Originally by: Kambo

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It's not Vray it's mental ray. You need it for the photo realistic shaders... or in other words the "glow" map for the luminosity map slot. The shader of choice also needs to be able to support that, so you can either go the hard way with a blank mental ray material, or you can take a Raytrace mat. Now raytrace isn't exactly a mental ray material, but the glow map is, and for stuff that's either glowing or transparent... or reflective... it's a great basic shader to start working with.

You use a glow map in the illumination slot of your raytrace. The light map of the ships can be extracted with photoshop from one of the dds files. You use that map to tell where the material should be glowing, its black with some white dots. You stick that map in the glow and surface material slots and use the diffuse color to determine what color's the light. Turn up the brightness to your liking. I'd usually go with around 30.

Also on a final note... if the ship appears to be bright and the map's not fitting right while you're using the DDS files directly in 3ds max, you need to do 2 things. In the bitmap editor you need to disable the image alpha (under Alpha Source select None(Opaque)) and flip the texture 180 degrees, that's in the coordinates tabe the U value needs to be 180 because max reads map coordinates... well... different then maya.

If you still have trouble figuring it out and happen to have a few isk layin around, I'll put up a foolproof tutorial how to do it for some change :)... For the right isk I'll even throw in the shaders and renderer settings that I use in there too :)

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Originally by: Kambo

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Not that I want to sound greedy, but throw in another 100 mil and I'll pimp the guide with some shaders and render settings :).

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Originally by: sedee

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eve ships to 3ds tutorial:

I put this together for myself, someone else may find it useful.

http://www.sudonet.com/?p=64

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Originally by: Sed Man

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Originally by: sedee

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eve ships to 3ds tutorial:

I put this together for myself, someone else may find it useful.

http://www.sudonet.com/?p=64

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Has noone bothered to checkout the tutorial I put togther?
I was going to do the same thing for photoshop for breaking up of the images, then update the 3Ds tutorial with the additional materials.

But if I dont even get a comments............

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Originally by: Sed Man

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Originally by: sedee

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eve ships to 3ds tutorial:

I put this together for myself, someone else may find it useful.

http://www.sudonet.com/?p=64

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Has noone bothered to checkout the tutorial I put togther?
I was going to do the same thing for photoshop for breaking up of the images, then update the 3Ds tutorial with the additional materials.

But if I dont even get a comments............

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Originally by: enterprisePSI

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For an up coming event i want to extract the hulk and the catalyst but i cannot. Every time i try it triexporter crashes. I have tried it on win 7 32bi, 64bit and on win xp sp3 32bit. Any ideas? Or if someone has already extracted them , can give me a hand?

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Originally by: Dayfox

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Now I dont know if im being completely dense, but any T2 or item that requires a mask in the old shader layout is coming out black. the tex_p map is completly void of information, even the dds file is 10x smaller than the tex_d or tex_ngs file... is anyone else getting this, or is anyone able to supply me with a texture that is different?

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Originally by: Xenuria

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Honestly who uses 3ds?

Give me the ability to import this stuff into maya 6.

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Originally by: Xenuria

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Honestly who uses 3ds?

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Originally by: Jozef Zwolski

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How exactly do I import .fx files? I've got maya 2009 and it just says "Unrecognized file type" every time I import. Do I just use the file referenced in the .red or another one?

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CCP Mindstar > Sorry - I've completely messed all that up. lets try again

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Originally by: Raven Tesio

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A few things you will have to skip or just make up, such-as Sun colour and Shadowmap/AmbientOcclusion.
Now you could make a shader to provide these but it does get a little complicated to do that from within Maya itself. Unfortunately given the shaders are compiled I have no way of physically providing a Mental Ray Shader equivilant to allow some high quality rendering, however if you like I can provide a shader material that comes close (atleast with the Scorpion and Primae)

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Originally by: Raven Tesio

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Next thing to do is create a new HLSL Shader Material, this will bring up a screen which asks you to link a file; so link "graphics\effect.fxo\managed\space\ship\alpha_doublefresnelreflectionwithglow.sm_3_0_hi"

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