EVE General Discussion

It's not outdated, THIS (made in 3ds Max 2012) was my first attempt at using a .red file as a guide, it took all of half an hour and I dare say it turned out fairly good (needs better lighting, but it was more of a proof of concept than anything else)

All I did was export the files, open them up in GIMP, flip them vertically, separate the channels and save the channels to separate files (diffuse, specular, bump etc. ) modify the colour of the diffuse maps as per the .red file, invert the mask that needs inverting, apply them to the model using a blend material and tweak the specular values until it looks right.

Is my method the best? No, not by a long, long way. But it is pretty simple and it works, and you know what? I figured most of it out by my self (once I actually learned what diffuse, specular, mask and all that actually meant I really was -and still am- a total noob).

EDIT: Thanks to the others who have posted, some good stuff here.

You, uhh, you know my banned forum main has more chance of making a comeback than you getting voted in for CSM?

Trolling of Xenuria aside, this has been a very helpful thread but I feel like it isn't quite getting anywhere. Cries of "I can't get this to work" tend to be met with "Well, it works, so go make it work." I will freely admit that I'm a noob and not even remotely tied in to graphic design. I'd just like for us to get some guides together that are easy to follow (and don't require a deep knowledge of the software involved) and that requires updated guides. I'm sure that if you are very familiar with the various programs that you can go off the old guides with minimal issues because you know where to find the various specific things talked about in those guides, but I don't. I've got a new thread up to try to compile this type of information - please drop by my new thread if you have solutions or even if you can share things you have tried that used to work but don't any more or flat out don't work at all.