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Hunter Creed
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Posted - 2009.10.11 12:53:00 -
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Anyone know of any good skins? Is it even possible? I just don't mean custom paint jobs but full blown skins. Like one that would make the ships and stations in the game look like something from Star Wars or Star Trek. The kind that would essentially remodel the game. Of course this is just a cosmetic thing and would be something only I could see (unless others installed the same one).
One of the things that has bothered me about this game (maybe even the only thing actually) is how ugly the ships look especially the smaller ones. Amarr seems to be the only one that has nice looking ships (IMO) with a couple of Gallente and Caldari. Biggest thing being symmetry and the lack of it.
Thnx
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CrayC
Gallente CrayC Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 12:56:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed Of course this is just a cosmetic thing and would be something only I could see (unless others installed the same one).
Even so, it's not allowed. Go read the EULA 
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Hunter Creed
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:12:00 -
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Read and no violation.
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CrayC
Gallente CrayC Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:19:00 -
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Read it again, more specifically 7.A.2
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Zeek Muaka
Caldari Antares Shipyards Phalanx Alliance
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:23:00 -
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This opens up the possibility for, say, changing the cloak effect to be bright red.
This isn't Star Wars or Star Trek, if you want those, go play Star wars Galaxies or something.
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Hunter Creed
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:31:00 -
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Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 13:35:19 Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 13:33:07 Oh you mean the subcategory of a category that overall states that one person can not use or even be in possession of a program that effects how the game is played and looks to other people. So instead of just a skin that makes a frigate look like an xwing to just me, a program that makes it now looks that way to everyone regardless if they have any program installed on their computer or not. Gotchya.
Quote: changing the cloak effect to be bright red
That would require more than just a skin change. That would require a change in the workings of the game which would be in violation of the above mentioned part of the EULA
Quote: This isn't Star Wars or Star Trek, if you want those, go play Star wars Galaxies or something.
Those were just examples. What I would like to see is just some symmetry and maybe for the ships not to look like a ships wreck while still intact like the Moa for example.
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Tippia
Raddick Explorations Controlled Chaos
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:36:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed Oh you mean the subcategory of a category that overall states that one person can not use or even be in possession of a program that effects how the game is played and looks to other people.
No, just a program that affects how the game looks, period. To or to anyone else does not matter — what matters is that you've modified the client. ——— “If you're not willing to fight for what you have in ≡v≡… you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.” — Karath Piki |

CrayC
Gallente CrayC Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:37:00 -
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Actually, as it states
Quote: 2.You may not use your own or third-party software to modify any content appearing within the Game environment or change how the Game is played.
you are not allowed to modify ANYTHING. Not on your own computer, other than what the game does by itself, and not how it's seen on other peoples computers.
So even if you only modify your gamefiles to show the classic Hello Kitty Kestrel, it's not allowed. That's all there is to it. There's no way around it. So really, don't try to make further futile attempts to get your point through. It's not allowed. 
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CrayC
Gallente CrayC Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 13:47:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed Those were just examples. What I would like to see is just some symmetry and maybe for the ships not to look like a ships wreck while still intact like the Moa for example.
To change that, you would need for either
A) CCP to change their design plans and remodel the ships like they did with Minmatar.
or
B) Find some other game
It really is as simple as that. The Caldari ships are not made to look awesome (some say they do look awesome, I don't get it either ), they are made to be efficient. And most of them are. Besides, if you don't want to look at your racial ships, fly something else. It IS possible, you know 
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Hunter Creed
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Posted - 2009.10.11 14:19:00 -
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Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 14:21:25 Yeah I flew Amarr for a bit. I like energy turrets for the lack of ammo but prefer passive shield tanking. Know of any ships that give 5% energy turret dmg and 5% shield resistance per skill lvl? Suppose I could find a ship that gives 5% shield resistance and some other usable bonus and just put energy turrets on anyway.
However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
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CrayC
Gallente CrayC Inc.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 14:29:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
Lots of ships in this game have that touch of symmetry you request. It may not be the ones you want, but they are in the game...
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Blane Xero
Amarr The Firestorm Cartel
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Posted - 2009.10.11 14:32:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 14:21:25 Yeah I flew Amarr for a bit. I like energy turrets for the lack of ammo but prefer passive shield tanking. Know of any ships that give 5% energy turret dmg and 5% shield resistance per skill lvl? Suppose I could find a ship that gives 5% shield resistance and some other usable bonus and just put energy turrets on anyway.
However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
Nightmare isn't passive, but it is shield tank and LAZORZ. And everyone knows Passive is for Losers.
Also, modifying ANYTHING within the client is against the EULA, it doesn't matter how you interpret it, its a major NO. _____________________________________ Haruhiist since December 2008
Originally by: CCP Fallout :facepalm:
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Nigel Sheldon
Caldari Skaro Mining Reborn
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Posted - 2009.10.11 15:16:00 -
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good try but you fail at trolling 1/10 for effort.
Getting back to your original point, seriously dude if you want your ship to look like something out of a different universe, i suggest you play said game from a different universe. Also why the OCD on ships that are symmetrical? Personaly I like my ship to have an odd look...afterall it¦s space and we don¦t have the same problems with aerodyanmics... 
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Nikita Alterana
Gallente Clearly Compensating
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Posted - 2009.10.11 15:23:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 14:21:25 Yeah I flew Amarr for a bit. I like energy turrets for the lack of ammo but prefer passive shield tanking. Know of any ships that give 5% energy turret dmg and 5% shield resistance per skill lvl? Suppose I could find a ship that gives 5% shield resistance and some other usable bonus and just put energy turrets on anyway.
However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
step 1: buy myrmidon step 2: fit lasers to it step 3: look cool while sucking at everything step 4: stfu nub step 5: ???? Step 6: Profit! __________________________________________________ I was Amarr before they were the FOTM and I'll be Amarr after it! I'm also training Minmatar Capitals! And I eat Lions! |

Jarik Utoni
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Posted - 2009.10.11 18:01:00 -
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Edited by: Jarik Utoni on 11/10/2009 18:02:06
Originally by: Hunter Creed However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
i think just the opposite, Less Symmetry = better look = funner to fly
therefore I fly Minmatar and by extension i see the lovely and beutiful Tempest in my future *drool* 
Edit: Jarik Can't spell
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Lord Bentley
The Syndicates
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Posted - 2009.10.11 20:46:00 -
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Originally by: Jarik Utoni Edited by: Jarik Utoni on 11/10/2009 18:02:06
Originally by: Hunter Creed However, CCP just a little touch of symmetry please!!! It would go a long way.
i think just the opposite, Less Symmetry = better look = funner to fly
therefore I fly Minmatar and by extension i see the lovely and beutiful Tempest in my future *drool* 
Edit: Jarik Can't spell
Sir, your lack of taest absolutely disgust me.
Respectfully,
Lord Bentley The Syndicates
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Some Advisor
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Posted - 2009.10.11 21:08:00 -
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Originally by: Tippia
Originally by: Hunter Creed Oh you mean the subcategory of a category that overall states that one person can not use or even be in possession of a program that effects how the game is played and looks to other people.
No, just a program that affects how the game looks, period. To you, alone, or to anyone else does not matter ù what matters is that you've modified the client.
goonswarm idíots come to mind with their "own version of pictures" to distinguish between friendlys and others by soem color pictures and so.. how is that? greyzone? after all its "just" pictures generated from the client. Inside the file there could be anything ad wont be checked.
so you could put some "goatse" pictures for your most hateful enemys so you can see him right away even in jita docked :p
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Ak'athra J'ador
Amarr Conflagration. Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.10.11 22:49:00 -
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you seem nice and I am drunk so let me help you out
once upon a time it was possible to change the effect of an old fps game on your own client so that invisible targets would look bright red. it was not allowed. and it is also not allowed now by ccp to change anything.
that said, search this forums, and search them well and you will stumble along tools that are able to extract eve files. load them into 3d studio max or other 3d manipulation programs and play with them all night long. you will even find ways to extract eve source code out of the client...but that is besides the point of what you want to do... you just want the graphics...
as proof that it can be done, simply by searching the forums, I give you,
the symmetrical raven and the symmetrical scorp.
you wanted to play with the textures? here are the textures for the scorp
also you seem not to get the basic understanding of what skins, textures, models and so on are...so...do some study on that first...
seeing as how one can decompile, I guess you could change it and compile it back as well, but that is strictly forbidden by ccp...so I advise you not to try...
also, completely symmetrical ships are rare in eve, but after playing for a while, you will realize that is where the beauty of eve comes from. its imperfection...its resemblance to humanity, to reality...
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Hunter Creed
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Posted - 2009.10.11 23:56:00 -
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Edited by: Hunter Creed on 11/10/2009 23:56:46 Well I know next to nothing about programming and although skins isn't really programming (just graphics design) I'm worse at that and since I believe programming is something you can learn while graphic design requires a raw talent, it's something that won't happen anytime soon. I knew cloaking is a change in skin for the person being cloaked (the haze of the ship is still there) but I thought it was an absence of skin for everyone else which renders it invisible....
Quote: the symmetrical raven and the symmetrical scorp.
Now that's what I'm talkin about...
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Ak'athra J'ador
Amarr Conflagration. Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.10.12 00:18:00 -
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its not programming. programming is beautiful. its solving problems...algorithms...puzzles...and once you solve something that has been bugging you for the whole day...its orgasmic...
this however is rather simple. well of course, with respect to the guy who figured it out all out in the first place!
I wrote this a few moths ago, should still work though...
basically its just instructions gathered from these forums on how to do it: (actually I think I posted them here once before...or did I...ah well, here you go. again, just to show you what things you can find by searching these awesome forums) "ok, here is how you do it: you need the following programs:
3d studio max (though i hear blender, maya and so on also works...)
photoshop
the dds addon for photoshop: http://developer.nvidia.com/object/p...s_plugins.html
tri exporter: http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard...269677&page=23
you open tri exporter, find your eve folder. then open res/dx9/models and select whatever you wish.
stuff is named like af1 (for the tier 1 amarr frigate). double click on the gr2 file to load the object. then go under file and export the folder somewhere. then go under files again and export the model, use the .3ds format.
open photoshop, locate the folder you exported, and open the dds file. open the one that ends with _d.dds
go under image/rotate canvas/flip canvas vertical. save the file with a jpg extension
open 3d studio max.
go under file/import and locate the .3ds file you exported. click ok. you will see the model load in the four different views. it is blank however and has no materials...
click the material editor icon (upper right corner, four balls are on the icon).
when the material editor opens, click on the first ball (this is a material). scroll down until you come to the maps tab. open it and under diffuse color click the "none" button. now click the bitmap button and press ok.
find the jpg file you previously flipped and saved in photoshop.
now drag and drop your new material (the ball in the upper left corner) to your model.
click the perspective view (bottom left corner) and rotate until you find a nice angle. in the upper right corner there is an icon with a teapot called quick render. click on it and your model will render. on the left of that icon there is a similar icon called render scene dialog. here you can set different options, like resolution, saving of the file, format and so on...
that's it
NOTE: not all ships can be exported, nyx for example will xrash your triexporter. i think this is it, if you have any other questions please, don't hesitate to ask. again, this is just a sum-up I created browsing through the forums, I didn't make any of the programs. "
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Washell Olivaw
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Posted - 2009.10.12 00:21:00 -
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Originally by: Hunter Creed skins isn't really programming
A skin is the virtual paint on the model. In order to get an x-wing you would need to replace both the model and the skin. Neither action requires programming. Both actions require a modification of game files, which is an EULA no no.
Originally by: Signature Everybody has a photographic memory, some people just don't have film.
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Ak'athra J'ador
Amarr Conflagration. Wildly Inappropriate.
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Posted - 2009.10.12 00:30:00 -
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Originally by: Washell Olivaw
Originally by: Hunter Creed skins isn't really programming
A skin is the virtual paint on the model. In order to get an x-wing you would need to replace both the model and the skin. Neither action requires programming. Both actions require a modification of game files, which is an EULA no no.
yeah what he said. look at the texture of the scorp I posted to get an understanding of what a texture is.
or at how you can modify a texture and then wrap it around the same model and get the same ship with a different paint job. as seen in my sig...
again as he said, you are not allowed to change your game files!
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