My EVE

Day 66 (6 Hours)


Over the last day and a half I finished up the towers on both sides

http://i58.tinypic.com/2jtq2h.jpg


I ended up getting side tracked before doing the towers and started building my Corporation Logo. This will have to do for now. What I am thinking of doing, I can not do right now, due to my skills level.

When I do know how, It will be a lot better. Fire and energy kind of look.

What's in my head is awesome, what I know how to build right now, not so much. This is still rough model. Just wanted to show you it.

http://i58.tinypic.com/imqaag.jpg (Corp Logo)

http://i57.tinypic.com/1zeilfq.jpg (Logo on Citadel)

http://i57.tinypic.com/1z3tdlv.jpg (From a Distance)

http://i58.tinypic.com/2yoso46.jpg (A Good Angle Pic)

I am now going to start doing a bunch of the little things on the top platform. Which will give it some more details and make it look like it is getting somewhere.

Day 68 (5 1/2 Hours)


Today I did most of the transportation system that leads to the external buildings (Ship Repair for example). I want to do energy beam going between the rings, but same as my corporation sign, I do not know how yet. As soon as I do I will change these bue bars.

I will be expanding, as I know what buildings I will have and where I will put them.


http://i58.tinypic.com/n2cyop.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/2lu5t29.jpg
http://i62.tinypic.com/28shma.jpg


I included a couple simple images, which kind of gives us an idea of where I'm going with this. If you look at the pillar with the windows, I will be having several of these things around plus a bunch of other things, so it should look cool to fly through.


http://i62.tinypic.com/vcrn7t.jpg
http://i57.tinypic.com/289a5x4.jpg
http://i59.tinypic.com/16k3mti.jpg


I also started my Capsule over again and will show it tomorrow after I do more. It did not look right yesterday.

I am going to start building the buildings that this system connects with as well.

Day 70 (12 Hours)


After I posted yesterday, I continued to work on this all night, other then popping in Eve once in a while.

I did a little more on the capsule, but not enough to show you today. I decided to do the entire outside of the capsule first before opening it up and building the cockpit. That way I can have a sealed model and one that is chopped up into parts for animating.

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Down to business.

I started to trim the next level down, which makes it easier to knife away at. (It was 30,000x35,000 inches, now it's around 30,00x25,000 inches).

Then I put in my "Capital Cargo Port" C.C.P., I could not resist.

http://i59.tinypic.com/14b54rd.jpg


I built some columns spanning between the levels. I do not have a lot of filler yet, so I placed quite a few for now.

http://i57.tinypic.com/23h0up4.jpg


A couple images showing the Citadel as it stands so far.

http://i57.tinypic.com/25uqj4y.jpg
http://i59.tinypic.com/r0yw3p.jpg
http://i58.tinypic.com/6nw9k7.jpg


Here I just retook an image of my cannon close up, just to replace the low resolution one I had in the best images in the first post.

http://i60.tinypic.com/spzw2u.jpg

Day 72 (2 1/2 Hours)



In Celebration of Eve Vegas and C.C.P. taking about the Citadels. I took a break from work to make this image up.


http://i58.tinypic.com/34q6zjo.jpg


Sucks I can not go to Vegas. Maybe one year.

Day 73 (2 Hours)


CCP has released the "Eve Vegas" Keynote on their channel today. If you have not seen it, you can find it here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZSCaswtcsA

And it turns out I am building the "Medium Citadel"

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Today I just did a couple small things. I added some elevators and the shafts on the bottom extension.

http://i59.tinypic.com/5zjuhs.jpg


Since I saw it on the Keynote and it looks really simple to make. I started making the Missile Launcher, I through in some quick missiles to give it the appearance.

http://i58.tinypic.com/2d0z7cw.jpg
http://i61.tinypic.com/59t089.jpg


And of course, how the Citadel looks so far.

http://i60.tinypic.com/2mmjax.jpg

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So now I have several things that are half done. I will complete all these as I think of other stuff I need.

I am also going to be adding this current Citadel in my Walkthrough Game by Tuesday, since My Birthday is Wednesday I will be out of commission for the remainder of the week.

Update from Day 74 (It's my Birthday and here I am logging into Eve and on the Forums, I'm turning off my computer)

Ended up waking up early today and tried to figure out what was happening with the video recording and managed to get rid of the lag but the video is either small or 3 time the size. I will sort it out when I actually have time.

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I figured I would let everyone who cares, what I plan on doing next week.


** shape the two lower level platforms

** Finish the bottom extension of the Citadel

** Finish the Capsule

** Put some more materials (Color) on the Citadel.

** Make the Citadel a collidable object, so I can not just fly through my Citadel. I think I have to make it dynamic so gravity does not effect it and falls forever. not sure.

** I always had the plan of making my ship and Cannon overview like how you see it in the Valkyrie trailer.

** Now I want to make my hanger scene like the Valkyrie Trailer. (This is not next week though)


I also installed "UNITY 3D" last night to spend some time learning that, I have enjoyed but not enjoyed using Blender for the game. The game engine is easy to use but putting materials in and other features is messed.

I would rather put in a hundred times the effort into a good game engine with a year of learning it, rather than using blender for that period. I will continue using Blender for this project though, since I do not know that for terms of use yet on the Unity engine.

Plus, I have spent time not long ago learning to create apps/games and this program will help me expand on that knowledge.

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Everyone enjoy the rest of the week and weekend. Remember to fly recklessly and have fun in Eve for me.

Day 76 (12 Hours)


Last night I learned a few things on material effects. I applied it to the hanger force field, ring transport and my Phoenix Logo.

Not really what I have in mind, but a lot closer than what I had. I do like the hanger force field, so I will keep that one and keep modifying that color and effect, also make it more transparent.

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I had to make a couple videos to actually see it in action and then made it into one video.

First scene is all three in one frame and then I focus in on one area at a time for a few seconds and changed some values. (4 scenes in video)

https://youtu.be/Su5aOD9u4rg (VIDEO)

http://i67.tinypic.com/2r2yjom.jpg (Image)
http://i66.tinypic.com/k48r9c.jpg (Image)
http://i64.tinypic.com/34rg3ma.jpg (Image)


I made a new updated Image Gallery Video to clear up the images list in the first post (Random images from day 39ish to 74)

https://youtu.be/Uv8gZ1UDBXo

(EDITED)

Just a couple images I rendered that I will throw here.

http://i65.tinypic.com/zx7eps.jpg
http://i66.tinypic.com/53s26o.jpg

Day 78


It has been awhile since my last post, been playing a lot of Eve. I used up all my capital buying PLEX's and needed to make some isk.


I have done a couple things though. Let's start with how the Citadel looks overall.

** I added a volumetric light into the scene and shaped the two lower platforms of the Citadel, except for the front right hand side.

http://i63.tinypic.com/2i0rm36.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/1hfm7n.jpg

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I started to make the Captain Quarters / Hanger area inside.

I placed some temporary materials and a box as the hallway, just to give you an idea of what I'm going for. I also placed my Venture and Capsule in and showed that those are all to size, except for the last image, where I just merge two scenes together and they are different sizes.

http://i65.tinypic.com/10rv0w5.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/14x15s2.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/s4lvep.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/2eppjlu.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/ipnitv.jpg
http://i66.tinypic.com/34pc9ae.jpg
http://i65.tinypic.com/2ni304g.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/1zud0w.jpg
http://i66.tinypic.com/315mpw6.jpg

O.K., So I learned some things on making a walk cycle and here's what I did.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR1QMEtNLzM&list=PLjLOrt89RNNzMqUjpoENYf36DQSK0uywW&index=4 (My Walk Cycle that thought me a lot, but I had to scrapped and I knew I was going to have to scrap because I have to do more on my character, so I did some of that aswell. Now it is ten times better, just need to redo all the clothes.)


But I knew I was going to have to scrap everything and do some more on my character so I did that to and made a short (Sorry due to nudity I blanked out the private parts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kEbCcxMANxU&list=PLjLOrt89RNNzMqUjpoENYf36DQSK0uywW&index=5 (My New character, Just updated last night)


[EDITED] Almost forgot to mention. The model I was working with I never added facial morphs. I also did that as well. When I go to make a couple short videos soon, you will be able to see it if I do not make a video in the mean time of different expressions.

My character after a long workout http://i63.tinypic.com/6ft8y0.jpg

Made a couple videos.

I wanted to make the 360 degree view of my Citadel, that way you do not have to go through several images to try to get an idea of how it looks so far.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0NGuiR2bKs&list=PLjLOrt89RNNwL2f2XINjIv68--rnbYVJB&index=6


I wanted to test the animated green material so I made a 360 video of my character at the same time. I need to slow down to animated material and find the right color to blend nice with the green.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=klguGdmLDQE&list=PLjLOrt89RNNzMqUjpoENYf36DQSK0uywW&index=6


I wanted to play with my character a bit as well as get an idea of how to do the eyes. Needs work, but you get the idea of what I'm doing, if you ever wondered why her eyes were bright white. They will change colors and maybe go to normal eyes while she is normal and calm.

http://i65.tinypic.com/ris1vo.jpg
http://i63.tinypic.com/15d3lgj.jpg
http://i68.tinypic.com/2i6zcic.jpg


I will not be back for a couple days while I finish this suit. Then I can take my time and make some really good animations. Right now I have to delete animations as soon as I am finished with it, until I complete this character. So, I do not want to do very much on that stuff right now or very little when I feel like messing around like today.