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EVE Paint Shops FTW
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Skippermonkey
Deep Core Mining Inc.
Caldari State
#41 - 2012-10-03 10:12:47 UTC
Am i the only one that thought of 'paint shops' that you could fly into and suddenly concord didnt chase you anymore?

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J'Poll
School of Applied Knowledge
Caldari State
#42 - 2012-10-03 10:13:18 UTC  |  Edited by: J'Poll
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:
I wonder If the devolpers would ever put in paint shops for the ships. You know, different multi-colored ships with decals or symbols. Kinda like WW2 pilots that would paint phrases or shark teeth on their planes. Just a thought.

Not sure if this topic should be here or in OOPE since it is directly EVE related.


Hmz, and have TiDi in every single system as the server has to load every persons own private paintjob on their drake

But nice idea, finally can get my:

Kestrel
and
Apoc

painted.

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Hiro Ceffoe
State War Academy
Caldari State
#43 - 2012-10-03 10:39:18 UTC
When you come accross someone else in space do you even look that closely at the ship they are flying? Generally I see the name of the ship on my overview but that's about all.

Corp logos woud be pointless since its written in brackets beside the pilots name and on the show info tab, which is the first thing I would do when "looking at a pilot"

This seems like a redundant feature, it's only benfit would be to the person flying the ship and looking at it in the center of the screen all the time, it's novelty would soon wear off, in my opinion it's not worth the technical requirements.
Josef Djugashvilis
#44 - 2012-10-03 10:42:10 UTC
I want my Domi to look like it has the skin of a roast potato.

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AlleyKat
The Unwanted.
#45 - 2012-10-03 11:16:33 UTC
NO

And I'll tell you why...

If you did that, the install of EVE would swell to epically epic proportions - and we would not want that.

throwing some BS math at you; if the texture of 1 ship is 1MB is size, and everyone had their own variant, in addition to the current size(s) of textures, then you got several gigs just for one ship.

And then...

Everytime you log into EVE, you gotta update the entire texture set so everyone is compliant and using the same textures as everyone else.

If you just wanted a pretty paintshop ship for fun, that no one else would see in space - then you have my blessing.

AK

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Garibaldi Sinatra
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#46 - 2012-10-03 12:47:40 UTC
Its probably fairly easy too just modify the local client files for the ship texture too look how you want them too look. Not saying you should do this orthat you even can. But it works in most computer games.

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Bellanea Rajanir
Obolka Kin
#47 - 2012-10-03 13:29:38 UTC
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throwing some BS math at you; if the texture of 1 ship is 1MB is size, and everyone had their own variant, in addition to the current size(s) of textures, then you got several gigs just for one ship.

And then...

Everytime you log into EVE, you gotta update the entire texture set so everyone is compliant and using the same textures as everyone else.


How about vector graphics? Roll

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Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#48 - 2012-10-03 14:18:42 UTC
AlleyKat wrote:
NO And I'll tell you why... If you did that, the install of EVE would swell to epically epic proportions - and we would not want that. throwing some BS math at you; if the texture of 1 ship is 1MB is size, and everyone had their own variant, in addition to the current size(s) of textures, then you got several gigs just for one ship. And then... Everytime you log into EVE, you gotta update the entire texture set so everyone is compliant and using the same textures as everyone else. If you just wanted a pretty paintshop ship for fun, that no one else would see in space - then you have my blessing. AK


I'd Just like to point out that the size of code for a color is a 6 digit hexadecimal number (FFFFFF). Every digit has 4 bits of binary code (0s and 1s, 0011). So, We're looking at 3 bytes of data per color for 6 digit hex with a total max of 16,581,375 colors equaling a total of about 48MB for all colors. Now, all you need is a gui and a few windows to do the editing, to overlay the colors on the textures. The textures do NOT have to be touched and they are all already on your computer in the first place. It would be the same as if you docked. In fact you would already be docked when you clicked on an icon to pull up the "paint" window. Since everything is already there and we just have to add the code for the gui of the editing window and the colors and how they overlay on the ship plus all the corp icons which are all already in the game, we're looking at 120 MB to 300MB max for the whole setup.

To actually load the colors while you're flying about, the game already pulls all the data from your HDD anyways. The only thing that comes across the internet is the code telling the application what to pull up and re-ender to screen. To load colors, it would be about the same as loading the colors on this forum in terms of the amount of data required to load the colors. Of course there is more data being loaded for the textures and models of ships, roids, stations or whatever but all that data is already being loaded and to add a color overlay will not make a lick of difference.

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Lexylia
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#49 - 2012-10-03 14:23:40 UTC
Karl Hobb wrote:
Johnny Bloomington wrote:
No hello kitty paint jobs! I would like some paint jobs just as long as it looks EVE!

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Kenneth O'Hara
Sebiestor Tribe
#50 - 2012-10-03 14:27:32 UTC
J'Poll wrote:
Kenneth O'Hara wrote:
I wonder If the devolpers would ever put in paint shops for the ships. You know, different multi-colored ships with decals or symbols. Kinda like WW2 pilots that would paint phrases or shark teeth on their planes. Just a thought.

Not sure if this topic should be here or in OOPE since it is directly EVE related.


Hmz, and have TiDi in every single system as the server has to load every persons own private paintjob on their drake

But nice idea, finally can get my:

Kestrel
and
Apoc

painted.



Eh, you don't need one in everystation or even every system for that matter. One in every major trade hub, that's all you need.

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Johnny Bloomington
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#51 - 2012-10-03 16:04:33 UTC
Well if you get Hello Kitty then I get Sponge Bob Squarepants!

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