#maxis spore

Strangely, it seems to not be discussed much online and no one really goes into why. even i dont have tech answers on Why but the most is that OBS seems to capture the loading of textures/normal maps/etc when something like a creature is loaded (doesnt happen with vehicles or buildings). They are so fast that I guess it can be assumed this is being done all the times when you are playing, but for some reason OBS manages to process it. If anyone has more insight, feel free to add on.

I will post screenshots below, but you can see a video where i slowed it down 10% (even then, its still really bad). There are a few clips out there but I wanted to slow it down as much as I could.

My spore mod progress reports have been getting a few notes lately, so i thought I'd post about releases here! all my fully released mods can be found here: https://github.com/Valla-Chan/Spore-Mods/releases which includes all sorts of fun stuff shown in a few other of my Spore posts!

A lot of my mods are still in development, including the hut editor, the new vanilla styled creature parts, new outfit parts, more morph handles on creature parts, etc, and some of these can be downloaded pre-release if you are an eligible patron! https://www.patreon.com/AllisonGhost

I am pro free mods and will never make a mod you must buy, so if waiting is no bother to you, these mods will be for free on the aforementioned github link once they are fully released. In-progress mods are posted to my Discord for patrons as a way to release them to a smaller environment of people who want to opt in to builds that are subject to change, and as a way to fund continued development on them.

working on new parts as we speak! here is a preview of the morphs on a willosaur antenna mesh:

These creatures, which I made in Maxis' 2008 game Spore, have the maximum stats obtainable using only the Early Creature Creator parts. The bottom one is the Oystawany and the top one is the Super Oystawany. That name comes from the game’s name generator.

For context, after the Cell Stage, which is the first of five stages in the game, you move onto the Creature Stage, but between those two stages, you get access to the Early Creature Creator. That has two tabs. One is three basic kinds of legs, while the other is all of the parts from the Cell Creator. If you enter it from completing the Cell Stage, you only have what you unlocked in the Cell Stage (there are six parts unlocked from default and six parts that have to be unlocked by either finding meteor bits or killing cells that have parts you don't).

I accessed the Early Creature Creator from the main menu, so I had all of the parts.

There is a Jet in the back. In the Cell Stage, that adds +2 speed (something all starting cells have adds only one speed, but it's constant, and another thing you have to unlock adds +1 speed but also has the ability to make you turn much faster, and it is between the other two in terms of how much you move). In the Creature Stage, the Jet gives you Level 1 Sprint.

To either side of the Jet is Flagella, which add that +1 speed that is always going in the Cell Stage. In the Creature Stage, they give you Level 1 Sneak. Those protrusions on the creature's back are Electric. In the Cell Stage, after enough time, they glow, and that means that any cell that gets too close gets an electric shock, which is an attack. In the Creature Stage, they give you Level 1 Charm. However, things that cost just as much but are only in the normal Creature Creator are better because some give Level 1 Charm and Level 1 to increased health while others give Level 2 Charm.

On the sides, below the Electric, there are Cilia. In the Cell Stage, they give you +1 speed and Fast Turns. In the Creature Stage, they give you Level 1 Jump. The spikes on the creature's head are literally called Spikes. In the Cell Stage, they give you a melee attack that hurts everything that touches them. In the Creature Stage, they give you Level 1 Charge.

The things on the creature's cheeks are called Poison. In the Cell Stage, they leave a trail of poison behind the cell, which cannot hurt your cell or other individuals of your cell species, but can kill cells that don't have the Poison part. I think there are only two cells that have it, and they are immune to your creature's poison. In the Creature Stage, they give you Level 1 Spit, which has a slight posion effect but serves as more of a ranged weapon.

The eyes are called Beady Eyes. They and the other two kinds of eyes are unlocked by default. I decided to use them because one of the others, the Button Eye, is creepy, while the other one, the Stalk Eye, doesn't always look right. In both the Cell Stage and the Creature Stage, they give you Sight, which makes the game much easier.

The mouth of the creature is called a Proboscis. In the Cell Stage, it is the only Omnivore mouth, but only two cells have it. That mouth makes you parasitic, as you suck nutrients from living cells or plants. In the Creature Stage, they give you Mating Call (like all mouths, to ensure you can change it later), Level 1 Bite (the most basic attack), and Level 1 Sing (the most basic social move).

I think that the legs I chose were called "Phatella" because of their shape. By that, I mean that, while the limbs all did the same thing, they had different shapes. Each limb in the game (arms and legs) come with a hand or foot, respectively, but it's a starter one that only adds the Graspers ability in the case of the hand and only adds Speed 1 in the case of the foot.

I didn't have enough DNA points (the currency of the Cell and Creature Stages) in the Early Creature Creator to add the legs there without cheating, so I made the top image in the regular Creature Creator using a pair of legs available in the Early Creature Creator. The image below depicts the legless creature.

Look, more Spore content!

The one on the left is an MS Paint edit of a screenshot I took of a creation I made called the Fake Grox. Since the Grox’s exclusive parts share the same internal names as Space Stage Outfitter clothing items (with the exception of their natural eye, cyborg hand, and cyborg foot, which are named after a normal, base game eye, hand, and foot, respectively), I edited a recreation of the Grox and gave them the parts that shared the same name as Grox parts. It looked nothing like it.

After I made it and gave it clothes, I took that screenshot and used MS Paint to make it as symmetrical as possible.

As for the one on the right, I found a high detail image of the Grox as they are in the game and used MS Paint in an attempt to put the cyborg parts on both sides of their body. The only issue I have with it is that the cyborg vest doesn’t look like I’d want it to.