March 22nd, 2017 – Notes for Cinth (or modders!) on how to use the new functionality in our custom LOD system that allows for you to compensate for bad anchor points in models (meshes). You can always update the mesh itself, or now you can do this too.
March 21st, 2017 – Detailed notes for Cinth (or modders!) on using the custom IBL shaders that we’re now transitioning the ships in the game to using. The visual look evolves!
Pics lower down. 🙂 The Problem I Wanted To Solve One of the frustrations I’ve had with the ship graphics in AI War 2 is that it’s hard to make sure that they’re both vibrant AND nicely reactive to the environmental colors and similar while being so hugely restricted in terms of how many truly-PBR…
This video is directed at external modders, for whom we’ve now set up a unity project that comes with the game and which makes it easy for you to add your own ships, models, sounds, visual effects, and more. This does NOT cover code additions or changes, and data changes like balance statistics, etc. Those…
March 7th, 2017 – Quick notes for Cinth (or modders!) on importing models and then getting them properly combined and atlased. Unfortunately if you want to use the same tools that we are for the atlasing and the combining, you’ll have to purchase licenses for those for yourself. But there are tools in Blender and…
We’ve been using repositoryhosting.com for years (since 2011 I think), and I can count the number of times they’ve had downtime on one hand…ish. But today, the day after our alpha starts… naturally we get this: Keith notes: “I’m particularly fond of We have now repaired the ability to update the service health dashboard.” From…
Cinth has been complaining about the neon signs that are the main icon colors for some time now, and many others have also brought it up. Just haven’t gotten around to it yet, until today, since he kind of prompted me to do some more work with it. Ultimately he wound up making a goodly…
Last time I fired up AI War 2 on my Mac, which is a pretty outdated machine with a really really bad GPU, the results were pretty bad. I wasn’t really surprised, because I was running it with all the settings turned up, and the music was throwing errors a bunch, and I knew it could…
That’s pretty frustrating. It’s not a dealbreaker, because for truly isolated things (music and sound effects, for instance), I can just make yet more unity projects. But this means that in order to have some platform-agnostic asset bundles for music and sound separately from everything else, I now have to have FOUR unity projects for…
I don’t think he’ll mind if I share these tidbits from his victories. All of the below is written by him: Commit Notes – moved main sim execution to separate thread- moved most of the “ui reading the current gamestate” stuff to that thread too – moved the generation of sync data to that thread…
