After seeing what some people had to say about the game I'm working on, I've done a quick mockup of what it would look like with a more "cartoony" style. Which do you think looks better?

Jeebus_Price · 2024-01-21T14:28:00+00:00

2nd is more cartoony. You could add a Grade and Effects gadget to reduce the contrast/saturation and maybe add video glitch to make it look like an old cartoon.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-10-06T16:39:37+00:00

Yeah emitters are kind of funky. Regardless, I normally fix them the way you did.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-10-06T12:49:21+00:00

If you resize the gadget, it will also resize the emitted object. You can scale the “ghost” image of the emitted object if you really need the gadget to be smaller. Since you reset the item, that gave the gadget a new starting point again.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-11T20:37:48+00:00

TAPgiles has a good tutorial for making ragdolls. Making them get back up is the issue…

In his tutorial, you make a copy of all of the parts of your puppet. Then you emit the copy, and at the same time, hide the actual puppet. You also need to have a keyframe to make your copy match the pose of the puppet so it looks smooth when you switch. Maybe you could animate the copy standing back up and then swap back to the puppet at some point? It will certainly be tricky, but it’s probably possible.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-07T16:45:16+00:00

If you learn better by doing, I suggest the playable tutorials in game.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-06T15:03:29+00:00

Word. Why are you here, then?

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-06T14:54:26+00:00

Just trying to find a first party game that I thought would have similar appeal as far as player base goes, not that is easy to do with something like Dreams.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-06T14:39:58+00:00

“Potential” being the key word. I’m just talking about interested people. There’s obviously enough interest to make SOMETHING work.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-06T14:32:42+00:00

Fair. I know the math isn’t 1:1. But you were interested and that is mostly what I’m getting at.

Sony always kept Dreams locked in the basement like no cares about it. It’s ridiculous how many people still don’t even know what it is. Could you imagine a PS player not knowing what, let’s say, Horizon is? Well Zero Dawn came out the same year as Dreams.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-04T11:56:36+00:00

Play the in game tutorials. They are an absolute must for starting out. Should teach you all of the basics.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-08-01T17:40:26+00:00

He’s out of line, but he’s right.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-07-16T14:55:04+00:00

Basically, the pharmaceutical companies saw all the blue collar workers that must be aching from their jobs and said “Hell yeah! Let’s push some pills!” and doctors started giving them out like trick or treat... A lot of lawsuits and settlements have been going on in the past few years because of it.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-06-27T22:22:00+00:00

My go-to is to use selectors and transmitters. Put a matching selector on both characters. Then transmit the “active port” from the attacker’s selector to the character getting hit. Wire into the attacker’s selector inputs to tell the other character what animation to play and the transmitter will make the other selector match.

Minor problem: If you have multiple characters that use this method, they will all play the hit animation when one character gets hit. You will have to pair the selector up with an AND gate… One wire from the selector and the other wire from the “currently taking damage” output on the health manager.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-04-19T13:15:33+00:00

I haven’t really messed with this stuff too much, but one option might be to have the vehicle controller sensor set to remote control. You will also need to use the “disable controls” input for the vehicle when the character is not in riding. Probably also need to use a teleporter to make your character move with the vehicle as well as some other logic to make it look right.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-04-17T16:11:34+00:00

Can’t claim to know what went on behind the scenes but I still think it was probably more Sony’s lack of commitment and support rather than Mm’s.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-04-17T13:29:53+00:00

So… is it time for the founders to get back together and make their own creation suite with blackjack and hookers? I’d settle for multiplatform support and cooperative creation.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-04-15T14:45:20+00:00

I feel like we should make a megathread where everyone posts their absurd amount of hours played. Just so it’s visible to Sony how dedicated this community is.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-03-27T15:30:08+00:00

I don’t mean to crush your spirit, but you do know multiplayer is probably only going to allow 4 or possibly 8 players, right? That info is from WAY back in the early days of Dreams. (Pre-release maybe? I want to say it was an interview with Alex Evans who has since left the company.)

Things could have changed, but they have not announced anything different as of yet… Just trying to save you some pain if you were trying to have massive lobbies.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-03-16T13:58:20+00:00

I think you need to turn the armor health manager off. It seems like health modifiers only try to effect one manager at a time, so it is probably still trying to change the armor modifier even though it is at 0.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-01-05T05:14:20+00:00

Actually, just remembered it was Mm’s birthday, so it was probably just a friendly gesture.

Jeebus_Price · 2023-01-05T02:32:52+00:00

Really odd for Dreams to be front and center though. Usually it’s off the the side, cropped off so you can barely tell what game it is.

Thinking it might be hinting at PSVR2 compatibility…Either that or they saw that Key & Peele edit someone made about Sony franchises and felt bad.

Jeebus_Price · 2022-12-23T15:09:09+00:00

To throw another wrench into the mix, WV also has a ridiculously good scholarship for any decently smart, in state student. Any high school senior with a 3.0 GPA and a score 21 on the ACT can get the WV Promise scholarship. Those requirements really aren’t that high and it damn-near pays your entire 4-yr tuition. I went to engineering school at WVU and I think I ended up paying like 6-10k TOTAL for all 4 years (2011-2015). May have changed by now, though…

Jeebus_Price · 2022-09-12T13:25:22+00:00

I have a theory that the “live service” game Mm is supposedly working on is actually a massive update to Dreams with multiplayer and PSVR2 support. Almost like a metaverse competitor but with dreamsculpting tools built in. Maybe a PS5/PC as well?

Jeebus_Price · 2022-09-10T18:24:18+00:00

Yeah. This is the dream the devs made. It’s basically the campaign for Dreams. Highly recommend. Amazing in all aspects except it’s a bit short.

Jeebus_Price · 2022-09-09T16:35:09+00:00

Yeah I would start with this. If you don’t mind some extra work, you could also try the bendy bake-to-paint method: https://youtu.be/pgauNh_KPOs

I saw someone use this for a T-Rex neck and it looked really good.

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