TheBeardyMan
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Touchpad touch position and swipe vector outputs for Controller Sensor
For some controls, there are good reasons for the Controller Sensor not to provide outputs for them - PS button and Share are reserved for the PlayStation OS, and Options is used by Dreams for rece...
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Tools for creating "Play and Edit" scenes
Looking at the templates in the latest update, "Play and Edit" scenes are a good way to illustrate how to use and customize elements, and it would be nice if creators could make Play and Edit scene...
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Proof-read the effects of non-default cover photo cropping on text appearing in photos
If you've looked at the Fantasic Fantasy feed - which has a square cover photo crop instead of the default rectangular crop for dreams - appearing in Dreamsurfing right now and scrolled far enough ...
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For upcoming improvements to Sun & Sky gadget, combine longitude and time of day into a single tweak, and add an axial tilt tweak
The "Time Gadget" item in the "In The Works" column on the Trello (https://trello.com/c/5z9OI3ON/39-time-gadget) mentions that it will also add extra tweaks to the Sun & Sky gadget to enable it to ...
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A "reference dream" setting when editing a scene or an element to allow the thermo to include per dream limits
There are things that can be added to scenes and elements that count against per dream limits. For example, persistent variables have a limit of 128 per dream, and I think scoreboards also have a l...
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Use whole sculpt as colour mixer
When you look at the surface of the shape that you get when you add blobs to a colour mixer, it appears to be made of soft blended spheres, which is not a mathematically simple shape. Using the ful...
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Sculpt Detail tool should always give live clones same colour even when they're at different scales and "consider scale" is on
When the Sculpt Detail tool's "consider scale" setting is on, the intent of the colour is to indicate how unnecessary a sculpt's level of detail is. But when it makes a smaller live clone redder th...
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Text Displayer synchronization cues
Suppose that I have a Text Displayer tweaked to display its text over a period of time, and I want some events to be synchronized with the text reaching certain points. I could put those events on ...
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"Scaler" gadget to change an object's scale while leaving other forces free to change its translation and orientation
If I want to change the translation of an object while leaving other forces free to change the other components of its transform, the movers and rotators family of gadgets offers a selection of mov...
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Bring Newtonian forces out from behind the modesty curtain of "target speeds", "strengths", and "densities"
At times, Dreams' attitude to Newtonian forces can seem like Victorian England's apocryphal attitude to curvy table legs. We know that Newtonian forces are in there somewhere - the physics simulati...