Thats interesting to know........

As for a request. I was wondering about true wings that allow creatures to fly.

Something bigger than the Insect, bat, bird vareity, but I really just mean the bat which look alittle small even when they are at their largest.

I also would like apposing thumbs. Some thing that can be combined with the pawed or clawed foot parts that are lacking a estra digit.

This would good for my four legged werewolf type creatures and a dragon I made.

So that they can have a front foot that they can also manipluate and strike with.

As it was both these creatures of mine have a small hand attached at the nee/elbow and it looks alittle funny.

Two parts I miss are:

A lion-like tail (thin and bushy at the end-- hard to replicate with the current parts)

A glass bubble (sort of like the aforementioned "lightbulb", for containing your creature's heads in 50's style space helmets/making fishbowls/whatever.

Looks promising!

ParadoxJuice wrote:Wow, thats pretty sweet.

When we first got a part in i was like WOW, then we got textures in and it was even better

ParadoxJuice wrote:I have a big, BIG, BIG, BIG challenge for you guys. Can you make something that is transparent and glows? Like a lightbulb, but a bit more on the organic side.

I have a feeling this is not possible without access to the hard code as you would have to make a whole new part of teh code by letting it see through the part... Glowing may be possible, especially if we get animations, which is likely in the next month.

ParadoxJuice wrote:Also, will new textures be makable with this? If so, how about new animations? A new creator?! A NEW STAGE?!

New animations and new textures are possible, however a new creator would need to change the UI (the interface) and thats hardcoded (for now). And a new stage is even harder..

I'd love some hands that look like tentacles.

Heres a sneak peak of what we were working on today:






We are going to include a new image for the page, however we just haven't got to that yet.

Also we are going to do better renders for the parts in the menu. The new part will be getting a alpha channel so you will be able to change its colour.

Something I'd like for the Building editor is stairs. As it is you have to use many parts to assemble stairs
one piece at a time, using up complexity points as you go. Maybe you could even make it so pulling on
one of the tabs allows you to make anything from straight staircases to spiral ones?

One other building part I'd like is a new roof piece that has straight triangular sides, like real buildings often
have, and no ledge around the bottom (like the one on the upper-left roof piece in the editor). To get a satisfactory
relistic roof I have to use at least three pieces, again wasting complexity points.
Check one I did recently at http://ll-379.ea.com/spore/static/image/500/261/379/500261379100_lrg.png)
to see what I'm talking about.

Is it possible to make wings that allow for real flying.

Dude! You may have just got me interested in Spore again Hats off to you.

FutureFilms wrote:

ParadoxJuice wrote:Also, will new textures be makable with this? If so, how about new animations? A new creator?! A NEW STAGE?!

New animations and new textures are possible, however a new creator would need to change the UI (the interface) and thats hardcoded (for now). And a new stage is even harder..

But it is possible...?

PortalForce wrote:

FutureFilms wrote:

ParadoxJuice wrote:Also, will new textures be makable with this? If so, how about new animations? A new creator?! A NEW STAGE?!

New animations and new textures are possible, however a new creator would need to change the UI (the interface) and thats hardcoded (for now). And a new stage is even harder..

But it is possible...?

If we could get into the hardcoded stuff... yes... but its going to be very hard to do that (through we are talking and working on it).

Where do I get the Mod W/the parts? Is it just in teh new mod?

The forums were lame and refused to upload my loooooong post, so I have to type it again. Grrr...

1- That picture seems to depict a page of parts in the detail section, with none of the original parts. Will we have to delete parts (or whole pages of them) to download the new parts?

2- Will there be a way to make new effects for the new parts? What I mean when I say effects is the way that spit parts create purple streaks. Will we be able to make effects such as electricity?

3- Will new parts come with new stats?

4- You say these are uploadable to the Sporpedia. But what if we encouter a creature with a part that we don't have? Will the game crash?

5- Will the new parts be able to be invisible?

6- Will we ever see complicated texturing, such as a transparent texture that lets you see your creatures organs?

7- Can there be part specific animations? Compare how a tall creature moves without a mouth to how one moves with a mouth. Will we be able to say, make a suction cup that makes any limb it is on wiggle (think of tentacles)?

8- Will the new parts be able to have morph handles?

9- How many stupid or poorly done creations do you think will be made with this?

10- What downsides will there be to downloading this?

Kylelolcat wrote:Where do I get the Mod W/the parts? Is it just in teh new mod?

It will be released sometime in the middle of February. It will come in a seperate package and with BetterSpore.

ParadoxJuice wrote:The forums were lame and refused to upload my loooooong post, so I have to type it again. Grrr...

Never happened to me or anyone else, they are definitely better then these one (software is the same, but better layout and community)

ParadoxJuice wrote:1- That picture seems to depict a page of parts in the detail section, with none of the original parts. Will we have to delete parts (or whole pages of them) to download the new parts?

You don't need to delete anything, it will add a whole new page for these parts, we are working creating images for it now.

ParadoxJuice wrote:2- Will there be a way to make new effects for the new parts? What I mean when I say effects is the way that spit parts create purple streaks. Will we be able to make effects such as electricity?

We will be able to create these effects hopefully in the future. Our decoder is currently on a honeymoon and can't therefore isn't working on decoding the animation, however by march we should be able to start on it.

ParadoxJuice wrote:3- Will new parts come with new stats?

It may be possible to have more levels to stats, however the will for the moment have different combinations of stats already in the game. It will be impossible until we get into the hardcoding to add entirely new stats.

ParadoxJuice wrote:4- You say these are uploadable to the Sporpedia. But what if we encouter a creature with a part that we don't have? Will the game crash?

It is like if you don't have C&C, it will not put those into the game as it has unfamiliar parts, we are in discussion with Maxis on this point. At the moment they are not uploadable, but it has been done with the auto uploader.

ParadoxJuice wrote:5- Will the new parts be able to be invisible?

What do you mean by this?

ParadoxJuice wrote:6- Will we ever see complicated texturing, such as a transparent texture that lets you see your creatures organs?

Not for some time, it is theoretically possible, but at the moment we are more focused on new parts.

ParadoxJuice wrote:7- Can there be part specific animations? Compare how a tall creature moves without a mouth to how one moves with a mouth. Will we be able to say, make a suction cup that makes any limb it is on wiggle (think of tentacles)?

Not without touching the hardcode.

ParadoxJuice wrote:8- Will the new parts be able to have morph handles?

Yes.

ParadoxJuice wrote:9- How many stupid or poorly done creations do you think will be made with this?

Not many, as the only people who will have these mods are people who want more choices to create and therefore are probably good at making creatures, vehicles or buildings.

ParadoxJuice wrote:10- What downsides will there be to downloading this?

None that we know of yet, we will be getting about 10 people to alpha test it for a week before it goes into a public beta. Any downsides will be fixed, or if not possible will be posted.

FutureFilms wrote:

Kylelolcat wrote:Where do I get the Mod W/the parts? Is it just in teh new mod?

It will be released sometime in the middle of February. It will come in a seperate package and with BetterSpore.

ParadoxJuice wrote:The forums were lame and refused to upload my loooooong post, so I have to type it again. Grrr...

Never happened to me or anyone else, they are definitely better then these one (software is the same, but better layout and community)

ParadoxJuice wrote:1- That picture seems to depict a page of parts in the detail section, with none of the original parts. Will we have to delete parts (or whole pages of them) to download the new parts?

You don't need to delete anything, it will add a whole new page for these parts, we are working creating images for it now.

ParadoxJuice wrote:2- Will there be a way to make new effects for the new parts? What I mean when I say effects is the way that spit parts create purple streaks. Will we be able to make effects such as electricity?

We will be able to create these effects hopefully in the future. Our decoder is currently on a honeymoon and can't therefore isn't working on decoding the animation, however by march we should be able to start on it.

ParadoxJuice wrote:3- Will new parts come with new stats?

It may be possible to have more levels to stats, however the will for the moment have different combinations of stats already in the game. It will be impossible until we get into the hardcoding to add entirely new stats.

ParadoxJuice wrote:4- You say these are uploadable to the Sporpedia. But what if we encouter a creature with a part that we don't have? Will the game crash?

It is like if you don't have C&C, it will not put those into the game as it has unfamiliar parts, we are in discussion with Maxis on this point. At the moment they are not uploadable, but it has been done with the auto uploader.

ParadoxJuice wrote:5- Will the new parts be able to be invisible?

What do you mean by this?

ParadoxJuice wrote:6- Will we ever see complicated texturing, such as a transparent texture that lets you see your creatures organs?

Not for some time, it is theoretically possible, but at the moment we are more focused on new parts.

ParadoxJuice wrote:7- Can there be part specific animations? Compare how a tall creature moves without a mouth to how one moves with a mouth. Will we be able to say, make a suction cup that makes any limb it is on wiggle (think of tentacles)?

Not without touching the hardcode.

ParadoxJuice wrote:8- Will the new parts be able to have morph handles?

Yes.

ParadoxJuice wrote:9- How many stupid or poorly done creations do you think will be made with this?

Not many, as the only people who will have these mods are people who want more choices to create and therefore are probably good at making creatures, vehicles or buildings.

ParadoxJuice wrote:10- What downsides will there be to downloading this?

None that we know of yet, we will be getting about 10 people to alpha test it for a week before it goes into a public beta. Any downsides will be fixed, or if not possible will be posted.

What I mean with question 5 is something like the invisible limbs-for example, a cloud shaped part which appears to 'float' but only because one part of it is invisible.

Also, before I got C&C, I had creatures with the parts popping up in my game. They had a little lock in the top left corner of there card and if I clicked there cards info button it would tell me to download C&C. Then again, this may have to do with buddying with Rennar, who was making a tonne of C&C creations.

What was up with the parts that looked like Light Sabers?