Woohoo, walked into the gamestop near my house, hooked up with an employee that used to work for my wife, he actually had like 10 copies on the shelf.
Got mine, loading it up and will be creature creating!
Good luck all.
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Spore Creature Creator?
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Woohoo, walked into the gamestop near my house, hooked up with an employee that used to work for my wife, he actually had like 10 copies on the shelf.
Got mine, loading it up and will be creature creating!
Good luck all.
Yeah because a lot of smart programmers are going to dedicate hours of their time forcing and rewriting code so that you can save $100 upgrade to leopard?
right then......
There is a way to run it in 10.4. Check this out: http://www.tuaw.com/2008/06/17/run-spore-creature-creator-on-unsupported-gma-950-macs/. I got it running on a 10.4 comp. Just edit the same plist file the author describes from "10.5.3" to whatever your OS is.
I just downloaded the mac version of the creature creator for my MacBook, and the application runs... sort of. It gets stuck on a screen with a galaxy on it, and this galaxy rotates if I put the cursor to the edges of the game's screen. If I click in most regions of the game screen, it closes full-screen mode and minimizes the game completely. There are no visible options on the screen. In some regions, clicking causes a link to Spore's page to open in my browser.
Any clues?
Any clues?
It is rather annoying that the Mac version isn't available for download yet. Had I known it would take so long, I would have ordered the box version!
dowloaded the free trial version on my alu mac 20'' ATI hd 2600 pro and cant play it.IT starts launching but then crashes.has anyone heard anything official?i'm wanna play it!!!!!!!!!
Both the demo and the retail box version run fine on my 20" w/2600 pro alu iMac.
It won't run on my windows pc (AMD XP3200+ (2.2ghz) with an ATI X800PE) for some reason...
Just tried it on my Santa Rosa MBP (2.2 Ghz 128MB 8600GT 2GB Ram 10.5.3), and it totally froze up my laptop when I clicked 'take for test drive' or whatever it is to see your new creature in action.
Typical high quality EA Mac port using the oh-so-wonderful Cider technology. Why bother making a native Mac port when you can half-ass it?
*grumbles*
Typical high quality EA Mac port using the oh-so-wonderful Cider technology. Why bother making a native Mac port when you can half-ass it?
*grumbles*
I'm partial to the free demo version myself but it is pretty cool.
And works nicely on my MacBook Air. That may not be true of the full version with many characters at once--we'll see.
To make it smoother, I dropped res to 1024x640 and set all audio/video detail settings to Medium, except shadows and textures on Low. (None of those settings seemed to hurt the visible quality much, except Low shadows means none--but it made a noticeable speed difference.) Textures were not bump-mapped on any setting, so I'm guessing on another machine that'd what High would do. But you can still see the scales and skin textures clearly.
but it is pretty cool.And works nicely on my MacBook Air. That may not be true of the full version with many characters at once--we'll see.
To make it smoother, I dropped res to 1024x640 and set all audio/video detail settings to Medium, except shadows and textures on Low. (None of those settings seemed to hurt the visible quality much, except Low shadows means none--but it made a noticeable speed difference.) Textures were not bump-mapped on any setting, so I'm guessing on another machine that'd what High would do. But you can still see the scales and skin textures clearly.
one thing for people to check for if their SCC is crashing at start up is make sure you do not have APE installed. (Application Enhancer), Transgaming (the comp that owns CIDER) has mentioned before that it didn't play well with CIDER. APE doesn't play well with a lot of applications but in regards to CIDER it usually happens during the start up of the game.
i just downloaded it and read on the readme document that you need an intel mac, you can use the macbook integrated graphics, you need to have a 2.0 ghz intel core processor or a 1.7 dual core? i forget but there is a readme with all the tech specs.
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sry can you be more specific because in my alu mac it crashes at launch.i dont understand exactly what you are saying, and you could be very helpful
As quoted above, APE is a program that other programs might install. They say it doesn't work in Leopard but some people probably have it left over or have tried to install it. http://unsanity.com/haxies/ape/
You'll need to look at your crash logs to see what's going on. If it is APE you'll see the word "unsanity" and that usually is a good sign it's APE.
So let me get this straight...if I were to walk in to a GameStop and get the boxed retail version it will work on a Mac?
The Creature Creator is actually kind of fun but not as flexible as I thought it would be, I mean, maybe I haven't explored all the features but I hate how your creatures have to be perfectly symmetrical, why can't I have a creature with a single eye but that it's not centered on the creature.
I also have no idea how to create snakes and creatures with no limbs, creatings 4 legged creatures is a bit tricky as well, heh. The creature in my avatar was made in the CC.
I guess when Spore comes out it will pretty much come out to stats more than creativity.
To be honest, Spore is still going to be amazing, but the CC really hyped me down a little, it's just not what I expected.
I also have no idea how to create snakes and creatures with no limbs, creatings 4 legged creatures is a bit tricky as well, heh. The creature in my avatar was made in the CC.
I guess when Spore comes out it will pretty much come out to stats more than creativity.
To be honest, Spore is still going to be amazing, but the CC really hyped me down a little, it's just not what I expected.
Just don't give them any. They'll splersh along the ground and the animation actually looks like a worm moving.
I have one that doesn't have a wormlike body, but also has no legs. When he moves... it's just... yeah. The gracefulness of his locomotion isn't helped by the fact that he's a random coagulation of body parts.
Go to the Sporepedia. I'm TallestSkil, and the one I'm talking about is What The Crap.
Yes it's a hybrid cd.
I bought mine at Gamestop on the way home. Installs both windows and mac versions.