I Teach You Everything I Know About The Spore Editors 

Honest to god, you're underrated for the content you're able to make out of such an old game. Spore is my childhood and life, and yet it's always amazing to see how skilled people are in this game.

Man, those were some amazing tips! Great video 😊✌ The adventure cut scenes blew me away.. I need to try that someday!

So glad to see informative Spore content in 2022, it's keeping this game alive even years after release

My GF recently got into Spore and she's really liking it ! Its amazing that the game of your childhood, which got you into learning biology and evolution, still holds something new and complex

Wish we had these when multiplayer was still active

This is literally the PERFECT video for me, I struggle with making things that aren't just average, and inspiration is a struggle as well. I'll certainly be coming back to this video a LOT for future use!

Im starting to realise that constraints lead to innovation

I only learned about the asymmetry trick just the other day, I have been working on a project where I create evolutionary lines for all of the cell stage creatures, and it's going to be so useful for an idea I have for the megamouth

This feels more like a visual design/worldbuilding guide that has a bunch of tooltips scattered through, lol. Great guide!

Finally, a more advanced guide for hardcore Spore players still here. Thanks for showing some of my stuff!

I miss those damn days where I'd finish a day of school to hop onto Spore! Thanks for a SUPER in-depth guide to making better creations. I bought Spore again a while back but haven't gotten around to installing yet, so down the line I hope I can make some amazing creations using your advice!

This is an actual character design guide, holy damn 😀 I always design my things only through playing, so I build them as animals that just happened to evolve a brain, focusing on how they'd fill up the ecosystem slot.... My probably most complex idea was that I gave a species I wanted to be Zealots two heads, as to explain their cultural disunity, which would then lead into an unitifying agressive religion 😂 Or when it comes to clothing and city planning, I evolved penguins in this game just to give them those jetpacks, so they finally can fly too 😂 And their houses were literally just igloos 😅 This is amazing that you showed me that I should think about my creatures as humanoids, thanks!

I've always preferred the vanilla experience for spore, but one mod I'd really like is one that let's me edit my creature in later stages. That way, the creature stage version can still be complete looking, while the tribal, civ, and space stage versions can have things like skinny limbs for parka fitting and stuff. As for features that I wish were ACTUALLY IN spore - I wish there was a "scale" slider on creations. For example, I can scale a creature down to a teeny little bug, or up to a giant around half the size of a small epic. Same for buildings, sometimes I want to make massive skyscrapers, other times I want to make a small cottage. Vehicles, too. Like the video talks about forced perspective, it'd be awesome if those massive space cruisers could actually be VISIBLY HUGE in gameplay. The other thing I desperately long for is a better paint editor for creatures. Why didn't they just use the same paint system for creatures as they have for buildings and vehicles? So frustrating.

I love how these tips are so much about role-playing and making things consistent and themed. Also I've never used the GA adventure editor. I had no idea it was so powerful. Looks like a fun time.

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

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This video really made me wanna play spore again.. But every time I want to, I'm reminded by the game that I don't have access to any of the online features without going to websites and manually putting them into my game, and it kills a lot of my drive for wanting to play it. Always happy to see more spore content though

The armor fitting thing was exactly what I needed to give my creature a space suit!

for people wondering, the smallest arm possible that he talked about at some point was a bug arm. It looks like a skeleton and can be found on the holiarm lower part, and to make it as small as he showed you scale all points down as small as possible and scale down the middle part (you scale down by scrolling with your mouse button while your mouse is over a part.)

Whole new appreciation for the tools given to you in this game, 10/10 vid!

I played this game when I was going through puberty. You will indeed learn some of these tricks over time but ironically enough the advises you gave about the creature and building editors were the most usefull for me. I just miss the days finding channels like these, some random person who explains and explores everything about a game and responding to youtube comments. I think there were some issues with making connection with the servers when you bought the game on Steam which has something to do with the activation key. That is the reason why I have not touched the game for a long time. In the previous video about Spore you were on a Discord server with the remaining playerbase of the game? That seems absolutely crazy to me that such an old game still has such an active playerbase. Some of these players like Parkaboy and Fotosynthesis really became famous with the time they spent in the editors teaching us things about the editors we did not knew were possible. I hope to see some more video material about Spore from you in the future.

I found out about this game when I was little and was immediately fascinated by it. I hopped in years later but only played modded and offline. These creations and building tips are so awesome! Really makes me want to play Spore again and finally see more of this amazing community.

As someone who deeply enjoys Spore, I love this guide, my mind has been opened up to a whole new world of creation

Wow this video is genuinely amazing! Absolutely adore these tips! Thanks for sharing them with us :) Your channel seems super underrated, hope to see you grow because you genuinely seem like a great content creator.

I’m a lad who either makes the silliest goofiest creatures you’ll ever see or the terrors that keep you up at night but this is gonna be extremely helpful too. Cheers!

wonderful video, it's great to see someone passing on all the ancient Spore Arts to a new generation! i loved seeing a little glimpse of one of my adventures at 27:48 haha

The way you make your creatures is just absolutely flabbergasting! The amount of detail with using a small number of parts is amazing!

Saw this video a few days ago, now I'm addicted to make mechanical creatures with Galactic Adventure parts

good lord This was absolutely amazing. Mindblowing!

8:22, the creature looks so cool!

Adventure ai tip which as far as I know not many people know, but setting a creature to have a wander radius of 0/1 and then going to custom behavior with this order: wander when aware of player, follow player always will allow you to create mobs of npcs which follow you but stop the moment they're aware of you so they don't crowd the player, so you can set custom follow distances. Also adding attack (enemy team): aware of player under all this behavior will cause them to stop fighting and follow the player when you move away, so you kind of control your own little army

I've played Spore for 14 years but many of the things in this video were still new to me. Great work.

Wow, I am so grateful for your knowledge. Spore is one of my favorite games out there. I love seeing the videos, more recent ones, talking about Spore.

Dude, thank for video, like literally bless you for that. I'm personally playing long enough but didn't know about good half of these tricks.

16:45 I think the parts are asymmetric because making parts asymmetrical gives you more complexity. Great video too! Taught me lots of things that aided me in improving my Spore skills!

Absolutely incredible video! Perfect guide to follow and keep in mind for my replay of one of my favorite childhood games.

gotta say I'm really impressed I've played spore so much man n I never knew any of this I just treated the game how I did as a kid

This vid helped me a lot, especially the outfitting part, I had trouble making outfits for creatures until I saw this vid, thx for the tutorial!

this is such an amazing video, wow. it just reignited my need to play spore, and I didn't realize how cool the galactic adventures are!! I'm gonna have to buy the dlc and try some of the stuff you said

There is so much I never knew. Great creations and Thanks for the video!

Amazing video, perfectly set out!!! I’ve always struggled with making ships so this is great. And Until The Last One Falls is amazing!!

Let's go spore is like the best game btw love your cool alien designs

Those are some awesome tips! I've recently started playing Spore again since I enjoyed it so much as a kid and seeing those tips are very nice and gives me some creative ideas!

oh this video is PHENOMENAL

This is a good tutorial - it's interesting to think of creatures in terms of the Spore archetypes.

this is one of the videos ever that blow my mind like crazy. i dont even know what to say, this is just amazing! all the creature and outfit tricks, the creations of you showed, the adventures, the special cutscenes around 25:00, all that is unbelievable to me... wow.

Thanks so much man! I'll definitely keep it in mind. Keep up the good work😊!

i dont know why you do so much content on spore, but i love it

Oh my! Your SPORE is totally different. (amazing stuff!)

its so surreal seeing people from a game you've been playing most of your life be actual people online

Wow. It was so helpful. I returned to Spore as a light from my childhood. I wanted to remind myself of my way of thinking and creating things as a child. And you helped me a lot with these tips, thank you.

Haven’t played Spore in years but seeing this video and your last spore video talking about Galactic Adventures was very nostalgic. Thanks for these. Might decide to play this again soon since I didn’t know the community’s still alive lol. 🤙 Would be helpful if you made a video on your top creators on spore to subscribe to for inspiration or to see their creations/adventures. Theres some spore creators you mention in these videos that i wasn’t even aware of and their creations were really awesome to see. Great stuff, subbed to your channel. 🛸

I loved your video! It was very informative!

I don't know most of it. Thank you so much! For me it is hard to find cool adventures or creatures. Thank you for showing cool creators and interesting details they made in creatures and adventures. Bought the SPORE because of your recomendation not long ago :D

Best spore video i've ever seen. I'm 100% up to hearing you talk about creating things on spore for hours lol

Such a great video! Thank you for this great content an those tips.

wow there were some things i never noticed before in my, cough, 10 years, cough, of playing spore (on and off obviously) thanks!

Great video! it helped me a ton!

Ive been playing spore since release but im only just now getting started at advanced creation techniques. This video helps so much. Thanks. Sub

All of my creations wind up being birds... but I did use them as the basis for my ever-growing DnD universe. It's quite extensive, and I love the creators with all my heart. Something I do, I flip the spine upside down, just to make the size for the bellied/head based correct. And, using the asymmetrical system for the legs is awesome, just to give the creatures different stances. I love this game.

hey man, sweet video, this was super lovely to watch, i really love this game and your content about it is great

I just kinda wanted to share a creature I was planning on making once I got home from holiday vacation, but it was going to be black, with long arms and legs, with one of its hands and lower arm being replaced with a saw, and the head and arm kinda looking like they where dead almost, and with eyes that that looked like that of a cold, calculated murder drone. oh, and I was planning on naming it "the remnant"

Very nice compellation of tips and trick. (And it is "He / him".)

I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community.

Playing the game since I was a kid Yet I always ended up with a humanoid herbivore And a scorpion like carnivore And to this day I still do this

This is the best video of Spore on RU-vid

OMG this Really helps thanks❤

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!

The last adventure just blows my mind! I know it's really hard to predict the camera behavior on some objects in adventures. This game is still able to surprise me after so many years. So amazing! Also, I have a question. Why do we need a room's interior to be a single structure? Wouldn't be better to make all interior objects masked doors for example? And lastly. Did you know that there is a trick in the adventure editor that allows you to go beyond the planet, get to the sun and dive into deep space? If you are interested, you can check the video "Spore: Galactic Adventures - Teleport to the Sun" by Mysterious Creator on RU-vid. This is my second channel. I'm not posting the link, because RU-vid may ban it.

wonderful video! thank you.

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.

Awesome video!!! Also I subbed :)

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.

You are so underrated I love this video you out done yourself! Keep making videos!!😀😀😀😀😀

Thanks for the advice now I’m able to make more cooler things in spore

My man just gained a new subscriber

Yo you gotta a great channel name and you’re really easy to follow with catchy commentary. Your channel should have way more subs. Sorry RU-vid has a sucky algo.

I absolutely love this game

Learned all these traits and made a super cool alien with cybernetic parts that I'm really proud of only to realise that there was no way I could actually play as them without a bunch of cheating or resigning myself to being a wanderer. Rats.

These creators really are the epitome of "trust the process", so many creations suddenly turn from ugly blobs someone made on their first time in Blender, to masterpieces when the final details are added I've seen creatures be shared that used WAY more than the maximum complexity, despite cheats usually making them unshareable. I always wondered how they did that

Woooaghhh… Ok I always knew that spore had nearly infinite possibilities but this video has really opened my eyes to how much more can really be achieved.

What do you think about the mods that let you edit creature parts even in the editors?

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?

very nice!

Actually I used Cannon/Rifle pose technique. Still good af

For those using spore before the 5.1 patch, unfortunately there is no way to do the technique with the screw, however, it can be done with any one of the hats in the tribal, civilization, or space creators. Also there is no way to use asymmetry in earlier versions. :') (Though there maaaaybe a mod that allows that idk)

ok so i have every expansion pack and i want you to rate my specie series devil ants. also these tips are very accurate and are very helpful

Insanely good video, damn.

This was so unbelievably far ahead of its time.

Amazing video it really helped me one question though i saw you got texts on the boards can i please know how you did that it would help me out alot

Yooooo the spore community is still alive!

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 😂

Making GA adventures is a topic unto itself. One thing I would say, don't softlock weaker creatures or make OP abilities like sneak or spit so broken they can cheese the whole adventure.

Man, now I really want to play Spore agian.

I found out if you move a spaceship in the spaceship editor upwards you somehow have more space, which is good for making longer or bigger spaceships. I don't know why that is though.

The creatures in this video have given me a wave of inspiration along with your hints! Thank you. :) can i perhaps share some of my creations? I plan on making a RU-vid video summary of the lore and past of mine. I honestly dont know how to do it properly, to be honest. Also, i use mods just fyi.

12 years of this game and still got to learn some new things. Great video man. But I do have one question. How do you make your adventures worth more points? I always have them worth only 10 points.

great thank you

question about the 100 points maxis adventures thing: i downloaded them all but when i tried to play them it says that i needed to login to download the creations used in the adventures. the creator of the adventures in the sporepedia were also marked as trikitiger instead of maxis as shown in the video. i play spore off of steam and never had the chance of getting it from origin. is there anything i'm doing wrong here? please help

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