Electronic Arts UK Community - SPORE Creative http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/ en Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:15:10 GMT vBulletin 60 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/images/ea_images_spore2/misc/rss.jpg Electronic Arts UK Community - SPORE Creative http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/ Shameless advertising. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/854113-shameless-advertising.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 13:53:05 GMT Hi I would like people to check out my stuff, i know is shameless advertising but i dont care. just search my creations out :) i hope you enjoy... Hi

I would like people to check out my stuff, i know is shameless advertising but i dont care.
just search my creations out :) i hope you enjoy them

cheers fluxtrox ]]> SPORE Creative fluxtrox http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/854113-shameless-advertising.html How did they make the Art Deco Blimp? http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/853984-how-did-they-make-art-deco-blimp.html Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:04:14 GMT I want to know how maxis made the Art Deco Blimp in the colony-air selection.

I'm trying to make somthing similer in land vehicals but I can't find the pice they used for the main body. :?
Does anyone know which part they used? ]]> SPORE Creative MrEccentric http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/853984-how-did-they-make-art-deco-blimp.html Create-A-Civ Contest http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/850475-create-civ-contest.html Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:02:25 GMT Image: http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq226/billith123/civcopy.png (http://i450.photobucket.com/albums/qq226/billith123/civcopy.png) ...

Presenting the chance to enter the BIGGEST contest of the year, Create-A-Civ! Now, if you're wondering what this is all about, we want YOU to create your own spanking new civilisation! If you've ever thought 'Wouldn't it be cool to have an entire civilisation of Llamas?', well now's your chance to make it happen, and more! We want you to let your imagination run wild, but if you think that creating an entire civilisation with its creatures, buildings and vehicles is a lot of work, or maybe you're not too confident in on of the editors, have no fear! Team up with up to 3 other creators and bring your civ to life.
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Rules:
1) We want you to create a full civ set, this means at least 1 creature, 3 vehicles, 4 buildings and a spaceship. Certain exceptions may be allowed, but this has to be cleared with one of the judges first.
2) Creations must be new, however if you want to make a civ based on a creation you already have, we will allow edits of older creations. The majority of the creations must be completely new.
3) Teams will have 4 weeks to create their entries, the deadline may be changed depending on the level of interest in the contest.
4) Do not share your entries until we tell you to, after all you don't want other teams knowing what you're up to do you? Once the time comes, share your creations and tag the with 'caccontest', collect them in a sporecast and PM one of the judges the link. This is to make sure we can find all of the entries and make the judging process easier and quicker
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Now those of you out there remember the SCC might be thinking 'hang on, hasn't this been done before?', well to a certain extent yes, but this time there's a chance to show off your skill in making adventures. Yes, that's right, you can use GA! We're giving you the chance to show off your Civ like never before, by making an adventure to go with your Civ. It can be anything you want, a city filled with your creations, a story explaining all about your Civ or maybe an epic event in your Civ's history. Whatever you want to do, do it!

Brought to you by Aapburger (AapBurger's Public Spore Page), Billith (Billith's Public Spore Page) and LordofDestiny (LordofDestiny's Public Spore Page) and thanks to arastoph (arastoph's Public Spore Page) for the awesome banner!

Sporum thread here:Create-A-Civ Contest ]]> SPORE Creative Billith http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/850475-create-civ-contest.html Dressing fun contest http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/850137-dressing-fun-contest.html Sat, 07 Nov 2009 19:48:07 GMT I've created some new creatures for an adventure I'm doing. I thought it would be fun to see if other people could do some dressing up of these creatures. I'll feature any that are added in my new adventure.
Anyway here is the creature that needs some clothes.

You can find him/her (yes you can do girlie versions if you want) to down load here: Sporepedia

The people, called Eneltas, are planet bound so civilisation or tribal cothes would be prefered. What ever you decide let your inmagination go wild. Oh and if you do make any please post links to it here so I can down load them to put in my adventure, also pictures would be good if you know how to add them.

To start off here's a couple of examples that I have done.




Hope to see some other great examples soon. Have fun dressing up. ]]> SPORE Creative Inthractus http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/850137-dressing-fun-contest.html top five tips to spore poularity! http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/848437-top-five-tips-spore-poularity.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 21:20:03 GMT Calling all beginers who want to get there creations seen by the best! Tip 1 This may sound stupid but my cousin has done this a number of times,... Calling all beginers who want to get there creations seen by the best!
Tip 1
This may sound stupid but my cousin has done this a number of times,
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE SHARED IT!

Tip 2
As we all no some creations are more popular than other so how about either insert the name of a popular creation or creater in your the creations name or tags, so when poeple search for this popular creation/creator your creation will pop up and this will get it seen.

Tip 3
make your creation coulorfull so it stands out in the sporepedia wich well get it noticed.

Tip 4
Coment on your favorite creations of other users to let them know your name and soon they will begin to coment back and begin to rate.

Tip 5
Be patient i had to wait along time before any of mine were highly rated but now i have about seven well rated creations.

Well there you have it follow these tips to get SPORE POPULARITY! ]]> SPORE Creative Scottbob http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/848437-top-five-tips-spore-poularity.html GUIDE: How to Get Your Creations Seen and Commented! http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/848364-guide-how-get-your-creations-seen-commented.html Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:30:48 GMT Very special thanks to lazywnch for creating this guide in the Sporum, which has helped many creators get noticed. I've posted this here, as I know some people here are struggling with their creations and adventures - hopefully this shall help.

If you want any more creator-related guides, please let me know and I'll try to help you out.

Note: This was created before Galactic Adventures and Asymmetry was introduced into Spore.

EDIT: Sorry about the page stretch - I am not sure what is causing it, but I shall still try to fix it.

Quote:
Originally Posted by lazywnch

Generously created by world_piece.


Hey, y'all:

I read so many posts by people frustrated by their inability to get folks to see their hard work, to get comments, to get some sort of recognition. Personally, I love seeing a new name hit the Most Popular New (MPN) list. I also love being exposed to new and -- often -- great creators and creations that have gone unrecognized.

In this guide, I hope to pass on a few tips for people interested in trying to make it in the Spore Community. Please realize that this guide is based on the tips I've garnered from creating my own creations and trying to find a place in the community. To be fair, many creators inspire my creations, and I only consider myself a middling creator. Having said that, here are my opinions -- mine alone -- on how to find mentors, buddies, and recognition for your work:



COMMENTING

1. Do As You'd Have Done to You: If you want comments, you have to be willing to put in the time to comment on others' creations.

2. Quality of Comments: One word comments like "cool" or "awesome," while very nice -- because it is a comment -- you can better show a creator that you've really spent time looking at their creations by picking out one or two details that you like and commenting on them specifically. Creators are far more likely to spend that extra few minutes to look up and comment your creations if you take the time to thoughtfully comment theirs.

3. Quantity of Comments: Spend time on the MPN list. Start commenting and rating those creations that you truly like. Never rate or comment simply to comment. Be honest. Comment what inspires you. The more you comment, the more you are exposed to inspiring creators, and the more your own name gets thrown out there.

4. Help Others Break on Through to the Other Side: Spend some time on the newest creations list. Run through it, comment on what strikes you, help other creators by commenting, and again, the karma will come back to you.


FORUMS

1. Use the Forums: If you stumbled onto this guide by accident and are unaware of the forums, check them out. To get there from your My Spore page, click on Community in the menu bar at the very top of your screen. Once the community page comes up, click on Forum in the menu bar at the very top of your screen.

2. Where to Look: The second section titled Community will probably be most helpful to you. The specific forum that you're looking for is the Creator Corner.

3. What to Look For: There are several threads that can help you get your name and creations out there for other people to see. Look or use the forum search feature to find threads with names like Show Off Your Latest, Feel Under-rated and Overlooked? or The Popularity Thread. And use the forums to help yourself and others get your creations out there.

4. Self-Promotion: Many people throw up threads that are simply self-promotion. I, personally, find it classier to create a thread where you give the opportunity for other lesser known creators to also promote their creations. Again, in the Spore Community, we're all dependent on each other. To put it in a somewhat crude nutshell: "You pat my back, and I'll pat yours."

5. Promote Others: There are often threads in the forums asking which creators you like best, or asking which creators you'd recommend. Be generous and honest. By naming creators you admire or see as up and coming creators, you have a larger chance of being named yourself.

5. Contests: Look for contests announced in the forums and participate in them. This is yet another way to get your creations seen and to make contacts with other creators.

7. How to Post Creations: Here's how you post a picture of your creation in a forum thread. Type: To find the image link, right click on your creation's image, go to properties, and there is a link there. That's the image link.


BUDDIES

1. Buddy Up: Start buddy-ing the creators that you like, that inspire you. Keep up with their work, comment when you particularly like something. Even people with 1000+ subscribers only ever get a tiny fraction of comments from their subscribers. Don't be a lurker. Be pro-active in letting creators know you appreciate their creations. They'll return the favor.

2. Don't Be Opaque: Let creators know when you buddy them or rate up their creations. So much of the interaction within the community is reciprocal. If you help others, they're very likely to help you.


CREATIONS

1. Patience: Be willing to wait for some of these tips to take effect. You may not get instant glory and success, but it should begin to slowly trickle in and grow.

2. Reasonable Expectations: If you're taking the time to look at and comment other creators' creations, you'll begin to get an idea of how your creations compare. Accept modest recognition. Don't expect to be the number one creator of all time. You may never be. Be okay with this. Don't consider it rejection, and don't let it stop you from creating.

3. Refine Your Creatures: Be willing to ask for and accept constructive criticism. There are threads on the Creator Corner forum, such as The Creation Rate Game, that allows other creators to rate your creatures, and often, creators will provide feedback on your creation at the same time.

4. Dissect Other Creations: If you find a creation you like, download it, take it to the editor, and deconstruct it. Look at how the creator put the creation together. It'll help inspire you and teach you tips and tricks to use in any of the editors. Be sure to exit without saving the creation so that you don't accidentally appropriate someone else's work.

5. Creator's Block: Templates are an excellent way to spur creativity. Another creator has done most of the work for you. All you need to do is decorate and color the template. Be sure, however, to give credit in the creation's description and tag to the original creator who made the template.

6. Finding Templates: Many creators have sporecasts in which they've gathered templates that can be used by others. Subscribe to these sporecasts so that you have easy access to the templates in the editor. As I don't know the names of anyone with such a sporecast off the top of my head, I'll provide a link to my own Templates To-Do List sporecast, which is far from complete. There's also a forum thread called The Template Club! And ZEE_EXX has a template sporecast called omega template collection with over 600 templates.

7. Creator Tips: Using the Sporepedia search feature, you can search for "creatortips" in tags to find creations on which creators have left tips and tricks on how they made their creations. There's also a forum thread called Post Your Creator Tips. This can help you find new and unique ways to use parts.

8. Tutorials: Spore has several tutorials on their site that provide some indispensable tips and tricks for working in the various editors. These tips and tricks will allow you to make more complex creations, and sometimes, it can even help you make them more quickly.


NEGATIVITY

1. Creators Behind the Creations: No matter how good or bad you think a creation might be, realize that there's a real live person behind creations. Be kind. Constructive criticism is good--if given politely and respectfully. But there's no need to hurt another creator's feelings. If you don't like a creation, move on.

2. Downrating: There are several forum threads about downrating. Creators are being downrated. For whatever reason, it isn't necessary. If you don't like a creation, you needn't rate it. But there's no real reason to downrate a creator's creation unless you find it vulgar or offensive. And even then, you can use the report creation feature. Creators work hard on their creations, there's no need to hurt their feelings or make them feel insecure. Never do this to get your own creations to the top of the MPN list. It's underhanded and unkind.

3. Being Blackballed: The best way to find yourself isolated in the Spore Community is to post negative comments, suggest that creations aren't worthy, consistently downrate creations, steal them, or make creations based off another creator's work without giving proper credit in the creation's description and tag. If you think you might offend a creator by using their creation as inspiration, ask them first. Most will be flattered. For the number of people who play Spore, the Spore Community is a small place. Word gets around. And it can make or break your growing reputation.


COMMUNICATING

1. Mailboxes: A lot of creators have mailboxes where you can leave comments unrelated to their actual creation. You can often find them by looking through the creator's creations or sporecasts, or even ask the creator if they have a mailbox and for a link to it. You can even create a sporecast with your own list of mailboxes for your buddies. (Here's a good tutorial on how to make a sporecast.) If you'd like to make a more personal comment that you don't want published, simply put "DELETE" or something similar at the beginning of the message.

2. Private Messages: If you have some longer, more private message you'd like to leave a creator, you can send them a private message. The option to send a private message is at the top of The Spore Forum - The Official Spore Forum entrance page. On the same page, there's a link to your profile called My Profile. In here, you can set your settings to e-mail you when you get a private message.


QUICK RESOURCE LIST

Here are some great resources and threads to check out:

Contest & Challenges
Challenges and contests are one of the best ways to get your work out there and seen. Not only are you posting your work on a thread that other people interested in the contests and challenges are watching and keeping tabs on, but your work will probably end up in a sporecast that quite a few people will be browsing.

Promotion & Rating Threads
These are the threads that will help you promote yourself, get ratings, comments, and help from other creators. It's easy to go through these threads, comment on the other creators' work, and make those connections.

Unofficial Tools for Creators
A great thread with the most common tips and tricks in each editor, as well as a complexity and color chart.



I'm sure many creators could add other helpful hints here, and I'd encourage anyone who'd like to add something to do so. Hope this helps those of you new to the game or wishing to find a way into the Spore Community. We all benefit from seeing a varied number of creators and creations, and remember, we all started at square one, too. Look at creators' early creations, and you'll see that they had a learning curve just like you.


Toodles!
]]> SPORE Creative Rebecca1208 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/848364-guide-how-get-your-creations-seen-commented.html Scottbobs Evolution game. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/847212-scottbobs-evolution-game.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:24:50 GMT Hey guys and gals
I've seen quite alot of these and have just started a new cell stage game and decided to use you lot as my guides.

So heres the story so far little eleto didnt like plants they just made him feel ill so he decided to munch on his brother he liked the taste but the rest of his family said maybe they should find someone else to munch on apart from themselves do they munch a b or c you decide.
a.
Grun






b.
Chiper






c.
Doglo

]]> SPORE Creative Scottbob http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/847212-scottbobs-evolution-game.html Creations based on Simpsons,family guy etc http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/847186-creations-based-simpsons-family-guy-etc.html Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:32:47 GMT Post pictures of any creations based around tv shows simpsons, family guy, or any other popluar shows Scottbob:teeth: Post pictures of any creations based around tv shows simpsons, family guy, or any other popluar shows
Scottbob:teeth: ]]> SPORE Creative Scottbob http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/847186-creations-based-simpsons-family-guy-etc.html Expansion packs! http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846866-expansion-packs.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:31:41 GMT Hi guys, Everyone please post all their wicked ideas of new spore expansion packs or other spore bits here! Look forward to see what all the... Hi guys,

Everyone please post all their wicked ideas of new spore expansion packs or other spore bits here!

Look forward to see what all the people come up with,
Thanks,
Darkpulse2009. 8) ]]> SPORE Creative Darkpulse2009 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846866-expansion-packs.html Show off your seasonal creations. http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846591-show-off-your-seasonal-creations.html Sat, 31 Oct 2009 09:03:44 GMT The above, go. The above, go. ]]> SPORE Creative Takben http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846591-show-off-your-seasonal-creations.html The New DAC (Darkened Abyss Clan) http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846314-new-dac-darkened-abyss-clan.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:48 GMT *_Darkened Abyss Clan_* Hello everyone. Welcome to the DAC thread. We are basically a clan which absolutly anyone can join! Our theme is mainly...
Darkened Abyss Clan

Hello everyone. Welcome to the DAC thread. We are basically a clan which absolutly anyone can join! Our theme is mainly based on Dark and Creepy creations, but anything is always welcome. We have an ever expanding community and we all meet around the DAC Forum. So far, we have around 40 members and a whopping 10,000 posts and rising!

There are members on everyday willing to chat and help you out, Competitions and events to get everyone involved and a Chatbox to just generally chat about anything your hearts desire. We also have a Forum Credit system which rewards you for logging on and posting everyday which can earn you some goodies in the Forum Credit shop. There is also a Libary section for all of you writers out there who wish to write stories or even start RPG's off :-)

We have many sections to entertain members in, like a Forum games section to play about in, a Off-Topic section to chat about anything you wish and other forums like a Gaming central and a media forum. I am sure there is something for everyone to do :-)

If new members need any help, feel free to contact us and we will help you.
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DAC Forum link: DAC Forum
DAC Sporecast: Not Available at the current time.
DAC Youtube Channel: Not available at the current time.
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Clan Ranks

Special Ranks

Admins
xDoomsoulx
Nidking
Moderators
Banega
Spacemarine9

Post Ranks

Higher Post Ranks

??? - ??? Posts
My Fingers Hurt... - 10,000 posts
Galactic God - 7500 posts
Elder God - 5000 posts
Demi-God - 4000 posts
The Legendary - 3000 posts
The Fabled - 2000 posts
The Honoured - 1000 posts

Normal Post Ranks

Elite Member - 500 posts
Senior Member - 250 posts
Platinum Member - 120 posts
Gold Member - 60 posts
Silver Member - 30 posts
Bronze Member - 15 posts
Newbie - 1 post
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Brief Clan Histroy

The clan first origionated from a group of people on the EAUK Spore forum. The idea was first thought of by 04starrd and Rebecca1208 with other willing members helping out along the way. It was decided after about 20 pages of posting and planning the the clan should be called the Darkened abyss Clan (or DAC for short). It was a success settling in with about 20 of us from the EAUK joining. 04starrd was elected the clan leader and Rebecca1208 was elected the Co-Leader.

The clan decided to advertise on the Sporum and the EAUK to get additional members (The old thread can be found here). After a long while and many clan events, we managed to get passed the 100 members mark.

There, unfortionatly though, was a series of events which led the clan to it's destruction and many plans were made to keep it alive. Galox and Deza went off to make the DMC while I went off to make a new DAC forum to have a new fresh start. A couple of monts later, we are now here, restarting advertisement.
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Events

Currently, there are no current events available this week. Please check out this space soon :-)
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Memberlist

As of 30th October:

- xDoomsoulx
- Nidking
- Spacemarine9
- Scefyx
- MiiHeiwa
- Unit111
- Die876
- Galox
- LordofDestiny
- Duck465
- Banega
- Finlay
- ZigZagas
- 04starrd
- Jakob
- Chaoskampfkeks
- Lord Blobbery
- upgradefrea
- shasja
- OverlordZim
- sageboba
- agraf
- Blazeer The Wolf
- ratgirl15
- Demonata
- Words5
- 6stSense
- thegreyfox
- shadosilver
- Agent blob
- KingKez
- Firestar7
- sciocont
- kyle_r93
- Aaron
- Lyra405
- Xrayy
- Kevin92
- Mysteryem
- 123defacto

Note: If you would like your name to be removed from this list, please pm me on the Sporum or in the DAC forum. Thanks.
________________________________________________ ]]> SPORE Creative xDoomsoulx http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846314-new-dac-darkened-abyss-clan.html Lets see your creatures! http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846212-lets-see-your-creatures.html Fri, 30 Oct 2009 16:28:19 GMT Hi please up load your creatures here and comment on them! :teeth:
i'll get you started...







Thanks :) ]]> SPORE Creative Darkpulse2009 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/846212-lets-see-your-creatures.html How do peopel get non-creature parts on their creatures? http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/845397-how-do-peopel-get-non-creature-parts-their-creatures.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:11:25 GMT I've noticed this has become a common trend, people have non-creature parts on their creatures - parts from vehicles and buildings for example. How do people manage to do this? I thought it was maybe a mod but when I searched for mods I couldn't find any that did this. ]]> SPORE Creative amoeba36 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/845397-how-do-peopel-get-non-creature-parts-their-creatures.html Doing things with building blocks http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/844594-doing-things-building-blocks.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:05:35 GMT Is there anyway of altering the angle of the main bodies of buildings, rather than have them just stuck as they are. I know how to make buildings... Is there anyway of altering the angle of the main bodies of buildings, rather than have them just stuck as they are. I know how to make buildings levitate but I was wondering if there was some way that you could twist the blocks to different angles, rather than just round and round. When I press the tab button all I get is one circle, so you can't tilt the thing on its side or anything. It would be great if there was a way of tilting them like.
Any help or info would be greatly appreaciated. ]]> SPORE Creative Inthractus http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/844594-doing-things-building-blocks.html <![CDATA[● Spore Signatures ●]]> http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/843230-spore-signatures.html Sun, 25 Oct 2009 13:02:43 GMT To Moderators- I'm aware this would be better suited in the Graphics Forum, but would you mind leaving it here, please? I'm focusing this on Spore, and I doubt it'll be much use in the Graphics Forum. If it's really against Forum Guidelines, then feel free to lock it. Thanks.

Hey all,

As many of you may or may not know, recently I have gotten back to making signatures, buttons, wallpapers and other graphics, especially for Spore. And I'd be more than happy to make any for you :)

All I ask is for a bit of patience :p If you'd like any images, perhaps post a size, colour/theme, creation(?) of what you would like, and I shall try my best to please you ^^

Waiting List:
-

Here's some examples of my work; (I know, I'm not the best sig-maker)

Signatures:


Buttons:

Wallpaper:

Other:

]]> SPORE Creative Rebecca1208 http://forums.electronicarts.co.uk/spore-creative/843230-spore-signatures.html