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Getting Started

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Getting started with Create mode is is a doddle, as LittleBigPlanet guides you along every step of the way with handy tutorials. Below is a selection of these tutorials, and other nuggets of wisdom to help you along your way to becoming the greatest Creator in all of LittleBigPlanet.

First of all, you'll need to learn how to move around, and some other basics of Create mode!

Hovering

You can look down upon your vast creations by soaring through the air. Simply Press Down and you’ll begin to hover. Now you can fly up to those hard to reach parts of the landscape. Pressing Down again will turn off the hover mode, and you’ll land safely back down on your tippy toes.

Undo

You can rampage through the creative process like there’s no tomorrow safe in the knowledge that if you do make a freddy fluffy you can simply go back and correct it. Pressing Left will rewind and undo errors, Right will fast forward in case you didn’t really want to undo that error after all, and Up will pause – but no ordinary pause…Everything in the world is frozen in time except you and your fellow sack people, so you can run riot without breaking anything.

The Thermometer

The Thermometer

Although most of Newton’s laws are bent and broken in the dreamtime we call LittleBigPlanet, some can’t be fannied around with; namely the one about ‘too much stuff in one place just isn’t allowed’. See the thermometer at the side of the screen? You’ll notice the temperature rising as your creation gets bigger. It’s telling you you’re running out of space, so keep a beady on it, okay? You don’t want to pop your dream cloud, do you?

Check out this Tips and Tricks video to find out how to keep the Thermometer from overheating. It's geared towards the PlayStation®3 version, but some of the same principles apply!



Using Popit to Create

Using Popit to place Stickers

Popit isn't just useful for Playing LittleBigPlanet - in Create mode it provides you with all the tools, resources and abilities to literally create just about anything you blooming well want to. You can brighten the place up a bit with some stickers for instance, check it out...

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Placing objects

Placing Objects

With Popit you can bring an object into existence with a loud *poof* noise, and then if you don't like it, just make it disappear again - one moment it's there, one moment it's not, keep your eye on the ball!

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Craft Materials

Craft Materials - the basics

There are loads of Craft Materials to collect and use to build your level, all of them with different properties. Some are good for making bridges out of, others are better suited to making things to grab onto.

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Switches

Buttons and switches bring even more control to your creations. All buttons and switches can control other objects – for example, a Motor Bolt. Here are the various types of switches available to you, all found within the nooks and crannies of the Goodies bag!

Popit Icon Switch name What does it do?
Sensor Switch Sensor Switch Activates when player comes near.
Magnetic Key Switch Magnetic Key Switch Activates the Magnetic Key Switch.
Magnetic Key Magnetic Key Activates the Magnetic Key Switch.
Sticker Switch Sticker Switch Activates when a sticker is applied to connected object.
2 way Switch 2-Way switch A two-position switch.
3 way Switch 3-Way Switch A three-position switch
Grab Switch Grab switch Apply to grabbable material. Activates when material is grabbed, deactivates when let go.
Button Button Activates when pressed, deactivates when released