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A Bounce Pad is a level element introduced in LittleBigPlanet 2 that propels Sackboy and Sackbots a fixed distance perpendicular to its face. It was created as an alternative to the sometimes unreliable piston-based springboards that served this purpose in the original LittleBigPlanet.

Contents 1 Behaviour 2 Extra features in LittleBigPlanet Vita 3 Tweaks 3.1 LittleBigPlanet Vita Only

Behaviour

The default behaviour of a bounce pad is to launch any sackperson that touches its active surface across the designated distance. This functionality is indicated in game by a white glow around the edge and in the center of the pad. If the bounce pad is connected to logic and receives no signal, it will be disabled. This deactivates the pad's glow and allows sackpeople to stand on the pad without being bounced.

LittleBigPlanet 2's 1.06 update introduced an alternative behaviour in which the bounce pad will only activate if an eligible sackperson presses . Having done so, only this occupant will be launched and anyone else touching the pad will remain where they are. This mode can be selected by setting the Automatically Trigger tweak to "no" and is indicated by the pad glowing blue instead of white.

The corners of a bounce pad are not considered part of its active launching face. As a result, a sackperson landing on the very edge of a pad or standing on the side of a particularly large specimen will not be affected by it.

Bounce pads themselves behave as a piece of thin rectangular material one layer thick. They will fall, tumble, and otherwise move about a stage if not properly secured.

Extra features in LittleBigPlanet Vita

LittleBigPlanet Vita further improves the bounce pad by giving it a logic output that triggers when a sackperson is launched. Among many other applications, this can be used in conjunction with a new option to disable the pad's sound effect to assign custom noises to bounces. The ability to deactivate the pad with logic is also enhanced: when receiving an analog signal the device will propel users a reduced distance based on the strength of the incoming signal. A 50% input will therefore result in a bounce that goes only half the assigned distance.

Tweaks

Height: (1.0 - 100.0) Sets the distance over which a sackperson will be bounced.

Trigger Automatically: ( Yes •  No) Determines whether the bounce pad immediately launches or waits for to be pressed.

LittleBigPlanet Vita Only

Play Sound: ( Yes •  No) Determines whether the normal bounce pad sound effect occurs when the device activates.