do you think Dreams will be fully released?
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If that's true, there's going to be an insane amount of content 'day 1'
I've been going through a lot of jam entries today, because this is the first one I've entered. I don't know if it's just an issue on my end, but I'm not getting the option to vote for entries if the Scene/Dream ends organically (ie. you don't need to use the pause menu to exit it). This is particularly an issue if this happens on the 4th entry on the list, because there's no way to go back to vote for it when you reach the 5th entry.
Twice tonight I wanted to vote for a creation, but couldn't go back because the scene ended automatically and I was moved to the 5th entry from the list.
Twice tonight I wanted to vote for a creation, but couldn't go back because the scene ended automatically and I was moved to the 5th entry from the list.
OK, I've been getting the option to vote for Jam creations, at the end of the scene, today. Maybe it was some kind of weird bug I encountered yesterday? (essentially, the Jam entries were progressing like in Autosurf)
Yeah, definitely sounds like a bug. I've always had the option to upvote at the end of a creation.
I long for the day I can finally say this with my project. Congrats!
I just played it earlier. You can jump to a few areas which you probably shouldn't be able to, but overall it's really polished and it left me wanting more. The controls in particular are really fluid, which help a lot in terms of making it fun to play.
A look at one of the holes from the mini golf dream I'm making. Got all the mechanics in place, just have to finish making holes. Want to publish it with at least nine, I've got six or seven solid ones atm.
Can I suggest a preview mode before playing a hole. Even just a simple camera flyover is great for golf games.
Thermo for Doors isn't representative for their actual cost in the level, however you are limited to 10 per Scene currently. This is likely to increase in the future.
You can get past the limit by using variables and having 'spacer' Scenes. For example, you could use one Doorway which can send you to 5 different Scenes. You could have 5 physical exits in the map Scene which activate the same Doorway. Just before the Doorway is activated, the variable should be overwritten with a number, such as 0 to 4 (5 potential values).
The 'spacer' Scene then reads the variable and sends to player to a different Scene, depending on which number was saved. This can happen with logic in a fraction of a second, and it'll just look like a slightly longer loading scene from the player's perspective.
I'm kind of tempted to set up a tech demo Dream with a hub Scene of 40 exits now, however it's going to lead to a massive number of scenes saved in my profile...
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Thx! That's super useful i'll see if that's something we can do!
Oh nice! What's the hub or audio input you're using?So something just crazy happened which made me smile as wide as I could. I was able to take a full on analog synth, this one being my Korg Volca Bass. Hook up my Audio Inerface to my PS4 and actually get the thing recorded in. I am so excited for the possibilities this'll give me! My mind was just so blown and I'm just geeking out talking about it! :D
In the cave... ?
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It was the key with the two pigs! I got it not long after posting
Very creative!
Really enjoyed this! Felt very polished and thoughtfully designed. The pig and the cave keys were both great 'aha' moments for me.
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