http://www.qualityspore.com/CreationViewer.htm?id=500339088223

http://www.qualityspore.com/CreationViewer.htm?id=500339088223

I added the ability to see the parts a creation is made of.

Known issues:
- The parts take longer to load than the creation stats. I will add a loading animation in the future.
- I don’t show limbs or vertebra parts sense there are no images associate with them.
- The default graspers and feet don’t have images but they do appear in the list. Maxis will fix this.
- I only show up to 24 unique parts. More than 25 unique parts is rare, but I may show more in a future update.

Let me know what you think.

Would it be possible to have an option on the site to turn a feature like this off for people who don't want additional pictures to load etc to save bandwidth?

Otherwise it is a really handy and awesome update!

-SMLightning

Man, that is an awesome additon to the app - It took me 61 epee to create my T Rex Exhibit - wowsers.

Keep it up SniperMonkey - however, would it be possible to R+ in Quality Spore at some point?

Well, I give you my thums up here... It's getting very advanced! Having those features pop-up by advanced-"tab"/request could be a good idea. R+

SniperMonkey wrote:Please let me know if you find any more of these symbols.

German ä, ö and ü can't be displayed on the profile viewer (try visiting Chamäleon's profile). But somehow in the creation viewer these letters work (example)

Alexlabor wrote:German ä, ö and ü can't be displayed on the profile viewer (try visiting Chamäleon's profile). But somehow in the creation viewer these letters work (example)

Thanks for pointing this out!

Vektrix wrote:however, would it be possible to R+ in Quality Spore at some point?

I would like to, but it's not possible yet. MaxisDangerousYams has talked about exposing authentication. That would enable features that require you to sign in. Cross your fingers!

SporeMasterLightning wrote:Would it be possible to have an option on the site to turn a feature like this off for people who don't want additional pictures to load etc to save bandwidth?

That’s probably a good idea. I will come up with something.

excellent work.
You can look up the paints used by the creature in a similar way.
In the XML look for

For Creatures:
<skineffect1>0xf9081c4e</skineffect1>
<skineffect2>0xf726d097</skineffect2>
<skineffect3>0x91c84cb2</skineffect3>

Paint Colors are RGB values between 0-1:
<skincolor1>0.961000,0.898000,0.796998</skincolor1>
<skincolor2>0.576469,0.572548,0.498039</skincolor2>
<skincolor3>1,0.941176,0.831371</skincolor3>

For buildings and vehicles look for the <paintid> tag for each block
There should be <color1> and <color2> tags per block too.

Look paintids and skineffects up in this map
http://www.spore.com/data/paints/paintmap.xml

The filenames point to paint icons like so:
filename: BE_zany_27
icon file: http://www.spore.com/data/paints/thumbs/BE_zany_37.png

Wow. Simply WOW. I just got directed to this site/app and I am floored by the quality of the work and the information it contains. Simply amazing.

A few things I've noticed since I've been playing around with it:

1) The name of the profile you're entering is case-sensitive. I didn't realize this at first thinking somehow not everyone was in the database. Maybe put a note to the side about this? (or a help button?)

2) You can type in new text in the description field and even delete out text. However, it is not saved. It seems odd that the ability seems to be present to edit the text even though there's no way to send it to the spore server.

3) I've seen a few special characters in the description come across incorrectly. Namely the ' (apostrophe) character, since I tend to use that often for proper names.

4) I'm strangly suprised to see that some of my creatures do not have parents when I know they do, especially ones in which I've even credited the original creator. Example, my Tal'Nar creature has a base by G3NJI. Yet, it shows as having no parent, even though his base template is still published. Very odd.

5) Since you've been turned on to the app for subscribers, do you have any plans to put a tab in for that?

6) Same question for the sporecasts. Any plans to have a tab for subscribed to sporecasts or who is subscribed to your sporecasts?

Fantastic work SniperMonkey. I look forward to your future updates.

I really appreciate your feedback Kaidian!

Kaidian wrote:1) The name of the profile you're entering is case-sensitive. I didn't realize this at first thinking somehow not everyone was in the database. Maybe put a note to the side about this? (or a help button?)

A note about profiles being case sensitive is a good idea.

Kaidian wrote:2) You can type in new text in the description field and even delete out text. However, it is not saved. It seems odd that the ability seems to be present to edit the text even though there's no way to send it to the spore server.

Good find! That’s a bug. I don’t have the ability to update description, so you shouldn’t be able to change the text.

Kaidian wrote:3) I've seen a few special characters in the description come across incorrectly. Namely the ' (apostrophe) character, since I tend to use that often for proper names.

Yea this is an ongoing problem. I have been forced to change each special character independently in code, so I am sure I have missed some. I will check on the apostrophe.

Kaidian wrote:4) I'm strangly suprised to see that some of my creatures do not have parents when I know they do, especially ones in which I've even credited the original creator. Example, my Tal'Nar creature has a base by G3NJI. Yet, it shows as having no parent, even though his base template is still published. Very odd.

Yea this has been pointed out before. I have double checked my code and it seems to be displaying properly from my side. I believe the error is on the API Maxis provides.

Kaidian wrote:5) Since you've been turned on to the app for subscribers, do you have any plans to put a tab in for that?

Yes, this is probably my number one requested feature.

Kaidian wrote:6) Same question for the sporecasts. Any plans to have a tab for subscribed to sporecasts or who is subscribed to your sporecasts?

Yes, this is probably my number two requested feature.

Thanks again for the feedback! Let me know if you have any other suggestions.

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Update:

I added a captain and adventure icon.

I limited icons to creature, building, air vehicle, land vehicle, water vehicle, spaceship, captain, and adventure. You can still see the subtype on the creation viewer page.

Tweaked the design of the creation viewer page.

Flash dev: The icons are now in a shared library and the code is in a separate actionscript file. This should allow me to quickly tweak the icons across the site.

great changes sniper

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I added a filter to the Top Creations page. It works for all of the tabs and search.

Snipermonkey is king!

Were you able to figure out how to add sporecasts into this? If I pull up your profile, for example, it would be great to have a tab for sporecasts so I can see all the sporecasts you've created, how many subscribers are in each and what the rating level is. That would be the BOMB.

Keep up the great work. I'm using this site more and more. =)

Kaidian wrote:Were you able to figure out how to add sporecasts into this? If I pull up your profile, for example, it would be great to have a tab for sporecasts so I can see all the sporecasts you've created, how many subscribers are in each and what the rating level is. That would be the BOMB.

Keep up the great work. I'm using this site more and more. =)

Unfortunately for many of us, there's no API for finding out who owns a Sporecast unless you're looking at a subscriber. You also can't find the description and tags without looking at a subscriber.