EVE Technology Lab

Odd, that it doesn't even work on a fresh setup. Works like a charm here.


On a different note: I've been asked multiple times how one would get a single colored diffuse texture for use with other programs. There are many ways to do that. Photoshop or Gimp are definitely capable, the Blender Compositor is as well. However, since we have that node tree already, Blender texture baking may be the quickest way. This is how you do it:

• Create a new scene, remove the lamp and the cube and add a plane instead
• UV-Unwrap that plane
• Add a material to it and set up the node as needed. It may be a good idea to turn down displacement and normal strength, and set the specularity to 0.
• In the UV image editor, add a new texture. Make it however big you like.
• Set the world environment color to white, and render samples to, say, 100 or so.
• With the UV editor still open, in the render tab scroll down to "Bake" and hit the "Bake" button.
• Wait for the baking to finish and save the texture.

You can do this with the actual ship model as well instead of a plane, especially if you would like to bake shadows and occlusion into the texture, but for some ships, the UV map overlaps in places, so the result may look strange.

When you do this, though: Please think about what you are using it for. CCP may not like you making games or mods with their models and textures. They tend to tolerate and at times even support fan art. But that doesn't mean we have any right to use their stuff for whatever we want.