Void at Sporemods has released a modding program for spore, in collaboration with others, called SporeMaster. Even though it is only a beta release it is the most promising spore modding tool to date, with many unique features, however it may still have some bugs in the program so watch out and report them in this thread so we can have a better modding tool!

Key Features:

  • Streamlined unpacking and packing of .package files, with automatic conversion of .prop files to and from .xml. files.xml is no longer necessary.
  • XML files are more user-friendly than in previous mod tools, using names instead of hashes where possible.
  • Full text indexing of .xml and .locale files in the unpacked package, to permit very fast incremental search.
  • Side-by-side comparison of file tree in Spore and the mod under development. One-click execution of WinMerge to see and edit changes in an individual file.
  • Built in syntax highlighting editor.
  • Tools for guessing the original names for hashes and for creating friendly aliases for hashes that can’t be guessed (or that were randomly generated by EA).
  • Expanded list of group and instance hashes

DOWNLOAD HERE (REQUIRED)

DOWNLOAD .NET FRAMEWORK (REQUIRED)

For full instructions and screenshots head over to Sporedum’s ultimate modding page!

Huge thanks goes to Sporedum for sending this over to me!