EVE Technology Lab

here is my version of the vindi

http://citadel-consortium.com/downloads/vindi.jpg

The hull has 2 sets of uv's. One for the main armor(hull) and the second is for the engines. The engine. And hull have different color combinations. The other difference is that you need to mask the diffuse layer multiple times. Ill get you a screenshot of my map tree a bit later

here you go the hull part of the material tree :

http://citadel-consortium.com/downloads/mat_tree.jpg

The .fx files are shader source.

The .sm_lo/_hi/_depth files are compiled shaders.

It looks like shipping the shader source code pre-rubicon was a mistake CCP's corrected :)

I seem to recall that before the V3 graphics update they shipped compiled shaders as well.

When the renderer loads a model and gets a .fx as the shader, it will choose .sm_lo/_hi/_depth depending on the current graphics settings.

Thank you very much for show me this handling with your files, after that i understand better how it works!

I rebuild my version to this one:

Vindicator Rocks

And i make this too yesterday, the tricky part was the carmouflage look from a machariel and bring it in the right look:

Machariel Rocks

I havn`t tried it yet, but it`s possibly in a mask. I`ll try to look it up.

I am interested in using the EVE in-game assets in Maya.

I have successfully used triexporter to get the assets, but after a good hour of searching and testing different programs and converters, have had no success in getting any of the gr2 files into a working .obj for maya 2013 to read.

I am a CGI/VFX artist and am very interested in getting this working, with textures applied in maya for some nice renders.

Is there any other programs or converters that people can suggest or import plugin for maya to natively read the .gr2?

What version of TriExporter are you using? Mine isn't letting me do anything with the models, apart from unstuff them

Ah I found the problem, my granny2.dll decided to be corrupted, replacing that has fixed the model export problem.

My next curiosity is how to construct the shader network inside maya... (currently trying to build the SOE Cruiser)
soec1_t1_d.dds is diffuse
soec1_t1_m.dds is the transparency map for their particle effect inside the rear wheel part of the ship
soec1_t1_n.dds is the normal map I assume

and finally
soec1_t1_pgs.dds is a lovely mix of things.
The red channel of that image contains the ship decals I believe.
The green channel contains some ship highlights maybe? (edit, would be the spec map now that I think about it, duh)
and not sure what the blue channel is, but If I had to take a guess it would be the glowing/lights/emissive surfaces of the ship.

Now to work out how to combine all of these together to create one shading network for the whole ship... this part will be fun

@ Mardante Soliest: Thanks for your help, very good tips

I see, i have much to learn about 3D programms, its the most learing part i believe, as photographer is hard to understand how the process works



SOE ships is not easy work, many layers with different logos and other structure items. You have a decal folder in SOE folder, in there you have much logos and more, just a tip.

Hard for me was to understand how it works with .dds files and her basics and now parts like mask for glow in a 3D programm for SOE ships, but it has a little bit of a guy he want paint her new model boat

http://community.eveonline.com/news/dev-blogs/art-blog-improvement-of-textures-and-a-new-scorpion-model/ was usefull for me to understand what the videos i seen doing not right, most of them show the process with the old handling with .dds or NGS, but now i think you have for all to use the new ones ?

Uhm... If you are a artist you should know the difference between ue3 and 3ds max..
And in the case of my shader network ots coming from 3ds max

also added my version of the stratios below

http://citadel-consortium.com/downloads/stratios.jpg