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| Ddraig Goch | Sep 27 2009, 03:37 PM Post #1 |
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First of all... hi! This is my first post on this forum (wow). Um, yeah. So anyway, about Vabmojer... Vabmojer is an alien world which I have made with several of my friends. It is an earthlike planet, but we have done our best to make the animals as un-earthlike as possible. We are working on a website, although right now it is not complete. Still, feel free to have a look! (And I apologise in advance for the artwork - I'm not the best drawer ever) Type this in the address box; www.vabmojer.bravehost.com See what you think! |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 20 2009, 04:09 PM Post #46 |
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I don't know what the colonists think that the Gyrospinte was genetically engineered for. A lot of that side of it we're still working on. The Gyrospinte's locomotion is as clumsy as "front leg goes forward, back legs catch up". It is on an isolated island, so it doesn't need a more efficient mode of locomotion. Actually, that wasn't a spore. I have created others, such as the maw-serpent and the Marh (thats the avatar on the link to the Dino's page). The link to spore is in my signature, but I don't know if it takes you directly there or not. If not, go on the sporecasts section and type in "Vabmojan Lifeforms". It should (hopefully) come up. Feel free to create your own Vabmojan creatureson spore if you wish - tell me about them, and I'll try to get them in the sporecast (although everytime I connect to the internet in-game, it trys to download literally the entire sporepedia into my game). |
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| Empyreon | Oct 20 2009, 04:16 PM Post #47 |
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Also, now that I look at them, the droph and the trophille look pretty front-heavy, not to mention too heavy for their thin limbs. Is there some wild body density thing going on here that I don't know about? |
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| Temporary | Oct 20 2009, 04:17 PM Post #48 |
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I was talking about the feeding second head while walking thing. Does it ever trip on it's head or what? |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 20 2009, 04:21 PM Post #49 |
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If I'm honest, I wasn't as thorough as Nemo Ramjet when I made these things. I haven't a clue of their internal structure. Their legs looking a bit thin is probably just my shaky hand, but I can't say if they have a "lighter than air" density-thing going on. They do have very powerful jaw muscles (compare them to Kahydrons and Hyenas), so I probably need to make them more rear-heavy, for balance. Thanks for pointing this out, though. Constructive criticism! EDIT; Sorry, just got your post, Temporary. The second head does have ocelli, and so when it sees food, it unfurls from under the body, grabs the food and then curls up again. Quite quickly. Edited by Ddraig Goch, Oct 20 2009, 04:26 PM.
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| Empyreon | Oct 20 2009, 04:25 PM Post #50 |
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I guess that would depend on how fast it goes, which, if it's performing such a grazing action, I don't imagine being very fast... |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 21 2009, 10:14 AM Post #51 |
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No, the Gyrospinte is not particularly speedy. But as I've said, it doesn't need to be, as it has no natural predators (for now; give it a few million years, and the Snapjaw might become a miniature T-Rex, and the Kangarooasaurus might become carnivorous...). One should note, that this is probably the only order to which I have not made a contribution. All of the novu's were made by my co-designers. This is probably why they are a bit more random - sadly, my imagination is still quite grounded in the Terra, the "ooh it doesn't look like it could survive on earth" so I don't draw it. But I'm trying. |
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:37 PM Post #52 |
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I think this is all good. Erm, on spore. I got GA and now i've got the error 1004 curse. I can't even access the original. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 21 2009, 03:40 PM Post #53 |
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Right. Ok. Well, I did make some, even if you can't look at them. Perhaps if you try getting onto spore via a search-engine (google works for me). |
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| Holben | Oct 21 2009, 03:43 PM Post #54 |
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Erm, yeah. My spore computer's internet crashed. And just in case, no i only have two computers, one super slow and one normal. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 10:21 AM Post #55 |
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Oh well. We'll try to make a link to it on our website. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 11:56 AM Post #56 |
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Thanks. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 12:34 PM Post #57 |
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We're also planning on including mini-biographies of ourselves, perhaps to explain our reasons for creating the creatures as we did. |
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| Holben | Oct 22 2009, 12:52 PM Post #58 |
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I won't do to well on that, mine just flow. |
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| Ddraig Goch | Oct 22 2009, 03:54 PM Post #59 |
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Well, a lot of ours did too. The Novu's just sorta happened, and then the planet came from there. A lot of the creatures I made were simply created to flesh out ecosystems and cladistic orders. |
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| Empyreon | Oct 22 2009, 04:33 PM Post #60 |
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Some more questions: The site mentions that the ring of sensory hairs around the flesh bear's mouth protect its mouth and keeps its tongue from being exposed to the elements. How do these hairs do that? They don't seem to be thick enough to insulate the mouth against the cold, and the tongue needs to come out to taste the air and provide information to the animal's brain. How do these hairs do what the site explains? The maw serpent seems very interesting-- and very brutal! But if it sees with its tongue (as the site indicates that all maws do) it's effectively blind to attack while it feeds, is it not? How does it keep its prey from finding a way to tear it off or injure it as it tenaciously clings to the hide?You mention that the sand maw comes from the lnimicostium family, but its scientific name is Inimicostium turpis, indicating that 'Inimicostium' is the genus name as well. Is this the case? Also, what does it do with the sand that inadvertently falls into its mouth? Does it have to spit it out before it can eat, or does it swallow the sand along with its meal, like gizzard stones or something? Why is it likely that the syphoyd would bite off its own tongue if it came out of its mouth? Aren't there a lot of animals on Earth with long flexible tongues that have no problems nestled in a maw of fangs? Your mention of the Rahzak's bellow makes me wonder where the animal's air intakes are. Do they all have a retractable tube in their mouth, like the sand maw? If so, why doesn't that get unavoidably chewed up like the tongue potentially would? Do drophs have eyes? I don't see any. How many front clawed limbs does the trophille have? Three or four? How does it manage to have more than the droph if they are so closely related? Why is the gyrospel the only flying animal of this type? There is nothing around that's smaller? Also, since they subdue prey with venom and with severing teeth why do they need to be so big? Wouldn't it be easier to fly and get more energy from relatively larger prey if they were smaller? When are we going to see the dinosauromimidae? |
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But if it sees with its tongue (as the site indicates that all maws do) it's effectively blind to attack while it feeds, is it not? How does it keep its prey from finding a way to tear it off or injure it as it tenaciously clings to the hide?
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