Ahem, time to submit my last (15) minute entry....

http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-LoneStar45%7C500637810923%3Asast-500848174251

Whoa, acctually thought I was to late but then I realised that the deadline was 12 PM and not 12 AM

So here's my entry for the last challenge, a Bacteriophage! (its clicky)

Hey everyone. Kinda sad to see this place closing down. I mean I know it was only a matter of time, but I hoped it would have at least been able to last a year.
Regarding other creative outlets, as it happens I happen to have a dA profile myself. I really don’t use it much and haven’t put much on it, but oh well. If anyone wants to follow me there that’s fine. For the record, yes I use Sculptris too lol.
Incidentally Spore has really losing it's charm for me. More than once I have honestly contemplated fixing up the AI and uploading the Morrison GA and remaining content as-is and then throwing in the towel on creating. Perhaps it was inevitable, but there you go.
Plus I have programs like Sculptris where I can make creatures with a much higher degree of precision and quality. The one thing Spore has going for it is I can actually take stuff I've made and plop it in the game environment and see it walk around and do stuff… Of course, I still know people who mod games and stuff, so… Yeah.
Can’t say the Sporum has been too interesting lately either. I’ll almost certainly leave for good when this place decides to eventually kick the bucket. The original thread was created in the (seemingly) faraway time of December 2008. And yet somehow it’s still going. More quiet than it used to be in its prime but still far from dead. I really have a hard time thinking of many other groups around here that have been able to witness such longevity.




The rest of this post is going to focus on the current status of the long-awaited Morrison GA, as getting that done is currently my major in-Spore focus. Some of this I had wanted to share for big final upload, but since this place is shutting down I might not have that chance.

Can’t remember if I shared this pic before, but anyway. I took this when the camera button randomly stopped working and I had to take a printscreen, mostly interested in the rare event of Spore animations churning out a dynamic, fluidic, natural-looking pose that looks real good (in this case in the big brown creature on the left). Of course, it also does a good job of showing how the thing looks from the player’s perspective. Spore’s displays are wonderfully unobtrusive here.


Ok, I know some people thought my cannons and stuff were pretty complex and intricate and all… Well, er, if that's the case, I must be absolutely mad for putting together all the AI for the Morrison Formation GA. I know I said a while back when I first previewed it here that it has a pretty crazy but highly realistic AI, that allows creatures to rapidly (and seemingly randomly) change their actions and behavior and interact with the other creatures in there environment. Indeed it is, to my knowledge, the most dynamic and complicated creature AI system anyone's used. Since I haven't gone into depth about how this works, I decided to take a screencap if it in Edit Mode with an AI panel opened up, so for all you interested folks here is what makes the creatures tick:

And probably somewhere around half the creatures look like that as far as AI goes. For the record, you can only fill a maximum of 10 Advanced AI slots. Admittedly less than I had been hoping originally, but it does the job.
If anyone wants me to write more about the AI, say so.

Here is a panorama from it. I took this after climbing to what is probably the highest point on the map. You can see how overall it is a pretty big and open map. Actually, although you can see quite I bit, I'm not sure if this is even half the map--the explorable game world extends a good deal further in almost every direction. I originally posted it here a while ago but received no comments about it (plus ImageShack decided to later resize it for no apparent reason—the link below is to the image in its original size)
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/148/5/f/5f0cf3d560f94c493ce4df5bb27a4a1c-d51eemw.png

For the little trip down nostalgia lane, I managed to locate the very first look at the thing from a loooooooong time ago (or at least it sure feels that way). Right here. Golly, it has come a long way since then. Lol.

And, finally, a collection of clips showing off one of the latest builds in action.
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/Dinosaur589/Dinosaurs/Spore%20Dinosaurs/?action=view¤t=Spore_2012-02-04_20-51-38.mp4
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/Dinosaur589/Dinosaurs/Spore%20Dinosaurs/?action=view¤t=Spore_2012-02-04_20-53-00.mp4
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/Dinosaur589/Dinosaurs/Spore%20Dinosaurs/?action=view¤t=Spore_2012-02-04_20-54-29.mp4
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/Dinosaur589/Dinosaurs/Spore%20Dinosaurs/?action=view¤t=Spore_2012-02-04_20-56-56.mp4
http://s471.photobucket.com/albums/rr75/Dinosaur589/Dinosaurs/Spore%20Dinosaurs/?action=view¤t=Spore_2012-02-04_21-00-00.mp4

So, what's next for it? On dA I hope to soon share a look back at the GA and its development from its conception to now, on my Spore profile I hope to share a couple more creatures soon, and I'm planning on sending off the current version to my testers soon as well.

Ansje: I just tried that, but dragging them from the desktop into the sporecast didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Fortunately, I specialize at doing things at the last minute...

Expect multiple entries.

So...uhh... Am I too late?

No, the contest ends at midnight.

Edit: Two more entries:


Navis Primus:
Translating to 'First Ship,' the Navis Primus was the first sea vessel ever contructed by the Tenethor-Qu, opening up many new worlds for the tall monopods.


Pugnamus in Mare:
Translating to 'We Fight in the Sea,' Pugnamus in Mare was the first warship constructed by the Tenethor-Qu. Usually with up to three Mounted Seige Bows, giant crossbow-ballista hybrids, for attacking cities, or battling other sea vessels.

Not my best creation, but still worth sharing:

'Nother Entry:


Sir Cri'an-C'an:
Cri'an-C'an was a famous Tenethor-Qu explorer, known for discovering several new continents. Within a hundred years of his death, there were at least five major cities named after him, and several smaller towns. His ship, the N'vgus, was wrecked at sea. The only survivor, he managed to swim to safety to an island, where he spent the remainder of his life among a native tribe. Unfortunately, a disease he accidentally brought from his homeland wiped out their entire civilization in two decades. The unusually long-lived Cri'an-C'an lived for forty-two more years after the disaster, and then died at the age of 142. His body was found a week after death, and he was buried at sea by an explorer that his nation had hired to find a legendary floating mountain on a continent Cri'an-C'an discovered.

I'm not sure if this'll be the last time on this thread, But I'd like to present some of my newest creations:

as seen on the sporepedia:http://www.spore.com/sporepedia#qry=usr-Beastmaster7700%7C500701169436
I hope you like them, the first two especially took a while to make!

One final entry:


New Genesis Alliance Flag "Hybrid Frontier:"
The NGA's flag, nicknamed "Hybrid Frontier," is seen as a symbol of scientific advancement and discovery throughout the galaxy. It is a mixture of the three flags of the founding races, the Tenethor-Qu's Flaming Argon Circle, the Cycasian's Metallic Green Field with a Silver Border, and the Seiirysian's Double Crescent Moon and Starship. This version of the flag will be seen on the newest frontier of the NGA, which has grown from its humble beginnings, Parallel Universe 1101010012, nicknamed "Binary Death" because of the two at the end of a string of zeroes and ones.

Oh noes.

I thought I would have two more hours to complete my entry. Then...I remembered it was English Standard Time. I'm too late, aren't I?

Hi guys!

@ Triop5: you should not drag them from your desktop to the SC but from what you see on your own page when you are logged on on Spore.com. I made a screenshot of how I fill my own sporecasts. I use my Dark alt for it, my default hardly loads due to the number of buddies I have on it. This is also the reason why I occasionally comment with my dark alt as well. It's a big screenshot, too wide to post here, so do click the link and zoom in. You see the SC that I am dragging to lighten up in the left column. Be aware that it can take time before the SC's load on the left side btw, sometimes you have to try again.

Link to screenshot of how to drag and drop to a Sporecast


Contest Closed!
Thanks for all your supportive comments and your great entries. Please allow us some time for judging!


Always nice (and a familiar feeling) to see some great last-minute entries and some general creations as well:

@ LonesStar45: very nice spaceship, great sci-fi look!

@ Salooverall: very interesting entry, indeed some discoveries are invisible for the eye but very important!

@ Jax181: very nice set of entries, I love the sailing ship!

@ Macciavelo: funny dog, with it's big teeth!

@ Beastmaster: nice creations, I like the little robot most

@ Dino589: great pictures again, always nice to see your dino stuff! So you're busy with Sculptris as well

Triop5 wrote:Ansje: I just tried that, but dragging them from the desktop into the sporecast didn't work. What am I doing wrong?

Try using another browser. Internet Explorer doesn't let me drag creations anymore, but Google Chrome does.

Dominar






Sith Fleet command vessel. Operations and control for the Sith Fleet. Smaller, faster, more manuverable and less conspicuous than dreadnaughts, star destroyers and other capital ships. Equipped with advanced cloaking, communication and intelligence tech, the heavily armored and armed Dominar is poised to conduct a symphony of destruction upon any fleet foolish enough to stand up to the Sith.