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SOF Materials?
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Grace Amelia
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#1 - 2015-10-05 19:04:53 UTC  |  Edited by: Grace Amelia
Hi, I'm looking to see if it's possible to extract the material shaders so I can put some color to this Stratios render I've tried working around it for the Caldari ships like the Rokh but it's quite tedious trying to change the color values by directly editing the _AR files after splitting their channels and then colorizing them in either Photoshop or Cinema4D (Which I use)

Also, SKIN info would be extremely helpful. When trying to add the reddish/maroon colors to the SoE Stratios what I end up with is completely messing up and getting a pink ship (CCPlease hello kitty ships) but it's not the kind of effect I want to get.

I use the reference material from the published texture info but it's not doing much in the way of adding color to the ship. I've visited the Caldari Prime Pony Club but the method of material extraction is still unknown to me.

If this can't be done then I guess I'll be stuck to rendering Caldari ships, which would be a shame because :amarrvictor:

TL;DR: How to get the SKIN color info, apply them to the Material channel in the _PMDG files, and get material info like "amarr_hull_white" which I found in an external forum post.

More renders:
Stratios #1
Stratios #2
Stratios #3 (4k)
Stratios #3
Rokh #1
Rokh #2
CPPC T'amber
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#2 - 2015-10-10 03:42:23 UTC  |  Edited by: CPPC T'amber
The Space Object Factory Material data is currently not available in a readable format although the data does exist in the client SOF data.black file but I don't think anyone has managed to convert it back to yaml/ json yet.

You can get material data from this version of the Space Object Factory though: http://developers.eveonline.com/ccpwgl/assetpath/967762/dx9/model/spaceobjectfactory/data.red - Look for the 'faction' part of the json.

This version of the SOF is composed of:

  • Hull
  • Faction <- You can get material data from here
  • Race (Boosters)
  • Generic


CCP has recently added:

  • Material


Alternatively you can use the following file which has all the standard faction material data extracted (but named incorrectly): http://www.caldariprimeponyclub.com/jeremy/src/j/staticData/raw/sofMaterials.js This file doesn't have any of the new designer skin materials unfortunately.

There is a file in the SDE which describes what materials a designer skin is made up of but it only contains the material name and not the material components. I am not sure what this file is called unfortunately.