Facial Hair Showcase + Objects With Editable Text + Funny Bugs
Hey everyone!
Alex here today. I have one Paramaker thing, one build mode thing and one live mode thing to show you!
Video: Facial Hair Combinations
The video at the top of this post 🎥 is all about showing how you can combine various beards and mustaches in Paralives. Léa worked on this feature a while back and we wanted to show you how you will be able to customize facial hair to create the look you have in mind! Note that more beards and mustaches will be created before launch.
Build Mode Objects With Editable Text
Some of you might remember that a long time ago we showed a feature that lets you edit the text that appears on some objects in build mode. Today, we wanted to share a new look at this feature and how it allows you to get creative with different objects.
For this occasion, Chloé created a motivational poster and a front door rug. In build mode, there will be many objects that will support editable text. Just select the object and click the text button to change it to your liking.
Parafolks will be really motivated now.
When visiting Paras are overstaying their welcome, you might be tempted to change the front door’s rug…
Live Mode Animation Bugs
I thought you would like to see more funny bugs we got while working on live mode interactions and animations! It’s great to see Sebastian and Maggie dancing! Until they start partying a little bit too hard...
When you are dancing and it gets to your favorite part of the song.
When the Paramaker body customization sliders are messed up, the vibe of the whole game takes a different turn!
Have a great weekend and take care!
Alex
EDIT - January 11, 2023: This post is now public. Feel free to share it!
Comments (78)
Why can't you edit the chalk that says "Teacher is poopoo hed?"
Any updates coming?? We are all excited for Paralives :/
honestly this is just how i dance, nothing wrong here xD
Looks like the sims 5 was announced the other day and I think they showcased some of the features with building that look similar. I hope you guys are able to patent your stuff before the sims tries to take it and make you change the game again(idk if they can actually do this or not but they did it with the face dragging which every 3D sculptor uses on a daily basis so its certainly not new technology). I'm way more excited about this game than the sims 😂
I really hope they can protect the game and don’t let greedy EA get the final say
Ah I'm so excited for this game!! Thank you for providing so much transparency with everything. Keep up the good work!!
Curious on when a alpha build will be available for us.
Will Paralives be available on Mac and PC?
Yes! It will be available for both Mac and PC
I am super excited about that facial hair and being able to mix and match it like that!
🤗💕💗🥳
I love the look of everything I wonder if you guys could implement a scissor sound when selecting hair and facial hair? Really excited to see more stuff keep it up!
My beard is patchy and very low density. I see that all the examples showcased in the video are of very high density facial hairs. Will we have low density beards in the game as well? I understand that they are very performance expensive and hard to implement, because they require some complicated techniques using transparency and whatnot, but I never feel myself represented in ANY games (not only life simulators) because they never dare to create an ugly beard style. Yes, my beard is ugly. Yes, I'm better off shaving it. But I'm lazy so...
Don't worry we are going to add more options for beards, including patchy, low-density ones!
I'm new here and so excited about everything ! This game is going to be something huge !! I am so happy to help you in this development !
it's very great the text is one extraordinary idea.
This is just getting g more and more amazing 👏
That's a master stroke there, editable text. I'm so looking forward to this. You're a Simmers dream Mr M! 😄💖
LOVE THAT MUSIC IN THE BACKGROUND
Another great update! I seriously cannot wait until release day! Great job team!
Awesome stuff! I can wait to see the makeup sets. I just know you guys are going to deliver an awesome experience in paramaker 🤩
Awesome! Another wonder wonderful unexpected, but so much wanted, feature with editable text! Will in-game photos also be captionable? I'm imagining photos on the wall labelled like "Amanda's First Day At School" and "Off to University" and "Christmas 2022" and "Family Day at the Beach" etc. I would use this soooo much! I suspect they will be, but I'd just like confirmation. Thanks!!
I LOVE the salty welcome mat!! I'm always amazed by the littlest details!
Thank you!!
Stackable beards?! I never even thought of that! With the current beard assets alone that already creates so much opportunity! I gotta say, it’s kinda creepy to see Sebby without his usual beard though! Who is that?!
Haha, I totally see what you mean!
it always looks great! Thanks!
Thank you :D
Hey, I just want to say, I hadn't thought of or expected something like editable text on objects, might seem a small thing at first glance but I think that will be an EXCELLENT feature for me. When I play the Sims I like to come up with weird challenge scenarios and ideas for how things should progress as I play, so I end up taking notes in a text document outside of the game. I often wish that I could be taking notes in a way that is in-game, to the point that I was looking for mods and trying to do weird stuff with tomb inscriptions, and having my sims write books for only that purpose of taking in-game notes. None of that really felt natural or intuitive though, but having note rooms with that writing literally on the walls, well I think that will be just perfect for in-game note-taking. That's an awesome unexpected new feature!
Nice! That would be a really cool way of using the text feature, thank you for sharing!
I love this! The editable text is such a nice little detail. The dancing was hilarious as well but I just wanted to ask...are Paras going to be able to dance with each other? Not just solo dancing on their own?
Thank you! We are planning to add multiple interactions and animations between two Paras and duo dancing is definitely something that we will want to have eventually!
Love the editable text option. I imagine a lot of inspirational door Mats and wall pictures ! Keep up the terrific work!!!
Yes! I know I'm gonna have a lot of fun with that! Thank you!
I legit LOLed at the unwelcome mat. 🤣
:D
lol Maggie looks like she got blind in the middle of the dancing
Hahaha!
This is hilarious! I will gladly wait several years for this to be polished and finished! No rush!
Thank you!!!!
Looks great guys! Amazing job!! Also, it's nice to have a sneak peak of Sebastian's last name!!
Thank you Sarah! Yes! We were happy to finally reveal his last name!
I have couple of notes/questions about features presented. 1. Would it be better renaming "Short beards" to "Stubbles" for clarity? 2. Currently it looks like each object with customisable text will have it's own font, but will that change in the future? So we could choose any font, from the ones present in the game, on any object with customisable text? 3. Will this feature with customisable text be extended to clothing?
1. That might work too! We still have to polish and proofread the names of all the Paramaker categories 2. You are correct, for now each object has its own font and you can't select a different font. It's possible that we will add the option to select the font you want for each object. It would be great 3. We are not planning to have that feature for clothing unfortunately but it would have been really cool! The way that our characters and clothing work, it would be a bigger technical challenge to have editable text on them. Maybe one day though!
The amount of customization, especially the changing text, is so brilliant!
Thank you <3
The facial hair combos and the leave mat? As someone who loves creating hairy male characters and as a loner who rarely gets left alone, I wholeheartedly approve 😌
Hehe, thank you!
Amazing customization. I feel like you guys are thinking of everything.
Thank you Kristen!
kind of a random detail but i wanted to say how much i love the texture of the little colour swatches (the little circles that look like they were made by a scratchy coloured pencil)! also, would you mind sharing what the colour swatch in the poster editing menu does? is it the colour of the text? loving everything about this post!
Thank you very much! It's the color of the black background for now but it might also include the text later
This is really great! But I do have a question. Will there be curly beards for our paras who are person of color?
Good question!
Nicely done team, incredible work! Later there could be some text sentences as Easter-eggs that add some custom effect, similar to how specific mob tags in Minecraft have funny Easter-eggs, or how different things happen when you have a specific name in Undertale
That would be really cool!
The level of detail is impressive
Thank you!
Renaming the Welcome mat to a Leave mat made me laugh even more than the bugs. That mat understands me. xD
Hehehe :D
Great update this week! SUPER excited for customized facial hair...!!!
Thank you!!!
Hi! Great work as always. I was just wondering of there's any way you could make the feet move as well when the paras are doing the dance animation? I understand if it's a technical thing, and it's not a big deal. It would just make it look less stale for me
Good feedback, thank you! We will have different dance interactions and some of them will surely move the character's feet
Thankyou Alex & team ! This post made my day as always ✨♥️ brilliant job!
Thank you Becky!! <3
THANK YOU! So few games allow you to handcraft the perfect combination of face fuzz. Finally, i'll be able to recreate my bum fluff beard down to a T :D P.S. Do you think it'd be possible to change the font of the wording on the welcome mat?
Glad you like it!!! Right now, it's not possible to change the font but it's possible that we will add it in the future
Sebastian Marquez? Nice to know
Yes, good eye! We hadn't revealed Sebastian's last name before
Ohhh those facial hair options look good!! Question: I'm a transman (ftm) and just on T, I don't have most of the body masculinity changes yet but do have some stubble now! Would it be possible to make trans paras and give them beards and such?
In Paralives, nothing will be gender locked so giving beards to your characters will not be a problem :)
THIS IS THE LEVEL OF CUSTOMIZATION I NEED IN GAMES OMG YASSS
:D
Looks great guys!!! I gotta ask: did you guys change the hair texture? Cause it looks a little different from the clothing layering video.
Yes, Sebastian hair texture has been polished
Titan dance party
Yes!!