EVE General Discussion

And i want you to stop posting

Goal: not possible unless you start working for ccp animation department :)

I really doubt that ccp will just tell you their rendering process let alone material shader/settings, i also doubt you can reproduce the same result as them with maya alone, they have their own nifty little software for making trailers(if you look back a bit for one of the fanfest making-of eve never fades videos). You'll have better luck emailing McDonalds asking for their sauce recipe.


I've spoken to a bloke that creates phenomenal eve fanstuff(while his renders are amazing in cinema 4d) he cannot reproduce the exact same look, he even creates custom bumpmaps for the ship materials. Example render+some minor photoshop work
You will never achieve the nice shiny result that you see in the game.

Thats why cheaper coke/pepsi doesn't taste like the real thing

Here is a thought, take a screenshot of your character and location and make them in maya from scratch ?

Not quite, PoseRay, POV Ray, and TriExporter are all free, Auto CAD and Maya are free to students (studying a remotely relevant course)

EDIT: @OP read the .red files, they tell you the exact colours, specular curves etc. used on each ship model, dunno about chars though. There are also many guides on teh interwebs on how to extract models from EVE into 3DS Max, Blender, Maya etc.

EDIT 2: THIS was made using something called 3D Ripper DX, never used it myself, but looks like it might be worth checking out.

I have looked at plenty of guides. They seem to be either outdated, missing information or too complicated for me to follow.

I would appreciate it if somebody with the knowledge could break it down for me step by step.

Once I have the thing in maya I can handle it from their. It's just getting it to their is where I lack experience.
I realize that exporting an exact copy of my current character model is close to impossible without CCP lending a helping hand. However I have seen plenty of renders that are fully clothed and look like something made in the character editor ingame. So they must have some way of coming close to an exact copy.

The top priority really is the female character model. I don't care if I need to build an animation skeleton myself, that's no big deal. I don't plan to do any videos outside of stuff for my CSM 8 campaign.

First things first... Learn to differentiate there from their. Come back when you do that and I'll help you with Maya.

Well a quick google says that its either Autodesk Combustion or 3ds Max that you want, not AutoCAD (which really is a 2D program rather than 3D)

Well,I tried searching on the topic for quite a bit. It sounds interesting.

This is what I found about the 'rage package file' type : http://openiv.com/frequently-asked-questions

It says in there that they can edit assets from GTA 4, but goes on to say they can edit .rpf files specifically. They quote 3DS as an example but I'm more of a Maya user. I doubt they will release it as public domain or not just yet, anyways. You could try writing to them and ask them if they would be willing.

Cheers.

http://i.imgur.com/zstab.png

BEHOLD!

I seem... to have done something wrong..

Rotation and positioning seem to be perfect.
I assumed that capsule_ngs was a bump map and it turned out I was right.
However the color and wet look of the pod was not working out right. I used the final texture file "capsule_o" as a specular shader and that made it look sorta alright but as you can see its still not right.

Looks like sortof a carpaint texture. Maybe adjust the reflection co-eff a bit? Or maybe change the base material to anisotropic?

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Rendering_EVE_Models_101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw18CzYzJvg

Now this is for blender and gimp. make note of the textures structure, the changes are not too drastic from ngs to pgs.


Somehting I did messing with the specular layer of the Drake. Drake with some red