spore creature creator controls connect limbs

#Spore creature creator controls connect limbs full#

Without further ado, let’s get started.įirst, let’s take a look at modeling – the creature creator allows players to sculpt a huge variety of creatures, from simple worms to incredibly complex, realistic monsters with hundreds of separate components. Basically, this video was really difficult to make, so if you could leave a like, comment, share, or subscribe to this channel, I would really appreciate it. That’s because a lot has happened while I’ve been working on this video, including moving to a new apartment, getting Covid, discovering a blood clot in my lungs, and having a minor existential crisis. But how does any of this actually work? Let’s find out by exploring the modeling, texturing, and animation of the player created creatures in Spore.īefore we get started, some of you may have noticed that it’s been a while since I’ve posted on this channel. Spore’s creature editor lets players craft custom creatures that they can actually control as playable characters in the game. In Spore, players can guide the evolution of a species of creatures from the cell stage to a galactic civilization, but the part of the game that stands out the most to me, and I think most players, is the creature creator. Let’s talk about Spore – the 2008 life simulation strategy game made by Maxis Studios and designer Will Wright. The import process would be as normal for any other avatar into SSL.Īt least in theory, I'm still working on this bit.What’s up designers, and welcome back to Rempton Games. Re-Rigging can be done in Blender and should be mostly a matter of copying the SSL rig from somewhere (I can grab it from MakeHuman models) and pasting it into your Spore creature, then making adjustments for joint locations and stuff, then its a simple (haha!) matter of re-attaching it to the model possibly using weight painting if needed. This, if it is the case, sucks and is severely limiting but something that can and should change (if it is the case still, I haven't been in SSL for a while as I do most of my work in OpenSim). As I understand it the SSL rig is simply bipedal humanoid and can't be screwed with much aside from stretching of parts.

Repainting your model is one thing you could do, blending shapes of various parts is also possible.įor me the next step would be re-rigging Spore critters with the SSL rig so they can be avatars! The trick here is things like extra limbs, wings and stuff that should be flexible. I also needed to set the Alpha Mode to None, or to anything OTHER then Alpha Blending as this made things I didn't want transparent totally transparent.īlender would be very useful for a number of things, and it supports Collada just fine, it even imports the Spore rig so you can pose your creatures which is terrific. I had no trouble doing this directly with the exception that I needed to import the textures as individual files, they did not get imported automatically. My advice: Ditch the toy, and learn to do real 3D modeling, in a fully capable program.

#Spore creature creator controls connect limbs full#

From glancing at a bunch of screenshots of Spore Creature Creator, and seeing some of the creatures it produces, there's nothing going on in there that couldn't be done very, very quickly in any full featured modeling program. Or better yet, make your creatures from scratch, directly in one of those programs. Make the appropriate changes there, and then export a new COLLADA file. If it turns out that the program is not capable of granting you the requisite level of control, which I strongly suspect will be the case, then you'll need to bring the model into a better program, like Blender, or Maya, or Max, or any other full featured 3D modeling platform. It's possible I'm wrong about this particular program. They're not true creation tools.ĭo look into it, though, of course. They just mix and match pre-made parts, to auto-generate a whole. Generally speaking, automated toys like this don't tend to offer the user control over fundamental 3D model properties, like material assignments, UV layouts, or even topology. My guess is it probably doesn't give you much freedom. I've never used the Spore Creature Creator, so I have no idea what options it might have, in this regard. You have to do it in your 3D modeling software, before you bring the model inworld. So you know, you can't create or assign new materials to models from inside SL. SL supports up to eight materials per model. In order to assign different textures to different sections, each section must have its own unique material. Sounds like the model has only one material on it.