Spore's creature skinpaint

One of the big challenges with Spore was figuring out a way to texture all of these player created creatures automatically.

Normally a human texture artist paints a 3D creature's skin, but with Spore we had to come up with ways of doing it procedurally.

In the course of figuring it out, I painted up this bunch of example patterns that we wanted to be able to hit. I wanted to get this level of structure out of our automatic skin painter, so that limbs, backs, fronts, etc. would be recognized and treated appropriately.


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More on skin painting later...