As it currently stands, the only addresses so far defined for these two classes (or at least for those related to it in the same namespace) are for the Get() function in the IAnimManager class. For animation and other creature-related detours, it would be nice to have reference to those addresses when making mods related to animations among other things.

Spore/Editors/Editor.h attempts to include this file, and therefor nothing can compile.

My request is simple. Find a method that returns an active adventure's Spore point amount, and a method that tallies them and adds them to the player captain's Spore points.

Loking for help with the spore ModApi Launcher, i have been installing mods and until now it was working, but now it says i have a Steam version, which is not true, it was working perfectly. Can anybody help???

I'm trying to implement custom abilities through animation messages, but I can't find the target of the creature that triggers the message. For some reason, cCombatant::GetTarget() doesn't work for creatures.

AFAIK, the CombatManager is what handles combat, and it'd be pretty useful for custom space tools. (and also custom creature abilities, though that requires a bunch of loopholes to get working)

This line, taken straight from the tutorial pages:

auto inventory = SimulatorSpaceGame.GetPlayerInventory();

Causes a linker error:
Severity Code Description Project File Line Suppression State Error LNK2019 unresolved external symbol "__declspec(dllimport) unsigned int const Simulator::cSimPlanetHighLOD_addresses::DestroyCity" (__imp_?DestroyCity@cSimPlanetHighLOD_addresses@Simulator@@3IB) referenced in function "public: void __thiscall Simulator::cSimPlanetHighLOD::DestroyCity(class Simulator::cCity *,unsigned int)" (?DestroyCity@cSimPlanetHighLOD@Simulator@@QAEXPAVcCity@2@I@Z) SpaceToolCheat C:\PaccasStuff\SporeCMods\Projects\SpaceToolCheat\SpaceToolCheat\SpaceToolCheat\SporeModAPIBase.lib(SimulatorSpaceGame.obj) 1

This line is the sole cause. Commenting it out fixes the issue, placing it in a blank mod brings it back. Mod compiles just fine without this one line.

It seems Social Inventory loads icons faster than Overrider injects windows into the UI.
It's possible it's executed during UI::SpaceGameUI::Load(), so injecting after that function is called results in that behavior.

One solution might be injecting icons directly after SPUI with these icons gets loaded.

So there's a few things I think would be nice for the .sporemod format in general, one being the ability to auto update mods (or at the least a notification that your mods are out of date), the other is lightweight installers, aka allow mods that are in parts to download only the parts they need when installing (so that dark injection doesn't have to be a 1.1 gb download every time you want to update it even if you only use less then half of it)

I've done the tutorial step by step and i did not work.
It gave me this error. It is (Gog). I tried to update it with the tutorial but is says that i need to have the spore installed to update it which i have. :(

Said function(s) interacts with 0x40C0C100!base.soundProp and together seem to be factoring in what kind of voice a creature has depending on their mouth/model type (and based on conditions within the function itself).

For tribal creatures and NPCs in the adventure editor, their voice is determined by a string key mouthType that can be found as a value in their mouth parts.

For civilization, space creatures and captains, their voice is determined by default through the property 0x0B65639D, which while looking through the function in disassembly seemed to be fixed. By default, the property 0x0B65639D has the string value "MamA", which corresponds to the mammal sentient creature voice.

EDIT: As an added detail, the function is called whenever a creature needs to load a voice file, so it is possibly related to the Audio namespace and the AudioSystem class.

I made a mod awhile ago which enables custom icons for space stage:
https://github.com/plencka/Spore-ToolImageEnforcer

By default, game handles them like this:

• On Space Stage entry, load 0x46fed9c8.spui with all icons and hide it. Each window has controlID, used in spaceToolImageID space tool property, it corresponds to image .png name.
• When tool is shown in inventory, find window from above cache using spaceToolImageID as controlID. Use default window if not found.
• ??? copy the window, copy properties of window?

What this mod does:

• Loads hashes of all new .png files within ufotools~ folder and stores them in new manager. Ignores images that are in the base game to not make duplicates.
• When Space Game Starts, create new window that stores custom icons in similar way to 0x46fed9c8.spui. It creates everything in dynamic way, so no .spui is used.
• Whenever game attempts to find window id from window of 0x46fed9c8.spui, use custom window instead. When no window is found, it executes original function behavior.

The mod developer only has to add .png file and use that image in space tool. It also works in older mods which attempted to add new icons.

I'd like this mod to be integrated into Core ModAPI DLLs, because a lot of people don't install dependencies and then are surprised that the mod doesn't work.

What could be done to improve it:
Maybe detect when 0x46fed9c8.spui gets loaded, and load all custom windows directly into it? This way you don't have to have detours of functions FindWindowByID and SetActiveModeByName. And window destruction is also handled by base game.
I tried doing that with UILayout::Load, but I was told to.. not do this. Maybe it was lack of context and this might be the correct solution?
I'll make Pull Request with these changes in my mod repository and if you think it's better solution, inform me.

Various different variables seem to be missing from Spore\Editors\EditorRigblock.h, including the variable for a part's current parent.

I'm currently trying to stop parts that aren't the spine from becoming parentless, but I can't because the variable is missing.

Sorry if i disapointed you but my version of Spore didn't work

If you can fix this bug please, i will be graceful

Have a nice day.

And I've found the line of code causing this:

Perhaps adding the missing % would fix this?

Many of the SPUIs in-game can be easily modified through props and other files in SporeModder FX, however some of the SPUIs functions seem to be hard-coded. The best example for this would be the file named SPGMissionCard.spui, for which strings and look can be easily modifed, but ex. modifying how many instances of this SPUI can appear on the screen is impossible at the moment. Also, the same .spui is used for tracking space stage badges, but functionality for those seems to be completely hard-coded.
In image below I simply swapped the textures to confirm the same .spui is used for both missions and badges, but that's as far as I could go in SporeModderFX besides moving pieces around and what-not.

Originally asked by user cce, who wants custom star types to count for the sightseer badge. For that, we need:

• More support for the cBadgeManager
• Support for some SpaceTrading functions
• The function GameSpace_SwitchToStarSystemContext (0xFDDC80), detourable

dosent start up it says tell robo or somet

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Addresses are from the March 2017 version of Spore.

Hello.

I happen to have the GOG version of Spore. I have recently installed the new update and it told me that the Spore version is not supported with SporeLauncher anymore.

Here is the image https://prnt.sc/wIlG_HA6qpQz thanks for reading

I've had an idea with loading into adventures through the creature stage to make fake caves, though that would require a function to load into an adventure.

I appeal to you as a competent person who is well versed with the mods and the technical part of the Spore game, could you make it so that the ModAPI Launcher no longer requires an Internet connection to run the game with it, so that it works offline mode?

Many creators with mods in Spore from various countries are interested in this issue, who could at least try to figure it out.

It just turns out such a problem that without the Internet, the game with ModAPI requires a connection to read the mods and does not start, and you can only start it through the emergency mod testing mode in Sporemodder FX.

And even then, half of the mods that work with ModAPI will stop being read and work, and creations will be distorted to the level of those that could be created with mods that can work without ModAPI - for example, parts of Pandora Toolbox and of Drone Parts, enlarged with UPE, and distort creations, are compressed and creatures made with Drone parts turn into a bunch of cubes scattered across fantastic planes

This is corrected by reupload PNG, if you go into a regular game with ModAPI, but if you upload it to a game launched in this way bypassing ModAPI, then again the creations are displayed as distorted

And when the Internet comes off for technical reasons or there is no way to use it, I want to be able to continue playing Spore as with mods that did not require ModAPI, which asks for an Internet connection to start the game.

This is a very serious shortcoming of the ModAPI launcher and the .sporemod system files, because before it was just a .package that I threw into a folder and it will always work

Went offline - The whole game will be impossible to start.

So, I don't want to launch everything in an emergency way through testing mods in Sporemodder FX, and then align and redo all the creations distorted by the fact that UPE stopped working.

I still hope that in the next versions of ModAPI they will wean off the Internet connection to run the game (not to update the client, the Internet is required to update the client)

Best regards, JimReinor, one of the mod creators from the Russian language mod creator site Spore.cr

Hi im using a legal copy con Spore and Spore GA. When i start both spore without SporeModApi launcher i can use the console cheat normally. But when i start spore trough SporeModApi launcher i can't use the cheat console, it doesnt appear.

Im not using any type of mods

As in title.

It seems currently only CellStage has defined GameInput variable. Access to that in gamemodes should remove the need to create own unnecessary GameInput listeners.

I'd like to request the ability to be able to create and write to a .package file using the Spore-ModAPI

Apparently, When I open Spore at all via the ModAPI Launcher and then close it, it always says this, even after time has passed and Spore has fully closed:

The only remedy so far is to restart my computer.

With any currently unavailable features through the master branch, I'd like to see a preview of them in a different branch than master, to anticipate on what is going to be added next and such, even if the features aren't fully functional yet.

I've been messing with space tools in the SDK recently and have noticed a few issues.

1. Overriding the OnHit() function always leads to a game crash when the projectile hits something.
2. Inheriting cPlaceColonyToolStrategy leads to Spore crashing when the projectile hits the planet.

I need to detour both the function for the hardcoded Mini-U and the function that destroys colonies when there are too many on a planet to be sustainable for a mod, but I don't think either are in the Spore ModAPI Development Kit yet.

When a creature's health reaches 0, it doesn't properly die - it triggers the death animation and stops moving, but hovering over it with the mouse still shows its name and Spore doesn't class it as "dead" - it doesn't contribute to the Kill goal in adventures.

Currently the Clock class in the SDK doesn't seem to be able to support adding or removing time from its instances, since the related members (mStartTime and mAccumulatedTime) are protected and thus only modifiable by the class methods themselves. Either making them public or adding methods to add/reduce time would be ideal.

I'm working on a hut editor mod for Spore and there just doesn't seem to be a way to change the player's hut.

It's done already by Spore whenever your hut levels up, but it always switches to specific models in the editor_rigblocks~ folder and there doesn't seem to be a way to do this manually yet with mods.

• The ability to give the player a mission.
• A way of finding a planet through the Sporepedia in the Space Stage.
• Some kind of method of switching the empire which owns a system, like the Fanatical Frenzy tool.
• A function to load inventory items such as creatures and spice, to add them to the player's space inventory. (like when collecting space items)
• a function to spawn tool projectiles

e.g. editorEnabledManipulators in some property lists found in editor_setup~

Creatures get stunned after they get hit by the Charge ability - and if I recall correctly, they use animation ID 0x02481E14 (in 0x142CBA20.tlsa).
Simply just playing this animation doesn't stun the creature, there must be something else needed as well.