Flora Editor

The Plant editor (also known as Flora editor) was an editor where the player could create (and probaby share) small, medium and large plants. The Flora editor was cut out of the final release in Spore, though an unfinshed and buggy version is available. It is extremely glitch-filled. The only way to access is to change the target in the shortcut to Spore on your desktop/start menu. There is a possibility of an expansion pack that could contain a less glitchy version of the Flora editor. The creator was hinted by Lucy Bradshaw to be included in a later expansion.

The Plant editor was shown, though not extensively, at E3. It has three buttons on the top: test, texture, and parts.

The Plant editor did not come with Spore Galactic Adventures, however, players will be able to choose over 50 new plants to customize their planets. The new plants range from trees to very un-Earthly flora even mushrooms, snow covered plants, and dead plants.

Mods
A mod was made to fix this for Galactic Adventures. Its not perfect, but it comes close!

Davoonline.com

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAI6T_ZfrYM

Parts
The parts subsection was the only one shown in E3. It has five menus: trunks, branches, leaves, fruit (and/or nuts), and flowers.

Fruit
Fruit is a prime food source for herbivore-type creatures. There have not been any demonstrations of fruit so far, but they have been shown in '06 GDC prototyping slides.

Decorations
There are many decorations in the plant editor such as flowers and leaves etc. Some of flowers and leaves look as if they were flowering at different times when looking at some of the flora made by Maxis. Whether this was going to be part of the editor is unknown.

Trunks
Trunks are the main body of the plant and have ajustable branches, like limbs.

Texture
The texture editor may work similarly to the editor for creatures; however, it may not have quite as many overlays.

History
The Plant Editor has most likely been in spore since 2005 but the variety of plants in Spore has been very limited. Leafy Trees were seen in the video with the Willosaur but after the only flora that was commonly seen was tree ferns until July 10th when new screenshots and a new video was shown.

Current Game
The Flora Editor can be started through "sporeApp.exe -state:FloraEditor". It has 4 part categories: trunks, leaves, details, and fruits. Various bugs exist in the editor though, such as texture disappearing in Paint Mode, invisible parts, crashing for unknown reasons, and not being able to save the creation.

Having at least (or only) the first fruit part on the plant usually solves the last bug. Also, one part in the "Trunks" section (the only part in the Plant Editor that, like in other editors, rotates when it is moused over), will always crash the game when one attempts to drag it in. Creations that are saved are pollinated throughout Spore as normal. It is not recommended to save creations from the Plant Editor, as this has been known to cause several adverse effects, such as the game crashing when the Staff of Life is used. Although not perfect, adding the tag "GAPROP" helps prevent crashing when the SOL is used.

The "Share" button is available when viewing it in the Sporepedia, but it always displays a uploading error message when clicked. Creations cannot be re-edited via the Sporepedia or in-editor Sporepedia, as the edit button is not available. However, they can still be edited by dragging the plant's PNG image from the "My Spore Creations/Plants" folder into any editor. An in-depth walkthrough on how to access the Flora Editor can be found at Sporedum: Flora Editor.

Trivia

 * When you point the mouse over certain spots on the rectangle in the creator option, you will hear the noise when you hover the mouse cursor over the option buttons. There are two of them. One is for the Flora editor and the other one is for the Cell editor. The Cell editor features extra parts like the 'Pufish'es poison ability. Another possibility is that the rectangle contains cursor hot spots, rather than normal option buttons. This means they are not hidden buttons, but rather they are the bits of coding.


 * There are many Glitches associated with the Flora editor, this is because it is an artifact, rather than a finished product of gameplay.
 * These include freezes, invisible parts and game crashes.


 * Sometimes if you are not logged on and you save a plant, it may have the name of the computer user instead. Attempting to click on the name in the sporepedia will result in the could not connect to the spore server error.


 * Strangely, in Galactic Adventures the Plant Editor's background does not appear at all, and just displays as black.