Hello everyone!
Rob Oliveira here. I’m taking a quick break from work to talk to you about some more character creation features in ModNation Racers.
But first, here’s a date you’re going to want to mark down on your calendars. December 18. That’s the day we open up the ModNation Racers Beta to you. The Beta runs through January 10, and you’ll have the chance to score a Beta voucher right here on the PlayStation Blog! Stay tuned very soon for details on the Beta giveaway. Of course, those of you who picked up LittleBigPlanet Game of the Year Edition already have a voucher, so you’re good to go!
In today’s video I’m going to give you a very brief walkthrough of our sticker and layering system. I’m going to create something using one simple shape, several layers, and some color changes.
Once you’ve seen what I do with one shape and a couple of layers, you can easily imagine what can be done with hundreds of stickers, and hundreds layers at your disposal. Our system allows you to move, scale, skew, rotate, flip and change the height and transparency of all these stickers. We’ve also created many “physical” stickers like rust, mud, and dents. Like all of the parts in our game, you can change the color channels, and material properties of each of these. I hope you’re starting to see the possibilities!
Don’t see that Chrome Dragon sticker you’re looking for? There’s nothing stopping you from using one of many primitives and gradients as brushes to create it in the layer editor. Use the material properties to change all those stickers to chrome. Our layering system allows you to group those layers together, so you can move, scale, rotate or change colors as a group. Once you’ve created that Chrome Dragon, group the layers together and paste the whole thing a few more times, or save it as a Sticker Set to your PS3, for use later.
The Creation Station team here at UFG have worked really hard to make this system easy to use, but incredibly powerful. Whether you decide to create characters quickly and casually, or dive in and spend hours and hours, we know you’ll be able to create some truly unique and unbelievable characters!
We are incredibly excited to get ModNation Racers into your hands and see what you create! Start planning now:)
I look forward to any questions or comments. And be sure to head back next week for another ModNation Racers video walkthrough, track editing! Now back to work!
Hey I have a couple questions about the game. In an episode of Jimmy Fallon Live they were at E3 and someone was able to race with a cutout of Jimmy’s face wondering if that was still possible to put peoples faces as masks in the game. Also I saw some pictures of karts with a qore logo and some Canadian logo wondering if you will have companies logos like coke cola, or will I have to make them myself.
Hi BC! ha, I\’m glad you got a chance to see that! We were stoked to get the game on there. That was a custom thing done for Jimmy Fallon, so no you can\’t exactly do that. Our decal system is very powerful so you can create whatever you like. The Qore logo, for example, was created completely inside the game with our decal system. I think you\’re going to find it very satisfying