EVE Technology Lab

The javascript isn't even formatted!
It will take years to figure that out!

Quit NOW! unless CCP will sahre the uncompressed version.

No trolling, you. I've made pretty good progress reading it line by line. The problem is here (minmatar ex.):

"res:/texture/cubemap/minmatar/m01_cube.cube","res:/texture/cubemap/minmatar/m01_cube_blur.cube"

So if I could get the .cube files to load transparent I would think it would work. The problem seems to be that the m01_cube.cube file is the canvas that everything is painted on...

ok fair enough, try this http://jsbeautifier.org/ it will make it easier to read.

Also to add to that, if you want your own custom background, edit the files between line 126 and 136 once the file is decompressed.

EDIT: i think this will work :S

Well... I figured out some other very cool stuff... just have to figure out how to keep it from spinning onload and remove the black background. I'm calling it a night for now.

Hay, WHEN I figure this all out I'll let you have it for free... how about that. If I can remove the background and replace it with a transparency, and stop the ship from auto-rotating on load, I'll write you the frickin' manual that will make every killboard and forum an HTML5 masterpiece. I already wrote a bitchin' backdrop for my own corp... it just needs this as flair. I just don't know JAVA very well... never needed it... but I'm learning. Will be working with the .cube files tomorrow, as that may be where the background problem lies...

Edit: Some of the stuff you can do with the model, positioning, and behavior is pretty sweet. You can control EVERYTHING, going well above and beyond the eve ship viewer as it is on CCPs site...

Man.... you just took a big crap on my parade. Will look into it. Sounds like I need to do some writing.

Thanks for the info though. Will see if I can write my way out of this.

tl;dr; THANK YOU

Edit: b.style.background = "#000"

This is setting the background style of the DIV element. Have you tried making a transparent png file with height 22px and putting it in there?


so it should read b.style.background = "url('../images/transparentimagename.png') this might work, haven't tested it yet.

This is found on line 2252 in the code block:

CCPShipViewer.prototype.onAllResourcesLoaded = function () {
ref.resourcesLoaded = !0, ref.container.style.width = ref.width + "px", ref.container.clientHeight == 0 && (ref.container.style.height = ref.height + "px");
if (ref.isWebGL) {
var a = document.createElement("canvas");
a.width = ref.width, a.height = ref.height, a.id = "canvas_" + ref.containerId, camera = new TestCamera(a);
if (showFPS) {
var b = document.createElement("div");
b.style.height = "22px", b.style.color = "#FFF", b.style.background = "#000", b.id = ref.containerId + "_FPS", ref.container.appendChild(b)
}
ref.container.appendChild(a), ref.container.addEventListener("mousedown", ref.onMouseDown, !1), device.CreateDevice(a), device.mipLevelSkipCount = quality;
var c = vec3.create([1, 1, 1]);
vec3.normalize(c), variableStore._variables.u_sunDirection = new Tw2Vector3Parameter("u_sunDirection", c), variableStore._variables.u_sunColor = new Tw2Vector3Parameter("u_sunColor", vec3.create([1, 1, 1])), variableStore._variables.u_ambientColor = new Tw2Vector3Parameter("u_ambientColor", vec3.create([.1, .1, .1])), scene = new EveSpaceScene, postprocess = new Tw2PostProcess, device.Schedule(Render), tick()
}

have you viewed the html output in firebug and looked at the DOM to see if there's anything there?

Ok, finally found some time for hacking and got it. (Pics or it didn't happen *)

Disclaimer: I made a hack and this is just for research use; Proper cleanup would be required and I'd prefer a dedicated solution to be done (i.e., write a dedicated ship viewer instead of waiting for the unmodified source - like I did with upro & a map viewer ;)

Anyway, simply removing the nebulae did not entirely work, the corresponding skybox would still be rendered - and without a texture, it came out black.
In the CCPShipViewer.Render() method some tweaks were needed. This method is right at the top, so not much to search.


a little bit reordered and modified:



In essence:
* the postprocess was removed - looking at the corresponding code it is what I believe to be the sky box.
* the StandardState is set to RM_TRANSPARENT instead of RM_OPAQUE -- mainly to enable BLEND.

The backAlpha is a number 0.0 .. 1.0 specifying the alpha value with 0.0 being fully transparent. The screenshot shows the 0.4 value.

What you will then notice (also visible in the screenshot) is the next problem: Alpha values of textures, as seen with the blinking lights, which appear to be blocky. I didn't want to look into that now, because this topic took me very long to handle in upro ;) Extra time could be spent into looking for that cause, but I'd rather refer to my disclaimer above.

*) I didn't investigate why the whole scene display was moved down, probably a layout issue from my offline version