I hate that too. It's not that I don't want to use them, just, it's a hassle having to take them back out if you dare want to go to another space
There aren't that many flying companions so I think we're due for one of those. I would buy that and the corresponding active item for sure. For example a Heavy Bee or Bird that I can fly around my apartment would be great!
hey Mystik, what kind of restrictions do you have when programming companions? What kind of size constraint do you have? Is there a tight limit on number of objects? What kind of programming can you add to this slot? Just a mesh and animation,, or can you add anything? what can the program detect? You have the owner avatar's position in xyz. What about his direction? How about other avatars, can you write a companion that can detect them? Knowing what you can and can't do will help us make suggestions. btw on another topic, I know you did the Tron Apts. but did you guys do the Tron costumes by chance? I'm hoping someone will add incandescence maps to make the lines glow to the classic tron suit. It's Tron. And it really could use that glow.
those are some good questions fire, knowing some of that would give us an idea what heavy has to work with and that way we don't give ideas that there is no way they can do yet lol . oh i thought of another robot pet idea ( might be something you can't do yet lol ) is to have little transformer type robots lol. like when you are standing or sitting it could run around you with a wepon acting like it is guarding you and we you go to move around it change into a car,truck,plane or what ever you can come up with lol .
Okay: Restrictions update... there are a lot! The Companion script is always the same. We cannot change it's behavior. It will walk around and follow you. We cannot do particle effects [the ground effects] even if we made it as part of a Feet item. Large companions are out because Companions have no collision and people could walk into them. Sony does not like that. :/ We want to be able to do more, but we cannot. We can do glowing, or scrolling UVs. If that helps. And custom animations on Full costumes and Active items [like the Active Peep]. Sorry to crush the great ideas! If it ever opens up we will be all over it!!!
well you guys are not crushing the ideas, you just can't do them yet . i know it makes me feel better to atleast knowing what you can and can't do than just wonder. plus it will help us come up with thing we know you can do
I'm disappointed some of those ideas are impossible. but that's the hand you are dealt. Let's see..... Can you adjust timing? or speed of the movments? I notice that alot of pets really are too active. they cycle through all their animation too fast. Then when it repeats, your eye picks that up and it feels less "real". I was thinking you could have them wait for awhile, and if nothing happens, then do an animation. As if the pet is trying to get your attention cause you aren't moving. Or is just bored. I remember thinking how cool they added little animations to Lara Croft when you weren't moving. She would start to get bored. You can't program reactions to companions. But if you time it, you can possibly create a well timed action that seems to be an emotional reaction to you. That would help make the model become "alive".
The angel companion is cute! I would love it if we could get the dress as a separate! Separates Heavy! We like them!
The dress is glued to the angle. We don't create a dress and put it on her. She never gets to change Maybe AXE will commission us to create the dresses, but it's their IP so we can't do anything about it. I do love the Angel companion though! I got ours this morning on BomberGirl_H2O... I need to get it on my HeavyMystik account now haha.
The Axe game was great. I really like that the NPCs are walking around. The companion is tops. On Topic: I think the pricing for companions can be higher on the ones with lots of small detail (like the new pirate monkey). The uniquness is probably more important than anything else (there are lots of dogs and monkeys but if there was something wierd I would probably be more likley to gety it). The peeps are kinda cool. I like how they have active/nonactive items that go with them, but each piece seems disconected. If there was more interaction between active items and companions that would be better. Some people have given examples of gigapet or fighter minigames. This would definatley get me buying more. Especially if they "upgraded" or changed over time. My main complaint of companions (and I know it is a Sony thing) is there is no way to automatically activate them. I hate having to turn them on after going to a different space or entering a minigame. Its okay if for memory or whatever they have to turn off, but an "auto-on" feature would allow me to use my companion items more often.
Mystic, did you guys do the Axe event? Whoever did it did a great job. It was unique imaginative and fun. I especially liked nice touches as the angels slowly animating and moving around. Adding a voice was cute too. It adds more personality. Just little touches as slight hair color changes and names. Also loved the angel falling and breaking pavement. Hey Jo, how about making a similar angel? We have wings, those are very nice in the mall. And I think there are some nice clothes that were given away at an earlier valentines event that would work. Btw, I have pandora radio going. And playing the game to "Your love just keep lifting me higher" is very funny!
It is a good event in my opinion as well. The thing with me is that I like and am into mythology and statues, beautiful scenery, gold, and this had very detailed and aesthetically pleasing surroundings. The game itself was kinda fun, and funny lol, (sorry kinda funny when you see random falling angel, and hear a thump) anyways they're ok The rewards for saving all ten of them was great, only wish it was a full sized angel but the axe person costume...not so much, but hey the overall animations, beautiful scenery, tasteful advertising, hot voice narrator, lil angel companion make up for it. Just my take on it.
Id also love the pool boy but a companion id love would be a best friend companion maybe a copy of your best friends avatar on home so you can see them even when theyre not online but it would have to be active of course maybe dancing or something and it would have to be small so you dont get them confused with the same person lol
For me I love the companions on home. Well the zombie one is lest one I like. However my favourite one was free one Yep the T-rex from E3 space by far the one I like most as its super cutie in geeky way. If you going to make some new ones I would say make a nice dragon what can breath fires what I think would be awesome, Hmm maybe few more dinosaurs be cool too a pool guy lol that be funny as hell. That one thing I love about home USA is it bundle deal. Because if I going buy something I also look for a bundle deal. So keep that up.
I guess it's a bit of everything all around. Persoanlly, I like the peep companions. I actually bought the "What the bleep" peep, but I also obtain the E3 peep pack (as I'm sure everyone else did). I have that particular peep in 3 of my spaces. also that sunflower peep that was part of the welcome back 100 free items package. In regards to the first peep, I actually recieved a few nice comments from other users when they saw him. Price-wise, I think $1.99 is a fair price alone, but the value is typically better as a bundle. Overall, they're great companions.
Thanks for the compliments. And I love the Naraku icon as well! And thank you everyone for the continual feedback. We really appreciate it.
You gotta do what you gotta do. We thank you for your honesty. Like you said, If it's something you can do in the future, then that's cool. It's understandable that Sony pretty much has the final say so on what you're allowed to do and what you're not allowed to do. It is what it is. Just keep doing what you do, that's all.:thumbsup: BTW: Thanks for the Naraku compliment. :lol:
A lot of the pics are cute and would be nice compaions, but I know Kimi would love to have the egg as a companion. If it was there to follow her everywhere.....