EVE models in Freelancer

[El_Stupido]

Wanted to share some knowlegde of models and Freelancer and i was bored on this saturday. Not sure if anybody did this before, but i have it working now An example, the Amar Armargeddon in Freelancer.

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This is an ship with a polygoncount of 3200. As you see, the ship looks like it can need a wash. Most ships are around that count (except the titans, there are around 10.000-25.000). I’ve extracted the ship to 3ds max, then to milkshape and then to cmp :). The maps are done with uv mapping. It also contains shaders, alltough didn’t had atm the idea to get them out of the EVE game data. The things which you can extract are atm:
1. Station model incl texture
2. Ship model incl texture
3. Weapon model incl texture
4. Music

[Stormblast]

Those links aren’t working.

[El_Stupido]

They aren’t? They are working here. Do you get a timeout or the error that the link doesn’t excist?

UPDATE: i’ve uploaded them in the gallery of starport Links are:

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[Why485]

That’s very, very cool. Suddenly I want to attempt EVE engines again. I made an old attempt after I added the EVE lights to the torpedo effects. I did not get too far though due to the complexity of doing it.

[Bejaymac]

Been there, seen it, done it  

LINKY

A word of warning though, the ppl behind EVE protect thier copyrights, so expect to get hit with legal documents if you release a mod with thier models in it.

[cheeseontoast]

Altho its perfectly acceptable to draw inspiration from the EVE models to make ones “similar” to it

[Bejaymac]

make ones “similar” to it

MAKE being the important part here, built from scratch is fine, but using any part of thier mesh or texture can still cause you grief.

[StarTrader]

Wot, like a sphere or cylinder you mean?

Or maybe a single Face? Edge? Maybe a Vertex?

Surely IBM must have patented those before EVE existed…

Nuts, I forgot to patent the wheel last time I re-invented it!

Just kidding, its 05: something and uh… well, you know my typical response to this kind of warning…

G’night all.

[StarTrader]

Just a thought…

Is it OK to load in a model in a modelling proggie and make your own primitives and stretch them over the groups to get a similar shape, and then delete the original groups you imported?

Uhh… oh and make your own textures though, of course?

How about fishes? Fish-shaped ships? My idea! Ah drat, God already made them! Nuts.

Aha! Now I understand why the vanilla FL ships are so darned UGLY! They have to be, to be original, 'cos all the nice shaped ships anyone could possibly design already belong to someone!

Still grumbly.

[Wolfie]

oh lol…show us the drake (caldari battlecruiser) then

[StarTrader]

Heheheh…

Glad my post is being taken with humour, as it was meant, don’t want anyone getting upset again!