Can anyone tell me how I can create a custom movable crate (when you have the grabinator equipped) I tried to make it but when I made a wooden block it won't move even when using the grabinator. It seems like it should be easy but I tried to google it and I'm getting nowhere here :S.
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LittleBigPlanet 2 |OT| A Platform For Games
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kinoki
Illness is the doctor to whom we pay most heed; to kindness, to knowledge, we make promise only; pain we obey.
[Edit]: Re-posted in the community thread.
Loving this game so far. Far superior to the first game. They've really nailed the concept. Wondering what ideas they want to follow up on in LBP3.
Loving this game so far. Far superior to the first game. They've really nailed the concept. Wondering what ideas they want to follow up on in LBP3.
donkey show
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Started making a controllable Godzilla-esque creature. Shit's gonna be so cash, lol.
donkey show
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Yar, just played it. Mine will be definitely more "King of the Monsters" style. =)r1chard said:
donkey show
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Indeed. :3MThanded said:
Thrakier said:anyone? I asked that a couple of times and get completly ignored.
Are these costumes you found in levels online? Also, are they on sackbots?
donkey show
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So if they're on sackbots, this is how it works. You receive the sackbot as a community object with said costume. Pull up the sackbot in an empty or existing level on your moon, click on the costume option in the sackbot pop-it. When the costume menu pops up, just pick the "save costume" option from the top 4 choices in that menu, ???, profit. This is all assuming you have the proper DLC to use them though.Thrakier said:
Stantron
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Go to a level in create mode. Press square to bring up the popit menu.Thrakier said:
Default sackbots are found in the tools bag, but that's not what you want.
Go to your goodies bag, then press R1 to page over to community objects.
That's where you'll find the custom costume sackbot. Select and place in your level.
Press square to open its menu to see the costume at the very top. Save costume.
Now that costume should appear in your normal costumes menu even if you aren't in create mode.
Note that you will need to have bought any DLC the costume uses or else you will not be able to save it. It's not an exploit to get DLC for free.
donkey show
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The Classic Zelda 1-1 level that's on Mm picks.Speevy said:
TelemachusD
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Sure, I'll help you out.MThanded said:
SolidEyeSystem
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I should be able to help, don't have a mic though.MThanded said:
I'm not very good (or creative) but I'm making a Kaboom clone. Obviously it wont be that good without a paddle, but I'm trying to learn how to use the stuff in LBP. It is a lot harder than it seems lol.
I got it to the point where if you miss bombs, you lose a bucket and if you catch them you gain 10 points.
I'm looking to add AI for the bomber, when you hit 1000 you get another bucket, and also the old Activision patch when you hit a certain score.
Here are some screens of the WIP:
Edit: good thing I posted these. I see I forgot to hide the controllinators above the buckets.
I got it to the point where if you miss bombs, you lose a bucket and if you catch them you gain 10 points.
I'm looking to add AI for the bomber, when you hit 1000 you get another bucket, and also the old Activision patch when you hit a certain score.
Here are some screens of the WIP:
Edit: good thing I posted these. I see I forgot to hide the controllinators above the buckets.
BomberMouse
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I'm the only one who feels the SP campaing is a huge step down from LBP?
- The music is way, WAY worse
- The levels no longer have that cohesive craft-artstyle, this even shows in the costumes which no longer look "handmade"
- Speaking of the levels, gone is the "WOW, how the f* they manage to do that with just ropes and springs" since now everything is more "magical" thanks to circuits, sackbots, bumpers, etc. instead of being (almost) purely physic based
- I really enjoyed the slower pace of LBP1 too, it was very different from most other platformers. It felt a lot like a group slowly co-oping through a level, this is also gone and levels now feel a lot more frantic
- The new creators are creepy and ugly as hell
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(spoilered just in case)
- They keep calling sackboy a sackthing!
I welcome the new tools and the improved create mode, but I feel a lot of the charm was lost. Still an amazing game.
- The music is way, WAY worse
- The levels no longer have that cohesive craft-artstyle, this even shows in the costumes which no longer look "handmade"
- Speaking of the levels, gone is the "WOW, how the f* they manage to do that with just ropes and springs" since now everything is more "magical" thanks to circuits, sackbots, bumpers, etc. instead of being (almost) purely physic based
- I really enjoyed the slower pace of LBP1 too, it was very different from most other platformers. It felt a lot like a group slowly co-oping through a level, this is also gone and levels now feel a lot more frantic
- The new creators are creepy and ugly as hell
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The old creators were all mad patients on Eve's stage, WTF
- They keep calling sackboy a sackthing!
all of this is very subjetive and only IMHO
I welcome the new tools and the improved create mode, but I feel a lot of the charm was lost. Still an amazing game.
Man, create mode is such a chore. :/
Gotta put some lights in the tunnel, figure out how to get the Prius to stop moving forward (guess I have to dive into the microchip) for recording purposes, slap a rocket on it and make a piano. Then it's a matter of filming. It took me 4 hours just to build a road and a tunnel in addition to some other stuff and watch tutorials for some things. Ugh. :/
I should just create dummy accounts and get the 50 plays that way. Much easier. :/
Gotta put some lights in the tunnel, figure out how to get the Prius to stop moving forward (guess I have to dive into the microchip) for recording purposes, slap a rocket on it and make a piano. Then it's a matter of filming. It took me 4 hours just to build a road and a tunnel in addition to some other stuff and watch tutorials for some things. Ugh. :/
I should just create dummy accounts and get the 50 plays that way. Much easier. :/
SolidEyeSystem
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I'll hop online in a few minutes, psn is quint.MThanded said:
Is there any easy way to get any object apart from a sackbot to move along a predetermined path? There's a particular creature that I made and I want to make it move along a very specific path without being controlled by a player. It's in water, and I don't want it to be attached to anything. I tried using movers but couldn't really seem to get it to work.
This game is sooo much better than the first in terms of everything working the way you'd expect. In LBP1 I never made a complete level because I spent so much time working on one particular mechanic and I could never get it to work the way I wanted. In LBP2 I can get basically everything I can think of to work perfectly, although it takes alot of tweaking, problem solving and trial and error. I have to say, I feel much more motivated to make a complete level this time around, since the sense of achievement is so much greater. The only trouble is, it's taking me a long, long time. I got that 1440 minutes of create trophy a day or so ago, yet I haven't actually started on the "level" portion of my level yet. But what do I care? It's a hell of a lot of fun.
This game is sooo much better than the first in terms of everything working the way you'd expect. In LBP1 I never made a complete level because I spent so much time working on one particular mechanic and I could never get it to work the way I wanted. In LBP2 I can get basically everything I can think of to work perfectly, although it takes alot of tweaking, problem solving and trial and error. I have to say, I feel much more motivated to make a complete level this time around, since the sense of achievement is so much greater. The only trouble is, it's taking me a long, long time. I got that 1440 minutes of create trophy a day or so ago, yet I haven't actually started on the "level" portion of my level yet. But what do I care? It's a hell of a lot of fun.
I will admit that I do miss this.BomberMouse said:
I like to believe that the entirety of Little Big Planet was just a feverish hallucinatory dream. The Collector was actually the dreamer's interpretation of the doctor trying to save them. Alas, as he took away more parts of the dream, he got more and more involved in it himself but used the dreams to defend himself until eventually the progenitor of the virus broke through his defenses and left him helpless to succumb to the other creators.
I'm now trying to draw a parallel between the events of LBP2 with the Tidus/Sin relationship in FFX. I think there's something there. Ultimately, though, it sounds like the sackbeast hath been unleashed upon Craftworld, and the ceasing of all life on the planet may be nigh.
Real reason: Gender-neutral. In-universe reason: Larry da Vinci is fairly consistently befuddled and doesn't quite think in terms of accurate naming.
Host Samurai
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BomberMouse said:
Yea some of the cool elements are taken out and it feels a bit shorter. The variety is better IMO.
The music is MUCH MUCH MUCH better in LBP1. The music was more charming and had more character.
Host Samurai said:
Licensing Left Bank Two was a stroke of genius, even though it'll only really mean anything to Brits.
The intro to My Patch was used as the introduction to the radio panel game "The Unbelievable Truth" I did a few double-takes the first time I went into the meerkat nightclub.
I was greatly disappointed with the tutorials in this game. The comical tone they try to accomplish in them starts to get irritating really early on, due to the fact that most of the time you are haring bad jokes and not good explanations of functions of each specific type of gadget. I mean, what did I learn about Movers in the tutorial? That they make random objects behave like they have epileptic seizure and that it is all a part of the LBP charm. Great! Thanks for nothing, LBP tutorials; now I have to do all this trial and error stuff before even starting to fiddle with the creation process.
Stampy said:
Yes, the tutorial are TOTAL crap. In fact, it's one of most badly done and useless tutorial I've seen in years!! But LBP2 needed a flaw so we can all stay convinced it was made by human beings I suppose.
The tutorial should have been inspired by REAL tutorials made for popular engines like Unreal for instance. You know that classic tuto that makes us build this tower death match area? That's exactly how the tutorials in LBP2 should be. They should make us build a level from head to toes.
The tutorials work - approximately - as a reference point for a specific thing you're trying to work with, but I agree that I'd love a good guided example to put it all in context.
Maybe a talented end-user could create one on a webpage making a simple level? Release a level which uses all the basic ideas, then make a step-by-step guide to indicate how to implement it. Pointing to the relevant tutorial whenever they add a new element - so the user is familiar with the reference points involved - then expanding on what the tutorial says to describe how they'd integrate it into the design.
Edit: I'm now thinking that perhaps we'd be looking at three 'grades', here. First tutorial, solely about platforming. Introduction to physics, explanation of the various forms of connections, grappling hooks, a tiny bit on triggers to whet your appetite for the future and to open up a bit more potential for variety in the levels. That alone is enough information to make a basic level, and those who just want to start out would be able to take that and run with it.
Second stage, focus on more in the way of emergent behaviour, stretch beyond the concept of 'you vs. the environment', with a few more factors to inject some randomness into proceedings.. Enemies, basic Sackbot stuff, Creatinator, grabinator. Some more advanced trigger content. Once again, getting through the second tutorial section should leave you with enough of a foundation to make a more advanced level.
Final stage would be maximum complexity, with the Controllinator, microchips, extensive game logic to work with. At this point, though, it becomes hard to conceptualise a single level that encompasses what you want to teach - although I'd suggest that Avalon's Advanced Armaments Academy would be a good level style to derive from.
Finally, some small offshoots could cover decorating your level, music sequencing and cutscenes, camera and lighting; those would pretty much work at any point.
I'll do it myself if I ever actually pick up some talent, but right now I'm just picking through the basic stuff, which may be my limit
Maybe a talented end-user could create one on a webpage making a simple level? Release a level which uses all the basic ideas, then make a step-by-step guide to indicate how to implement it. Pointing to the relevant tutorial whenever they add a new element - so the user is familiar with the reference points involved - then expanding on what the tutorial says to describe how they'd integrate it into the design.
Edit: I'm now thinking that perhaps we'd be looking at three 'grades', here. First tutorial, solely about platforming. Introduction to physics, explanation of the various forms of connections, grappling hooks, a tiny bit on triggers to whet your appetite for the future and to open up a bit more potential for variety in the levels. That alone is enough information to make a basic level, and those who just want to start out would be able to take that and run with it.
Second stage, focus on more in the way of emergent behaviour, stretch beyond the concept of 'you vs. the environment', with a few more factors to inject some randomness into proceedings.. Enemies, basic Sackbot stuff, Creatinator, grabinator. Some more advanced trigger content. Once again, getting through the second tutorial section should leave you with enough of a foundation to make a more advanced level.
Final stage would be maximum complexity, with the Controllinator, microchips, extensive game logic to work with. At this point, though, it becomes hard to conceptualise a single level that encompasses what you want to teach - although I'd suggest that Avalon's Advanced Armaments Academy would be a good level style to derive from.
Finally, some small offshoots could cover decorating your level, music sequencing and cutscenes, camera and lighting; those would pretty much work at any point.
I'll do it myself if I ever actually pick up some talent, but right now I'm just picking through the basic stuff, which may be my limit
My masterpiece has finally reached a point where I am ready to publish it!!!! (tutorial text and cameras are slightly borked but gameplay is there) . Can't believe it got the score tracking and single layer quadrature encoder to work.
Super Monster Truck Revenge - 4 Course Race
http://lbp.me/v/xdwp8e
The ultimate monster truck racing level. Challenge your friends to a race. Get bonus points for doing wheelies, big airs and flips. Come back for more!!!!!!!!!!! V1.0
Super Monster Truck Revenge - 4 Course Race
http://lbp.me/v/xdwp8e
The ultimate monster truck racing level. Challenge your friends to a race. Get bonus points for doing wheelies, big airs and flips. Come back for more!!!!!!!!!!! V1.0
Okay, so reverse engineering the Prius won't let me "move it during recording" for a cutscene/film. Using a sequencer will let me do camera angles but not move the Prius/Sackboy controlling it.
In addition the Prius has no "cancel getting out of the car/stop controlling the car" function.
So basically, the Prius is pretty damn useless in addition to some of the prizes if you don't own ALL the DLC that is used in the LittleBigPrius level.
Good going, MM. :| Good going, create mode. :|
I'm done. I'm just going to publish an empty level and make 50 throwaway accounts to play it. Screw it. If I can't film a car going and stopping at the places I want so I can drop a piano on it only after strapping a rocket to it, there is no point for me to using create mode anymore. :/
In addition the Prius has no "cancel getting out of the car/stop controlling the car" function.
So basically, the Prius is pretty damn useless in addition to some of the prizes if you don't own ALL the DLC that is used in the LittleBigPrius level.
Good going, MM. :| Good going, create mode. :|
I'm done. I'm just going to publish an empty level and make 50 throwaway accounts to play it. Screw it. If I can't film a car going and stopping at the places I want so I can drop a piano on it only after strapping a rocket to it, there is no point for me to using create mode anymore. :/
donkey show
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You can make really thin walls of either dark or light matter. When thin enough, they'll visually disappear, but still be there.Stampy said:
jump_button
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Stampy said:
holographic material make it a thin layer make it so you can see and make it plasma and take sound off if you want stoping them from going between layers as well top tip
Just sayin', but...Stampy said:
Invisible walls SUCK. They suck in any single game that's been out there and a lot of GAF loves to bitch about any game with them.
Being able to 'limit' the areas where a player can go without making them look too forced or plainly using invisible walls is part of good level design. I've never used them and I'd rather never be in the need for some.
Mik2121 said:
I agree, when used for no purpose they are beyond stupid. But when using invisible walls with scenic justification, I don't see problems with them, because they are contextually expected.
jump_button said:
This would be a useful thing to be able to prevent players from going through all layers, but how do you achieve for that holographic plasmified barrier to be completely invisible? :/
Mechanical Snowman
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Vertically, use a piece of Matter and shrink it to a tiny size. You can place it where ever you want and it will be invisible but solid. You can make invisible walls and floors this way.Stampy said:
If you want to stop people changing layers then use the same method, but have the material on the thin planes between the thick layers. If you draw them like rails from ground height to just over Sackboy's head height then the player won't be able to jump to change layer.
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