Naucean - My New Creature

[Hydromancerx]

Table of Contents

Biology

Statistics
Statistics 1
Statistics 2

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

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

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

Overview

Buildings
Buildings

Media
Media

Spacecraft / UFO
Spacecraft

All
Poster
Collection

Extras

Spore Adventures
Prison Escape
Nauceanica

Naucean Figures
Naucean Figure




Here is my creature called a "Naucean" that I am develping for Spore. Here are some pictures and information about my creature. I plan to make this when Spore comes out so please to not copy this for your creature. (Make your own its fun )

[huggkruka]

Cool, you translated your drawing into 3D!

[Areku]

very cool man! I actually recently (after months of undecidedness and can't-thinkedness) came up with my own as well. I like how original it came out(its actually based on a drawing I must of done when I was 5 or 6) I just need an artist to help me "flesh it out" , I know a friend of mine who is, but I rarely see him on the net anymore 

anyways, love the creature, my favorite thing about it is the modified tentacle/graber/hands!  you seem to very talented in 3D and 2D art 

[jafe816]

That's crazy, lol.  Great job on it, what program did you use to make that?

[drgamer]

The evolution is kinda messed up...
It goes from getting the tentacles to not having them
at one point it has what looks like feet then goes back to having fins...Then back to having feet (Only less then before)

Make up your mind!

[Jaleho]

The evolution is kinda messed up...
It goes from getting the tentacles to not having them
at one point it has what looks like feet then goes back to having fins...Then back to having feet (Only less then before)

Make up your mind!

I don't think it ever loses the tentacles... they're stored inside the psuedo-mandibles, he just didn't bother drawing them in the stages inbetween (since he was focusing on the feet to fin to feet evolution at that time).

As for the fins-feet-fins-feet, look at Sea Lions - as fish they had fins, as amphibians/reptiles/mammals they had feet... then they went back to the water and got fins again... Dolphins and Whales are probably too far gone to survive evolution back into land forms, but smaller creatures like Seals and walruses still spend some time on land, and could probably revert back if the environment forced their decendants to.

I figure, if the aquatic stage (like 3 steps back or so) still spent a lot of time basking in the sun on shores, it's not so far fetched for them to revert back again. Love to see him describe the habitat and climate of his world that brought about these changes, though.

[762]

That's a pretty cool creature. I don't know if Spore will give you the ability to put limbs inside the mouth. Good thought, though.

By the way, I love your below-avatar-saying, Jaleho. "El Guapo" is Spanish for "The Good-looking one."

[Samog]

I think the evolution is designed to force varied gameplay when the creature is actually made.

[Hydromancerx]

I think the evolution is designed to force varied gameplay when the creature is actually made.

It has them they just sit within the false mouth (psuedo-mandibles). But i did not want to have to draw them every picture. It still has them at all stages after it gets them.

That's crazy, lol.  Great job on it, what program did you use to make that?

I used  3D Sudio Max. And then for the text Adobe Photoshop.

[Jaleho]

That's a pretty cool creature. I don't know if Spore will give you the ability to put limbs inside the mouth. Good thought, though.

By the way, I love your below-avatar-saying, Jaleho. "El Guapo" is Spanish for "The Good-looking one."

Since the beak is the real mouth, and the psuedomandible is sort of an external fake beak or shell, I bet you could just make the psuedomandibles to be something like curved flippers - put a dent in the front of the body, put the beak and tentacles in the center of the dent, then stick two big wide flat curved fins on the rim of the dent. It will work and function just the same (probably).

I suspect there will be a lot of experimenting in the editors - even if they add thousands of parts, we will still be able to come up with something they didn't think of, so we can either modify something they DO have to come close, or muck with the code to modify the editor ourselves.

Or present maxis with a giant list of add-ons we would be willing to pay for in spore 2 But hey, that's what this forum is about - giving them ideas for what to put in the game, eh?

PS: The "Infamous El Guapo" line is from the movie "The Three Amigos"

[Hydromancerx]

Ok here is a skeleton of my Naucean


As you can see it walks on its knuckles. It had or ginally 2 middle fingers and then a thumb on either side. The thumb and finger fused and the closest segment to the knuckle. then the thumb shrunk and the last 2 joints support the weight of the backwards foot. When swimming it can extent out and between the 2 fused finger/thumbs is webbed skin. Normally that webbed part is either walked on or folded up in the knuckle-walking pose.

As for the skull you can snow see the true mouth which is the beak. Out of that are the 2 pseudo-mandibles. The bottom is like a shallow cup in which the tentacles (soft tissue like an elephants trunk) can sit in. The upper pseudo-mandible hold a "melon"  like a dolphin has  in which it can send out echolocation while in the water. Also like a whale it can produce strange sounds both in its nasal cavity but in the pseudo-mandibles when closed or to amplify its call when open like a mega phone. It has no teeth but digests using a gizzard like birds do.

Since its back limbs are gone now all it has it a hip and the pubic bone. Thus it walks on its front legs and not its back like an ostrich. However with its counterbalance shape like a raptor it can run fast but is still limited by its front heavy head like t-rex had to deal with. When swimming it used both its powerful dolphin-like tail as well as using both flipper-feet in a frog-like swimming pattern. It also close its pseudo-mandibles for best hydrodynamic motion.

Despite its ability to walk on land it still stays by a water source. Its skin drys out easily and is very much like dolphin skin. It must also carry some water in the lower pseudo-mandible to keep it's oral tentacles wet and useable.

The Naucean lays eggs. Even in its whale stage it still came to land like sea turtles and would sit on nests. Unlike sea turtles the males of the colony take turns sitting on the eggs because not all are pregnant at once. They must take turns or the parent will dry out. Nauceans also live in pods of 10 to 20 individuals. Adolescents are raised by the older embers of the pods. Those who are too old to help hunt, fish or gather food.

When a Naucean hits puberty they join the other hunters and gatherers. The females are larger and more aggressive. They hunt small game and fish in the ocean. They also are a blander blue-gray color. The males are smaller but do tent to be more colorful. They tend to gather plants, nuts, berries, roots and other non meat items. Males are very intelligent and are constantly curious about how things work. This is one of the key features of the species. The combination of the strength and cunning of the females with the curiosity and creative nature of the males.

Mating involves an impressive mating dance by the male. They paint their bodies and open their pseudo-mandible wide showing off their oral tentacles. The tentacles can change colors like a squid. Waving these around while dancing around and making deep whale-like calls is quite impressive. Once impressed the female sits and the male mounts. The gestation takes 6 months and then the egg is laied and is incubated for another 6 months. When the babies are born they are more capable than a human baby they can swim immediately but it take them about a year to learn how to walk. Babies are fed by regurgitating food from the mother's gizzard after her hunting or the fathers after pre-chewing gathered food.

[Scipion]

Gah! *asplode* Holy crap, 10 points for thoroughness!

[Connor(sporefreak)]

Where do you get 3-D Studio Max???

I want to create my own 3-D guy

[762]

Where do you get 3-D Studio Max???

I want to create my own 3-D guy

Probabably at school. And it probably costs about $1000. If you don't have it somewhere, don't count on buying it.

[Cool AN]

That is really good.