These ships are painted by Blue using Substance painter — well, overpainted by Blue. These were ships that she had previously painted in photoshop directly in a cel-shaded fashion, and which now she’s overpainting to give it a mixed realistic look. It’s worth bearing in mind a couple of things: These are screenshots from Substance…
Figured I’d cross-post this new batch: The above is a tutorial for Cinth on how to get things ready for Blue to do her painting in Substance Painter. It doesn’t handle the old-style of very-high LODs for us yet, but it gets all the rest of it. The above is a video for Cinth on…
Release notes here! This one focuses on the UI, but there’s a lot of other stuff too. On the UI front: 1) The “Let’s make a better sidebar” experiment has been abandoned, beaten unconscious, and fed to the Devourer Golem. In some order. – Now we have a sidebar very much more like the original…
No actual painting takes place in the first video. Instead we go through mesh simplification, examining the mesh, sizing things up, and generally getting things prepared so that we can just sit down and paint in the next video. The second video shows the first of the 11 custom Arks that kickstarter backers commissioned for…
Recently I showed how the graphics have evolved in the game via switching the materials to be more PBR-based (overpainting our cel-shaded visuals to augment them via Substance Painter). At any rate, one of the things that was bothering me was the drop in quality between Substance Painter’s view of things and the view of…
Release notes here! This one is mostly cleaning up various issues that have been highlighted since we made Alpha 0.600 available to all backers (well, as many as we had steam-keys for, sorry about the delay while we get more from Valve). But one very visible change is another revision to the art style to…
Chris here! Wanted to run something by folks. Hopefully you can click on that and get the fully zoomed-in full-quality version. If not, here is a link to a version that will definitely be full size. In case that (tiny, tiny) text at the bottom is hard to read, here’s what it says: Note that this…
Release notes here! This one is the first version available to our kickstarter backers as a whole, instead of just the earlier testing groups. The game is still very much in testing and development, however 🙂 That said, there’s one new key piece: an in-game tutorial, and the engine which makes more of those possible.…
Release notes here! Before this release, the GUI was really ugly. After this release, the GUI is still really ugly. But now it’s a lot better organized! 🙂 Main Menu Before: Main Menu After: Game Setup Menu Before: Game Setup Menu After: In-Game Display Before: In-Game Display (note the top bar, especially) After: More to…
Release notes here! This one is all about new AI Types and being able to choose between them in the Lobby. There’s some neat new personalities in there (I’m especially fond of “Brawler”, but I always did love the Burlusts), but the more important thing is all the framework necessary to have different factions have…
