Check the website: https://emd4600.github.io/SporeModder-FX/
SporeModder FX is a tool for designing modifications for the videogame Spore. So far it's the most advanced tool, including features such as:
- An advanced text editor, with syntax highlighting, error diagnose, autocomplete,...
- A modern text format to visualize most of the files used by Spore.
- A "Spore User Interface" editor, that allows you to create and edit the Spore UI.
- An image and texture viewer that can visualize common images, but also textures used by Spore.
- A model viewer that can visualize most of the models that are in the Spore format.
The tool is designed to have a simple and user-friendly user interface, so making mods for Spore is easier than ever!
If you have any doubt, want to report a bug or you just want to suggest how to improve the program, you can:
- Create an issue at https://github.com/emd4600/SporeModder-FX/issues
- Join the Spore Modding discord server, and ask for help or contact me there.
SporeModder FX uses Maven as its build system. To build it, you can use the following command:
mvn -Drevision="2.2.3" clean package
The output file will be generated in shade/sporemodderfx.jar. Change the revision to the appropriate version number. The version number is read by the program and used to check for updates.
For generating an update, check https://github.com/emd4600/SporeModder-FX-Updater
SporeModder FX was programmed in Java 1.8, using the Eclipse tool. Additionally, the following libraries were used:
- RichTextFX and all its dependencies.
- JSPF (Java Simple Plugin Framework)
- JSON-java
- Java DDS ImageIO Plugin
- WinMerge (not a Java library, but it's included in the public release to compare files)
- UnicodeBOMInputStream
- Even though it was not directly used, the custom ribbon developed in this program was heavily based in FXRibbon
Also wanted to give thanks to:
- rob55rod/Splitwirez, for all his advice that ensured the program didn't end up being a total unusable mess.
- @0KepOnline, @A-xesey, @Rosalie231 for their contributions, both in code and in discovered internal names of the game.
- BentLent, Snek, Psi and Darhagonable, for testing the program.