June 14, 2008
Fairy Magic Explained
It turns out that my original hypothesis regarding Spore's animation system -- a hypothesis that involved the use of fairy magic, or possibly that of leprechauns -- turned out to be slightly off the mark. Who knew!
Happily, the authors have published the paper I'd hoped for. Many thanks to Alex Champandard for the link!
UPDATE: Despite my best efforts, I'm unable to get the Spore Creature Creator to perform any locomotion based on rolling, no matter how similar my creature may be to M.C. Escher's "curl-up" bug.
I expect to see this functionality in Spore 2 ... Get on it!
Posted by PaulT at June 14, 2008 12:36 PM