It seems like your understanding of the dot product is a little off. Assuming that the 2 vectors used in the dot product have a unit length of 1 then the dot product will return 0 if the 2 vectors are perpendicular to each other (90 degree difference in their heading angles). If they are perfectly opposing each other, then it will return -1.
Oh, you are completely right. Dot products go from -1 to 1, not 0 to 1. I don't know how I missed that when writing the script. I'm pretty sure I even have footage with debug prints that show that too. The principle of how I'm specifically using it still works, but it is really unfortunate to have that incorrect, as it could cause issues for someone trying to find who is directly behind them.
I love this. I hope we get an official remake at some point. Travelers tales still going strong with the Lego games. If not a playable demo with this remake would be 👌
@ric3poversace477 nah mate, I assume they did get close to liquidation around 2006 but in 2007 Warner Brother bought up the company to save it and they'll still around too this day making lego games. Hope that helps
@@ItsRexxys most lego games these days are made by other companies then TT though. Edit: i see they released Lego star wars in 2022, so guess they still around like you said
Love the grind rail idea--Buzz is always doing stuff like that in the movie, so it's a natural addition to the game's moveset. The toy car track idea is awesome.
This was a treasure game for my childhood, and seeing someone put so much work into not only the visual aspect, but the gameplay aspect brings me an incredible amount of joy. Please continue with your project, and please publish the finished project for people to enjoy and play for Nostalgia purposes
This sounds like it's extra work for not much reward, but as the new Buzz model buttons are part of the rig for his model it would be awesome if he pressed one of the buttons every time he opens his wings like in the movie. Also the grind rails as hot wheel tracks is a great idea. You should definitely do that!
@@Level_reDesign i completely understand. as long as you are taking care of yourself and yours, that's what truly matters and comes first. take care my dude and i cant wait to see where you take this game 🙏
So excited to see this progress further! There’s so many ways the gameplay can modernise 🤩 A front flip when he jumps would be very Buzz! Maybe also some way to direct a double jump so if the player collided with a wall, Buzz can leverage the wall to jump even higher/further? Also in the vein of Toy Story 2, having an option for Buzz to have his utility belt would be cool. You could have an additional feature where the power goes out to Andy’s house and Buzz has to turn on his utility belt for a single light source and make his way down to the basement to turn the power back on. Could be an interesting challenge on some of the interior levels!! Amazing work though man - so excited for the next video!
I don't even know if it's worth adding, since the original game didn't have it. And regarding the ability to jump off the wall. This should probably be left for the remastered Shrek game for Xbox and Gamecube.
It does make Buzz dizzy in the original game, though I may not add that. It is still undecided. I am trying to make the combat a bit faster paced, much like Metroid Prime remastered compared to the GameCube version. That's also why I am keeping aiming in a focused 3rd person mode instead of making it first person. I'm not changing tons about the game, but I am trying to modernize it a little
I RUclips searched "Toy Story 2 Remaster" just out of curiostiy because I randomly thought about the game, cool to see this progress and project in general.
8:27 - 8:30 all of the audio files are on the SFX folder on the downloadable PC version which you can get for free. Also thank you for shouting out the Toy Story 2 Speedrun community!
Dot products elude and confound me, so no shame in that! This entire project is super impressive and a huge inspiration for me as an aspiring game dev. Keep up the great work!
In terms of art style, my personal preference would be to stay true to the art style in the first two Toy Story movies. One cool thing about this is that Pixar actually released a texture library that features many of the textures used in the first movie, so you could really replicate the look. However, ultimately it's up to you, and a Spyro-remake-esque art style could be cool too! Do what you want to see, because that will give you the most motivation to continue working while having fun doing it.
I will say that as of last week, I am no longer a solo on this project, but we are still a very small team! Just wait until you see the new art and animations lol
This is awesome!! I love your additions. It's always a bit annoying having to exit some areas, and your solution with the Rail system it's very fun and engaging. Also, I love the idea of making it look like the Spyro remake. The stylized art style would be fantastic. I would love to help creating 3D assets if you like. Anyway, great work!
Man, not only are you remaking something that’s owned by Disney You also announced a Patreon that will help “support the project”. This is going to be C&D’d so damn hard eventually, I wish you wouldn’t have publicized this until it was ready.
I like the idea of having hot wheels tracks for the grind rails. This is an awesome project and i have such a nostalgic love for this game so I can't wait to see where it goes
Theres a toggle on most action inputs to allow them to execute when paused. What I normally do for pause menus is have the base widget as a variable in the player controller that gets set when the HUD is created, and run the pause logic there, so when the pause key is pressed the player controller executes the pause, loads the menu and because the input is set to execute when paused, when its pressed again, it toggles pause back off and removes the pause widget using the variable that got set then clears the variable ready to be used again, this is handy imo cos the player controller is where the input mode switches are handled anyway so saves casting to it or calling it in the pause widget itself. Hope that helps your alt F4 issue!
Thanks for the advice. The main thing is I just haven't made time to setup the UI yet, but you did say something that interests me. I usually keep a reference to the UI as you suggested, but when I am done, I collapse it until I need it again. Do you know if it is better or best practice to remove the widget instead of collapsing it?
The Hot Wheels car on a track for the grinding is such a good idea! If its of any help, the car used on the first movie is a Hot Wheels "Red Baron". In the second movie, the car is a Hot Wheels "8 Crate". There's also a real life kit of the 2nd movie with a track loop and with a red "Classic Nomad" Hot Wheels
I wouldn't use a single visual object for the grind rails, but something fitting to each environment. For example, Hot Wheels track in the bedroom, hanging wires or copper pipes in basement, etc.
dot product actually has a range from -1 to 1. 1 is the same direction -1 is the opposite direction 0 is perpendicular Unreal Engine may normalise that range to 0 to 1
It's fully commendable to redesign this cult game when Disney doesn't seem to want to do any tie-in video games to their films anymore. Obviously, there's still a lot of work to be done, but I am liking the updated models. One thing to take note is that I do hope that if you think of doing the later levels to add new elements to the gameplay so it isn't a full carbon copy of the original. For example, giving more uses for the Potato Head items like Disc Launcher and Hover Boots or maybe make some new NPC enemies. One of the complaints many fans have of the original is that that stupid Dinosaur boss in Al's Toy Barn is so stupidly easy. It would be fun to maybe update that boss to make him more tricky. Good luck with the rest of the project though, godspeed
Yeah, I'm going to keep it mostly the same, but add some small elements here and there. I think the shield isn't even required for 100% technically. Or if it is, it is just one or two times. So my added elements are mostly to make certain aspects of the original game seem more useful, even if it is small interactions. For example, we just modeled the Globe, and it spins if you use the spin attack!
You can use IK retargeting to create duplicate retargeted animations. It's a bit of work and takes time and fiddling, but it really works and is the solution you're looking for
Glad to see this series continue, thanks for another look at your development! I've noticed you use Trello to keep track of your tasks, something I should start doing too to keep all of my thoughts and ideas in one place! I'm curious to know if you also use revision control in your project, in case you need to roll-back to a previous version of your work? Would love to know!
Hi! Thanks for watching! Yes, I use the free version of perforce and back up everything to a separate PC in a different room of the house. I actually used it some to go back and get footage from different points of development, as I only record what I need to. I do not record everything I do lol
Also, I've seen Trello used for a lot of things. Game devs usually use it to keep track of tasks, but the company First 4 Figures, who make resin statues, uses it to publicly show where in the production/distribution process the statues are if you preorder them.
Very cool! 👍 Though you dont have to hoop up all of the struct parameters of the getter and setter like that. You can set individual parameters on structs using the "break" and "set members" nodes. On the right side panel you can change which parameter pins to show/hide.
Really enjoying your videos and that you’re doing the Toy Story remake! Subscribed and looking forward to more!! Do you use Trello for your project management?
I would love to see an upgrade to the laser that makes it a solid beam like in the original movies. Might be a bit overpowered, but would be neat to see!
Cool stuff! Unreal 5.3 has some really nice Animation Retargeting additions they've made; you could consider using the old Buzz model in Mixamo to get the animations and then retarget them to your new one
Look into UE5's new IK Retargeter. You're able to share animations between different skeletons at runtime without any type of retargeting of individual animation assets. Lyra has an example of it being used too if you need reference, otherwise I'm sure there's tutorials out there on it
Personally, while a more Spyro style-painterly look wouldn't be bad, I'd personally prefer the visual direction to be more faithful to Toy Story 2 *the movie* as a showcase of how far technology has come as well as it just being neat to have a playable version of the movie in real-time that just so happens to be a remake of the Toy Story 2 *game* (kinda like a Render96 situation)
I hope you are going to do a "Woody's Workshop" thing that was an early internet hoax where if you collected 100 coins in Andy's House, you'll unlock something special, I'd love to see that become a reality
The issue is I'm not very good at communicating in a way that helps with deep levels of education. So, while not against it, I don't think I will do tutorials, mostly because of that and my charisma not being anything special. This is why in my current videos, I stay pretty basic with what I mention on a technical level. Though, I do try to teach at least one or two concepts of technical game design or programming every episode. In this episode, it was the dot product moment for example (which I got wrong because I was recording the episode at something like 4 or 5am and didn't catch it in editing lol). I will also mention that I want to do more of my simple videos as well. They won't make anything financially like these Toy Story videos will, but it is at least more content for my fans to enjoy while I work on this game lol If you didn't see, an example of this was an episode where I talk about my favorite game devs on RUclips. That video became more work than I expected still, but it was nothing to how much work goes into this game haha
I think instead of just grinding, let buzz use his wings too and glide. That would be so fucking cool like at the construction site weaving through the girders. Although places like the staircase should be grindable. While im thinking bout the construction site it would be cool if you make a really big splash in the concrete if you fall from a great height that was one of my favorite things jumping in concrete from up high.
it's be great for a BLOSC UE game each episode will be a mission and I'd say a proper conclusion is for Zurg to be VERY SECURELY ARRESTED which I know they couldn't really do in the pilot because Zurg would definitely get a Death Sentence but seriously if a modern cannon friendly UE game was made for BLOSC that'd be the best sci fi cop/military game EVER!!
Wow, that's a real cool project, Zachary, congrats! I've loved Toy Story since I was a kid but never heard of this game (maybe because I didn't have a ps1 at the time), really interested to see it develop and the new spins you're putting on it! I am a 3D Animator myself, trying to put myself out there and develop my skills more, so I would really like to help you in making the animations for the project, if you'd like! 😁
Thank you! I have an animator working on the Buzz animations now actually! But join the TS2 Speedrun discord server in the description, and reach out to me there!
I hope someday we get a toy story game with the same graphics of part 3, would feel like being inside the films Maybe for in two game generations ahead
Personally would like to see the art style replicate 90's era Pixar. Would be a fun nod to see the cheesy wood textures and stuff that they used (and might make any animation problems more forgivable) RE: Grind rails - what if instead of having 2 separate objects for it, might be cool if grinds, ziplines and swinging poles were all the same object and the player can use them for different purposes based on how they approach it. Opens up more possibility for player expression.
As far as the grind rails go, I considered making them the same, but the issue is if I change the mesh of grind rails to hot rail tracks, then ziplines don't make sense at that point. So it depends more on the art I add than anything else right now
I hope you give Buzz and maybe some of the other characters facial animations (such as when he gets hurt, uses his laser or spin attack, or when he's talking to others).
I played the Bugs life game as a kid and loved it, but I haven't played it since. I should try it again soon! I think I have watched the speedrun of it during GDQ though
This is really cool, as this was one of my fav childhood games. However, I must add that I played the PC version, so I do not remember the PS1 version. It just kinda sounded like you weren't aware of the PC versions' existence in the intro
Yeah, I actually did know about the PC and N64 versions, but to keep the intro short, I just mentioned the most popular version. However, I didn't find out until just a few months ago that there was a Dreamcast version, which was really interesting
As your designing this, can you also add custom legel editors and other things? It'd be so cool to get a regular stream of new levels and stories similar to the Toy Story gane for PS3
Hey Progress is coming along very nicely! I do have one question, for the collectables, why not just have a base collectable and create child collectables for each type? It would remove the need for the enum,and the switch with masses amount of code. BP_Collectable would handle the pick up and call a function `PickedUp` Collectable_Coin - would override PickedUp and run the code Collectable_PizzaToken - same thing Unless I missed something? :)
Hey! Great question! The answer is that since the collectables system is so small in this game, I wanted to test out different ways to quickly change collectable types in the editor without having to drag in different child blueprints. So, if I want to change a pickup from a pizza token to a coin, I can just change the enum type, argument, and mesh, which would hopefully be faster than dragging in a different bp into the scene. Since all of the pickups in this game are super simple, the code is small enough where I could justify doing it this way as a test. I could take this further if I wanted to treat it more like a tool and even automatically change the meshes as well depending on the enum selected (a coin type will always use the coin mesh for example). I'm not sure this is actually really worth it though compared to the time it would save, so you are probably right that this isn't the optimal way of doing it. But like I said, I just wanted to try lol
You should delete the skeleton rig of buzz and bring it back into mixamo and have them generate an armature for you. Then it will work. You can then add your own personal animations to it from blender
Hi level redesign in your fable 1 remake can you make brightloge from fable legends beta , fable legends was a prequal to fable 1 but got cancelled and id like to see a broken down brightloge as i think it would make sesnce that brightloge would be abandoned whilst having loot from the old kingdom for the player to loot 😊
@@squidplays7352 I do want to go back to my Fable remake eventually. I only set it on pause because of a plug in issue that I was waiting for the dev to fix that kept getting promised would be fixed soon. I will have to look at that from Fable Legends. I never played the public Fable Legends beta demo. I wish I had :/
Hey! Great question! I hadn't considered a glide, however I have thought about a dash (both ground and air). I want to increase the pacing of the game, which is why I am adding grind rails in the first place. The big concern is animation work though. That is very time consuming to get to look decent!
@@Level_reDesign i feel ya, i was just thinking "why would there be random lines to grind on in that places xD" the rest of the room furniture feels so well placed and thought of so yeah a dash or gliding would make more sense to me - but you are doing the work so you know best whats harder to create :) keep it up!
I would not recommend using the CableComponent for the ropes as it could move with physics, and you cannot easily track and control that. I would suggest using a SplineMeshComponent instead (that is driven by a SplineComponent). Cool project !
For the Auto aim, I think you should make it so that the character smoothly turns towards the enemy, rather than just snapping the laser to the enemy. It looks janky to go from shooting nothing, the laser snapping to an enemy, then snapping back when the enemy is defeated.
Yeah, so the plan is I am going to actually aim the arm in the direction of the target, then lerp it between targets. Lerp is basically just doing something over a specific amount of time, so in this case, moving the arm to aim between different targets over a specific amount of time (likely just a few frames though I won't know exactly until I start doing it). So while it looks a little silly right now, it will be corrected! :)
@@Level_reDesign It's a shame, Resistance 2 is one of Insomniac Games' classics, so much quality and detail, although any Resistance game is impressive, if you could try it out and maybe remake one of them, that would be amazing and I would be so grateful.
About gameplay graphic art style. Would be amazing if you would make the graphic style like it was in toy story 3 game. Btw you ever thought about remaking Toy Story 1. Would be amazimg to get a 2d game with new graphic ❤
I played Toy Story 3 back in October, and man is that a good game. It still looks incredible on the Series X too! I mentioned Spyro as an inspiration for the art direction, but a better goal to set would have been a style in between of Spyro Reignited and TS3. As far as Toy Story 1, I think it would be fun to remake, but I'm not looking to do any 2D games at the moment, mostly because I am still trying to get really good at 3D game development.
@@Level_reDesign hope you will really finish this project one day. Btw if you wanna look for a good Buzz anim idea, toy story 3 game really nailed that heroic Buzz anim,hope the remake will have an anim like that.
Thank you for the offer! We actually have an animator who is on the project now as of a couple of weeks ago! The animations are looking incredible! I can't wait to show them off! :)
I am actually not against that idea, but I need more done before it would ever get greenlit. Also, I need some better art too first. At the very least, I would need the first level 100% done to maximize the chance of them approving it. But Disney has been publishing a lot since they closed down their internal studios.
It seems like your understanding of the dot product is a little off. Assuming that the 2 vectors used in the dot product have a unit length of 1 then the dot product will return 0 if the 2 vectors are perpendicular to each other (90 degree difference in their heading angles). If they are perfectly opposing each other, then it will return -1.
Oh, you are completely right. Dot products go from -1 to 1, not 0 to 1. I don't know how I missed that when writing the script. I'm pretty sure I even have footage with debug prints that show that too. The principle of how I'm specifically using it still works, but it is really unfortunate to have that incorrect, as it could cause issues for someone trying to find who is directly behind them.
Great extra update! The principal was explained well in my opinion. :)
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I love this. I hope we get an official remake at some point. Travelers tales still going strong with the Lego games. If not a playable demo with this remake would be 👌
I thought tt was dead? Remember they died after Lego Star Wars Skywalker Saga was completed and Lego Mickey’s Clubhouse was canceled?
@ric3poversace477 nah mate, I assume they did get close to liquidation around 2006 but in 2007 Warner Brother bought up the company to save it and they'll still around too this day making lego games. Hope that helps
@@ItsRexxys most lego games these days are made by other companies then TT though.
Edit: i see they released Lego star wars in 2022, so guess they still around like you said
@solid_justice5855 there's rumours their making a new Harry Potter lego game, so definitely still around...
Love the grind rail idea--Buzz is always doing stuff like that in the movie, so it's a natural addition to the game's moveset. The toy car track idea is awesome.
Or he could use a tech deck! I know it's not a toy story product, but a historic toy nonetheless.
Such a childhood core memory playing this game with my mom. I’m 27 now and I still randomly say “buzz, over here!” 😂 this looks awesome
Rex screaming at Buzz is a core memory for me 😆
For Buzz's animations, I believe something similar to the PS3 Toy Story 3 game would fit very well!
Okay I instantly subscribed as this is one of the games I've been wanting to see remade the longest.
Fantastic series man!
With how much Disney has been doing re-releases the last few years, I wouldn't be surprised to see an official remaster/remake of this eventually
@@Level_reDesign will we be able to get our hands on this when it's done?
This is absolutely awesome. Toy Story 2 was the first game I ever played, and now seeing this project exist is beyond epic!
This is one of my all time favorite games. Im so glad to see it get remade
This was a treasure game for my childhood, and seeing someone put so much work into not only the visual aspect, but the gameplay aspect brings me an incredible amount of joy. Please continue with your project, and please publish the finished project for people to enjoy and play for Nostalgia purposes
This sounds like it's extra work for not much reward, but as the new Buzz model buttons are part of the rig for his model it would be awesome if he pressed one of the buttons every time he opens his wings like in the movie. Also the grind rails as hot wheel tracks is a great idea. You should definitely do that!
was actually thinking of this yesterday. so happy to see the progress you've made. Keep it up, you got this!
Yeah, I meant to have this out on the 15th, but got busy with my home life. So sorry about being late lol
@@Level_reDesign i completely understand. as long as you are taking care of yourself and yours, that's what truly matters and comes first. take care my dude and i cant wait to see where you take this game 🙏
So excited to see this progress further! There’s so many ways the gameplay can modernise 🤩
A front flip when he jumps would be very Buzz! Maybe also some way to direct a double jump so if the player collided with a wall, Buzz can leverage the wall to jump even higher/further?
Also in the vein of Toy Story 2, having an option for Buzz to have his utility belt would be cool. You could have an additional feature where the power goes out to Andy’s house and Buzz has to turn on his utility belt for a single light source and make his way down to the basement to turn the power back on. Could be an interesting challenge on some of the interior levels!!
Amazing work though man - so excited for the next video!
I don't even know if it's worth adding, since the original game didn't have it. And regarding the ability to jump off the wall. This should probably be left for the remastered Shrek game for Xbox and Gamecube.
Amazing stuff remember playing this game as a child and to see it be redone is just great stuff! Cant wait to see it to its fullest completion!
If I remember correctly, the spin attack also mde you dizzy if you did it for too long. Making you vulnerable to enemies.
It does make Buzz dizzy in the original game, though I may not add that. It is still undecided. I am trying to make the combat a bit faster paced, much like Metroid Prime remastered compared to the GameCube version. That's also why I am keeping aiming in a focused 3rd person mode instead of making it first person. I'm not changing tons about the game, but I am trying to modernize it a little
I RUclips searched "Toy Story 2 Remaster" just out of curiostiy because I randomly thought about the game, cool to see this progress and project in general.
Thank you for watching! If you watch my latest episode from a couple of weeks ago, we actually have new art in the project that looks amazing! :)
8:27 - 8:30 all of the audio files are on the SFX folder on the downloadable PC version which you can get for free.
Also thank you for shouting out the Toy Story 2 Speedrun community!
OH! I actually had no idea the audio files were so easy to get! Thank you!
No problem, you can customize them if you want. Also as a meme, for the Car enemy, make the model similar to Lightning McQueen
This looks fantastic, I can’t wait for this!!!
Dot products elude and confound me, so no shame in that! This entire project is super impressive and a huge inspiration for me as an aspiring game dev. Keep up the great work!
In terms of art style, my personal preference would be to stay true to the art style in the first two Toy Story movies. One cool thing about this is that Pixar actually released a texture library that features many of the textures used in the first movie, so you could really replicate the look. However, ultimately it's up to you, and a Spyro-remake-esque art style could be cool too! Do what you want to see, because that will give you the most motivation to continue working while having fun doing it.
My inner child is screaming of enjoyment
God I love this, looking forward to the next episode!
I never got to play this game as a kid and I feel like I should so I can appreciate this that much more.
Love watching this.
damn bro this looks like a dream come true! hopefully we can get a playable demo soon
Solo dev, vs. AAA company. With how far this is going, my money is on this dude.
I will say that as of last week, I am no longer a solo on this project, but we are still a very small team! Just wait until you see the new art and animations lol
@@Level_reDesignoi! Way to hype us up 😂
This is so cool! In the future, it'd be cool to a remake of the game where he races around the map and has some boss fight at the end
I hope Disney and Pixar won't get angry and complain.
I have so much nostalgia for that game. I played it on pc way back.
This is super entertaining. I didn't even play this game and I am still committed to follow this to completion XD
This is awesome!! I love your additions. It's always a bit annoying having to exit some areas, and your solution with the Rail system it's very fun and engaging. Also, I love the idea of making it look like the Spyro remake. The stylized art style would be fantastic. I would love to help creating 3D assets if you like. Anyway, great work!
What a great project, I played the original when I was a kid 😊
Fun fact in toy story 3 game and Disney infinity they are grind rails pretty fitting adding it in here truly feels like a remaster
Yeah, I played Toy Story 3 for the first time about 7 months ago and really liked it!
I LOVE THIS. I would surely play this on stream. one of my favorite childhood games!
Man, not only are you remaking something that’s owned by Disney
You also announced a Patreon that will help “support the project”.
This is going to be C&D’d so damn hard eventually, I wish you wouldn’t have publicized this until it was ready.
Funny how this pops up after reading how the og game has trophies now for the ps5 version 😂 i cant wait to see more
I would really hope you publish this, that would fulfill some dreams here
I like the idea of having hot wheels tracks for the grind rails. This is an awesome project and i have such a nostalgic love for this game so I can't wait to see where it goes
Theres a toggle on most action inputs to allow them to execute when paused. What I normally do for pause menus is have the base widget as a variable in the player controller that gets set when the HUD is created, and run the pause logic there, so when the pause key is pressed the player controller executes the pause, loads the menu and because the input is set to execute when paused, when its pressed again, it toggles pause back off and removes the pause widget using the variable that got set then clears the variable ready to be used again, this is handy imo cos the player controller is where the input mode switches are handled anyway so saves casting to it or calling it in the pause widget itself. Hope that helps your alt F4 issue!
Thanks for the advice. The main thing is I just haven't made time to setup the UI yet, but you did say something that interests me.
I usually keep a reference to the UI as you suggested, but when I am done, I collapse it until I need it again. Do you know if it is better or best practice to remove the widget instead of collapsing it?
I've wanted a remake or remaster of this game for years, finally someone is working on it.
Now we just need one of A Bug's Life...
great work. I look forward to what's next for this remake. hope we get to play it one day!
The Hot Wheels car on a track for the grinding is such a good idea! If its of any help, the car used on the first movie is a Hot Wheels "Red Baron". In the second movie, the car is a Hot Wheels "8 Crate". There's also a real life kit of the 2nd movie with a track loop and with a red "Classic Nomad" Hot Wheels
That's super useful info! I only know of the Rocket League cars that came to Rocket League back when I used to play that a lot lol
I call for a crowdfund to be setup to help Level reDesign complete the remake!
I second this. The Patreon is helpful though too!
Didn't even know someone's going to make a remake of this game until now!
I wouldn't use a single visual object for the grind rails, but something fitting to each environment. For example, Hot Wheels track in the bedroom, hanging wires or copper pipes in basement, etc.
You are a sad strange little man. lol! I loved this game growing up! I hope you will make it available to play when it’s done!
dot product actually has a range from -1 to 1.
1 is the same direction
-1 is the opposite direction
0 is perpendicular
Unreal Engine may normalise that range to 0 to 1
It's fully commendable to redesign this cult game when Disney doesn't seem to want to do any tie-in video games to their films anymore. Obviously, there's still a lot of work to be done, but I am liking the updated models.
One thing to take note is that I do hope that if you think of doing the later levels to add new elements to the gameplay so it isn't a full carbon copy of the original. For example, giving more uses for the Potato Head items like Disc Launcher and Hover Boots or maybe make some new NPC enemies. One of the complaints many fans have of the original is that that stupid Dinosaur boss in Al's Toy Barn is so stupidly easy. It would be fun to maybe update that boss to make him more tricky.
Good luck with the rest of the project though, godspeed
Yeah, I'm going to keep it mostly the same, but add some small elements here and there. I think the shield isn't even required for 100% technically. Or if it is, it is just one or two times. So my added elements are mostly to make certain aspects of the original game seem more useful, even if it is small interactions. For example, we just modeled the Globe, and it spins if you use the spin attack!
You can use IK retargeting to create duplicate retargeted animations. It's a bit of work and takes time and fiddling, but it really works and is the solution you're looking for
Glad to see this series continue, thanks for another look at your development! I've noticed you use Trello to keep track of your tasks, something I should start doing too to keep all of my thoughts and ideas in one place! I'm curious to know if you also use revision control in your project, in case you need to roll-back to a previous version of your work? Would love to know!
Hi! Thanks for watching! Yes, I use the free version of perforce and back up everything to a separate PC in a different room of the house. I actually used it some to go back and get footage from different points of development, as I only record what I need to. I do not record everything I do lol
Also, I've seen Trello used for a lot of things. Game devs usually use it to keep track of tasks, but the company First 4 Figures, who make resin statues, uses it to publicly show where in the production/distribution process the statues are if you preorder them.
Very cool! 👍
Though you dont have to hoop up all of the struct parameters of the getter and setter like that.
You can set individual parameters on structs using the "break" and "set members" nodes.
On the right side panel you can change which parameter pins to show/hide.
Oh that's super helpful! Thanks
I absolutely would love you to incorporate my 3 Idea Video Playlist to the the actual games that each talk about.
Remember when buzz was trying to escape Al's toy barn how he jumped on the toy connected to a rope that might work
That's not a T-Pose, that's falling with style!
Really enjoying your videos and that you’re doing the Toy Story remake! Subscribed and looking forward to more!! Do you use Trello for your project management?
Yes, Trello is so great! :)
This reminds me of that level in hello neighbor when your tiny and you climbing threw the closet
Absolutely the grind rails should be the hot wheels tracks! Maybe even make it more like skateboarding where he rides a car down the track
I would love to see an upgrade to the laser that makes it a solid beam like in the original movies. Might be a bit overpowered, but would be neat to see!
Cool stuff! Unreal 5.3 has some really nice Animation Retargeting additions they've made; you could consider using the old Buzz model in Mixamo to get the animations and then retarget them to your new one
Look into UE5's new IK Retargeter. You're able to share animations between different skeletons at runtime without any type of retargeting of individual animation assets. Lyra has an example of it being used too if you need reference, otherwise I'm sure there's tutorials out there on it
Personally, while a more Spyro style-painterly look wouldn't be bad, I'd personally prefer the visual direction to be more faithful to Toy Story 2 *the movie* as a showcase of how far technology has come as well as it just being neat to have a playable version of the movie in real-time that just so happens to be a remake of the Toy Story 2 *game* (kinda like a Render96 situation)
I hope you are going to do a "Woody's Workshop" thing that was an early internet hoax where if you collected 100 coins in Andy's House, you'll unlock something special, I'd love to see that become a reality
Will you have other video tutorials on your channel with explanations regarding game development in the Unreal Engine 5?
The issue is I'm not very good at communicating in a way that helps with deep levels of education. So, while not against it, I don't think I will do tutorials, mostly because of that and my charisma not being anything special. This is why in my current videos, I stay pretty basic with what I mention on a technical level. Though, I do try to teach at least one or two concepts of technical game design or programming every episode. In this episode, it was the dot product moment for example (which I got wrong because I was recording the episode at something like 4 or 5am and didn't catch it in editing lol).
I will also mention that I want to do more of my simple videos as well. They won't make anything financially like these Toy Story videos will, but it is at least more content for my fans to enjoy while I work on this game lol If you didn't see, an example of this was an episode where I talk about my favorite game devs on RUclips. That video became more work than I expected still, but it was nothing to how much work goes into this game haha
I think instead of just grinding, let buzz use his wings too and glide. That would be so fucking cool like at the construction site weaving through the girders. Although places like the staircase should be grindable. While im thinking bout the construction site it would be cool if you make a really big splash in the concrete if you fall from a great height that was one of my favorite things jumping in concrete from up high.
Great work
I’d be happy to rather pay full price for this when it’s finished than for another new AC
it's be great for a BLOSC UE game each episode will be a mission and I'd say a proper conclusion is for Zurg to be VERY SECURELY ARRESTED which I know they couldn't really do in the pilot because Zurg would definitely get a Death Sentence but seriously if a modern cannon friendly UE game was made for BLOSC that'd be the best sci fi cop/military game EVER!!
Wow, that's a real cool project, Zachary, congrats! I've loved Toy Story since I was a kid but never heard of this game (maybe because I didn't have a ps1 at the time), really interested to see it develop and the new spins you're putting on it! I am a 3D Animator myself, trying to put myself out there and develop my skills more, so I would really like to help you in making the animations for the project, if you'd like! 😁
Thank you! I have an animator working on the Buzz animations now actually! But join the TS2 Speedrun discord server in the description, and reach out to me there!
I love this, I really hope i get to play your game.
I hope someday we get a toy story game with the same graphics of part 3, would feel like being inside the films
Maybe for in two game generations ahead
Personally would like to see the art style replicate 90's era Pixar. Would be a fun nod to see the cheesy wood textures and stuff that they used (and might make any animation problems more forgivable)
RE: Grind rails - what if instead of having 2 separate objects for it, might be cool if grinds, ziplines and swinging poles were all the same object and the player can use them for different purposes based on how they approach it. Opens up more possibility for player expression.
As far as the grind rails go, I considered making them the same, but the issue is if I change the mesh of grind rails to hot rail tracks, then ziplines don't make sense at that point. So it depends more on the art I add than anything else right now
I hope you give Buzz and maybe some of the other characters facial animations (such as when he gets hurt, uses his laser or spin attack, or when he's talking to others).
While we haven't started facial animations yet, since this video has come out, nearly all of Buzz's body animations are complete! :)
Ps1 A Bugs Life needs a remake after you’re done with this one👀
I played the Bugs life game as a kid and loved it, but I haven't played it since. I should try it again soon! I think I have watched the speedrun of it during GDQ though
I love this game
This is really cool, as this was one of my fav childhood games. However, I must add that I played the PC version, so I do not remember the PS1 version. It just kinda sounded like you weren't aware of the PC versions' existence in the intro
Yeah, I actually did know about the PC and N64 versions, but to keep the intro short, I just mentioned the most popular version. However, I didn't find out until just a few months ago that there was a Dreamcast version, which was really interesting
As your designing this, can you also add custom legel editors and other things?
It'd be so cool to get a regular stream of new levels and stories similar to the Toy Story gane for PS3
I literally got recommended your previous video yesterday, how does that happen? does youtube know you were gonna post today? lol
Just an idea to throw out there but have your thought about using the toy story 3 game assets ?
Someone hire this man to remake the Disney PS1 games rn!!!
Hey
Progress is coming along very nicely!
I do have one question, for the collectables, why not just have a base collectable and create child collectables for each type?
It would remove the need for the enum,and the switch with masses amount of code.
BP_Collectable would handle the pick up and call a function `PickedUp`
Collectable_Coin - would override PickedUp and run the code
Collectable_PizzaToken - same thing
Unless I missed something? :)
Hey! Great question! The answer is that since the collectables system is so small in this game, I wanted to test out different ways to quickly change collectable types in the editor without having to drag in different child blueprints. So, if I want to change a pickup from a pizza token to a coin, I can just change the enum type, argument, and mesh, which would hopefully be faster than dragging in a different bp into the scene. Since all of the pickups in this game are super simple, the code is small enough where I could justify doing it this way as a test. I could take this further if I wanted to treat it more like a tool and even automatically change the meshes as well depending on the enum selected (a coin type will always use the coin mesh for example).
I'm not sure this is actually really worth it though compared to the time it would save, so you are probably right that this isn't the optimal way of doing it. But like I said, I just wanted to try lol
@@Level_reDesign Hey! Thanks for the response :)
Nope that makes perfect sense. Build the tool for what you need, not for what it might not ever be :D
interestingly , the spin attack is in KH3
You should delete the skeleton rig of buzz and bring it back into mixamo and have them generate an armature for you. Then it will work. You can then add your own personal animations to it from blender
Hi level redesign in your fable 1 remake can you make brightloge from fable legends beta , fable legends was a prequal to fable 1 but got cancelled and id like to see a broken down brightloge as i think it would make sesnce that brightloge would be abandoned whilst having loot from the old kingdom for the player to loot 😊
@@squidplays7352 I do want to go back to my Fable remake eventually. I only set it on pause because of a plug in issue that I was waiting for the dev to fix that kept getting promised would be fixed soon.
I will have to look at that from Fable Legends. I never played the public Fable Legends beta demo. I wish I had :/
I wanna play this remake😮
Grind feels a nice addition but how about just gliding with a boost in a set direction ? To make buzz dream come true.. atleast for some seconds
Hey! Great question! I hadn't considered a glide, however I have thought about a dash (both ground and air). I want to increase the pacing of the game, which is why I am adding grind rails in the first place. The big concern is animation work though. That is very time consuming to get to look decent!
@@Level_reDesign i feel ya, i was just thinking "why would there be random lines to grind on in that places xD" the rest of the room furniture feels so well placed and thought of so yeah a dash or gliding would make more sense to me - but you are doing the work so you know best whats harder to create :) keep it up!
I would not recommend using the CableComponent for the ropes as it could move with physics, and you cannot easily track and control that. I would suggest using a SplineMeshComponent instead (that is driven by a SplineComponent).
Cool project !
For the Auto aim, I think you should make it so that the character smoothly turns towards the enemy, rather than just snapping the laser to the enemy.
It looks janky to go from shooting nothing, the laser snapping to an enemy, then snapping back when the enemy is defeated.
Yeah, so the plan is I am going to actually aim the arm in the direction of the target, then lerp it between targets. Lerp is basically just doing something over a specific amount of time, so in this case, moving the arm to aim between different targets over a specific amount of time (likely just a few frames though I won't know exactly until I start doing it). So while it looks a little silly right now, it will be corrected! :)
Shaping up really nicely! For audio are you allowed to use the original game audio or would that get it nuked by Disney?
I don't think it would be at any more risk than the rest of the project. Plus, I would love to have you walk by Rex and just hear, "BUZZ! BUUUUZZZZZZ"
Hello, could you do Resistance 2 remake, please?
I am a big fan of insomniac games, though unfortunately, I've not played resistance 2 yet!
@@Level_reDesign It's a shame, Resistance 2 is one of Insomniac Games' classics, so much quality and detail, although any Resistance game is impressive, if you could try it out and maybe remake one of them, that would be amazing and I would be so grateful.
About gameplay graphic art style. Would be amazing if you would make the graphic style like it was in toy story 3 game. Btw you ever thought about remaking Toy Story 1. Would be amazimg to get a 2d game with new graphic ❤
I played Toy Story 3 back in October, and man is that a good game. It still looks incredible on the Series X too! I mentioned Spyro as an inspiration for the art direction, but a better goal to set would have been a style in between of Spyro Reignited and TS3.
As far as Toy Story 1, I think it would be fun to remake, but I'm not looking to do any 2D games at the moment, mostly because I am still trying to get really good at 3D game development.
@@Level_reDesign hope you will really finish this project one day. Btw if you wanna look for a good Buzz anim idea, toy story 3 game really nailed that heroic Buzz anim,hope the remake will have an anim like that.
w in the chat for this dude
Is this available for download at all?
Id love to help you work on the sound design for this, one of my all time favourite games growing up
Will this be available to play when it's finished
I'm hoping someone will remake sonic adventure 1
Also fantastic remake
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Ah this guy again
@@sicemshooters what? 🤨
If you want I could also make some animations for all the characters, would probably take abt a month or two for buzz
Thank you for the offer! We actually have an animator who is on the project now as of a couple of weeks ago! The animations are looking incredible! I can't wait to show them off! :)
Do you plan to release this game at some point as a remake?
Reach out to Disney to get this published
I am actually not against that idea, but I need more done before it would ever get greenlit. Also, I need some better art too first. At the very least, I would need the first level 100% done to maximize the chance of them approving it. But Disney has been publishing a lot since they closed down their internal studios.
I can't play your latest video. It just loads ad infinitum.
No way, my Childhood favorite game. Pls tell me I can buy it when it's finished.
This is so cool!!!!!!