Dark Injection 9.r OPEN BETA (Darkspore everything in Spore)

[HelmoChipChop]

So I just discovered this mod and Its pretty awesome, but for some reason I cant save my creatures, am I missing a package?

Look for a Force Save mod. It's required to save creatures made with mods.

[Davo]

im going to try and remake a better force save i guess... helmo, i am shocked at your work, really, i am speechless...

[GeneralHankHill]

Yeah, i tried like 3 different force save mods and none worked...

[BentLent98]

Release the betas! I would love that beta!

[melang26]

the Ethereal Necrowing is so hard to fix

[HelmoChipChop]

the Ethereal Necrowing is so hard to fix

Man, if you know how, or anyone who does, please tell me. It's only those 2 parts (Necrowing and Biotic Stalker foot) and I can't think of why.

[fungus3]

Does anyone know when the next official version of Dark Injection will be released?

[Davo]

Does anyone know when the next official version of Dark Injection will be released?

When the title of this thread changes

[Snaid1]

I'm assuming the next version of Dark Injection won't come out until HelmoChipChop finishes his fantastic job of fixing the Darkspore parts textures. and with 100+ parts to fix, I'm guessing it's going to be awhile.

[HelmoChipChop]

I'm assuming the next version of Dark Injection won't come out until HelmoChipChop finishes his fantastic job of fixing the Darkspore parts textures. and with 100+ parts to fix, I'm guessing it's going to be awhile.

Not really. I've been working on this for a few weeks now (I think, idk time awareness has escaped me lol) non-stop, from morning to night. I have a majority of the parts done. Still a good amount of things to do and I will release small updated versions of this beta at the request of Davo, or if enough people want me to. Some textures look too flat due to the fact I have no knowledge of how to get textures to glow or animate. If anyone knows how please don't hesitate to share. I will manually touch up some of these so that the details on the textures that would've had the glow will still show up. My deepest apologies this is taking so long.

Some parts:



The head (Orichalapper) being a great example. Due to me not knowing the XML command to make parts glow or animate, the face is extremely bland. All parts correctly textured.

Also, if anyone has a large amount of detail parts in their savedata of Darkspore, please PM me an image with the parts shown, and their names if possible. Thanks again.



EDIT



I will seriously marry whomever figures out why the Ethereal Necrowing and Biotic Stalker WORK IN-GAME AND NOT THE EDITOR! This glitch makes it impossible for me to build with it in the editor, and better inspect the texture.

[darkhydra1]

How could I take a picture of the detail parts in DarkSpore?

EDIT: HelmoChipChop, I will try to get you the pictures of all the detail parts I have ASAP. Oh and is it okay if I pm you a folder with the pictures or can I not pm you that? Because there are quite a lot of parts I have (22 + pages)

Edit: Nevermind I found out how to get pictures.

[HelmoChipChop]

Of course! And thank you so much!

[ZenParadox]

Some textures look too flat due to the fact I have no knowledge of how to get textures to glow or animate. If anyone knows how please don't hesitate to share. I will manually touch up some of these so that the details on the textures that would've had the glow will still show up. My deepest apologies this is taking so long.

Some parts:



The head (Orichalapper) being a great example. Due to me not knowing the XML command to make parts glow or animate, the face is extremely bland.

Honestly, I don't think it's bland at all, they look much better without the special effects (except for Cyber detail parts and those Plasma limbs, I think)

[BentLent98]

HelmoChipChop, I think it's time for a beta...

[Davo]

I think we should let him finish

[BentLent98]

Oh, I see... Oh, and anything on getting animated and glowing textures?

[HelmoChipChop]

Oh, I see... Oh, and anything on getting animated and glowing textures?

Unfortunately no. If anyone knows how to do so please let me and Davo know. Much appreciation.



Arcturus and Polaris finished (with exception of a few tweaks I'll edit on the texture)

Others requiring Diffuse, hence why the tubes aren't black, and no shading.

Graphics were turned down to show texture without corrupted bumpmaps.

[BentLent98]

How did you do that??? It's amazing!

[HelmoChipChop]

Very creative using the particle parts, but those are limited in color unfortunately.

[BentLent98]

Oh, he used the effect parts, not as impressive as getting the glow textures working but still amazing. Helmo, you can try searching "emissive" instead of "glow" in the darkspore textures and see what that will get you. Keep in mind that to my knowledge spore doesn't use emissive texture maps. Spore used to during development though so it MIGHT be still usable. So if you do find emissive textures, try them and see if they work. Spore doesn't use animated textures at all, at least to my knowledge it doesn't, but it's worth a try if you find them.