Adds asymmetry support to creatures and vehicles; adds COLLADA creature exporter; fixes BAD_DATA text; tuning improvements to Space Game; other minor fixes and improvements.
Patch 5.1 fixes:
- Object orientation near water or lava can appear incorrectly when Playing or Testing an Adventure.
- Fixes a crash in the Building Creator when holding Ctrl or Shift and moving a part.
Spore improvements:
- Asymmetry is now available for creatures! Details on new Asymmetry features for Creatures and Vehicles can be found here.
- This patch fixes several crashes in Space Game.
- Many tuning improvements to Space Game, including reduced disaster rates at all levels of difficulty, adjustments to Hard Mode, increased limits on concurrent trade routes, as well as changes to tool unlocks for the Knights.
- Creator Lineage appears correctly for all creation types shared after this patch is installed.
- Cheat is included that permits Creators to export creatures in Collada format for use in Maya. Creators must acknowledge and accept a Tools EULA to perform this operation. An additional cheat has been provided to enable highest quality textures to appear on vehicles, where it is supported by user hardware.
- Fixed a problem where creations would go missing if a user quits the game in any way while downloads are in progress.
- Fixed a bug where achievements were disappearing.
- Fixed a bug where some Sporepedia cards had corrupted backgrounds.
- Fixed a problem in Space where some Grox planets were unreachable.
- YouTube movies now publish as public (undoes change from patch 4)
Galactic Adventures improvements:
- This patch must be installed again after installing Galactic Adventures, even if you had installed it previously.
- You can now place the avatar, NPCs, and handheld objects on top of air, land, and sea vehicles in the Adventure Creator. Get more info here.
- Improvements are made to the Adventure Creator, including right-click camera behavior, and User Interface enhancements.
- In EP1 open gates were not working correctly when they were disguised
- Some customer-reported crashes in Galactic Adventures have been fixed.
Nice Collada support, FINALLY.. Asymmetry is great too.
I figured if they decided to go with Collada that I'd turn the mod I was working on into a stand alone game- assuming that is it wouldn't be too much work to get it going.
Careful. EA retain the rights to your work and have only relaxed restrictions on its use for (IIRC) "Spore products or Spore fansites".
Excerpts from the EULA:
"You may use the tool solely for your personal noncommercial use in connection with EA's products."
"You may not create works from, or sell the Tool, or use the Tools & Materials to further any commercial purpose."
"EA owns all of the rights, title and interest in the Tools & Materials."
"You may not use the Tools & Materials to promote another product or business, or on any site that operates or promotes a server emulator."
"You may include materials created with the Tools & Materials on your personal noncommercial website for the noncommercial benefit of the fan community for EA’s products."
You're supposed to include an EA copyright notice if you add anything you create to a website too, but stuff that! ;-)
good job !
the Asymetry is just awesome there was a glitch to get asymetry but it is kinda hard to perform it so this is perfect !
I downloaded it but I still can't use Assymetry
Asymmetry I mean, HELP!