I VERY recently discovered 4 things about the painting editors I didn't knew while making the buildings for my new playthrough... if you hold click over a color it will expand to let you choose between several tones (which made curse when I found black and white there which I always struggled to get 😅). If you hold Alt you get the drop tool to get paint texture and color from a part so you don't have to search what you used previously. If you hold Shift you paint the whole piece instead of just a part of it (like painting the glass on a window) and if you hold Ctrl you paint every copy of the part you have (Ctrl+Shift will paint all whole copies of the piece). Maybe it's common knowledge and/or part of the "editor's manual" which I honestly didn't take the the time to read but since it's a video about editors I thought it might be helpful for someone else out there. 😉
This is an amazing video, I always look back at this while playing spore. I got back into the game recently and started playing again, with this insectoid-centaur species called the Scorab (they are a bit in the red in terms of complexity lol). I came up with the idea that their exoskeletons can be removed to create weapons and tools, resulting in a reactionary and socially loyal society. I’m designing their buildings and vehicles to look like parts are made from their armor. Out of curiosity, do you have any tips on specific buildings like with entertainment?
You are, but they cycle through maxis made adventures first (I think) to cut down on the likelihood of you getting an adventure that’s broken or crazy hard.
brooo wait how the hell do you make a mission take place inside without them like clipping through the floor? im making a mission inside a bunch of rooms and its all kinds of jank lol
If things are clipping through the floor, slide invisible jump pads underneath their feet or under the objects 👍🏼 but if you can, just use one of the terrain textures on the ground to match the interior and just use the ground. Or, place the floor as close as humanly possible to the ground.
At some point I tried to make a master of all trades race, but now I usually make a VERY aggressive race that is so sadly lacking in social skills its amusing, so it's a 4 legs 2 armed boy with two arms and a scorpion like tail. With 5 on all combat stats but a one or 2 on all social stats 😂
I saw you posted this years ago, but I am surprised to see you are still answering replies, I have some questions that I couldn't get answer by any search, so I would really appreciate if you could answer them for me. ❤️ 1. Although I'm pretty sure this sadly isn't a feature, is there any way to load a custom creature into an already existing game, and no I'm not talking about a new game while using that one cheat (forgot the name), but loading a creature into an already existing game, because I find it annoying how I have all the parts but the game doesn't allow me to just load a saved creature, the only work around I found to this was using cheats to start a new game with saved creature and then using more cheats to give the precursor abilities, but this just made my game crash randomly, especially when I opened my sporepedia. 2. I know some Maxis made adventures only appear with certain archetypes, is there a way to do this with my custom adventures? Since I know you can add the tag GAprop to buildings which will stop them from being polinated in games, I was wondering if you could add a similar tag to the adventures themselves to limit which archetypes they appear for, or is that what the type option box does when naming the adventure? 3. I haven't got too far with my captain and was wondering how the gear worked, I searched the wiki and it said that you can only get 10 pieces of captain different gear, does that mean I can only get two of the extra spaceship mode abilities from the gear or can I get more gear and/or spaceship abilities? 4. I am planning on maxing out my captain's social, should I go diplomat gear or bard? And what's the difference between them? 5. My brother maxed out his creature's complexity limit while in creature stage, when he got to tribal he was disappointed he could only fit 5 or so pieces of gear on his dragon god, he went to the main menu to see how much he can put on his captain loadout and could only get 3 pieces of glowing gear on his dragon, he restarted now. So (sorry for the exposition) would you say having a more complex creature or a complex captain suit would be better, when looking from the galatic adventure point of view? Are the galatic adventures abilities just flat out better than the creature's? Thanks for reading all of this, I hope someone has the answer to these. EDIT: After re-watching the video I realized you kind of answer question 4, but say if I preferred the look of the creature attacks are they worse than the galatic adventure attacks, and although you said not to use the bard pieces I still might because I love how they look, and also my creature is a little odd since I'm playing as a dog with no arms, so I really want pose.
Spore itself is one of the best games ever. There is literally not a single game in the world that plays like Spore does. It is the only game in its own little subgenre, and the fact that the franchise has been left to rot by EA is beyond disappointing.
It’s one of the metallic paints, I think the default swatch in the paint selector is orange and white? But you just set the colors to match each other as best you can and then it looks like a solid block of “glass.” The one I used for the space ship is a copper colored swatch.
The creator of that one shrank exoskeleton limbs all the way down, and then used the cotton ball detail piece (I forget the exact name) and rotated / layered them together to make it look like fur.
Book II is available to play on Sporepedia and concludes both the main story and the puzzle - only one user has completed it 100% so far (which requires a successful solution to the puzzle). It's vastly more expansive thanks to Project Worldcrafter: an mod for adventures that allows for greatly extended complexity.
Yep! The adventure makes a point of crediting Dr Seuss, the point was to adapt the story and build a puzzle game around it as a game design exercise. Green Eggs and ham adapted the original pretty poorly if I'm honest though - the original story has no resolution to the conflict, which is quite a chilling end for a kids book! But Green Eggs and Ham has them knock down the wall and be friends, which undermines the power of the original narrative in so many ways. You should give the adventure a play! Daniel was by far my favourite character to play with!
someone pls help me, at the adventure editor i dont know how to chance size of things and i cant use the middle mouse button pls if you know something comment
I was recently recommended this and it inspired me to revisit my Marindyr creatures. One of the defining characteristics of them are their 6 legs and feathery backs and tails, so the complexity meter is pretty strict, but removing certain parts spared e ouch complexity to give them a good space outfit that still highlighted their characteristics. Absolutely loved it
Decided to get spore on EA after playing on steam (thus offline) for over a decade, any creattors you can recommend? Im so tired of the same default Maxis adventures, i want hours of content for the space stage.
I agree on Fotosynthesis and Parkaboy being the creator GOATS, they influenced my style so heavily in the skills I learnt. Literally only played the game to make cool stuff. Won a few contests from skills I learnt deconstructing their works.
Love this video!! I've been playing Spore since I was a kid and have been avoiding focusing on outfitting for so long just because it felt so cumbersome to use the editor to make something that looks okay By my standards, but these tips should help heaps and maybe I'll start exploring these aspects more now!
Yes, that, at 5:00 Honestly, that's very Will Wright kind of shit. He thought that the stories people told about their play, was the most interesting shit. 10/10 if you play to make a story. 0/10 if you are one of those external goal oriented people, you need to be internally goal oriented. I just played the creature stage as a fake robot race, where my rule was I could not collect any parts, as a robot race would not "gain" biological parts.
I’m so happy someone made this. It is amazing that someone is still passionate about spore, especially GA. I do have a question, though. How do you make text on buildings? I tried so hard to do this and it’s been pretty tricky, especially if I am doing thinner fonts.
For thinner fonts, the best way that I know is to use the cylindrical detail pieces and sink them into the walls so that only a sliver of the cylinder is showing. If you’re going really small you can use the donut detail pieces for things like R’s, B’s, P’s etc. if you can make it work with your design, it’s a million times easier to do all of that on a flat board instead of a curved wall.
