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here i made a test vehicle thats just an enclosed box. in the editor, you can see inside pretty clearly

(side note i had to save it but it was overbudget and didnt even show in the sporepedia, so i had to drag its png into the colony land editor again just to be able to edit it and remove the extra parts to show it in the sporepedia)

but once you view it in the sporepedia, not only does the inside of the box get encased in darkness, the texture is also much lower quality

it actually saves the texture into three .raster files, as can be extracted from GraphicsCache then reexported with sporemodder fx. this is with the opacity removed

and here i made another house with insides present, this time i have a door and a couple windows to see how ambient occlusion works. also a test to see if the animated parts cause ambient occlusion too. i put different paints on the blocks to see them in the texture more clearly

the light does seem to be coming out of the window! and some of the animated parts just break entirely and thus leave no ambient occlusion

and heres how that texture looks. you can see how the light falls on the floor! you can see where the door is clearly, and how the light comes off it. its actually remarkably sorta realistc lighting

also the ambient occlusion seems to mostly just express itself in enclosed spaces like this. you cant even see it here

if you load any of these creations into retail, they will no longer have ambient occlusion! but they do have higher res textures at least. i cant view the building because spore just trashed it and its not showing in the sporepedia LOL

however their textures still get baked and saved into GraphicsCache. where they DO still have ambient occlusion!!

this is the baking gmdl loaded from GraphicsCache with this texture

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