Dreams (PS4) Tutorial - Making a Character Basics

[@DaShonuff]

This Tutorial is masterful, straight to the point, clean, no time wasted clear confident voice and understanding of the tools. I wish other tutorial vids follow your example.

[@rhyskt]

Awesome tutorial dude. I wish more dream tutorials were like this! This has been super helpful.

[@MrWooshie]

It's been awhile! More videos coming soon! In the meantime I have an explanation/ramble on what's been going on in regards to this channel here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gn6rdHmgh9Sio5o Thank you for watching :)

[@stefanmalek3646]

Bought it 2 Days ago, i'm still only playing tutorials 😂

[@HiPlayerProdigy]

Same and I just took a day off to learn what the freak I'm even doing?

[@thedeadcanary]

Give it time, my friends. Not an easy thing to jump into! Keep at it!

[@thatsmaik]

Same but youre getting better and better quite fast :)

[@anon9579]

You and me both

[@user-kl6cx2vl3f]

This game is very ambitious, although it has so much for more experienced dreamers, others could get overwhelmed making them quit.

[@ruolbu]

The presentation quality is stellar.

[@Victor-qe3zg]

Not for someone who has no idea what buttons he's pressing

[@ruolbu]

@@Victor-qe3zg Yeah it's about teaching concepts and workflows, less about the mechanics. Is something specific that was done in this vide unclear to you?

[@jasmine-ruff-puff9951]

The eyes are adorable.

[@melanieaudet]

I haven't bought the game but this tutorial is perfect! Not only do you speak clearly, but you explain all the options you're choosing. This is amazing. Thank you :D

[@dalis994]

It's not a game, it's a sort of a game playing platform but mostly it's game creator

[@cb6667]

Dali S it’s a game to dumbass

[@teagang7617]

Don't buy it

[@pink_napoleonfloyd4289]

I wanted to make my very own video games about my nightmares and ideas but i don't know how to do coding, with Dreams i can make cool video games and make cool looking charters like my little "Tik-Tiks". This is helpful man, thank you! Keep on making helpful tutorial!

[@bomorman23]

I wanted to make a roller coast

[@bradleybouie8875]

Can you please tell me what a tik tik is?

[@pink_napoleonfloyd4289]

@@bradleybouie8875 There one of my many ideas for characters for my idea for a video games... Tik-Tiks are little robots in clocks; they make Ticking sounds when they work, making the clock tick...

[@bradleybouie8875]

@@pink_napoleonfloyd4289 wow that's actually really creative

[@UndercoverSpill]

Ok I had dreams since release of early access and didnt know some of this stuff. I had always wondered how to fix the grab point. I was told Auto Guide was the reason why my asset or characters were hard to find. Also had no idea how when I watch tutorials some people scoped in and the grey didnt take over the screen. I see now theres a setting to turn it off. MM really slacked with the basic info on this one. Thanks for pointing these things out. Also one of my characters legs move funny, I will now go and check the connectors to see if anything needs to be realigned. Thanks for the basic/indepth tutorial.

[@thereevolution6]

how do you turn off the grey

[@TAPgiles]

@@thereevolution6 1:23

[@thereevolution6]

@@TAPgiles ya i saw it, great tutorails btw 😊✋

[@TAPgiles]

@@thereevolution6 Cheers mate ^^

[@mojosiesta9821]

Imo this game should come with a mouse and key board, it would've been a great opportunity to offer a nice bundle deal plus they need to reason to sell their brand anyways

[@stanleypgreen1]

What an excellent tutorial! Clear explanation and demonstration. I wish more of the tutorials out there were as well planned out and executed as this. Thank you!

[@Shot4ShotPhoto]

I’ve been waiting for another video from you. Your video tutorials, along with the spectacular community on Reddit convinced me to preorder this game. I’m infinitely excited for this to release. I’ve watched nothing but Dreams videos and tutorials for the past week. Your content is very informative, in-depth and as uncomplicated and followable as possible. Great work and I can’t wait to see you and many other creators on the dreamscape. 👍

[@UKM-13]

Amazing tutorial! I've learned more watching your videos than Media Molecule's. Please keep the content coming, I love how straight to the point the videos are and you actually tell us which buttons you're pressing.

[@AndrewJoshua11]

Great tutorial, but slow down just a bit. You do a lot of shortcuts and things with no explanation. I've paused and seen you move to menus so fast with pure muscle memory that there's no way to know how you're doing it. For example, at 3:09 you move the heads into groups, but how are you doing this? I'm aware of how to highlight and do it manually, but looks like you know a shortcut or something. Great work.

[@leepicbaconman1553]

Holy hell, THIS! He goes so fast and skips over the little things and i get lost so easily. I’m also confused about how he did the head part too

[@BirdsonBranches]

Seriously. He apparently just drags it down and then moves everything out of there, deletes stuff, undos, then can showhow make some things visible. I have no idea what he did

[@TheGoatOfAll]

If you do the in game tutorials it tells you all this lmao

[@AndrewJoshua11]

@@TheGoatOfAll lol nice try cutie pie

[@rowanalfred9346]

Spent a few hours sculpting a character today prior to seeing this video. Made good progress, but there were a lot of questions I needed answering... This video, plus others on your channel, cleared up a lot of issues. Cheers pal.

[@SakkusMind]

Great tutorial, I personally struggle with characters still.. this was really helpful! =)

[@T0nyTheArtist]

This is what I need because I'm too dumb to make models in Blender. Edit: What the fuck is going on in the replies? At least it was resolved.

[@zrifepsych]

There's a reason they're selling this as a game and not an engine

[@silevesileve6279]

Join the club. We'd have jackets, but I can't design them... Not yet at least.

[@Charzilian]

It is difficult, but I would suggest you keep at it. Eventually you'll know what you are doing, and there is nothing more satisfying than the moment you are finally able to be fully creative.

[@HiPlayerProdigy]

Blender is easier.

[@Charzilian]

@@HiPlayerProdigy there are more things to learn in blender. This thing is simplified for everyone. Even the scripting is simplified, using the node based programming instead of an actual programming language.

[@seanmcnabb6115]

Welcome back man! Really looking forward to what you've got in store for the community at Launch and beyond. Thanks for everything u do 👍

[@davesps4524]

New player here. Really like how succinct and efficient you presented the info without it feeling rushed. Very helpful.

[@cyr.usm3c]

I love these types of videos that go straight to the point

[@Indra15huna]

Oh my i dont have dreams yet but i thought you would stop uploading and i got sad, but your back!!!!!! Yesssss

[@bienaIIV]

He actually stoped again lol

[@demimoto9095]

Hey you answered a few questions on your stream last night and that was awesome. I've been watching tons of KZbin tutorials and honestly you have some quality stuff. You are clear, and informative, without being too slow. You should really consider making a large series, even if someone else has a tutorial on it. I just keep rewatching your tutorials and learning tons of stuff every time. Like for example, you have a grab point tutorial in here and if someone is looking for a grab point tutorial, they will never find this video by searching for grab points!

[@eddieandersson5570]

Thank you so much for this one, I had no idea we could move the grab point.

[@jmg24bad]

Someone just recommended you to me on reddit, but when I came by, I was already subscribed lol. I'll actually watch the videos now.

[@wrydenmaxwell9302]

Man, just hearing the music I am drawn back to Friends of Ringo Ishikawa! Great tutorial video and choice of music, love it!

[@sneakyturtle3428]

Great video, I like how you jumped straight in, when some youtubers spend 5 minutes talking about nonsense. You earned yourself a sub!

[@e-l-t2279]

Very helpful tutorials. Always straight to the point and easy to understand and follow. Please don't stop making them :)

[@mclovinjr9086]

Just bought dreams for £24 on sale, downloading right now and I’m honestly so excited to play, moreso than I’ve been for triple A releases in the past few years. Looks insane. Also great tutorial man, earned a sub!

[@TAPgiles]

Good job as always. A little note about the grab point, it only shows up if you're editing an element (people can be confused about that). And if you press triangle on it, it will reset to the centre of everything in the creation. So it's an easy way of getting a more reasonable grab point.

[@MrWooshie]

You can do this, but it's not guaranteed to work. I tried this before while testing and would find it sometimes chose a point that was uncentered. Using the grid is a more consistent method :)

[@TAPgiles]

@@MrWooshie Yeah--it's based on the average centre of all objects in the scene; perhaps there was some emitter stuff hanging out? Fine to position it manually, of course. But if it's just something simple like a sculpture or something it's a useful feature. And it actually centres it for you as you work anyway, I think. It's only if you've moved it (or if you're working on a fresh character, which has already set it to the feet instead of letting it centre, for reasons), that it stays put and so can become squiffy. Interestingly, the grab point is used for the auto-guide also. This is why the *feet* snap to surfaces when obeying auto-guides; because that's where the grab point is positioned.

[@xJuliettex]

Thank you. This is a really good video to show what the game can do. I'm getting it tomorrow, so I'll be referring back to this video 👍

[@RoboKillerv2]

Good tutorial! Dreams isnt easy thing to understand, puppet alone is its own thing to get to know.

[@GlogglingLG]

I'm completely speechless all I can say is congrats dude nice video I loved it's amazing! Keep up the good work.

[@Paine316]

Is there a way to go into further detail as to what you're pressing with the controls. What's happening to me is that I've followed along to the point I drop the duplicate head back with the other head but mine doesn't look or do what you're showing. Whenever I add eyes and then color them like you did, I end up coloring the underlayer shape. If I delete the underlayer shape, I can color only on the surface and not the actual spheres I use for eyes. Unsure if that makes any sense but it's not at all turning out like the video and i'm trying to figure out what i'm doing wrong. Thanks

[@AndrewJoshua11]

Yeah, he goes wayy to fast in this area. He makes those eyes in what appears to be the same sculpture of the head (never creates a new one) and yet he's somehow still only able to color the eye section as if he DID make a new sculpture. What happens to you is normal. I've watched multiple times now and the things he does on screen and shortcuts he uses he's not completely explaining. At 3:09 he merges the heads into a group so fast you don't even see it (must be a shortcut)

[@KidouKenshi22]

Nice vid bro but one question, can you download characters from other players? So u can use them for u own game so I only have to change the things u want and dont have to do an entire own character?

[@synaestheticstudios]

YEP! and if you hit the 'Remix" button when viewing their creation you can tweak it for yourself if you don't like something about it.

[@KidouKenshi22]

@@synaestheticstudios that's cool l have another question, is it possible to create a game for 2 players and that each player is in another team with bots and fight each other? So we could do epic scenarios like humans vs machines or something or one player is a boss vs another player with bots? I doubt its possible cause l think you can only do coop, singleplayer or pvp but not with bots on each team or? I mean if not then lt would be simple to put it with an update like when you put a character you also choose which side the character is and then the other team is the enemy so we would have so much freedom..

[@quepowy7897]

Hey, I made the legs shorter but, the character floats, instead of being on the ground, HOW DO I FIX THIS!

[@silentcrow6602]

I Like your Voice. Theres something calm and subtle about it.

[@CarsnStuff]

Jeez man your good. This melts my brain just trying to comprehend this lol. I got this game yesterday and it's interesting. But jeez between the electronics parts to have good activating gadgets and developing just a scene is so difficult.

[@kamealex]

I got a little bit lost with the several heads in the same place, just before you started to place the eyes. Why did you make another head without the holes? PD: I'm starting to sculpt now, so every single click is new to me, hehehe.

[@SkemeKOS]

Your videos are incredible. Really wish you made more, but I get that people are busy.

[@MrWooshie]

These things take time, but thank you very much :)

[@havelthesnacc8753]

Thank you for your tutorials! I don’t feel so intimidated anymore.

[@samvisser9408]

Best tutorials on youtube, I swear

[@Venserql]

Does dreams support mouse and keyboard? Doing these kind of things with a controller seems like a nightmare

[@theawakechristian6576]

It is

[@Chrasmardan]

O man, trying so hard to see what happened to the second head you created. Did you delete it? I guess you made it so you could get another mirror plane where you want it, so that both eyes could be made at once, using the second head's mirror plane. Perhaps you deleted it after you made the eyes? Also, does deleting the base head sculpt affect anything in the puppet logic? I've avoided deleting the blue head in my sculpts. Thanks for the video!

[@DeeRhoe]

This was actually more helpful than the tutorials the game gives us.

[@Auf_ein_Wort]

I wished i found videos like this one in german language!!!! U do well and i see that u are a professional Dreamer!?!

[@usernameredacted1764]

I did not realize you could create assets for others to use. That's awesome I'm hoping to finally create my dream werewolf game thanks

[@Coltknows]

30 seconds in, you clicked a specific body part before hitting stretch tool, and didn't say how. Yesterday, I accidentally found the way, but didn't have a lot of time, so I forgot how. Instead of selecting a specific body part, it ALWAYS highlights the whole puppet. HELP! And, when I find it, I can't realign. It just puts the puppet in weirder positions...

[@josiahmorris2572]

Found my go-to channel for learning how to create in dreams

[@brodobaggins9781]

why is it that my so called short cuts dont work. It was hard to follow you through the tutorial because you kept referring to the steps through shortcuts. Is there a way to turn them on or what?

[@AndrewJoshua11]

Exactly. Waaaay too fast and wayy too many unspoken shortcuts.

[@Sacredity]

Is sculpting much more difficult if you use the DualShock controller rather than the Move controller?

[@Nick-yh6cp]

I have 0 game dev experience and no artistic skills but i want to make a game/short story narrative about being alone while surrounded by hundreds via social media and how deceptive social media is from the outside. I'm going to need all of these kind of videos to study. Thanks!

[@FreakinSweet1987]

I'm having a bit of an issue and was hoping maybe you'd have some answers since you seem very knowledgeable with the creator. I decided to try and create a character using assets from other creators. Body type, eyeballs, ears, etc. Visually it looks good, but the particular body I liked seems to have some issues with the way it runs. As soon as it goes into the run, it starts to float and the feet freak out. I figured it was an issue with the way they saved the puppet's position. When I first loaded up the body, it was floating in some weird limbo without a floor and I couldn't even find the thing for a minute. Eventually I got it, placed it on the floor and continued adding onto it, but every time I went into play mode it would revert back to that initial point of floating in limbo. My only thought was that it was somehow attributed to where the game thinks the position of the character is supposed to be rather than where it actually is. Finally I just loaded the character model into another puppet's so it had a floor and all, but it still has the floating issue I mentioned earlier even with ground to walk on. I tried scaling the feet, keeping them closer to the floor, tweaking the settings to match the perfect running and jumping of my previous puppet, but nothing seems to work. If you have any info, it would be greatly appreciated. I'm really curious what the problem is.

[@CreativeSteve69]

I just bout this game 3 days ago just popped it in on my ps4 today to explore. Will defently subb for more tutorials. :D

[@JimmyJules153]

Awesome video mate - great imp choice too ;)

[@Matunahelper]

Jesus Christ that was involved and in depth. Great tutorial video, but this game in general is something I’ll never be able to do myself. I don’t have the creativity, nor the patience to create within this game.

[@MrWooshie]

Well there is definitely patience needed, but as for creativity you can surprise yourself. I've come across some players in Dreams that had no artistic background and claimed to lack creativity, yet they have become amazing creators making things they never thought they could. An important part of Dreams is collaboration, whether it be directly working with others or by simply using assets provided by the community. If creating isn't your thing, there is plenty of fun games to play within Dreams already! Overall there is a lot to do in Dreams if you give it a chance :)

[@Saitam79]

Great tutorial.. definitely learned alot.. I just bought it a few days ago.. still trying to learn the mechanics of it .. (General question) Is it easier to navigate using the motion sensor or just the analog sticks?

[@sonomute]

Thanks for the video! I've never used or owned any game consoles and Dreams is the first thing which makes me want to have one. I saw that there are some sort of tiny keyboards you can attach to the gamepad, would it be possible to use one of those in dreams to control the settings like switching grid on and off and such? Thanks!

[@MrWooshie]

Thanks for watching! Glad Dreams is able to inspire you :) Hmm... I don't believe you are able to rig up the grid settings in such a way, at least not currently as far as I'm aware. There are shortcuts for certain things in-game already, so maybe MM will add custom shortcut to allow you to do what you'd like with settings!

[@YULKISS]

This is really helpful im going to have to come back to this video.

[@Dr.Slaughter]

If you want to make a character look nice, would it be better to make them at scale, or make it huge so it's easy to work with, then just shrink it back down to scale?

[@Indra15huna]

Your the best youtuber

[@DevilsRe6ct]

Can't wait to get my hands on this now. Thanks for the tutorial. 💯

[@CassiCalamity]

Please respond. How do you use the camera so well? That's my main problem with Dreams

[@MrWooshie]

Mainly practice. I use L1, R1, and the two thumbsticks for more precise control. I'm not good with motion controls, so I tend to avoid them whenever possible! At this point I've practiced with the controls enough to where they are now second nature :)

[@CassiCalamity]

@@MrWooshie thanks ^^

[@synaestheticstudios]

So do we just repeat the steps for putting parts over the arms, legs, etc? and do we need to make sure that any parts we sculpt in to the puppet are all at connector points? yknow, like, if I sculpt over the arm sections, do the two sections need to meet at the joint in order to move properly?

[@Bakerseed]

Hey MrWooshie, I'm just currently creating a character and was wondering why you copied the head without the eye sockets... I'm just wondering if it useful for animating or something else. Can't quite figure it out with just this video :) great tutorial btw, helped me tons by now

[@AdamPaulStone]

Keep making more tutorials! Please!!

[@danielnewman5230]

Agreed. I've had such a difficult and sometimes very rewarding experience with this game and inky a couple of guys on tube can explain it in my non logic mind can understand.

[@Spiritualvirtue]

Your tutorial is very enlightening, thank you.

[@kast2890]

Just got the game attempted to create something it turned out terrible but I had no idea there was a grid now I might be able to make something good

[@theawakechristian6576]

Make anything yet?

[@Bl00dy_Deadpool]

How do you move your imp so smooth and fluidly. Amazing tutorial!

[@Cr4ZzZy]

Bl00dyAvenger That’s what i need to know too

[@sakiomam3421]

How did u make this purple thing underneath him

[@Victor-qe3zg]

Its so confusing, this video is for people that have already completed every single tutorial :(

[@baphonaut7278]

When i use the stretch tool on the limbs it doesn’t do what yours did in the video. What am i doing wrong?

[@juanfranciscolopez3395]

I REALLY NEED MORE TUTORIAL FROM YOU...!

[@MrWooshie]

AND YOU WILL GET THEM... as soon as I have time :)

[@baalfgames5318]

how much versatility does this have? I have a character with some fairly odd proportions that I kind of want to make a game out of, but I'm not so sure if it would be possible. he is very round, has virtually no legs or chest, kind of like Kirby except he has a head and a tail. Would it be possible to make a giant ball shaped character with a head and a tail along those lines.. I'd show a picture of the character, but I don't know if many people would like him.

[@Asylus]

It would be cool if there was something similar to vrchat to use these characters in

[@joelongsurname]

darkestasylum 32 yeah that would be amazing

[@GamesforCykits]

Thaaaaank you, been waiting for something like this

[@Stevensterni]

Whenever I take a puppet and want to put another head on top it, the head is just following but it doesn’t look like the puppets head. Any tips?

[@EDKsurly]

how do you connect the sculpt to the puppet?

[@MrWooshie]

While holding onto the sculpt (with R2) you can group it into part of the puppet with L1+X In this case I grabbed the cloned sculpt of the head and grouped it with the original head. By doing this throughout the puppet you can have multiple parts attached to a single sculpt. For example, you could create a sword and group it to the hand so it moves with the hand :)

[@vixiestarfire]

Would you by any chance know how one would be able to make 2 or more characters to choose from at the beginning of the game? Or character custom design choices like eye colour and hairstyle in sims?

[@thewildgamer7670]

Wait, how on earth did you actually retain the mirror? It never keeps between sculpts, and you did delete the underlying head

[@blissfulsoul5056]

So you can make ANY character? And can they spit slime? I just have some ideas for this game and I'm not sure about what you can and can't do

[@JustChill_1031]

So this game is just like Blender where you have the power to create any character you want?

[@puchibamba4801]

Where you using the move controller or the normal one?

[@MrWooshie]

Just a regular DS4 :)

[@zTempest31]

@@MrWooshie How can you move so good with it? I fuck up doing any precise movement or even normal quick movements

[@darkoni95]

@@zTempest31 same

[@guslevogus6098]

@@zTempest31 ikr

[@yoshimitsui2]

Do you have to play all the tutorials to do all of this?

[@redwaldcuthberting7195]

The tutorials in this game blag my head as they're made for motion controllers and it goes so fast and I'm sat there in the dust. XD

[@garrettsmith4034]

Would you recommend this game in 2024? Debating getting it as I've zero game design skills. Thank you for this video though. Great tutorial, especially for someone with no experience in design. Stay well!

[@117rememberreach]

Lmfao I listen to the same songs at night in the background! Its in my Playlist hahaha

[@abeezy2655]

Love the content got a new subscriber. Bless me with more vids so I can do my homework

[@gabikralj94]

Does this require some special controller to sculpt?

[@thebosstex1172]

I tried doing play mode just now. It said to hover my imp over my character and possess it, so I tried to do that but then I realized that my cursor was no longer the imp but was instead a random black/very dark gray hand. Along with that, the level/scene that I set up so far started randomly rotating or tilted, and this one Godzilla character in the level/scene started looking like he was going to slide off the map. I was all like, “What the heck??? What is going on?” Now as I’m trying to possess my character, it won’t let me because I’m stuck being a black hand instead of an imp, while in play mode.

[@dbzextreme1]

Thx for all your help! New sub!

[@KidouKenshi22]

Why are there no options for me when l go to "start fresh" there are only 3 questionmarks with "new elements" " new dream" and "new collection"

[@yungpooplord]

Same that's what I'm trying to figure out because I want to edit the default puppet but I can't even get to the start fresh page this guy is on

[@BrokenDpad]

@@yungpooplord So I believe that was a remnant from the beta. You can still make it an Element, when you have your fresh blank canvas (just the one box) you can bring in a deluxe puppet, from the Gadgets>Gameplay menu (I believe, not in front of my PS4)

[@yungpooplord]

@@BrokenDpad I figured out another way. If you go into dream shaping you can select if you want to shape a character, vehicle, ect. And if you scroll down you will find the start from blank thing with the default puppet

[@calamariboss8532]

Thank you this is a great tutorial

[@logondenied6959]

I have created a character but the head keeps spinning weirdly. Any ideas on how to stop this?

[@Victor-qe3zg]

Same here, it follows the movement of my controller and its annoying.

[@mike-ve1oh]

Is this game easy for someone who doesn't have much artistic talent?

[@thecanucklehead3034]

I cant seem to get the same ui you did at the start, where you tell the game you want to make a character. Im immediately loaded into the creation area with no puppet to build on

[@TiredEXE]

Thanks, now I'll be able to make MegaMan.ExE in dreams

[@urboimarky2198]

Im thinking of getting this game because it looks super fun and im a little big planet veteran

[@xxshedheadxx6134]

If I wanted to make a spaceship as a playable character would I use a puppet

[@MrWooshie]

You don't need to use a puppet for that. You can make any object playable by adding a controller to it. So basically you stamp a microchip onto your ship, then in that microchip place a controller sensor. If you want the spaceship to move you can place movers on the same microchip, then connect the controller sensor to those movers. For example, you can connect R2 to a Mover set to go forwards, and L2 to a Mover set to go backwards. This is a pretty basic way of doing it, so of course you can always alter and add things to make it better :)

[@xxshedheadxx6134]

Oh that’s awesome, thank you

[@bushyboi2381]

I have never seen this game before but I am getting it

[@SuperDupTNT]

When I heard "press ∆" I laughed. I'm more nintendo so that's why I laughed

[@jamesclarke721]

How did you get to the "start fresh menu? I can't find it