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This is a list of some development tutorials available in the Creatures Community. This list is not complete - please write in with more!

Agent Making

CAOS Chaos - A beginner's tutorial for agent making by AquaShee, covers a food. Mainly for Windows users.

A Guide to Mac Agenteering - A beginner's tutorial for agent making by Sarako, covers a toy. Mainly for Macintosh users.

CDN lesson plan - The official beginner's tutorials for agent making by CL, covers agent art tricks, a food vendor, a toy, a food, a toy vendor.

Basic lift script - from the Creatures Wiki, by Zareb with help from Edash and Liam. A lift which travels between two floors and has a call button on each floor. Intermediate.

Basic plant script - from the Creatures Wiki, mostly by Zareb. Creates a plant which uses variables and subroutines to grow, live, set seed and die.

Compound Parts - a German/English tutorial which, line by line, teaches how to make agents with two parts, for use in vendors. Intermediate.

Honigtopf (Honeypot) - a German-only tutorial which, line by line, teaches how to make a one-sip honey pot. Beginners.

Learn to PRAY - a zipped beginner's tutorial by Hausmouse, teaching you how to PRAY your files together into an agent.

Ghosthande's Metamorphosing Toy Tutorial - teaches how to make a toy that changes its shape when played with.

Beginner's Guide to Monk - by Malkin for CCSF 2009, a beginner's guide to RProgrammer's Monk PRAY tool.

C3/DS Agent Script Reservations - Archived version, originally by Bibble.

Hungry Critter Tutorial - covers how to make a critter that hunts its food down. By Ghosthande.

C3 Bootstrap V2 - A copy of the C3 Bootstrap which has been commented, useful for examples of CAOS in action.

How to make Creatures clothes - By Ghosthande.

Creatures Development Standards - an attempt to make the Creatures' world consistent.

Metaroom making

Creating a Metaroom - A CCSF 2006 tutorial written by Liam and friends, covers metaroom conception, organisation, doing backgrounds, getting the room in the game, agents as part of a metaroom (covers a critter), music and smells, and beta testing to release. Assumes a prior understanding of CAOS and graphics skills.

Moe's Room Modelling Basics Tutorial - A CCSF 2006 tutorial by Moe focussing on the basics of room modelling and layout.

Photoshop Metaroom Background tutorial - A CCSF 2006 tutorial by Zareb explaining how to use Photoshop to create a background, for beginners.

Breed tutorials

CDN genetics tutorials - covers genetics.

Poly Modelling A Norn Head - By Moe - A tutorial by Moe showing how to poly model a norn head (the most difficult part) in 3D Studio Max.

Images and Attachments - a CDN article detailing the formula used when creating image files (sprites) and attachments for brained-creatures.

Camera Rigging for Creature Sprites - a Blender tutorial by Embri which covers how to set up cameras within Blender to render multiple different views of an object - useful for converting a 3D norn model into a sprite set. Requires some prior Blender knowledge.

Understanding and Editing ATTs - a tutorial by Ghosthande which covers how to understand and edit body data files.

Creating Body Data files (.ATT) - a tutorial by Embri which covers how to interpret body data files and how to make your own. Intermediate.

The Universe of Ettins Tutorials - covers breed making with some information for C1, C2 and C3.

Egg Agent Tutorial - this tutorial by RedDragon of Creature City teaches you how to make an egg agent from a genome.

I am Ron's Brain - by Steve Grand, an introduction to how brains work in Creatures.

RatBoy's Brain Tutorials

Handbuch der digitalen Genetik für Creatures 3/Docking Station und ältere Versionen - a comprehensive German resource covering digital DNA.

CFE tutorial - A guide to implementing Vampess's CFE genome.

C1/C2

Slink's Treasures - Reference - Slink's resources for developers for C1 and C2. Covers genetics, C1 COBbling and how to make a world.

Helen's Bibble Directory - Cob Creation Tutorials - Covers C2 COBbling.

C2 Cob Script Reservations - Archive of C2 Cob Script Reservations originally by Bibble.