[chief1983]

My friend Matt (Nu11u5 on here) also took a stab at importing EVE models into FreeSpace.  I'm going to have to point this out to him.

[Vengence]

Well with this exporter it isn't really that hard... in fact much of what FS2 needs and can use to the fullest is already right there. Only thing that needs changed is the normal map's channels. Alpha goes to green, green goes to alpha then invert them. Window glows are there, reflection maps, etc. Unfortunately CCP uses annoying coded in shaders to apply certain effects. For instance, all Amarr ships are an ugly shade of brown default, so they need tweaking to look like the game couterpart. Similarly Gallente ships are a drab green and gray without proper modifying. So it isn't a simple drag and drop deal, it requires a good bit of time in photoshop to get things right. Hell for the Abaddon I had to use 3D Studio Max's Render to Texture tool to render out the Abaddon's dark and gold colors since I couldn't do it otherwise.

[starlord]

Might you plan on importing any other ships from EVE?

[Vengence]

Maybe on demand. What DO you want?

[Dragon]

Not ships, but I could use a couple of new missiles.
They also may be less recognizable than EVE ships, making them generally usefull, not to mention faster to convert due to small size.

[Hades]

I'd kinda like to see a Tengu, I can even get the subsystem layout I'd like to see if you want, Vengence, since I've been playing EVE pretty regularly recently. Or the Amar Titan.

Also I imagine this is a dumb question, but do you play EVE as well, Vengence?

[Vengence]

My subscription ended in early March. I've given up EVE for now, too much stress considering our corp can hardly survive. An alliance that brought us in pretty much betrayed us and leaving us to fend for ourselves in 0.0, effing jerks and the Goon's stole our assets including a station and two carriers. That and the constant wars with griefer corps. All in all I am a humble 12 million SP Gallente Capsuleer with only a kickass looking Proteus that is pretty much all looks and no bite and just a handful of ISK  . Plenty of ammo though.



So yeah, I'm happy I have a kickass ship in EVE, but at the same time very angry that I had to give up virtually everything I had to keep the corp alive. Including a 500 million isk Raven Navy Issue.

With that out of the way, I can do almost anything you need cept for one thing. See those ships with the odd camouflage? 60% chance I probably can't do that. As I said CCP uses a freaky sort of shader system to change the appearance of their textures. The newer models take this even further by having different MATERIALS on the same shader all at once. Freespace 2 cannot perform that so it will be difficult emulating new ships.

So, bleh what a rant, Hades, I can do a Tengu if you wish. I would like to warn you that T3 ships are kind of annoying to do cause I have to perform the same repetitive tasks I do on textures x5  . Not hard and if I'm lucky the caldari are easy to work with.

Oh another thing... I may have been playing EVE since 2008 but I haven't seen or flown every single ship out there. For an example, I have no idea where the capital turrets on Titans are located at.

[Hades]

Oh I see, what bad luck. At least you still have the Proteus and 12 mil, that's not too bad, you could run missions until you get enough money to start again decently, if you ever play again that is, and if you do, my character's name is HLPHades so throw me an EVE mail and whatnot and I'll help best to my ability!

On the Tengu, lemme get in-game and set up the config and I'll edit or post it here, thanks for considering it! As for the Titan, fair enough, I have no idea where the guns are either.

[Vengence]

Haha well I have to actually get the money first and anbition  , we shall see. The Proteus is a dream to fly. It can tank 3x better than my old Hyperion and its railguns can do as much DPS as battleship Ion Blasters... and 30km range too! So missioning won't be a prob . Oh and yes if you have turrets be sure to show it in a screenshot. Example the Legion. I could see where a few turrets are but not all of them and I KNOW I am missing turrets.

[Hades]

I don't actually have a Tengu, I'm too poor and don't have enough skills for one yet. I am close in terms of skills, though, in terms of money, however? Fuuuuuck no!

As for the parts, here: Tengu Defensive: Warfare Processor, Tengu Electronics: Dissolution Sequencer, Tengu Offensive: Rifling Launcher Pattern, Tengu Propulsion: Gravitational Capacitor, and Tengu Enginering: Power Core Multiplier.

Also in that case, think you could help ME with missions? I've been wanting to do some level fours for a while, just never had the rep to do them. That is if you get to playing again. >_>

[Vengence]

I've recently failed a Faction mission and my rep tanked. I'll have to do a lot of work to get it back up and only low level L4s work now. But yeah I could help in that regard when I get back to playing someday.

Oh from memory, against Serpentis (Thermal Kinetic) my Proteus can tank 1200DPS compared to the 800 for my Hyperion. My proteus, last I checked, can do 450DPS of damage and the Hyperion did 480. You can see where this goes  . T3 ships are.... tough. Sadly if I do some work in this EVE mod I'm gonna have to really pump up their power cause my Legion in FS2 got vaped fast  .