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As per request...






Had to minimise the creator a few times to double-check certain features against a real DM dragon (used the Encyclopaedia), but I'm pretty sure this is fairly accurate...he doesn't breathe fire, though . Haven't actually compared it to a proper DM dragon myself yet, not side by side...I'll have a look-see now .

Now that is pretty damn impressive! Superb work, well done!

Oh, we really need to make Spore Strikes Back, could be really fun!



EDIT: The only thing I'd change would be to give him a longer tail that curls around the body.

ian_scho wrote:You know it's curious but that's how I got my info about Spore as well. I wouldnt be surprised if the game designers already knew of this way of advertising their product because the quality of the wikipedia entry is well above average and interesting!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spore_(video_game)

But Wikipedia can be edited by anyone, it might be a load of nonsense!

I did want to give him a long tail, but unfortunately his spine wouldn't stretch any further (it was already at maximum length) and you can't make tails curl round like that...presumably it'd get in the way if you gave them five legs or something.
I've registered with YouTube so I can show him off properly - I have a video uploading as I type this (for 1 min 40 secs it's taking ages...although I suppose vids are large...). Oh yeah, Spore (well, the creature creator at least) has a built-in video recorder that can film creature antics for up to two minutes. You can see my dragon dude in action as soon as it's finished uploading - I'll link it here .

Ameena wrote:I did want to give him a long tail, but unfortunately his spine wouldn't stretch any further (it was already at maximum length) and you can't make tails curl round like that...presumably it'd get in the way if you gave them five legs or something.

i got the same tail problem for my purple wyvern, but as said above, there's some manual work to do on those pics. for the wyvern, i made the tail with a cropped part of another image (back view) of the original Spore creature.. and a few brush strokes.

The dragon looks sweet!

Alright here we go...behold my dragon in action .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPFzZv2Sh6k

There are other actions that creatures can perform, but I couldn't show them all in two minutes so I just showed some of 'em .

Brilliant! That's really good Ameena, cool work.

I think we might have been a lot less scared in the original DM if old Red had started dancing about on that lowest level.

Darn, I really want to play with this creator!

There are six different dances creatures can do...I only showed off a few of them .
I'm wondering what I shall make tonight...maybe something else from DM, or maybe another random creature. Meh, I'll see what I end up doing I suppose .

Wow, cool stuff! Yes, it was me who suggested the dragon, thanks for doing it Ameena!

And that Penis Monster is THE funniest thing I have seen all month.

Fantastic way to create new monster for Dungeon Master or Eye of the Beholder.

Does the program extacts the monsters or as static images or as a 3D model?

Or you need to capture from screen and clear the background with Photoshop?

Very nice Idea.

Linflas,

ahhh Gambit you should really have a look at it ! that's a wonderful base for monsters, and when you choose black background, the image is saved in PNG format with transparency !!!

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unfortunately, trial version do not provide wings...

About this Image.

You have create a new Dungeon Master? Where do we find it.
I am interesting to play this new dungeon.

Or if you could give us information how to crop the monsters from Spore Creature Creator.

Thank you...

takis76gr, Linflas' project is called Forest of Doom, it is under construction and won't be finished anytime soon. You can check it out in the Custom Dungeons section.

Thank you very much.....

takis76gr wrote:Or if you could give us information how to crop the monsters from Spore Creature Creator.

there's nothing to crop : there's transparency in the generated image when using black background.
the image -as it is- can be used in RTC, but i recommend to resize it with some image tool that keeps transparency.

A couple more vids for you...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My2ubdjutk0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvSHlKOrnxI

LOL, hah ha ha ha! I shall never be scared of purple worms or the dragon ever again!

Wormie is so scary at the start, then so cute at the end

Now behold my...erm...well, Beholder...




Alright, so he's a blob on the ground but there's no way of making him permanently hover except for when I'm actualyl editing him .

Waah, weird! Scary! Yellow! Doesn't float! Waaaaaah!

Lol, maybe another creature like a giggler can throw him?

ameena, can't you make it jump and take a shot at that time ?

Lol...it doesn't have any legs on which to jump, and while there are body parts that enable creatures to spit things (I've no idea what it is they actually spit...poison or something, presumably), it'd probably be tricky to attach one subtly enough to a Beholder to make it look as though it's not there. I had to do that with the mouth (all creatures must have a mouth before you can save 'em), but got away with it by putting it on the front, shrinking it right down, then putting the eye on top of it .
Anyway, here's a vid of him...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mas2Mm29jJY
I'd've linked it last night but it was late and these things always take ages to upload and then have to finish "processing" (I've no idea how long that takes as I've always shut the comp down and gone to bed at that stage ).

Aaaw, poor thing, he looks so sad that he can't float! First time I've felt sorry for such a scary monster!

Ahh was that you left that comment on my YouTube thingy...I wondered whether it was someone from here .

Yeah, that was me!

That's all just great - fantastic work!
With such enthusiastic engagement ... don't tempt me to setup a DM3D project

You will need to come up with a new name if you do, someone has already tried under that name before

Hmmm - CSB paints from behind to the front into a viewport-bitmap. Perhaps possible to mix these bitmaps (in different stages) with OpenGL-monsters. And maybe it is more complicated to add this to CSBwin than to my plain simple source using Allegro. I can imagine that this can be realized with AllegroGL then. But - let me come to an end first. I also have no idea if those things here can be imported in any way at all.

Uploaded some more videos! Here are all the creatures I've made so far. Just short vids showing them in action, basically.

Avidemon...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0q1X9EaL5-s

Rockskipper...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=75_Riw1Du7I

Grasswalker...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noyoEGhtCAI

Mauve Strider...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSIgdkhghyA

Tripedal Dicranium...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxbezNvsADc


I haven't made anything new for a while...I'll have to get back to it soon so I can carry on showing off .