Sunday, July 6, 2008
Spore Creature Creator
The Spore Creature Creator is a very cool tool. It allows you to build animals with wild body designs, and some pretty cool appendages.
You might be concerned that it will take up a ton of memory on your computer by having to render, and animate your creature. But fear not, since it uses predone mathematical calculations to animate and render your creature it doesn't require much from your computer.
It is also fun to test out the creatures. In the test mode you can make them walk, display emotions, dance, and do things that you would expect from animals. Sometimes it can be sad though to have made a really cool animal, only to find out it moves like it's internals are in pain, or that it has some weird twitch.
One other thing that is a bit disappointing is how basic the editor is. Sure you can adjust the spine and move all sorts of things around, but as far as edges go it is pretty bad. Every shape you make is round and when you scale it, it scales all edges, not just one side, say if you wanted to make a wide short creature. The paint doesn't have quite all the textures you might want either. But other than a few downsides it is all good.
At ten bucks the editor is pretty cheap and allows you to do all sorts of fun things, it also provides you with tools to capture and upload video, take picturs, and make .gifs. If you have ten bucks to spare and are looking forward to Spore, I suggest that you get a copy of this game, if your not sure there are tons of trial versions you can try. In my opinion this was ten bucks well spent.
A+
You might be concerned that it will take up a ton of memory on your computer by having to render, and animate your creature. But fear not, since it uses predone mathematical calculations to animate and render your creature it doesn't require much from your computer.
It is also fun to test out the creatures. In the test mode you can make them walk, display emotions, dance, and do things that you would expect from animals. Sometimes it can be sad though to have made a really cool animal, only to find out it moves like it's internals are in pain, or that it has some weird twitch.
One other thing that is a bit disappointing is how basic the editor is. Sure you can adjust the spine and move all sorts of things around, but as far as edges go it is pretty bad. Every shape you make is round and when you scale it, it scales all edges, not just one side, say if you wanted to make a wide short creature. The paint doesn't have quite all the textures you might want either. But other than a few downsides it is all good.
At ten bucks the editor is pretty cheap and allows you to do all sorts of fun things, it also provides you with tools to capture and upload video, take picturs, and make .gifs. If you have ten bucks to spare and are looking forward to Spore, I suggest that you get a copy of this game, if your not sure there are tons of trial versions you can try. In my opinion this was ten bucks well spent.
A+
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