After talking with my old friend Ryuuin, I think I want to attempt to make my pre-Spore race known as the Nauceans. They have a lot of backstory and are well developed, however they are non-humanoid. Which is a bit of a problem. However Ryuuin says that non-humanoids are possibe and I want to see if I can get them to work. Here is the rundown on them ... Table of Contents Biology Statistics Statistics Anatomy Anatomy Skelleton Pseudo Mandible 1 Pseudo Mandible 2 Naucean Sounds 1 Naucean Sounds 2 Reproduction Mating Life Cycle Geography Galaxy Galaxy Solar System Solar System 1 Solar System 2 Nauceanica 1 Nauceanica 2 Moon Maps Planet Old World New World Globe Seasons Seasons Population Population Population Video Creature Stage Evolution Evolution Tree Evolution Video Age of Giant Monkeys Baptor Age of Nauceans Modern Creatures Tribal Stage Prehistoric – 0 to 500,000 (500,000 years long) Prehistoric Ocean Tools Hunting River Flowit Cave Painting Glowing River Stone Age – 500,000 to 550,000 (50,000 years long) Shaman Religion Naucean Gods Nesting Swimming Diet Swamp Tribe Hunter Lystrophant Hunter Knuckle Walker Copper Age – 550,000 to 555,000 (5,000 years long) Hunter Firepit Fishing Bronze Age – 555,000 to 557,500 (2,500 years long) Tribes 1 Tribes 2 River Tribe Basket House River Tribe Village Dwellings 1 Dwellings 2 Quill Swordsman Weapons Warriors Music Musician Musical Instruments Hydromancy Priest Blood Priest Sphere Graves Other Stuff Sports Numbers Reed Ship Lystrophant Mount Woolly Gobblehorn Desert Gobblehorn City Stage Iron Age - 557,200 to 558,200 (1,000 years long) Quill Swordsman Double Bladed Longbow Archer Aohoshi Village Shrine of Aohoshi Qat Brewery Resources Medieval Age– 558,200 to 558,700 (500 years long) Quill Swordsman Emperor of the 3 Kingdoms City of Au Renaissance Age – 558,700 to 558,950 (250 years long) Hand Cannoneer Assassin of Au The Great Hydromancy Pool War Lystrophant Exploration Age – 558,950 to 559,150 (200 years long) Explorer Coins Pirates Farmer Civilization Stage Industrial Age – 559,150 to 559, 350 (200 years long) Cowboy Slavery 1 Slavery 2 Steam Engine Drugs Utensils Flight Age – 559, 350 to 559,700(150 years long) Pilot Airship Sky Battleship Au Emancipation Age– 559,700 to 559,850 (150 years long) Soldier Pterabat Bombs Air-Wing Biplane Dome Tank Atomic Age – 559,850 to 559,950 (100 years long) Infantry Ball Turret Wheel Tank Orphans Solar System Stage Rocket Age – 559,950 to 560,050 (100 years long) Nauconaut Space Sation Landing on Sina Land Grab on the Moons Jet Glider Rocket Cannon Modern Age – 560,050 to 560,100 (50 years long) Flowit Walker School Bubble Car Drive In Movie Exotic Dancing SJ Bubblewrap Music Marching Band Police Deep Submarine Archeologist Digital Age – 560,100 to 560,150 (50 years long) Shock Troopers Hologram Sphere Beetlecraft Glowing River City Moon Mech Biotech Age – 560,150 to 560,175 (25 years long) Naucean Geneticist Cloned T-Boon Dictator Gibil Genocide Plague Biohazard Suits Genetic Disorders Sirenia Colonists Galactic Stage Robotics Age – 560,175 to 560,200 (25 years long) Naucean Android War Mech Suit Nano Age – 560,200 to 560,225 (25 years long) Nano Second Skin Galactic Exploration Age - 560,225 to 560,250 (25 years long) Abduction Crop Triangles Kanaloa Galactic Colonization Age - 560,250 to 560,275 (25 years long) Sphere Runner Seeding Alien Worlds Universal Stage Halycon War Age - 560,275 to 560,300 (25 years long) CAB Mother Sphere Necromonicon War Age - 560,300 to 560,350 (50 years long) Time Sphere Po Nazean Torquil Fluffemonicon Beyon Band The Doctor Galactic Isolationism Age - 560,350 to 560,400 (50 years long) Prisoners Time Nano Suit Ascension Age - 560,400 to 560,500 (100 years long) Ascension Mass Ascension Music Post Ascension Mysterious Hooded Figures Hover Taxi (Beyon City) Overview Buildings Buildings Media Media Spacecraft / UFO Spacecraft All Poster Collection
Wow, nice design and you've put loads of work into this. Congrats on being featured in Will Wright's presentation!
So using the Avali as a guide I have some codex's done. A Naucean Introduction One of the oldest races in the galaxy, the Nauceans have seeded many worlds with their genetic experiments and reached the peak of technological advancement. So much so that they reached ascension. However not all Nauceans were able to ascend. Those that stayed behind are all that's left of the great Naucean Empire. The ruins and relics of their vast empire are scattered cross the galaxy. A Naucean's Journey Begins So all your friends and family ascended but you. You thought it would be easy, but no you are stuck on the material plane. Some demi-god you are. This was the way back get back to Nauceanica right? Right?! It has to be the way. Now you have no friends, no family, no home and ... no fuel. You're lost. So yeah I am keeping with my Spore fan fiction an making it so you play as non-ascended Nauceans.
So as Ryuujin predicted I would have some trouble with the tentacles. However with some tweaking i got it to work. The arms are just blue human arms and then the head has the rest of the tentacle convecting to the pseudo-mouth. While they have 6 tentacles, only 2 have hands so this worked out. the rest can stay hidden in the pseudo-mouth. I also ran into a problem that there was a gap between the "arms" and the "head" so there is also some tentacle color on the body connecting the 2. However since they are the same color. It also looks like there will not be many if any customizations. First they don't have hair and male and females look the same. the only real chnage is the skin and some head shapes. However if I dd that it might mess up the arms. So yeah, they might be limited to only one choice when making a Naucean. Also the head may be a little big. The body is about at max size however if I shrink t the head it may loose some details.
Oh, you decided to give them a go. Yup, right now you cannot change the "shoulder" node, but as I figured, with a bit of creative posing it might work, and it has done quite well. As you've no doubt discovered that the body/legs and stuff is all a single large sprite, and technically you could omit the head as a separate entity completely and merge it into the body sheet. Clothing obviously is a "minor" problem, but you can just copy/paste the invisible clothing stuff from the avali, players can use that to "hide" non-fitting armours and of course you can design racial armours to fit their body plan. You should give the devs a poke here: http://community.playstarbound.com/index.php?threads/per-race-shoulder-node-and-scale-settings.56342/ Now's the time to badger the devs for new engine features like defining the shoulder node per-race, rather than globally
Yeah I did not want to omit the head since I do want to make some custom headgear for them. Here are some first trier armor ideas from my original drawings. In addition I think head, body and feel could all be separate gear. Same goes for weapons. Like this Quill Blade. Also I only have the idle stance done so when it walks it looks like your Avali. However seeing your mod has allowed me to see how to do a custom race.
Say, how do you even make sprites? I would like to make a mod as well but do not know how. Plus I am on a Mac so it is probably really different.
