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The Ships Of EVE, 2014 Edition

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AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#1 - 2014-12-07 19:10:52 UTC  |  Edited by: AeonOfTime
Hi everyone, back in 2010 I had made a first poster with all available ships ingame at that time, using screenshots I took myself with the ingame ship preview. I recently updated the tools I used back then to manage taking the screenshots, and created a new edition for 2014.

Since there are a lot more ships now than in 2010, I split the posters by race:

Minmatar Republic
Amarr Empire
Gallente Federation
Caldari State

For those interested, there's also the poster with all 418 currently available ships:

All EVE ships

EDIT: Haha, I just prepared some nice forum banners to add as previews, only to realize you can't post images in the forums Ugh

If you'd like a preview, I invite you to check the related post on my blog!

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Serene Repose
#2 - 2014-12-07 22:00:31 UTC
Omg. You're the bomb.

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Paranoid Loyd
#3 - 2014-12-07 22:05:30 UTC  |  Edited by: Paranoid Loyd
Nice work, if you wouldn't mind a little constructive criticism, all of the backdrops are too dark to the point they blend too much with the profile of the ship with the exception of the gallente one IMO.
I do appreciate them very much though.

Edit: I have crap monitors and dont take any time to adjust them so maybe its just that.

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AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#4 - 2014-12-07 22:17:04 UTC
Paranoid Loyd wrote:
Nice work, if you wouldn't mind a little constructive criticism, all of the backdrops are too dark to the point they blend too much with the profile of the ship with the exception of the gallente one IMO.
I do appreciate them very much though.

Edit: I have crap monitors and dont take any time to adjust them so maybe its just that.


Yes, that's a bit problematic. But sadly that's how they come out of the ingame previews. I have already lightened them up slightly, but more would make details come out that aren't so pretty (like the coarse gradients in the nebulae). For an optimal job, you'd have to focus on the ships themselves - but that's beyond what I am willing to invest time-wise :)

The again, I suppose I could try running a filter on the screenshots that lightens them up more in the middle... I'll give it a test run.

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com
Grauth Thorner
Vicious Trading Company
#5 - 2014-12-07 22:39:44 UTC
Very nice work, they look cool

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Iain Cariaba
#6 - 2014-12-07 22:52:29 UTC  |  Edited by: Iain Cariaba
There's enough people that read GD that you could probably get us to provide you some screen shots of pretty much every ship in the game. I can fly almost every subcap there is, and it wouldn't be too difficult for me to log into Sisi, spend a few thousand isk on whatever subcap ships you can't fly, then warp to the sun and get a good bright screen shot. I'm sure if you asked nicely that others would add screenshots to fill in the blanks.

That brings up another thing. In two days the new lighting physics goes into effect.

Besides, I want to get prints of made into posters. I have a long bare wall in my apartment that would look nice with framed EvE posters on it.

Drop me a mail if you'd like me to help in this.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#7 - 2014-12-07 22:56:04 UTC
AeonOfTime wrote:


The again, I suppose I could try running a filter on the screenshots that lightens them up more in the middle... I'll give it a test run.


Try something like photoshop unsharp mask - threshold 20, 3 pixels, 150%
CCP Falcon
#8 - 2014-12-08 00:56:22 UTC
This is pretty damn amazing Cool

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AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#9 - 2014-12-08 07:39:43 UTC
Iain Cariaba wrote:
There's enough people that read GD that you could probably get us to provide you some screen shots of pretty much every ship in the game. I can fly almost every subcap there is, and it wouldn't be too difficult for me to log into Sisi, spend a few thousand isk on whatever subcap ships you can't fly, then warp to the sun and get a good bright screen shot. I'm sure if you asked nicely that others would add screenshots to fill in the blanks.

That brings up another thing. In two days the new lighting physics goes into effect.

Besides, I want to get prints of made into posters. I have a long bare wall in my apartment that would look nice with framed EvE posters on it.

Drop me a mail if you'd like me to help in this.


Oh yes, the new lighting physics. These posters have been a while in the making - so long, even, that nobody knew there was going to be lighting physics :) It has bugged me to no end to finish the posters right before that change!

Calling on the community to help build the next iteration is a very good idea... It'll require a bit of preparation, but it could be well worth it. Having screenshots of the ships in space can only be better than the preview window. The way I see it, we'd need an endpoint like a mini website where you can see which ship screenshots are missing, and to submit your own. We'd definitely need a guide on how to take the screenshots so we get consistent results though.

As for the prints, the current posters are large enough for printing, and DeviantART offers a good selection of printing options. I can enable these features for the posters, and you can see if there are formats you'd like. I'll drop you an evemail as well!

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com
AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#10 - 2014-12-08 07:52:04 UTC
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
AeonOfTime wrote:


The again, I suppose I could try running a filter on the screenshots that lightens them up more in the middle... I'll give it a test run.


Try something like photoshop unsharp mask - threshold 20, 3 pixels, 150%



Hi Hasikan, unsharp mask only sharpens images - it can bring out detail, but in this case we don't want to enhance the entire image - the background should be left as-is, and only enhance the ships themselves so they stand out more. In the case of Minmatar or Caldari ships for example, they are so close to the background that there is no way to automate highlighting them.

I am working on some new ideas though - it would be possible by substracting a full background image to extract a rough shape of a ship, which would make it possible to at least lighten it up a bit. I'll report my findings :)

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com
AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#11 - 2014-12-08 07:58:51 UTC
CCP Falcon wrote:
This is pretty damn amazing Cool



Thanks, that means a lot!

Lone wolf and nomad extraordinaire. eve.aeonoftime.com
Arwen Zaya'Tash
Imperial Academy
Amarr Empire
#12 - 2014-12-09 07:43:04 UTC
Kudos, thanks for sharing - they're pretty cool Shocked
Cryten Jones
Advantage Inc
#13 - 2014-12-09 10:39:03 UTC
Did you do these from SISI with PBR ?
AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#14 - 2014-12-09 13:34:32 UTC
Cryten Jones wrote:
Did you do these from SISI with PBR ?


No... what's PBR? If it could give me a way to automate taking the ship screenshots, I'd love to hear about it. I took these all manually with the ingame preview.

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ISD Ezwal
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#15 - 2014-12-09 13:40:48 UTC
Nice! Well done.

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AeonOfTime
Syrkos Technologies
#16 - 2014-12-09 22:06:59 UTC
ISD Ezwal wrote:
Nice! Well done.


Thanks a bundle Blink

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Jevexus
Negative Transversal
#17 - 2014-12-10 07:03:47 UTC
These are great. I'd love these as actual posters.
Grauth Thorner
Vicious Trading Company
#18 - 2014-12-10 15:55:12 UTC
AeonOfTime wrote:
Cryten Jones wrote:
Did you do these from SISI with PBR ?


No... what's PBR? If it could give me a way to automate taking the ship screenshots, I'd love to hear about it. I took these all manually with the ingame preview.

PBR is the new way of rendering the ships used by EVE. If it costs too much time I'd wait a bit with making new posters until more/all ships are made perfect.

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Mr Epeen
It's All About Me
#19 - 2014-12-10 16:08:33 UTC
When I saw the title I got pretty excited that someone was redoing T'Ambers well loved 'Ships of EVE' lotto.

While I was a little disappointed about it not being that, this is still pretty cool.

Mr Epeen Cool
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#20 - 2014-12-10 22:28:26 UTC
AeonOfTime wrote:
Hasikan Miallok wrote:
AeonOfTime wrote:


The again, I suppose I could try running a filter on the screenshots that lightens them up more in the middle... I'll give it a test run.


Try something like photoshop unsharp mask - threshold 20, 3 pixels, 150%



Hi Hasikan, unsharp mask only sharpens images - it can bring out detail, but in this case we don't want to enhance the entire image - the background should be left as-is, and only enhance the ships themselves so they stand out more. In the case of Minmatar or Caldari ships for example, they are so close to the background that there is no way to automate highlighting them.

I am working on some new ideas though - it would be possible by substracting a full background image to extract a rough shape of a ship, which would make it possible to at least lighten it up a bit. I'll report my findings :)


Quick Mask Mode is your friend.
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