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Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Marrow — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:30:14 -0000

I noticed something about the color of the crystals when I was messing around today with the legs, if you use the darkest black it interferes with their coloration.

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Ritek — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 09:19:19 -0000

I got in and had a fiddle after reading this discussion. I could get 6-legs to walk like a spider, but not eight: didn't get adventurous with the segments. No matter how much I stretched the 8 legs around (both in length, and spaced around the body), they just kept walking one side alternate to the other.

Not meaning to jump on the spider bandwagon when I began, but I liked where the creature was going, so created the Ulna:
http://www.spore.com/sporepedi...

Oh well, I guess you cannot have too many spiders ;-)

The Ulna also has a problem with the 'jelly wobbles' at the front of the body, where the head is I guess. Certain animations and the mouth and eyes completely disappear inside the body. Seems like the animations aren't that rigid in terms of actual body proportions not matter what size or shape your creatures body is.

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Mur — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 04:38:21 -0000

i hate when i try to get my creature to walk around and it does not take real steps and just flips around a bunch then i spend a long time trying to fix it. or another bad thing is that you cant rotate feet

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Mythor — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:53:05 -0000

I actually tried spacing them out a little when I originally designed
the spider, but it continued to walk in the same fashion, so I went back
to not having legs on the abdomen. Makes it at least look spidery while
it's standing still!

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Marrow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:21:54 -0000

Haha, yeah there are a lot of them in there. I was toying with the legs a little bit more. It seems its more a question of spacing than anything else, which is detrimental to making a spider look like a spider. I am supposing it has to do with the immense amount of collision they would be having so close to one another.

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Mythor — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:02:16 -0000

Spiders don't usually have crystals down their backs? ;)
Tomorrow's creature will likely be a goofy one again, probably.

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Mythor — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 22:00:29 -0000

Actually, it is somewhat segmented, just not hugely so. The extra weight makes it a bit more flabby so the flesh rolls around a little. Which might have looked better if the legs walked properly. ;)
I'll try your suggestion about the two segments for the legs and see if that fixes it, thanks for that! :)
Your spider looks cool too. And it's not like there aren't dozens of other spiders already on the Sporepedia anyway. ;)

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Marrow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 19:04:46 -0000

I have another creature it turns out, that doesn't have the same problem with walking. It also has 8 legs, but the difference is that its legs are two segments each, and not 3, while another with 4 legs and 3 segments to each also walks unlike the spiders.

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Marrow — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 15:27:44 -0000

Don't get me wrong, overall I do like it. I noticed this one in the sporepedia before it was posted here and the first thing I noticed was the body being mostly like an unsegmented tube. This is where I stopped and made my own, not to go "See mine is better." but just to see how it went. Something that might be useful for you to know is that the detail lair seems to control the coloring on the crystals. There doesn't seem to be much you can do about the legs though, unless you make them look completely different, which defeats the purpose, and I always have problems with the bodies bending and flexing oddly as though they were water ballons or something, no ribs, thats my guess.

http://www.spore.com/sporepedi...
http://youtube.com/watch?v=sJt...

Re: Spore Daily #5: Red Bellied Crystal Spider

Mur — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:19:15 -0000

looks really good but a bit too standard for my tastes... i like seeing things that are odd and not normal