EVE Technology Lab

FYI: Selvin has made great progress in parsing the Black files and is currently playing with using the original EVE Shaders with SlimDX.

(For me it is a bit depressing, as obviously using the original EVE DX9 Shaders results in a 100% correct and awesome rendering of Ships, which is impossible to copy if you have to redo it the "clumsy way" in OpenGL for EveLiveWallpaper with writing your own Shaders and keeping backwards compatibility with OpenGL ES 1.1.)

So at the moment we have a working experimental Black parser, which can write the content to a Json file. I shoehorned a small Gui around it, which does the conversion if you drag&drop a black file into it. If this is something you guys would be interested in testing / using, then i will release it somewhere. All credits to Selvin of course!

Bests,
Andares Sol

I uploaded a first version of the Black2Json converter. Quick & Dirty and no guarantees.
This is just using the C# classes from Selvin as is:

Edit:
Sourcecode and ClickOnce Installer now on https://black2json.codeplex.com

Bests,
Andares Sol

How do you use that black importer?
I'm using newest blender, going to User Preferences->Addons->Install addon, but it doesnt work, or there's some other way of running python scripts i dont know of? (I never had to use them before ><).

Thanks your reply helped :)
What I did wrong was unzipping the archive and trying to add each of py files separately, works now when I choose zip file as addon source.

http://i.imgur.com/EkuUp.png

Here's ss of the console, unfortunately can't paste code in here :)

Facepalm...

STOP USING BLENDER!
Blender is what people use when they are trying to be hip and underground. I repeat using blender will not give you Indy Cred. It will just make people like me frustrated with your stubborn "buck the system" mentality.

If anybody has a working method of extracting WIS models/Textures into MAYA eve mail me and I will pay you for the information.

Can you please enable the system console (from the help menu) and then copy/paste the error it gives when you try to load?

Here's a screenshot of the console output from my attempt in blender 2.59 (OS is Windows 7).

There are two events in there, the first when I installed the script, the second when I tried to enable it in the add-ons menu.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v75/Wild_Rho/ScriptErr.png

It's the 64bit version, the 32bit version can't allocate enough memory for the compositing work I do.

The dead life longer! Selvin has kindly worked on an update for the good old TriExporter and also taken a few of my changes into the code. So we can proudly present you *drumroll*

TriExporter v0.5.0.0
SourceCode and Binaries are hosted at CodePlex. (Same as TriExporter.NET)
http://triexporter.codeplex.com/

• The binary got bigger, as we have the library to export Autodesk FBX statically linked to the executeable at the moment (*.fbx).
• An exporter for Android3D files was added (*.a3d)
• Also an exporter for the simple binary format for EveLiveWallpaper was added (*.vbo).
• The main form was redesigned a bit to reduce the scrolling effort when you select a model.
• The model preview was fixed.
• If a model which had texture(s) added is exported, also the texture(s) will be exported in PNG format.

Note that the code is still in large parts the same of the original TriExporter, so it has aged a bit over the years.
It ain't pretty, but it works .

Bests,
Andares Sol

P.S.: You still need to get the granny2.dll from somewhere and put it in the same folder as the program of course.

crashes for me.

win64, latest granny2.dll

-load TriExporter in administrator mode
-D-click on model
-"TriExporter has stopped working"

Ideas? Might be screwing up somewhere...

I also got it pointed at the correct folder, although the folder for EVE and the folder for TriExporter are on two different 'drives...

I can see everything listed on the left as per normal...

AK