EVE Technology Lab

Exactly what is said above. the color values and specular values are really hard to find out where to place them if you have never done it before.

The reason why it is hard to get a 1 to 1 copy of the game models is exactly the engine lightprojection reflection calculations. And that can all be found in the shader files. Fact remains it is extremely hard. After Christmas I'll post picture of a jaguar and a Armageddon done with my latest engine and custom written material for 3ds max. I'll also post screenshots of the ingame make del for reference to actually see how close I came to the 1 to 1 copy.

So just play around with settings and sliders. And looking at screenshots from different angles. And work on it until you are happy. You are the artist. When you are happy with it that is all that counts.

For the specular keep it in mind that specularity only specifiers what area reflects more then the other so it has no color its only greyscale just like the specular map in the pgs files. The color it reflects is done by adjusting the reflection layer color.

Wow !! After nearly a year off, I'm back to EvE and I am amazed by the progress you guys have made.

I thought I'd show some of my work, even if not the same level as yours.

Kestrel - Clay Render

Kestrel - Diffuse Only

Kestrel - Diffuse + Lights

Kestrel - HDRI lightning

This last one is not well balanced on spec/reflection, I'll have to rework on it.

Keep up the good work, I have a lot to read to catch up with you

Cheers

Nathan

There is something strange with the t2 that I can't lay my finger on yet. Once I figured out how the layers are stacked I'll let it know.

try to play a bit with the output of the mask and submask layers.

Also the reason why I don't use specular values is that the gray render engine doesn't support them. This is due to the realism factor in there. All I do for my reflections is loadup the reflection color layers. Then adjust the color levels. And then I load the specular map in the highlights. Set my reflection levels so it reflects like a metal would reflect. This gives it a slightly more real feel to it. I'll show some progress tomorrow.

in game we don't have "oilfilm effect" on astrate(tripleglowv3.fx) ... it is environment mapping ... but in tripleglowv3.fx you have 2 evnmaps .... first should be xx_cube.dds and second one should be xx_cube_blur.dds ...

GBc1_T2a_Duvolle.black from my simple render engine(which using orginal eve shaders)
and brutix

well, it's my program to render eve models written in C# .... it using hlsl shaders from eve resources(stuff files) , all settings are taken from black files(using black2json code) ... anyway it will not help you with rendering in programs like Blender ...


for blender take this cube and use it as EnvMap in material editor ... if you play with the settings you'll and with smthng like this and here you have sample blender file ...


EDIT: for getting other cubes: unstuff whole res://dx9/scene/universe and then use this(you need framework 4.0) to change dds cube to png cube by dropping xx_cube.dds on form (it will produce png in the same folder with the same filename) ... (there are 2 options: if Blender checkbox is not selected then one row {+x,-x,+y,-y,+z,-z} if selectect then 2 rows {-x, -z, +x} { +y, -y, +z})


EDIT2: and here is the program which i use to render models ....
USAGE (from commend line):
SlimDXTest.exe black_filename_lowercase_with_ext nebula "eve_full_path_without_last_backslash"
defaults are:
SlimDXTest.exe gbc1_t2a_duvolle.black c16 D:\Games\ccp\eve
!!!! so if you don't have eve here=>"D:\Games\ccp\eve" it will not work

sample usage:
SlimDXTest.exe oref1_t1.black g04 "C:\program files\ccp\eve"
SlimDXTest.exe gde1_t1.black g04 "C:\program files\.ccp\eve"

easier to analyze shaders are glsl from Ship Viewer(open it with browser with webgl support fx.: chrome)
check fx this shader tripleglowv3.fx
(you can use http://jsbeautifier.org/ to make shader code readable and here you have uniforms and other vars ...

i even managed to run those shaders on android device

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ok now zip contains source too ... exe+src

About a year ago someone put up their texture material tree for all of the shaders. It was impressive.

AK

You need to move the channels around :

Green channel goes into red
Alpha channel goes into green

Blue channel needs to be white. This gives you the normal map