Posted by Syroc on Aug 20 In LBP2, News | 61 Comments

I’ve spent yesterday at GamesCom and had the chance to pose some of the question you’ve send to me about LittleBigPlanet 2 to Spaff. You will find the paraphrased answers below, but first lets talk about some new things. :)

As you probably know by now Media Molecule has added a sequencer to LBP 2. Initially I wanted to tell you what it can do, but Alex Evans has beaten me to it. Watch him talk about the sequencer here

There is a new basic material called light matter, which behaves exactly like dark matter, but is of a beige colour and does not come with beveled corners. That’s of course nice, but you could also just stick an anti-gravity switch to everything you build and don’t to move. :)

Goo. Kotaku reported a while ago that there goo would feature in the game. That’s actually not true. Goo is not a new feature but rather you can tweak any material so that it sticks to something else and be emitted from the Creatinator.

Now to your questions.

Will we be able to take full resolution screenshots?
This is something Media Molecule wants to get in the game. It may not be full res in the end, but at least bigger than the current images.

Can we video capture our levels?
No, sadly not.

Can we change the look of the creatinator
This is also not true. It will be a helmet.

Will the layer glitch be an official tool?
No, it would, just like recording gameplay, take up to many resources. But they do hope it still works.

Is there a way to relate normal music notation to the music maker?
Yes, in a way. As you can see here if you know the piano keys you can easily re-make your favourite songs. Or compose your own songs.

How many sounds are there for the music maker
In one word. Plenty and you collect them throughout the story levels.

How animatable is Sackboy? Are you limited to movements you can make with the controller or can you use keyframes to create poses and then animate them?
Your are limited to what you can do with your controller.

Is water still a global property? Or can it be localised in a level?
It still a global property. There water droplets though which you can emit from emitters to create a more realistic rain. The good thing is this won’t take up as much thermo as it would in LBP 1 since the impact is calculated differently.

Will there be an inventory system?
No, but there will probably be someone in the community who makes one and shares it with everyone else.

Will I get a reward when someone uses my shared objects in their level?
Spaff wasn’t sure on this, but he said that there might be a pin for it.

Can we publish more levels than now?
There will be 20 slots for LBP 1 levels and another 20 for LBP 2 levels.

What if we create a level with someone else? Will they get credited too?
Probably not from the start, but at some point they want to have this in the game as well.

I’m sorry, if I forgot to get the answer for question. Or if I remembered the answer wrongly. :)

PS: Oh, and I’m pretty sure Spaff said that there won’t be a H4H trophy. ;)

  • http://www.littlebigland.com/ tin-cup-70

    Very nice Syroc :)

    “PS: Oh, and I’m pretty sure Spaff said that there won’t be a H4H trophy.”
    So no create trophy? That woud be great, the end of H4H :D

  • Malcolm

    Some disappointing stuff there :(

  • http://www.LittleBigLand.com LittleBigLand.com

    The Hunter Returns, good work Syroc!

  • Josh Overton

    Can we change the look of the creatinator
    This is also not true. It will be a helmet.

    tHAT SUCKS! sO HOW DO WE HAVE SACKBOTS WITH GUNS THEN AS THE PAINTINATOR DOESNT KILL SACKBOYS – OR CAN YOU MAKE IT DO THAT NOW????? ooops soz caps

  • Anonymous

    It’s no problem to let Sackboys shoot if you attach an emitter to them. ;)

  • Oli

    As some people mentioned there is kinda alot of disappointing stuff in there, but I guess we have to confirm the stuff that isn’t there, so we aren’t as disappointed on launch day :p

    Also, when you say 20 levels for LBP1 and 20 levels LBP2 does that mean that we have a total of 40 slots? Or does that mean that if we edit our levels from LBP1 and republish them they move from the LBP1 slot to the LBP2 slot and take up our 20 levels there? Is the reason why they can’t give us like 100 level slots? :)

  • Q-ManBling13

    Some good questions there, I actually though goo was going to be real.. Ah well. ;)

  • Anonymous

    I’m not quite sure how it works actually. I assume we have a total of 40, but they are limit to 20 per game.

  • Oli

    Okay that’s cool, 40′s good :)

  • http://www.littlebigland.com/forum/ bludhound

    glad to hear we’ll be getting bigger pics.

    great stuff syroc, hope you had fun at gamescom! ;)

  • DrPepper96

    hmmm, very interesting, I would want to fill my LBP 1 level slots before LBP 2, with my best levels.

    you guys got to remember guys that there will be alolt of stuff that wont be dissapointing.

  • Milod

    1. You could bolt a gun to a sackbot.
    2. You can have a gun follow a sack person or sackbot.
    3. You could attach paint switches to sackbots so they are killed by the paintinator.

    Yeah.

  • AgressivePandas

    I heard that you can draw water in places. Is this not true?

  • Anonymous

    There is an animated water material, but you can’t swim in that.

  • AlfieAlphA

    I would like to add a question is it true that the magic mouth is not going to exist anymore cause we can make our own voice over? If so how do u add it in the game like with: mic, ps eye, EXPORT IT (ideal)?

  • http://www.littlebigland.com/forum/ bludhound

    no, there will still be magic mouths as they’ve been seen in many of the videos of lbp2. Not sure how we’ll add voice overs into the game but my guess is through the ps eye. ;)

  • http://twitter.com/mrvladimircaste vladimir castellanos

    the good thing is you can give each level the value of 3 lbp levels. but 20 slots??!:(

  • http://twitter.com/mrvladimircaste vladimir castellanos

    Is there going to be a lbp3? because if there is one in THE FUTURE!!!!! (sorry for showing of) there should be more slots.

  • Tribbs_2009

    about sackbots, can they die from gas? fire? electric? drowning in water?

    about the direct control seat, can you instantly be sitting in it as soon as you start a level?

  • jkash4

    This is not true. Magic Mouths are still avalible in LittleBigPlanet 2. You can see them in the many videos. If there werent Magic Mouths, how would the people without mics. create Dialouge?

  • jkash4

    Im going to make a creatinator, that emits sackbots, with creatinators, and shoot sackbots with creatinators, and so on… XP

  • http://www.littlebigland.com/forum/ bludhound

    we’ve seen levels where you immediately start off in a vehicle being controlled by the direct control seat, so yes, you can instantly be sitting in it when starting a level.

    not sure about how sackbots can die, haven’t heard anything about that.

  • Littlebigledgend

    Well I hope that the sackbots can die and the coolest thing about sackbots is that you can make them hostile and be a zombie. I really like the controllenator it will be a very handy thing in the game. My new level will be entering the 4 in 1 competition it will be called Titanic Survival Challenge LBL:4 with real water. Please search it up when published. If you do I hope you enjoy it :)

  • Eric_k96

    Will there be waves? I mean when you get the water and you choose the colors etc… You can also do waves but there are not exactly waves, the water just rises up and down.

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  • Gio

    Will you keep any costumes from lbp1

  • Gio

    Will you keep any costumes from lbp1

  • Gio

    Will you keep any costumes from lbp1

  • Gio

    Will you keep any costumes from lbp1

  • http://twitter.com/mrvladimircaste vladimir castellanos

    I like the idea of still having all the old stuff. but wont that slow the ps3 down? if there is a lbp3 there going to find a way to have EVERYTHING in the game.

  • Juneson2155 is my ps3

    hey if u want to kill a sack bot can u use the MSG pack paint switch to soot their life down like shooting doors mosters anything like lbp 1

  • Juneson2155

    also i have about 17 or more dlc costumes will they be transferred to my lbp2 i already pre ordered it

  • Email

    Here’s a suggestion I had for recording that could work really well:

    “The recording solutions you guys are talking about is real-time recording, in which, obviously, the gameplay is drawn and recorded in real time. This could be a solution, although the amount of power required to constantly draw, encode, and write a 720p video at 30 frames per second is enormous. As it was said, that doesn’t make it impossible, you would just be sacrificing quite a bit of quality. The concept of real-time recording is as follows:

    If the game runs ideally at 30 frames per second, then each frame must be onscreen for no longer than 33 milliseconds in order to have smooth gameplay. Whenever you enter a level full of bombs, lights, etc., there’s a high chance the framerate will plummet, meaning that each frame takes quite a bit more time to draw. Did you notice the “mspf” counter in the lower right? That stands for milliseconds per frame, and constantly tells you how long the last frame took to draw. When you’re in an empty level, it reads 33.3, which is full speed. When you lag, however, you see big increases in that number, since it takes the game much longer to draw a single frame. Unfortunately, recording HD video at 30 frames per second simply isn’t possible because the extra time spent encoding and writing each frame to the video file means more milliseconds per frame, and more milliseconds per frame ultimately means a lower frame rate. Get it now?

    Alternatively, there’s a tried and tested method that’s come to be pretty popular among game developers. This is where all the magic happens. First of all, if MM is able to record and playback sackboy movements, what if they could record and play back entire level scenes exactly as they happened? With all the things going on, such as jumping sackboys, physics, and whatnot, you may think such a feat would be impossible. Well, actually it’s not. For example, Super Smash Bros. Brawl, the Half Life 2 engine, and other games can pull this off with perfect results.

    “Ok, so let’s say MM could save our gameplay and play it back. Isn’t that a video?” Not exactly. This type of playback happens as if you were actually playing through the level again, which means you could only play it in the game and not on your computer, for example. However, something very cool can be done with the recorded scene. Instead of playing the scene and recording a video in real-time, (which isn’t practical remember?) MM could actually write code to record the scene a single frame at a time, eliminating ANY limitations on video quality. Say you enter a level, record a scene, spawn a heapload of exploding bombs, then play back your scene. Holy mackerel! These frames take 55 milliseconds to draw! But if you’re recording a scene frame by frame, it doesn’t matter how long each frame takes to draw.

    See, when you’re using this type of recording method, the game takes its time when recording the video, instead of rushing to play the scene at normal speed. Although during recording the scene will be very slow, when you play back your video, there will be absolutely no lag. The scene will play back at full 30 frames per second no matter what’s going on! Frame by frame recording is brilliant because of this! You could then take your 720p HD video and share it, upload it to YouTube, do whatever, and not have to worry about lag at all! And the best part is, absolutely anyone can do this! You don’t need fancy expensive capture equipment or a shaky video camera. With this method everyone would have the power to record and share awesome lag-free HD video of their gameplay! In my opinion, if they’re willing to give it a try, MM should definately consider doing this.”

  • JASMINE

    is there any water levels in LBP2

    • Anonymous

      Yes, one or two. Plus loads among community levels

  • Bluffkarma

    Hey I dont how long ago this site was put up or the topic but maybe someone will answer well right now April 29 2011 there is a outage for psn but offline I have been making levels still and I was wondering if when pen gets back on will my levels be saved so I can publish them? Thanks

  • Bluffkarma

    Hey I want to know if I make levels offline (cause psn is down currently) if it will save the levels I made online do I can publish them? Anyone? Thanks

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_REXLLH6VU3L4DOTLDSKQ6K4XJM zachary

    hey what lvl can i find the dynamic water material in lbp2.

    • Anonymous

      In Patients Are A Virtue.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_REXLLH6VU3L4DOTLDSKQ6K4XJM zachary

    hey i need some help.how can i make lava that actually would hurt you if you touch it.

  • Rolinda (Epiclbpfan1)

    In littlebigplanet2 i cant come out of the entrance but any newly made account can. if i try to go into a level with an account that hasnt played before then they are the only ones who load into the level. i cant enter story levels or community levels. the only place that i can acualy be in is in my pod or the moon because you dont need to come out of the entrance things i also cant swich from create mode to play mode on the moon. so i put in littlebigplanet 1 in to see if the same thing hapened and it did’t.i even called the playstation network and nothing that the tolded me to do worked i had to make a seccond account and soon even that one got the same exact problem so did my cousin, brother and sister and just yesterday someone online had the exact same problem i dont know who to ask anymore no one can give me an answer plz HELP!!!! 

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_M3FMKL6IUTKY7FMLCPA4DFETZA Rolinda

    WHY ISN’T THERE A GIR COSTUME IN LITTLE BIG PLANET2 WHYYYYYY PLZ MAKE ONE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

    • maxvader

      there is lots but they are mostly from acing story levels and ps store

  • random man

    How do I get sackbots ? I beat the game

  • Mr chicken

    @random man complete sackbot tutorial on my moon but you dont need to complete the game

  • Morganrose1010

    How do you take off the glitch that makes you ob fireand Burns kills you each time you try to go to a level?

  • babbelquinn13

     ok,so my friend and i were on her moon and we were playing on one of her levels that she worked hard on, she has no dlc and i have….a lot. i accidentally used some of my dlc on her moon like costumes and stuff… and she saved it.. now she cant access it how can she fix the problem…   she cant do anything at all with it is there a way that problem can be fixed … HELP!!
    ~ babblequinn13

    • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001048162557 Laura RedDragon Benditt

      Okay. This is easy. Ask your friend to publish it, but to make it copy-able, you copy it and place it on your moon, then go to your moon and take all the dlc you see off of everything. Then you publish it and make it copy-able so your friend can copy it. Hope this comment helps you. 

  • Toshiana Figueroa

    I play online and when I go on a prize bubble, I get the points, but I can’t collect the objects. Stickers or objects! I go to check and nothing is there. Help?

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001048162557 Laura RedDragon Benditt

    I have a question about the lbp Kart racing Beta. (I know it’s off topic, but it’s LittleBigPlanet, so it’s basically the same.) Anyway, I was dressing my player up and her Car, after I did, I took a picture of her in the kart. Then I press ‘upload’. (It was completely stupid, I know. Don’t rub it in…) I uploaded it, and I looked on my profile and it was there. I then went on lbp2 and guess what? I couldn’t see my profile, or my levels! I could see my Earth, but it wasn’t my decoration Earth. (It was the normal, dull one.) My moon was the same. (I don’t decorate my moon, so…yeah.) I can go in my moon and such, but I can’t see my profile/levels. As bad as that, when I go to ‘my profile’, it doesn’t have my pictures, comments, yays/normal face, and my hearted levels/creators. I NEED HELP WITH THIS! Will I ever see my profile and levels again? Or do I have to wait a year for the lbp karting race to be released? I have no idea. I wish I didn’t press that upload button…I regretted it deeply. Just wanted to tell everyone that…might get an answer. 

    • Awesome

      It’s not the same moron shut up

  • Guest1

    There is a level in story mode where you ride around in a hamster that does a dash attack though walls. I am so close to recreating that move using a sackbot but I only manage to do it once. If anyone has actually managed this it would be nice if you could lend a hand.

  • TK

    Why cant i make vehicles get hurt

  • POOP

    The world will end soon….so I am killing myself and my family.

  • POOP

    FML

  • http://www.facebook.com/rebeccadeborah.buttigieg.7 Rebecca Deborah Buttigieg

    Hi , My Sister Nichole Love Lbp 2 & She Also Loves To Create Levels But She Can’t Publish More Than 20 Levels & She’s Very Sad. She’s Deleting Some Levels So She Can Publish Another One Instead & She’s Missing Her Old Levels. What Can She Do ? She’s Telling Me That Some Other Players Had Published More Than 20 Levels & She Says That It’s Not Fair. Her Username Is ‘ trollpedia123 ‘ Thanks :)

  • Unknown(:

    Soooooo i have little big planet 2. & it works fine but i also have the special edition too. i have mor dlc on there so i use that but when i enter the pod it does not show up the square button for me to get on the controller & therefore i have to use the regular lbp with not much dlc #thissucks so i tried everything i deleted the game data and everything and redownloaded it so.. yah i had to take the disc out and use the regular plz help o.o