How To Export Spore Creatures to Maya using patch 5 cheat

Gimme a minute, sure.

O.o blender for sure

I just read the EULA and I'm not quite sure I fully understand it. If I'm not mistaken I'm not allowed to use creatures in my own non commercial game, is this correct? If so, what's the point in this?

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This creature is supposed to be orangey-yellow.

Here's the diffuse map with the UV layout overlaid. It should work...

That one shows my setup for the diffuse map.

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It looks like the only thing missing is the base color, because there are patches where the default mesh color is showing through... perhaps just make a simple yellow material that goes under the other maps? Though I can't tell if any of the exported maps are affecting the crown/shoulderpads, if they don't they might end up yellow

For comparison, here's the sporepedia link: Linky

Actually, it's patches of UV map. It's mostly base color. I almost wonder if I don't have it set to use the wrong UV map, but wouldn't that yield more disorderly results?

ok downloaded blender, can someone pm me a site for python? and other things i need? please

How did you get that working, Eochaid?

And also, can someone post the text of the EULA?

If this feature is not in the mac patch i'm throwing something heavy off my building. Preferably a PC. ;p

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As far as I can see it's the same EULA as for the prototypes, called "Tools & Materials": http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes#eula

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The important stuff about sharing is in the first three paragraphs.
So can someone verify if we are allowed to use Spore's creatures in non commercial games or not? Otherwise this feature would be quite useless.

I'm using the Nvidia FX Composer because Blender needs that thing that wasn't working.

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I'm on Maya, and it just comes up as a giant ball of wireframes or something. No mesh or anything. Can someone help me?

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vladi wrote:As far as I can see it's the same EULA as for the prototypes, called "Tools & Materials": http://www.spore.com/comm/prototypes#eula

EA owns all of the rights, title and interest in the Tools & Materials. You may not alter any of EA's trademarks or logos, or alter or remove any of EA's trademark or copyright notices included in or with the Tools & Materials or EA's products. Your right to use Tools & Materials is limited to the license grant above, and you may not otherwise copy, display, distribute, perform, publish, modify, create works from, or use any of the Tools & Materials. Without limiting the preceding sentence, you may not modify, reverse engineer, disassemble, license, transfer, distribute, create works from, or sell the Tool, or use the Tools & Materials to further any commercial purpose. Without limiting the foregoing, you may not use the Tools & Materials to promote another product or business, or on any site that operates or promotes a server emulator.

In some sense, I've been waiting for this patch since I first saw Will Wright's GDC speech way back when. You know, the one about how expensive creating games has gotten and how they were about to change all that. All I can say is...

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

crazy199292 wrote:ok downloaded blender, can someone pm me a site for python? and other things i need? please

If Python isn't on Blender.org, they should at least have a link to it. I think it comes preinstalled, though.

Theory wrote:How did you get that working, Eochaid?

This:

me, slightly edited wrote:You can get the mesh okay by using the .fbx converter here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=10775855
Convert the dae to fbx, then change the fbx to obj. From there, go to File/import/Wavefront(.obj) in Blender.

From there, you will need to get the textures working, because the materials that come on the mesh won't work. Create a new material, then set up the diffuse map for color, normal map for normals, and spec map for specularity.
This should help for getting the materials working, if you don't already know how. http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:Tutorials/Materials/BSoD
Also, make sure to change the "map input" from "Orco" to "UV."

So, has anyone made an animation yet?