Get out and play

Docs / Sports

Drive to F or B on the map, get out with F and walk onto the ground. Press N to join six-a-side: you and five teammates against six opponents. Approach the ball to start dribbling. The camera moves closer and follows the player and ball, widening when a shot travels away. Leaving the ground restores ordinary walking controls and framing. Trackpad zoom and Q/E still work. Team framing leaves room to find a passing lane; it never rotates to follow a shot.

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Keyboard football shots assist a goal within the facing cone. Clicking the ground supplies an exact direction instead. Basketball assists the selected hoop within 140 units, or 14 metres; moving and releasing with too little or too much power can miss. The dashed preview shows an obstacle-free trajectory. It does not guarantee a score through an obstruction.

A football must pass completely beyond the line, between the posts and below the bar. A basketball scores only while passing down through the ring. Close baskets count two; shots from at least 67.5 units count three. A goal or basket shows a short celebration, then the ball returns to its authored start. An out-of-bounds ball returns after two seconds. Pause freezes the simulation; charging is cancelled on pause, lost focus, boarding or leaving the ground. R retains scores and ball positions; Start over resets them.

Basketball recording · HD video

Connect the parts in Dream

The surface, ball and targets are explicit references. Labels don't make an object playable. These declarations are taken from the complete sports-practice.dream example:

sport football_practice(kind=football,surface=pitch,ball=match_ball,targets=[west_goal,east_goal],target_at=[0,12,0],target_size=[72,24]);
sport basketball_practice(kind=basketball,surface=court,ball=court_ball,targets=[west_hoop,east_hoop],target_at=[0,30,12],target_size=[4.3,4.3]);

target_at is a point in each target assembly's local coordinates. Placement heading, measured scale and surveyed base transform it into the actual world anchor. target_size is the football opening's width/height, or a basketball ring's clear X/Z diameter. Goals point local +Z out of the field; hoops point it into the court. Both targets must be static upright assemblies, at least 64 units apart, attached to the same surface. The football opening starts at ground level. This keeps the scoring geometry connected to the visible assets.

A ball is an ordinary measured Dream assembly with a round knockable body and impact(mode=bounce(...)). The example builds 22 cm and 24 cm balls from eight-local-unit shapes; uniform measurement scales their bodies too. Cars can still knock them around. The sports engine adds player possession and shots to that existing prop physics. It creates no separate physics world.

At most eight grounds fit one linked project. Surfaces must be distinct, non-overlapping, dry and nearly level, with no more than three units of sampled height variation. Ball bodies have world radius 0.5–3 and height twice that. Football openings are 6–120 wide and 4–50 high; basketball rings are 2.5–12 in each direction, large enough for the ball, and 16–50 above the ground. Balls and targets keep the existing scene object and reactive-object budgets.

The complete scene compiler validates these connections after module linking. The engine owns controls, gravity, contacts, scoring and camera behavior. Dream supplies data, never controller scripts.

The live world uses six-a-side matches. Both teams move, defend, pass and shoot. Football has one goalkeeper per side in a different kit. Keepers stay near their own goal, catch reachable balls and pass them out. Opponents can take possession; get close, face the carrier and press K to tackle it back. A successful tackle has a .6-second recovery. K asks a teammate for the ball when they hold it, or passes towards an open teammate when you hold it. The action label and its availability follow those same rules.

The scoreboard keeps separate home/away scores and remaining time. A match ends at its authored score target or deadline; N starts a new round. Leaving the ground rests team movement and match time. Returning resumes them. R retains results, pause freezes time, and Start over clears matches. Saves retain poses, possession, tactics clocks and both grounds' results.

The city shares one eleven-NPC squad between its two grounds, including the four earlier sports residents. That fits the existing 32-NPC budget alongside civic life and transit. The squad assembles at the latest joined venue; it does not walk between grounds. Only one match plays at a time. These are bounded arcade team rules. Fouls, offside, bank-shot backboard physics and a competition rulebook remain separate work. Drawing interpretation and real model calls remain deferred.

Assets and controls verification includes native HUD captures, four asset angles and the media audit.

Match verification and four-angle assets.

Make teams in Dream

These declarations come unchanged from the complete team-sports.dream. It supplies its own rigs, balls, goals, surfaces and player spawn.

sport football_practice(kind=football,surface=pitch,ball=match_ball,targets=[west_goal,east_goal],target_at=[0,12,0],target_size=[72,24],net_depth=18,team_size=6,duration_s=180,score_to=5){
 team home(objects=[home_athlete,home_athlete_warm],role=npc,keeper=0,keeper_object=keeper_athlete,style=balanced,skill=.7);
 team away(objects=[away_athlete,away_athlete_deep],role=npc,keeper=0,keeper_object=keeper_athlete,style=press,skill=.7);
}
sport basketball_practice(kind=basketball,surface=court,ball=court_ball,targets=[west_hoop,east_hoop],target_at=[0,30,12],target_size=[4.3,4.3],team_size=6,duration_s=180,score_to=5){
 team home(objects=[home_athlete,home_athlete_warm],role=npc,style=balanced,skill=.7);
 team away(objects=[away_athlete,away_athlete_deep],role=npc,style=press,skill=.7);
}

team_size is 2..6 per side and includes the player on home. Each team needs role=npc and exactly one object, or objects containing 1..4 complete measured humanoid templates. Variants can share a component with different materials, proportions and kits. style selects balanced, pressing or counter-attacking spacing; skill stays between .3 and 1. These are deterministic engine tactics. Duration is 30..900 seconds and the score target is 1..21. Rectangular team grounds are at least 108 by 70 world units and align with their targets.

Optional members references stationary person NPC identities without routes, commerce or conversation; the team object supplies their playing appearance. player is reserved for the active player and cannot be a named NPC member. Other IDs derive from sport/roster, side and member index. Generated and existing identities share the 32-NPC cap. A shared roster must keep identical member lists and team sizes across its grounds. Humanoids use GPU bone transforms in both color and shadow passes; the CPU rig, route and ambient-population caps stay intact.

Football defaults to keeper index 0 on both sides. keeper can choose another NPC, and keeper_object gives that position a separate kit. Basketball rejects both. net_depth is optional football target-local Z depth, 6..64: it matches the example's triangular side and back net. The ball's full sphere rebounds from those planes, including the floor seam; the mouth stays open. The engine does not allocate a contact for every net thread.