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Spore Creature Creator Tutorial 3

A creature tested in the Test Drive.

Test Drive is a mode in the Spore's creature creators that allows the player to see the creature's mechanics come to life. It can be tested how it walks, jumps, and does different actions in stages.


Settings[]

Backgrounds[]

In the Creature Creator, there are 4 main backgrounds:

  • A grassy plain. (default)
  • A volcanic fortress surrounded by lava and spiky arches.
  • A crater on an alien planet covered in eyeball trees.
  • A plain black background. (Taking pictures with this background either gives you the black screen, or a pre-cutout of your creature)


The Creepy and Cute Parts Pack adds:

  • A wonderland filled with butterflies, rainbows and mushrooms. (Cute)
  • The ruins of a city. (Creepy)

Although the base game and Creepy and Cute Parts Pack together only offer 6 backgrounds, more can be added using mods.

Outfitters[]

Other creature creators, like outfitters, only comes with 1 exclusive background and a plain black background respectively.

Eggs[]

Clicking on one of the eggs spawns a baby. The creature can have 3 babies at once and they mimic the creature's action performing, each with a differentiating delay.

Take Pictures[]

Clicking on the "camera" button or pressing the C key will take a screenshot of the creature. This will add a photo to the "Picture Viewer" menu, which you will then be able to email a postcard of the screenshot.

Make video[]

Similarly to taking pictures, clicking on the "Cinema" icon or pressing the V key will record the creature. Upon ending the video, YouTube Upload will pop-up and gives the option to sent the video to YouTube. If not, the video will be sent to the Documents\My Spore Creations\Movies directory.

Capture Animated Avatar[]

When this button is clicked, the creature will perform a random animation sped up ingame, to create a .gif file that would work as an animated avatar.

Animation Abilities[]

Control Keys[]

  • WASD, Q/E, Arrow keys, Mouse: Manipulates creature's movement. Double tapping with any method of moving causes the creature to speed up.
  • Space key: Makes a small hop.

Simple Movement[]

  • Spin: Jumps, spins in the midair, and lands.
  • Roar: Roars loudly.
  • Flip: Jumps and flips backwards, recoiling arms after landing.
  • Call: A mating call.
  • Sit: Squats and looks at surroundings.
  • Punch: Punches with the right hand if it has graspers, otherwise headbutts.

Dancing[]

  • The Point: Taps foot and points forward occasionally.
  • Hippity Hop: Bobs up and down while spinning.
  • Walk N Place: Steps to the beat while pointing everywhere.
  • The Stomp: Stomps in place while looking up and down. Same as Lvl.3 dance.
  • Hot Foot: Hops from one foot to another.
  • Raver Punch: Bobs up and down and repeatedly punches forward.

Conversation[]

  • Ta-Dah: Spin-jumps and points.
  • Hey: Stretches arms out peacefully with a calm expression.
  • Cutie: Bounces a bit cutely, then waves afterwards.
  • Flex: Leans forward and flexes biceps.
  • Sumo: Tenses up, then raises the foot and stomps down hard.
  • Hey Baby: Tilts head, then points enthusiastically at the object in front of it.

Emotions[]

  • Happy: Smiles, then hops happily and nods head.
  • Angry: Gets mad, hops angrily, and gestures to stop whatever is agitating them.
  • Sad: Gasps, becomes sad, looks down, sobs quietly, and looks back and shakes its head.
  • Laugh: Laughs hysterically, then takes deep breaths to get the laughs out.
  • Scared: Becomes shocked, frantically looks around, then crouches and shudders while covering their eyes.
  • Swoon: Sways side to side with hearts over their head, then shakes their head and becomes alert again.

Cute Actions[]

  • Bounce: Bounces twice on their rear.
  • Dizzy: Spins around with arms stretched out, then becomes dizzy and sways around.
  • Gymnastics: Flips backwards, then forwards.
  • Flirt: Turns around, shakes their bottom, and then nods.
  • Sneeze: Becomes sniffly, sneezes, and shakes around the head.
  • Sing: Sings different levels of Sing while dancing around.

Cute Dances[]

  • Robot Dance: Performs typical robot dance.
  • Space Walk: Performs the moonwalk.
  • Hoedown: Performs the dance with the same animation of Dance Level 5, farm-like music in the background.
  • Ballet: Hops from foot to foot, stands on one foot, collapses, gets up, then looks around and laughs.
  • Back Spin: Spins around in circles on its back then stands up.
  • Flowers: Hops in circles and throws flowers.

Creepy: Actions[]

  • Sicken: The creature coughs the chunks, then briefly vomits on the ground.
  • Lightning: Gets struck by lightning, after it stops, collapses momentarily, playing dead, and gets up.
  • Stalk: Patrols right and left, making sounds, shakes its head angrily, and then attempts to scare.
  • Zombie Walk: Slowly walks like a zombie, with its arms forward.
  • Charge: The creature hastily walks forwards and roars, then walks back.
  • Bees: The creature is attacked by a swarm of bees, running around in terror.
  • Howl: Plays wolf howling animation and sound, with gothic music.
  • Twitch: The creature shakes its head with closed eyes, and then one eye gets bigger while the other one blinks and shakes its head slightly.
  • Banshee Scream: Your creature roars a few times with a small charge.
  • Evil Laugh: Laughs in typical villain-like style. Scary music playing in the background.
  • Super Stomp: The creature backs up, then sprints forward, jumps very high, and lands with a blast of dirt.
  • Blast: The creature is launched backward.

Patch 1.03: Movements[]

  • Walk: Walks in place like the Sneak ability.
  • Run: Runs in place like the Sprint ability.
  • Look At Me: A whistle sound plays, causing the creature to directly face the camera.


Trivia[]

  • The Test Drive mode can be updated with Patch 1.03, Creepy and Cute parts pack, and Spore Galactic Adventures Expansion Pack.
  • Test Drive is available in all types of the creature editor.
  • The "Bees" Creepy And Cute animation is similar to the animation of a creature getting attacked by a Captain's "Summon Swarm" ability.
  • The Creepy & Cute animation "Flowers" was borrowed from the Gift animation in the Tribal Stage. If your creature isn't the one carrying the gift, it throws flowers instead.
  • When the main creature chooses an animation, all of the babies have a delayed response, especially with one being highly delayed by 2-4 seconds.

Glitches[]

  • In the Creepy and Cute Animation Section, if you press the bee/swarm button in Test Drive with all babies activated, for five minutes, your screen will turn black, after 7 minutes, Spore will crash.
  • If you save in the volcanic background, your creature's Sporepedia card will be a bit more orangish, but if you view them they are the normal color.
  • Your creature cannot use the "Roar" animation if it does not have a mouth. Strangely enough, however, you can do the Call action even if the following creature is mouthless.

Gallery[]

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