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By TnT-Productions
05/21/2009 - 03:54:27

Type: Entertainment building
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Tags: andeavor, ceece, codyr2391, didzo, gryphon57, maxis, mootacoo, newsflash, qaa, sporetv, tnt-productions

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We interupt your viewing pleasure with a ground-breaking sporetv news-flash...uhm what is that sticking out from under the desk...I believe our gueststar is a little on the shy side...lol...Here is the long awaited Q a A with the developers of Galactic Adventures, please enjoy... Q a A Interview 1) How can mission cards can keep track of all the included creations, like if there's a list of creators attached or if the mission creator has to include the names so you know what creations you might be missing?

Answer; Credit will go to the original creator and any edits made to them will retain the original creator's username as well as the new one doing the edit...("So yes no more thieves can gain popularity through other people's hard work, nor a feature thankfully." my words here) 2) If you placed a spice barrel or other object on a truck, would the spice barrel fall through the truck and hit the floor, or move around with the vehicle?

Answer; OK you can only stack inanimate objects, although if you have lots of patience and skill, you could have a creature jump on the back of a moving vehicle but would not have control of where it goes (like driving). Now you can make an illusion of say a monorail, by building the vehicle in the plane editor and the track in the builder and raise the track to plane height to create
an animated illusion. 3) A few specific details asked about are, are they archetype specific,
> do they require a certain level of badge before they can be done, are
> they tied to locations within the solar system?

Answer; The only way that missions will populate your game is by having
buddied the creator or through sporecasts and manual downloads. There is talk about figuring out a way to tie epic missions together (ie; several planets) but for now the best way to accomplish this ,is to tag your missions with set;missionname and naming it with chapter I, II, III...etc...From what I understand, you will be able to set requirements from one to the next (ie; a key or special hidden object) which you can make part of the mission in order for the player to move on to the next planet/next mission. 4) How are missions created in the editor and what is the file format of the custom missions - are they a 128x128 png like the other creations, or are they presented in another way?

Answer; You begin by picking a planet and doing any tera-forming that you wish, then place and size objects and creatures to your own specifics, create your avatar/captain and outfit him (you can go back and forth between editors as you go and even to the sporepedia directly in game to add creations as well as create new ones too. This is by far a truly amazing system and one that you must experience learning as one goes. There is no way to get a grasp of things just by reading, because there are no explainations that could
ever exceed hands on. As for sizes...all missions are in 128x128 png's just as
normal creations. You can also substitute screenshots for the typical planet
picture. 5) Is there any technical information you can give us on how you are able to generate the larger 256x256 previews, is it 'embedded' in the little 128x128 pngs, or is it something specific running on your servers?

Answer; Both 256x256 and 128x128 are saved in parralell spore API.
Using the creation asset ID# a spore userdate creation/#png (hope I got this right...lol...) Now for a word from our sponsor....commercial break...sims3......