I Teach You Everything I Know About The Spore Editors

[@ImTerasHD]

Man, those were some amazing tips! Great video 😊✌ The adventure cut scenes blew me away.. I need to try that someday!

[@doxnotch3029]

Thank you so much!

[@halilefe6075]

2nd

[@themyconidwitch]

@@halilefe6075 *shut*

[@matteosimonetti9657]

@@doxnotch3029 Continue like this, your spore content is amazing ♥️

[@embelished_meister500]

@@doxnotch3029 You probably won’t see this, but if you do, how do you register an account to get on the spore servers? Cause you mentioned that you can get on the spore servers with the help of the spore subreddit, and said help is a mod that allows you to get on the spore servers, and I did literally everything and I don’t know where to go. If I could get a little word of advice that would be much appreciated. 😊

[@weynonpriory]

So glad to see informative Spore content in 2022, it's keeping this game alive even years after release

[@doxnotch3029]

Thank you so much!

[@emrickazor2610]

I hope the community continues to stay alive.

[@thypartymainacc2582]

Honest to god, you're underrated for the content you're able to make out of such an old game. Spore is my childhood and life, and yet it's always amazing to see how skilled people are in this game.

[@doxnotch3029]

That's so good to hear! Thank you!

[@thypartymainacc2582]

@@doxnotch3029 ofc! You're good at what you do, you have a chance to make a career out of something you and everyone else enjoys!

[@briananderson1246]

@@thypartymainacc2582 "needs"

[@XxTheCupidKidxX]

I was recently recommended this and it inspired me to revisit my Marindyr creatures. One of the defining characteristics of them are their 6 legs and feathery backs and tails, so the complexity meter is pretty strict, but removing certain parts spared e ouch complexity to give them a good space outfit that still highlighted their characteristics. Absolutely loved it

[@celestialraptor3710]

This is literally the PERFECT video for me, I struggle with making things that aren't just average, and inspiration is a struggle as well. I'll certainly be coming back to this video a LOT for future use!

[@andrewchapman2039]

Whole new appreciation for the tools given to you in this game, 10/10 vid!

[@sickleandsuckle]

Finally, a more advanced guide for hardcore Spore players still here. Thanks for showing some of my stuff!

[@doxnotch3029]

Of course! One of the greats for sure!

[@therabbidt]

Im starting to realise that constraints lead to innovation

[@thomasdevlin5825]

I only learned about the asymmetry trick just the other day, I have been working on a project where I create evolutionary lines for all of the cell stage creatures, and it's going to be so useful for an idea I have for the megamouth

[@doxnotch3029]

Definitely! All of those mouths will really....eat up your complexity.

[@doddermodd]

That sounds very interesting. I want to know more.

[@Lich-lf9ix]

My GF recently got into Spore and she's really liking it ! Its amazing that the game of your childhood, which got you into learning biology and evolution, still holds something new and complex

[@Just-a-guy-179]

Bro this guy isn’t even a spore KZbinr but this is still the best editor tutorial I’ve ever seen!

[@MattGiuca]

I love how these tips are so much about role-playing and making things consistent and themed. Also I've never used the GA adventure editor. I had no idea it was so powerful. Looks like a fun time.

[@Moss_Dude]

This feels more like a visual design/worldbuilding guide that has a bunch of tooltips scattered through, lol. Great guide!

[@BodyCounter]

I miss those damn days where I'd finish a day of school to hop onto Spore! Thanks for a SUPER in-depth guide to making better creations. I bought Spore again a while back but haven't gotten around to installing yet, so down the line I hope I can make some amazing creations using your advice!

[@zalybrainlessgenius503]

This is an actual character design guide, holy damn 😀 I always design my things only through playing, so I build them as animals that just happened to evolve a brain, focusing on how they'd fill up the ecosystem slot.... My probably most complex idea was that I gave a species I wanted to be Zealots two heads, as to explain their cultural disunity, which would then lead into an unitifying agressive religion 😂 Or when it comes to clothing and city planning, I evolved penguins in this game just to give them those jetpacks, so they finally can fly too 😂 And their houses were literally just igloos 😅 This is amazing that you showed me that I should think about my creatures as humanoids, thanks!

[@tootietooter5984]

I found out about this game when I was little and was immediately fascinated by it. I hopped in years later but only played modded and offline. These creations and building tips are so awesome! Really makes me want to play Spore again and finally see more of this amazing community.

[@TheScreamingIdiot]

This video really made me wanna play spore again.. But every time I want to, I'm reminded by the game that I don't have access to any of the online features without going to websites and manually putting them into my game, and it kills a lot of my drive for wanting to play it. Always happy to see more spore content though

[@kireoy]

Wow this video is genuinely amazing! Absolutely adore these tips! Thanks for sharing them with us :) Your channel seems super underrated, hope to see you grow because you genuinely seem like a great content creator.

[@doxnotch3029]

Thank you! That gives me a lot of motivation!

[@Ainsatu]

This is the best video of Spore on KZbin

[@doxnotch3029]

Thanks! I’m glad you think so.

[@cobinasaur]

The armor fitting thing was exactly what I needed to give my creature a space suit!

[@danolantern6030]

I’m a lad who either makes the silliest goofiest creatures you’ll ever see or the terrors that keep you up at night but this is gonna be extremely helpful too. Cheers!

[@monckat4681]

wonderful video, it's great to see someone passing on all the ancient Spore Arts to a new generation! i loved seeing a little glimpse of one of my adventures at 27:48 haha

[@doxnotch3029]

That’s so sick! Dude I LOVED the way you made the thickets of trees and rows of crops. And the giant space station It’s just such a great adventure!

[@monckat4681]

thanks so much! i remember it being a very fun adventure to make, i'm hoping to finally finish up the sort-of follow up adventure i made to it sometime soon!

[@ciape7547]

for people wondering, the smallest arm possible that he talked about at some point was a bug arm. It looks like a skeleton and can be found on the holiarm lower part, and to make it as small as he showed you scale all points down as small as possible and scale down the middle part (you scale down by scrolling with your mouse button while your mouse is over a part.)

[@altradrawings1488]

Thanks man. It really took me quite a while to figure it out!

[@embelished_meister500]

The way you make your creatures is just absolutely flabbergasting! The amount of detail with using a small number of parts is amazing!

[@bingonight1504]

I havent played this game since i was 10 but i had NO idea there were people figuring stuff like this out this whole time! That's so awesome

[@InsanityLuc]

I played this game when I was going through puberty. You will indeed learn some of these tricks over time but ironically enough the advises you gave about the creature and building editors were the most usefull for me. I just miss the days finding channels like these, some random person who explains and explores everything about a game and responding to youtube comments. I think there were some issues with making connection with the servers when you bought the game on Steam which has something to do with the activation key. That is the reason why I have not touched the game for a long time. In the previous video about Spore you were on a Discord server with the remaining playerbase of the game? That seems absolutely crazy to me that such an old game still has such an active playerbase. Some of these players like Parkaboy and Fotosynthesis really became famous with the time they spent in the editors teaching us things about the editors we did not knew were possible. I hope to see some more video material about Spore from you in the future.

[@doxnotch3029]

Good to hear you enjoyed it! If you want, there are instructions on the spore subreddit for connecting to the spore servers through the steam version of the game. And if you do manage to get back online there are multiple Spore discords set up! I’m currently in a contest in the Sporechives discord, hoping I get to the finals 👍🏼

[@deuteriuscawl]

good lord This was absolutely amazing. Mindblowing!

[@RealPhoenixFlight]

As someone who deeply enjoys Spore, I love this guide, my mind has been opened up to a whole new world of creation

[@pipu_dual]

come with me, and you'll be, in a world of epic spore creations (???

[@benpaterson2237]

Just got back into Spore and stumbled upon this channel. Your passion for this sorely underrated game is infectious. Please keep doing Spode's work sir!

[@AndrewMabon]

I've played Spore for 14 years but many of the things in this video were still new to me. Great work.

[@carloscampos2988]

Thanks so much man! I'll definitely keep it in mind. Keep up the good work😊!

[@unluckypanda5448]

this is one of the videos ever that blow my mind like crazy. i dont even know what to say, this is just amazing! all the creature and outfit tricks, the creations of you showed, the adventures, the special cutscenes around 25:00, all that is unbelievable to me... wow.

[@spiker.ortmann]

I VERY recently discovered 4 things about the painting editors I didn't knew while making the buildings for my new playthrough... if you hold click over a color it will expand to let you choose between several tones (which made curse when I found black and white there which I always struggled to get 😅). If you hold Alt you get the drop tool to get paint texture and color from a part so you don't have to search what you used previously. If you hold Shift you paint the whole piece instead of just a part of it (like painting the glass on a window) and if you hold Ctrl you paint every copy of the part you have (Ctrl+Shift will paint all whole copies of the piece). Maybe it's common knowledge and/or part of the "editor's manual" which I honestly didn't take the the time to read but since it's a video about editors I thought it might be helpful for someone else out there. 😉

[@doxnotch3029]

Those are great tips to know! I forgot to mention anything about how the paints work and I regret that for sure.

[@lowbirds]

16:45 I think the parts are asymmetric because making parts asymmetrical gives you more complexity. Great video too! Taught me lots of things that aided me in improving my Spore skills!

[@Tpose_Clockman]

8:22, the creature looks so cool!

[@rhsmn2334]

it's astonishing. i couldn't ever imagine that something even 10% as cool could be made in this game

[@ArmyOfOne0day]

This vid helped me a lot, especially the outfitting part, I had trouble making outfits for creatures until I saw this vid, thx for the tutorial!

[@l.abuddy23]

Wow, I am so grateful for your knowledge. Spore is one of my favorite games out there. I love seeing the videos, more recent ones, talking about Spore.

[@northraven7806]

Wow. It was so helpful. I returned to Spore as a light from my childhood. I wanted to remind myself of my way of thinking and creating things as a child. And you helped me a lot with these tips, thank you.

[@cupcake_goop]

I’m so happy someone made this. It is amazing that someone is still passionate about spore, especially GA. I do have a question, though. How do you make text on buildings? I tried so hard to do this and it’s been pretty tricky, especially if I am doing thinner fonts.

[@doxnotch3029]

For thinner fonts, the best way that I know is to use the cylindrical detail pieces and sink them into the walls so that only a sliver of the cylinder is showing. If you’re going really small you can use the donut detail pieces for things like R’s, B’s, P’s etc. if you can make it work with your design, it’s a million times easier to do all of that on a flat board instead of a curved wall.

[@phoenixgreenwood2484]

Man, I’ve always struggled with buildings and vehicles in spore despite the fact that I’ve played it so much since release. I’ve always just avoided making anything. This video was a massive help and has motivated me like crazy! It’s a fantastic video! Fantastic job! This game is a gem.

[@MatthewCenance]

This is a good tutorial - it's interesting to think of creatures in terms of the Spore archetypes.

[@thatoneperson6576]

this is such an amazing video, wow. it just reignited my need to play spore, and I didn't realize how cool the galactic adventures are!! I'm gonna have to buy the dlc and try some of the stuff you said

[@imperial_caterpillar]

Dude, thank for video, like literally bless you for that. I'm personally playing long enough but didn't know about good half of these tricks.

[@doxnotch3029]

Great to hear that it helped you out!

[@Flash_of_Stars]

There is so many great design tips not only for spore, great video:))

[@wereprofessionals9521]

For those using spore before the 5.1 patch, unfortunately there is no way to do the technique with the screw, however, it can be done with any one of the hats in the tribal, civilization, or space creators. Also there is no way to use asymmetry in earlier versions. :') (Though there maaaaybe a mod that allows that idk)

[@ezlofarcarver2124]

All of my creations wind up being birds... but I did use them as the basis for my ever-growing DnD universe. It's quite extensive, and I love the creators with all my heart. Something I do, I flip the spine upside down, just to make the size for the bellied/head based correct. And, using the asymmetrical system for the legs is awesome, just to give the creatures different stances. I love this game.

[@Voxelgd]

I just kinda wanted to share a creature I was planning on making once I got home from holiday vacation, but it was going to be black, with long arms and legs, with one of its hands and lower arm being replaced with a saw, and the head and arm kinda looking like they where dead almost, and with eyes that that looked like that of a cold, calculated murder drone. oh, and I was planning on naming it "the remnant"

[@Dreamkilled]

I don't know most of it. Thank you so much! For me it is hard to find cool adventures or creatures. Thank you for showing cool creators and interesting details they made in creatures and adventures. Bought the SPORE because of your recomendation not long ago :D

[@doxnotch3029]

That’s so good to hear! I hope you’ve been enjoying it.

[@benis654]

Absolutely incredible video! Perfect guide to follow and keep in mind for my replay of one of my favorite childhood games.

[@mollyOS420]

oh this video is PHENOMENAL

[@25439]

wow there were some things i never noticed before in my, cough, 10 years, cough, of playing spore (on and off obviously) thanks!

[@cosmiccreaturefan]

Love this video!! I've been playing Spore since I was a kid and have been avoiding focusing on outfitting for so long just because it felt so cumbersome to use the editor to make something that looks okay By my standards, but these tips should help heaps and maybe I'll start exploring these aspects more now!

[@Ben_Hollingsworth69]

Let's go spore is like the best game btw love your cool alien designs

[@raptorious7090]

Saw this video a few days ago, now I'm addicted to make mechanical creatures with Galactic Adventure parts

[@zachman8350]

I just started playing spore a year ago after constantly thinking "I should buy it." Then never getting to it, And this video showed me so much ty👍

[@chonkypupper2740]

I saw you posted this years ago, but I am surprised to see you are still answering replies, I have some questions that I couldn't get answer by any search, so I would really appreciate if you could answer them for me. ❤️ 1. Although I'm pretty sure this sadly isn't a feature, is there any way to load a custom creature into an already existing game, and no I'm not talking about a new game while using that one cheat (forgot the name), but loading a creature into an already existing game, because I find it annoying how I have all the parts but the game doesn't allow me to just load a saved creature, the only work around I found to this was using cheats to start a new game with saved creature and then using more cheats to give the precursor abilities, but this just made my game crash randomly, especially when I opened my sporepedia. 2. I know some Maxis made adventures only appear with certain archetypes, is there a way to do this with my custom adventures? Since I know you can add the tag GAprop to buildings which will stop them from being polinated in games, I was wondering if you could add a similar tag to the adventures themselves to limit which archetypes they appear for, or is that what the type option box does when naming the adventure? 3. I haven't got too far with my captain and was wondering how the gear worked, I searched the wiki and it said that you can only get 10 pieces of captain different gear, does that mean I can only get two of the extra spaceship mode abilities from the gear or can I get more gear and/or spaceship abilities? 4. I am planning on maxing out my captain's social, should I go diplomat gear or bard? And what's the difference between them? 5. My brother maxed out his creature's complexity limit while in creature stage, when he got to tribal he was disappointed he could only fit 5 or so pieces of gear on his dragon god, he went to the main menu to see how much he can put on his captain loadout and could only get 3 pieces of glowing gear on his dragon, he restarted now. So (sorry for the exposition) would you say having a more complex creature or a complex captain suit would be better, when looking from the galatic adventure point of view? Are the galatic adventures abilities just flat out better than the creature's? Thanks for reading all of this, I hope someone has the answer to these. EDIT: After re-watching the video I realized you kind of answer question 4, but say if I preferred the look of the creature attacks are they worse than the galatic adventure attacks, and although you said not to use the bard pieces I still might because I love how they look, and also my creature is a little odd since I'm playing as a dog with no arms, so I really want pose.

[@seepsoda]

gotta say I'm really impressed I've played spore so much man n I never knew any of this I just treated the game how I did as a kid

[@nolandderlugner1351]

i dont know why you do so much content on spore, but i love it

[@llamaism1328]

Learned all these traits and made a super cool alien with cybernetic parts that I'm really proud of only to realise that there was no way I could actually play as them without a bunch of cheating or resigning myself to being a wanderer. Rats.

[@doxnotch3029]

Ah yeah, actually evolving a creature that fits your aesthetic perfectly is pretty tough! But playing as a wanderer can be pretty fun regardless!

[@Klyxlik]

0:00 I have heard this hi so many times.

[@ashlight6107]

Those are some awesome tips! I've recently started playing Spore again since I enjoyed it so much as a kid and seeing those tips are very nice and gives me some creative ideas!

[@ovenram]

Amazing video, perfectly set out!!! I’ve always struggled with making ships so this is great. And Until The Last One Falls is amazing!!

[@pierreproudhon9008]

Paper title: The Expressive Application of Creator-Editors in the Video Game Spore: a Cursory Review

[@petersmythe6462]

Making GA adventures is a topic unto itself. One thing I would say, don't softlock weaker creatures or make OP abilities like sneak or spit so broken they can cheese the whole adventure.

[@karpai5427]

I really don't like how they made sneak of any level act the same as invisibility. I wish it worked the same as in creature stage. I dislike that I have to get equipment that I don't want to use on my captain. And I heard that there is a very short max level that I can only unlock 8 or 10 equipments.

[@cleverdragon2744]

Best spore video i've ever seen. I'm 100% up to hearing you talk about creating things on spore for hours lol

[@charlesdarwin7647]

The last adventure just blows my mind! I know it's really hard to predict the camera behavior on some objects in adventures. This game is still able to surprise me after so many years. So amazing! Also, I have a question. Why do we need a room's interior to be a single structure? Wouldn't be better to make all interior objects masked doors for example? And lastly. Did you know that there is a trick in the adventure editor that allows you to go beyond the planet, get to the sun and dive into deep space? If you are interested, you can check the video "Spore: Galactic Adventures - Teleport to the Sun" by Mysterious Creator on KZbin. This is my second channel. I'm not posting the link, because KZbin may ban it.

[@doxnotch3029]

I’ll check that out! The reasoning behind consolidating interiors is to save space in the gameplay objects tab. You’ve only got six pages and if you’re using 10+ objects on one interior it’s going to fill up real quick.

[@charlesdarwin7647]

@@doxnotch3029 Oh, now I see! Got it. Thank you for the explanation.

[@thefreshestmint]

Ive been playing spore since release but im only just now getting started at advanced creation techniques. This video helps so much. Thanks. Sub

[@doxnotch3029]

Glad you enjoyed it and thank you so much!

[@juanchol21]

spore was my childhood game and i loved this video, thank you :)

[@mavormandragon2216]

Very nice compellation of tips and trick. (And it is "He / him".)

[@doxnotch3029]

Glad you enjoyed it! And I thought so, just felt bad for assuming.

[@sergeychistov8162]

Oh my! Your SPORE is totally different. (amazing stuff!)

[@NewgirlNola]

Woooaghhh… Ok I always knew that spore had nearly infinite possibilities but this video has really opened my eyes to how much more can really be achieved.

[@Solar_vitality]

Thanks for the advice now I’m able to make more cooler things in spore

[@UniqueUkrainianLetters]

I just leave my comment here to support the Spore community.

[@rashounmartin9170]

You are so underrated I love this video you out done yourself! Keep making videos!!😀😀😀😀😀

[@heavenly2k]

Insanely good video, damn.

[@alexhere7129]

Haven’t played Spore in years but seeing this video and your last spore video talking about Galactic Adventures was very nostalgic. Thanks for these. Might decide to play this again soon since I didn’t know the community’s still alive lol. 🤙 Would be helpful if you made a video on your top creators on spore to subscribe to for inspiration or to see their creations/adventures. Theres some spore creators you mention in these videos that i wasn’t even aware of and their creations were really awesome to see. Great stuff, subbed to your channel. 🛸

[@greywolf9783]

At some point I tried to make a master of all trades race, but now I usually make a VERY aggressive race that is so sadly lacking in social skills its amusing, so it's a 4 legs 2 armed boy with two arms and a scorpion like tail. With 5 on all combat stats but a one or 2 on all social stats 😂

[@Aluminum.K]

so like, whats with the big "NO ASS" sign in that adventure level

[@doxnotch3029]

@@Aluminum.K it’s a protest sign against the Alliance of Sentient Species! Keeps getting misconstrued for some reason..

[@Aluminum.K]

@@doxnotch3029 I assume it was put up by the Builders of Unified Transgalactic Travel

[@Mainecoonium_is_burger]

I absolutely love this game

[@petersmythe6462]

You can make trading mechanics within one act.

[@RoachChaddjr]

There is so much I never knew. Great creations and Thanks for the video!

[@colemanbrenner6555]

This is an amazing video, I always look back at this while playing spore. I got back into the game recently and started playing again, with this insectoid-centaur species called the Scorab (they are a bit in the red in terms of complexity lol). I came up with the idea that their exoskeletons can be removed to create weapons and tools, resulting in a reactionary and socially loyal society. I’m designing their buildings and vehicles to look like parts are made from their armor. Out of curiosity, do you have any tips on specific buildings like with entertainment?

[@BierBart12]

These creators really are the epitome of "trust the process", so many creations suddenly turn from ugly blobs someone made on their first time in Blender, to masterpieces when the final details are added I've seen creatures be shared that used WAY more than the maximum complexity, despite cheats usually making them unshareable. I always wondered how they did that

[@doxnotch3029]

Ctrl+shift+c to open cheats, then type “freedom” to to disable the complexity limit somewhat. You have to do another step to get it to share correctly but I can’t remember what it is off of the top of my head.

[@shynebull]

Yo you gotta a great channel name and you’re really easy to follow with catchy commentary. Your channel should have way more subs. Sorry KZbin has a sucky algo.

[@SpaceDragon14]

hey man, sweet video, this was super lovely to watch, i really love this game and your content about it is great

[@doxnotch3029]

Thank you so much!

[@Austin_Streck]

This was so unbelievably far ahead of its time.

[@Crusader6809]

My man just gained a new subscriber

[@Le0guard]

I found out if you move a spaceship in the spaceship editor upwards you somehow have more space, which is good for making longer or bigger spaceships. I don't know why that is though.

[@galizakeithd.2579]

How did they separate the cockpit pieces into the sides at 17:05?

[@Inspectnerd]

Great video! it helped me a ton!

[@freddyli5356]

Hello there, About the Sporecasts Maxis Adventures 100 Points (24) By Trikitiger I logged into the game and checked out recently it now didn’t have any play records and shows 15 points gain for each, but it’s okay, if you bring more friends to play and gives a 5 point rating I think it would able to offer 100 points again.

[@doxnotch3029]

You need to go onto the Sporepedia website and use the lineage tracker to trace back to the original Maxis versions. Then manually download each one and then you’ll have them available to play in your game.

[@freddyli5356]

@@doxnotch3029 Ok I got it, thanks

[@moko6174]

Amazing video it really helped me one question though i saw you got texts on the boards can i please know how you did that it would help me out alot

[@karpai5427]

Usually it's just small colored miscelenious pieces of buildings.

[@andrewzwaniga2016]

I wish Griffin and Justin from Polygon would watch this video and others like it so we could get a sequel to their Monster Factory series about Spore!

[@andystewart9242]

Adventure ai tip which as far as I know not many people know, but setting a creature to have a wander radius of 0/1 and then going to custom behavior with this order: wander when aware of player, follow player always will allow you to create mobs of npcs which follow you but stop the moment they're aware of you so they don't crowd the player, so you can set custom follow distances. Also adding attack (enemy team): aware of player under all this behavior will cause them to stop fighting and follow the player when you move away, so you kind of control your own little army

[@VincentEdelstein]

Yooooo the spore community is still alive!

[@sidtrooper]

I loved your video! It was very informative!

[@justanormaltree8951]

Playing the game since I was a kid Yet I always ended up with a humanoid herbivore And a scorpion like carnivore And to this day I still do this

[@quickyball5054]

12 years of this game and still got to learn some new things. Great video man. But I do have one question. How do you make your adventures worth more points? I always have them worth only 10 points.

[@doxnotch3029]

It’s VERY hard to do that nowadays. The points are based off of how long it takes to beat the adventure and the difficulty. So to make it worth more, you need a lot of people to play it, and that’s a pretty huge challenge these days.

[@Klaracbarack]

@@doxnotch3029 The play counter has been broken for years, so it's literally impossible now unfortunately. Points were based on difficulty, which was measured by checking how many people managed to beat it out of all the players who played the adventure. It was all percentage based. So if an adventure is worth 60 points, it means 60% of people managed to beat it. But since the play counter broke, the game can no longer calculate that. This means all shared adventures are only worth 15 points now (and adventures that are not shared are 10 points). The only way to change this is by using mods.

[@doxnotch3029]

@@Klaracbarack ah interesting! I remember someone telling me it was partially based on play time back in the day, but to make things take longer you have to make it more difficult. Makes perfect sense that it’s a percentage of how many people finished it!

[@crossoverepisode]

2:30 hey this trick to exclude parts of limbs by holding ctrl isn’t working for me. Anyone know why?

[@doxnotch3029]

If I remember correctly, it’s part of the GA DLC. I didn’t know that at the time of recording.