A Dreams creator has shared their recreation of a puppet from Unreal Engine 4 to make creating games easier for everyone else.
Dreams officially released last week on the PlayStation 4 after spending almost a year in early access. During that time, we got a taste of what Dreams was capable of thanks to dedicated game makers who made beautiful creations ranging from this recreation of Pelican Town from Stardew Valley to this collection of delicious looking English-style breakfasts.
But Dreams is just getting started. Now that the game has been officially released, the floodgates are open and thousands of new creators are flocking to what’s been billed as the thing that will change the way we make games as we know it.
What Dreams can do is something almost no other game engine has done before. You can make anything in Dreams, from custom levels to play the core game to entirely new games that have absolutely nothing to do with anything else. Or you can even make your own custom development tools to help other Dreams players make their own games.
Which is what Reddit user Drinkwater200 has done by recreating the Unreal Engine 4’s mannequin in Dreams.
This mannequin is a tool that comes bundled with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4, the same one that runs Fortnite, Borderlands 3, and a host of other modern titles. It’s there to make creating and animating human-like characters easier for other game development studios. It’s a good tool, and since Dreams’ creation software is powerful enough to recreate that same tool, Drinkwater200 used it as the basis for their mannequin.
That said, Drinkwater200 added quite a few features, like running and jumping animations, a teleport dash, a top-down view, and a template loader so you can customize your mannequin. According to the official Dreams page, the Unreal Engine Puppet 4 has already been used in 9 creations and remixed by 5 other Dreams creators.
We’re only at the very beginning of seeing what the world makes out of Dreams, but with tools like this, it’s only a matter of time before we see something truly spectacular.
Source: Reddit
