Nice work! Thanks for the tutorial. Another way of setting the variable would be to use the selector's "active port" output and plug that into a single variable modifier. And you could use that number on the other side to set the active port on the selector. That would even work with your solution. A selector is really useful for checking if a value is equal to a number of different integers. A single gadget that's easily maintained compared to many calculators that you need to set the values of. Quick tip: if you use the freeze tool to freeze the background/rain etc. then when you hover over them they won't flash white.
Thanks Giles, great tips as always! Love the idea of using the selectors ‘active port’ output, that would save on so many variable modifiers! I’m thinking about how that could be incorporated into a multiplayer setup, now you’ve got me going! I’ve not used that output on the selector at all before so it’s not something I think about when I make things, but I’m going to tinker with it so i remember it for the future, loads of savings to be had! I always forget about that blasted freeze option, I’ll have to go through the scenes before I record and freeze stuff, that’s an awesome idea. Thanks again man.
For some reason if I don't choose really fast then it won't let me move the selector at all???? And my imp says player is falling but i can't figure out what's falling or why idk ??? But it kinda works half way? Lol😅
@@ASTERisk44946 Sounds like the possessed controller sensor is falling (eg. inside a puppet, and the puppet is falling). And if a puppet falls far enough without anything it could land on below it the controller sensor will "die." Which means it'll stop working. I guess you're using that controller sensor to control the menu. I'd recommend using a separate controller sensor in "remote control" mode instead.
Thank you Jimmy. This is great for me and my ambitious fighting game. I guess where I was stuck was not realizing that I still had to have the characters in the next scene. I thought there was some way to use the variable with persist in Dreams to essentially pull in JUST the characters that would be used for the match. Because I planned on having characters that will transform to stronger forms during battle that ends up being a lot of graphics thermo and I wouldn’t have much room for anything else I figured there was a way but I’m guessing not.
Presumably, you can use the same technique to create a level select too. Great explanation btw, You do make the most easy to follow, well thought out tuts.
Late, but you're a miracle worker! I have two huge projects I've been working on since 2020, (one is an X-Men inspired single-player RPG, the other is a quirky virtual boyfriend maker and I'm not sure if Dreams is the right platform for it TBH. We have no way for players to input text and that had been important to me. Both require characters made by the player. ) I wondered how to make player character selection like this with a nice screen. I've overwhelmed myself, but I like making sculpts too much and customization is my favorite thing in regular games. (There's 42 different colors of eyes for my female characters, for example! AHH!) I'm Silversweet85 on Dreams. Hopefully, one or both of my things will be done within the next couple years if I buckle down! Thank you again, good sir!
Hi, thank you for you tutorial. You could maybe improve it a bit by: 1) In you character select scene, instead of duplicate 3 times your variable chip, you can connect the 'output nbr' output of the selector chip to the 'set value' input of your variable (and also connect all of the 3 output ports of that selector to the 'power on' input of the variable). 2) In your second scene, instead of using 3 "=" chips, you could use a selector and connect the output of your variable to the 'set output nbr' input of that selector. Does it make sense ? ;-)
That sure does make sense - the 'active port' on the selector is great for that sort of stuff and i didn't really get into using it until after this tutorial. I use it all the time now! it saves a lot of gadgets, great tip my friend.
I’ll definitely be using more examples from Creator Clash for episodes in this series! Have also been considering doing a ‘behind the scenes’ for the stuff I’ve done so far so that could definitely be a possibility ;)
Thanks for the tutorial! I was wondering if you could make an unlock-able character where you have to do something in the dream to be able to unlock the character making them playable.
You sure can! You'd use a variable and check whether the player was unlocked or not using that number, and activate an additional option in the menu if they have unlocked it :) I'll add it to the list
i like the video but im kinda having some struggles with it im making a game where you can select single player or 2 player and on the 2 player i am getting confused
Likewise, I think I am understanding and seeing how these work in the remixes. However, at the end of the video when you show the multiplayer select plus the character select were you said you are emitting characters vs. hiding and showing I am having a much harder time understanding where to start. Would love to see a break down of how you build the multiplayer and character select for the beginning of creator clash.... that is exactly what I need for the game I am working on. I am going to keep exploring the pieces parts that you have awesomely put together but would love to see more details on how to make this in the multiplayer space. Appreciate all your hard work! Well done
PLEASE HELP we making a 2 player coop 3D dbz game on dreams and we did a character select screen about 7 characters BUT how do we connect the dreams? Like if we have 7 characters and 9 stages then it's 7x7x9 it's ridiculous. So we need to remix each map like 49 times then we will have more then 400 remixes in our list is too much work and take too much time and space. Is there any other way we can do it? If we put all characters in 1 dream and put the others off then they still take space so we can't do it like that. I'm frustrated any ideas ?
It’s a heck of a setup, basically you’ll need to have each character in the one scene and have the ability to switch them out depending on what the player chooses at the start menu. So e.g: The two players choose characters 2 and 3, you’d need to activate (or possibly emit) characters 2 and 3 into your game scene and have the players take control of them. It does take troubleshooting and a fair bit of time to get working well but hopefully this helps. Lmk if you need more explanation. I know you can do it!
Thanks for this, also would the idea be similar if you made it Multiplayer? Also out of curiosity is a drop in drop out thing like the Lego games possible? Like you can switch between 2 characters, or if Player 2 joins in then leaves the puppet they were playing reverts back to a NPC that follows Player 1? Not sure exactly how I'd incorporate Multiplayer into the game I want to make but I'd have at least 2 characters at a time sometimes 3 or 4 in each level so I was wondering. (I'm going to make a Supernatural game btw)
It’s very similar if you make it multiplayer, I’ve got that exact setup in my ‘creator clash’ game. The difficult part is assigning a player number to each character, but I’ve got another vid called ‘easy multiplayer add on’ that might help with this if you’re interested :)
Okay I'll have plenty of time till the game releases to watch a bunch of different tutorials, I was originally going to make a Zelda game first, but there's a ton of things in that game that seem hard to make, so I think I'll start with something simpler till I get used to the tools, then try and make a Zelda game.
Hi Jimmy am from Nigeria. Could u pls make a character select screen in Dreams like MK or SF with name showing when characters are highlighted or selected ? Please
#jimmyjules153 Can u make a video on damage/health modifiers? Trying to do a multiplayer 3rd person shooter. Need help with doing the damage ect. Thanx!
Thank you for this video! Is it possible to make - for example - 20 different and complex characters to select (Beat 'em up)? What about the unselected characters? Do I have to place them in the scenes outside select screen and will they take power of graphic thermo? I want to make a game with many characters to select (splitted on two select screens) and than take the selected characters in different levels. What is the best way to do this and how can I save graphic thermo? Hope you have time to answere.
Great questions! You could do a 20 character select, but it’d be quite expensive as you do need a copy of every character in the scene that they could potentially appear in, so yes they will take up your graphics thermo they’d have to be simple characters. This would be the way to do it as cheaply as possible as far as I know, as this method destroys the unused characters and frees the gameplay thermometer back up during play mode
I have multiple doorways or level jumps in my dream. How do i keep the player from losing their character through each jump? Is this possible? I still have so much to learn lol
Sorry when you say ‘losing’ do you mean it changes their characters back to the default puppet? This vid should take you through those steps but let me know if you mean otherwise
Sorry for the late reply! i saw this done just the other day, the person just cut the head/shoulders off the puppet and put it straight into a box for display, it looked pretty great too!
You can have a variable for each of the players and let them choose one at a time with something like a selector, then at the other end you could just duplicate the player emitting logic for the second player to make it easier :) that way you’d have two of the microchips, one responsible for emitting each player
@@JimmyJules153 if i got this right , i am talking about first step the select screen, i need to have 1 microchip for each player? and on the emitting screen also? in contorller gadget i chose a number of a player or?
So tried this and it worked till I died and then I'm stuck in no man's land again. Jimmy this video needs a follow up respawn vid as it stands it doesn't work properly.which is a shame.Again though this is a necessary template Mm should already have in place.
Ah ok, you'll need to set up an emitter setup so that the character gets re-emitted when they die. You should be able to hook up a transmitter to the 'is dead' output on the health modifier, and use a receiver to activate the emitter again :)
Sorry for the late reply - you'll need to have a variable for each of the players, that holds the 'character number' that the player has chosen. I've got another video that might help with this too, i use this setup when i make a multiplayer game with a character select screen: th-cam.com/video/eEvpCN2LlV0/w-d-xo.html That might make for a good video tbh, i'll probably put one together on this!
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Tutorial gold I finally found a good dreams tutorial video
This channel should blow up - these are some great tutorials.
Nice work! Thanks for the tutorial.
Another way of setting the variable would be to use the selector's "active port" output and plug that into a single variable modifier. And you could use that number on the other side to set the active port on the selector. That would even work with your solution. A selector is really useful for checking if a value is equal to a number of different integers. A single gadget that's easily maintained compared to many calculators that you need to set the values of.
Quick tip: if you use the freeze tool to freeze the background/rain etc. then when you hover over them they won't flash white.
Thanks Giles, great tips as always! Love the idea of using the selectors ‘active port’ output, that would save on so many variable modifiers! I’m thinking about how that could be incorporated into a multiplayer setup, now you’ve got me going!
I’ve not used that output on the selector at all before so it’s not something I think about when I make things, but I’m going to tinker with it so i remember it for the future, loads of savings to be had!
I always forget about that blasted freeze option, I’ll have to go through the scenes before I record and freeze stuff, that’s an awesome idea. Thanks again man.
And I’m just finding now.. it has an INPUT too!?!? This changes everything 😂
For some reason if I don't choose really fast then it won't let me move the selector at all???? And my imp says player is falling but i can't figure out what's falling or why idk ??? But it kinda works half way? Lol😅
@@ASTERisk44946 Sounds like the possessed controller sensor is falling (eg. inside a puppet, and the puppet is falling). And if a puppet falls far enough without anything it could land on below it the controller sensor will "die." Which means it'll stop working.
I guess you're using that controller sensor to control the menu. I'd recommend using a separate controller sensor in "remote control" mode instead.
Incredibly easy to understand °^°
Thank you Jimmy. This is great for me and my ambitious fighting game. I guess where I was stuck was not realizing that I still had to have the characters in the next scene. I thought there was some way to use the variable with persist in Dreams to essentially pull in JUST the characters that would be used for the match. Because I planned on having characters that will transform to stronger forms during battle that ends up being a lot of graphics thermo and I wouldn’t have much room for anything else I figured there was a way but I’m guessing not.
Presumably, you can use the same technique to create a level select too. Great explanation btw, You do make the most easy to follow, well thought out tuts.
Thanks Jimmy. I was struggling with that one.
Thank you, this is one of the best thought out and explained tutorials I've seen. I will definitely became a new subscriber!
Welcome aboard!
Awesome., thanks heaps for this Jimmy
Late, but you're a miracle worker! I have two huge projects I've been working on since 2020, (one is an X-Men inspired single-player RPG, the other is a quirky virtual boyfriend maker and I'm not sure if Dreams is the right platform for it TBH. We have no way for players to input text and that had been important to me. Both require characters made by the player. ) I wondered how to make player character selection like this with a nice screen. I've overwhelmed myself, but I like making sculpts too much and customization is my favorite thing in regular games. (There's 42 different colors of eyes for my female characters, for example! AHH!) I'm Silversweet85 on Dreams. Hopefully, one or both of my things will be done within the next couple years if I buckle down! Thank you again, good sir!
Awesome, do more of these.
Excellent tutorial as always. Thank you!
great video as always!
Make a water/swimming tutorial
There's a lot of these but still make one
Dream shaping is totally overwhelming for me atm lol this was Most helpful mate . Cheers .liked and subbed !
Thanks for this vid, been waiting for a tutorial on this for a while. So helpful!
I had no idea there were two stick options. How have I missed this, all this time?!?
Hi, thank you for you tutorial. You could maybe improve it a bit by: 1) In you character select scene, instead of duplicate 3 times your variable chip, you can connect the 'output nbr' output of the selector chip to the 'set value' input of your variable (and also connect all of the 3 output ports of that selector to the 'power on' input of the variable). 2) In your second scene, instead of using 3 "=" chips, you could use a selector and connect the output of your variable to the 'set output nbr' input of that selector. Does it make sense ? ;-)
That sure does make sense - the 'active port' on the selector is great for that sort of stuff and i didn't really get into using it until after this tutorial. I use it all the time now! it saves a lot of gadgets, great tip my friend.
I don't understand make a tutorial about it as quick and easy as this a d well talk otherwise idc
You should demo the finished product first, to make sure people know what exactly you'll be making.
You’re absolutely right, I’ll make a bit of a checklist and add that to it!
You know you can look at the end of tge video, right?
@@necrago Tge is an actual word now. Lol everyone does that
Love you’re tutorials. Any reason why you’re using an emitter to make the character appear? Why not just make the selected one visible?
I'm guessing maybe so it's easier to destroy the others that wasn't selected? I don't know. So it don't eat up the thermo
Are you going to show more videos of Creator Clash? That game looks interesting based on what I saw before.
I’ll definitely be using more examples from Creator Clash for episodes in this series! Have also been considering doing a ‘behind the scenes’ for the stuff I’ve done so far so that could definitely be a possibility ;)
Thanks for the tutorial! I was wondering if you could make an unlock-able character where you have to do something in the dream to be able to unlock the character making them playable.
You sure can! You'd use a variable and check whether the player was unlocked or not using that number, and activate an additional option in the menu if they have unlocked it :) I'll add it to the list
JimmyJules153 Thanks man!
i like the video but im kinda having some struggles with it im making a game where you can select single player or 2 player and on the 2 player i am getting confused
Likewise, I think I am understanding and seeing how these work in the remixes. However, at the end of the video when you show the multiplayer select plus the character select were you said you are emitting characters vs. hiding and showing I am having a much harder time understanding where to start. Would love to see a break down of how you build the multiplayer and character select for the beginning of creator clash.... that is exactly what I need for the game I am working on. I am going to keep exploring the pieces parts that you have awesomely put together but would love to see more details on how to make this in the multiplayer space.
Appreciate all your hard work! Well done
What the fleck, this is good!
PLEASE HELP we making a 2 player coop 3D dbz game on dreams and we did a character select screen about 7 characters BUT how do we connect the dreams? Like if we have 7 characters and 9 stages then it's 7x7x9 it's ridiculous. So we need to remix each map like 49 times then we will have more then 400 remixes in our list is too much work and take too much time and space. Is there any other way we can do it? If we put all characters in 1 dream and put the others off then they still take space so we can't do it like that. I'm frustrated any ideas ?
It’s a heck of a setup, basically you’ll need to have each character in the one scene and have the ability to switch them out depending on what the player chooses at the start menu. So e.g:
The two players choose characters 2 and 3, you’d need to activate (or possibly emit) characters 2 and 3 into your game scene and have the players take control of them. It does take troubleshooting and a fair bit of time to get working well but hopefully this helps. Lmk if you need more explanation. I know you can do it!
So with each of your game scenes, they’d all contain all of the characters to begin with and you could destroy the ones that aren’t chosen
Thanks for this, also would the idea be similar if you made it Multiplayer? Also out of curiosity is a drop in drop out thing like the Lego games possible? Like you can switch between 2 characters, or if Player 2 joins in then leaves the puppet they were playing reverts back to a NPC that follows Player 1? Not sure exactly how I'd incorporate Multiplayer into the game I want to make but I'd have at least 2 characters at a time sometimes 3 or 4 in each level so I was wondering. (I'm going to make a Supernatural game btw)
It’s very similar if you make it multiplayer, I’ve got that exact setup in my ‘creator clash’ game. The difficult part is assigning a player number to each character, but I’ve got another vid called ‘easy multiplayer add on’ that might help with this if you’re interested :)
Okay I'll have plenty of time till the game releases to watch a bunch of different tutorials, I was originally going to make a Zelda game first, but there's a ton of things in that game that seem hard to make, so I think I'll start with something simpler till I get used to the tools, then try and make a Zelda game.
Hi Jimmy am from Nigeria. Could u pls make a character select screen in Dreams like MK or SF with name showing when characters are highlighted or selected ? Please
Incredible!!!! But how r using a keyboard on dreams🤔
Ohh yeahh!
Thanks for this video, I've created a selection screen as shown, but if my character dies in scene 2, I can't get it to respawn. Any ideas on a fix.
How would this work if you have animations for specific characters when they interact with things in the dream?
#jimmyjules153
Can u make a video on damage/health modifiers? Trying to do a multiplayer 3rd person shooter. Need help with doing the damage ect. Thanx!
Lol a sackbot
Thank you for this video! Is it possible to make - for example - 20 different and complex characters to select (Beat 'em up)? What about the unselected characters? Do I have to place them in the scenes outside select screen and will they take power of graphic thermo? I want to make a game with many characters to select (splitted on two select screens) and than take the selected characters in different levels. What is the best way to do this and how can I save graphic thermo? Hope you have time to answere.
Great questions! You could do a 20 character select, but it’d be quite expensive as you do need a copy of every character in the scene that they could potentially appear in, so yes they will take up your graphics thermo they’d have to be simple characters.
This would be the way to do it as cheaply as possible as far as I know, as this method destroys the unused characters and frees the gameplay thermometer back up during play mode
Hey buddy curious? Would I have to do this for all of my levels? Or just the character selection and the first level?
Can you make A Tutorial how to make A.I selector and Player selector For fighting game
I will buy you a coffee
Can you do one for a 2 player game
I have multiple doorways or level jumps in my dream. How do i keep the player from losing their character through each jump? Is this possible? I still have so much to learn lol
Sorry when you say ‘losing’ do you mean it changes their characters back to the default puppet? This vid should take you through those steps but let me know if you mean otherwise
What if you want to have the characters' pictures on the character select screen?
Sorry for the late reply!
i saw this done just the other day, the person just cut the head/shoulders off the puppet and put it straight into a box for display, it looked pretty great too!
@@JimmyJules153 Really? That's kinda... strange. I thought there would have been a simpler way, like a snapshot or something.
gr8gmr unfortunately no.. there’s no texture mapping or pictures in the engine
@@JimmyJules153 Ahhh... that's too bad. Guess I gotta ask Media Molecule about that.
wwow thank you, how can I use this for a game in which there are more players?
You can have a variable for each of the players and let them choose one at a time with something like a selector, then at the other end you could just duplicate the player emitting logic for the second player to make it easier :) that way you’d have two of the microchips, one responsible for emitting each player
@@JimmyJules153 if i got this right , i am talking about first step the select screen, i need to have 1 microchip for each player? and on the emitting screen also? in contorller gadget i chose a number of a player or?
So tried this and it worked till I died and then I'm stuck in no man's land again. Jimmy this video needs a follow up respawn vid as it stands it doesn't work properly.which is a shame.Again though this is a necessary template Mm should already have in place.
If my character dies,he disappears what can I do?
Ah ok, you'll need to set up an emitter setup so that the character gets re-emitted when they die. You should be able to hook up a transmitter to the 'is dead' output on the health modifier, and use a receiver to activate the emitter again :)
How do you make a multiplayer character selection screen?
Sorry for the late reply - you'll need to have a variable for each of the players, that holds the 'character number' that the player has chosen. I've got another video that might help with this too, i use this setup when i make a multiplayer game with a character select screen:
th-cam.com/video/eEvpCN2LlV0/w-d-xo.html
That might make for a good video tbh, i'll probably put one together on this!
My characters are not disappearing or changing
Did I hear him using a pc keyboard???? Wtf
This is so confusing,