Posted - 2007.01.06 23:01:00 - [1]

 

There comes a time when everyone has to do the dreaded, the terrible task of cleaning out their cache folders. Thousands of chatlogs, even more gamelogs, portraits and strange files that only the devs have ebil icelandic insights into.

One folder is commonly overlooked. The Screenshots folder.

I have 4 Eve Clients stored on one of my hard disks at present, and while cleaning out the cache on them to solve a connection problem I noticed something about Eve.

It's graphics engine might be almost a decade old, but god damn, it's still good looking. So, I decided to put our corp gallery on our site to good use... (thanks griefwatch )

Two of the screenshots on there, the Enyo shadowed by a planet and it's moon, and the two planet eclipse causing a cresent effect, were not taken by myself. These were taken from a folder on my hard disk and added to the stack of uploaded files, the rest are shots from my HUD over the time I've spent in Eve charting gameplay dating back to 2003 and touching most of the regions in Eve.

I've been enjoying doing a bit of photography in game with some of the new ships too, they are also in there.

I never really noticed how well the engine works until now. Most take it for granted, and I was surprised at how good Eve can look, even with what is effectively a dinosaur for a graphics engine.

Take a look at the gallery, hopefully people will like it, and if there is a positive response I'll continue to make it grow.

I've branded the images with our corp logo for the site, but if anyone would like a copy of any of them simply eve-mail me a link to the image in game, and I'll host it and send you back a link without the logo, if I still have the original.

Roll on Trinity. Whoever designed the current engine needs a payrise, to be honest.