I don't understand any of that OP in any way shape or form.

How much did all that software set you back?

Nothing, he stole it.

Not quite, PoseRay, POV Ray, and TriExporter are all free, Auto CAD and Maya are free to students studying a remotely relevant course)

Not quite, PoseRay, POV Ray, and TriExporter are all free, Auto CAD and Maya are free to students (studying a remotely relevant course)

EDIT: @OP read the .red files, they tell you the exact colours, specular curves etc. used on each ship model, dunno about chars though. There are also many guides on teh interwebs on how to extract models from EVE into 3DS Max, Blender, Maya etc.

EDIT 2: THIS was made using something called 3D Ripper DX, never used it myself, but looks like it might be worth checking out.

Once I have the thing in maya I can handle it from their.

First things first... Learn to differentiate there from their. Come back when you do that and I'll help you with Maya.

Just discovered that despite what google says, .Rpf files CAN NOT be opened with AUTO CAD 2013.

My dreams of having Xenuria meet Max Payne are crushed!
CRUSHED!

We were going to fight crime together!

Well a quick google says that its either Autodesk Combustion or 3ds Max that you want, not AutoCAD (which really is a 2D program rather than 3D)

Well,I tried searching on the topic for quite a bit. It sounds interesting.

This is what I found about the 'rage package file' type : http://openiv.com/frequently-asked-questions

It says in there that they can edit assets from GTA 4, but goes on to say they can edit .rpf files specifically. They quote 3DS as an example but I'm more of a Maya user. I doubt they will release it as public domain or not just yet, anyways. You could try writing to them and ask them if they would be willing.

Cheers.

Nothing, he stole it.

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

BEHOLD!

I seem... to have done something wrong..

Rotation and positioning seem to be perfect.
I assumed that capsule_ngs was a bump map and it turned out I was right.
However the color and wet look of the pod was not working out right. I used the final texture file "capsule_o" as a specular shader and that made it look sorta alright but as you can see its still not right.

I highly doubt he ran into a Best Buy or Fry's and stole a bunch of boxes of software. It's much more likely he pirated it, and pirating is NOT stealing. With stealing there is a loss, with pirating there is no loss (besides the false assumed loss of sale). If I were to steal your car, you are out a car and I got a new car. If I were to pirate your album you still have your album and now I have it as well. Not arguing the morality of pirating here, just saying there's a big difference between theft and piracy. Just saying.

http://wiki.eveuniversity.org/Rendering_EVE_Models_101

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pw18CzYzJvg

Now this is for blender and gimp. make note of the textures structure, the changes are not too drastic from ngs to pgs.


Somehting I did messing with the specular layer of the Drake. Drake with some red

well the most important part of that guide imo is breaking apart the graphics files that CCP has built. Though I am not a CG student so I have no knowledge of Maya as for me it would cost thousands without Piracy... and while I have no issues Pirating, I tend to use Blender since it is free and no fear of a copyright troll lawsuit.

I would actually take the time to READ in the Triexporter thread instead of creating yet another thread begging for someone to do this for you, and then criticizing others for being too lazy to figure it out themselves.

The principles for textures are relatively the same across 3D programs unless you're working with Crysis, UDK, Unity or some other game rendering engine, which you're not.

As said, there are many video guides on youtube, including mine, and while the actual applications vary, the concepts are the same. I plan on updating my 101 series this weekend due to the significant changes introduced in the latest patch to Minmatar ships.

Learn a bit about Maya first and about what the different channels in your material mean, then follow up with trying to get it from EVE into Maya.

I'm a C4D user and while I can't claim to know it all, I know enough to:

A. Ask for help in the right places
B. Try on my own, using many of the guides out there
C. Listen to what others say the first time, in order that they might have half an interest in continuing to help me

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