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Old 06-21-2008, 07:52 PM   #10 (permalink)
Baraka_Guru
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Originally Posted by ratbastid
No, I mean you can actually download the creature file itself from sporepedia. It's a PNG file with the creature data encoded in the Alpha channel (which is EXTREMELY clever, because the thumbnail for the creature IS the creature file itself). But I can't see any way to load those files.
I don't know. I haven't played with that....just the video recording and posting to YouTube (which is also extremely clever for promotional purposes).

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Originally Posted by mixedmedia
okay, and what exactly is the porpoise of this?
To use a sample software application to exercise one's imagination within the parameters established by Maxis Software company, a subsidiary of Electronic Arts (EA), in lieu of the final release of the complete gaming software package.

(You should make a porpoise-esqe creature! )

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Originally Posted by CyCo PL
The same purpose of every video game: murder training.
For the record, I'm a hopeless infrastructure builder. I only need to kill when people come after me and my own.
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