Release notes here! This one had a lot of under-the-hood work to further the architecture goal of building the “Major” factions (human player, The AI) with mostly the same toolbox used for the “Minor” factions (Dyson, Devourer, Nanocaust, etc). This implicitly makes them all much more moddable and flexible. But the result that stands out…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is an assortment of changes, including another graphics pipeline shift from Chris and some neat stuff from community member BadgerBadger (if you notice a wormhole name glowing red to tell you where a wave is coming from, that’s who to thank). There are also some further efforts to limit shots…
DetailsAs of our upcoming version 0.610, we’re removing the Alloy Shader framework. The above is a tutorial for Blue, our artist, though if any modders who are creating custom models are also using substance painter, this shows you how to set up your setup, too. You can also infer pretty easily how to do combinations…
Details(In case you don’t read our forums or our kickstarter, here’s a link to a recent gameplay video, from before this version’s work) Release notes here! This one is almost all about UI. The meat of it was totally redoing two key parts of the UI: the main ship tooltip, and the pre-game lobby. I’m…
DetailsRelease notes here! Don’t Die Harder, Die Smarter This one goes a long way towards making AIW2’s units much more enthusiastic about their jobs. AI Waves (and Threat in general) now behave in a much more intelligent fashion. Well, except for the enforce-stupid-refusal-to-retreat-for-30-seconds change, which just makes it less annoying. Less annoying to you. Very…
DetailsRelease notes here! This one is about input. Camera input. Chris redid the entire camera system, and now it’s much more configurable in the Settings window (and the code itself is massively moddable). The “Free Look” mode is a major new thing, but the default view is also very different, in response to player feedback…
DetailsRelease notes here! One resounding theme of recent UI feedback is “the upward-expanding pile of buttons at the bottom has got to go”. So for this release we told all the functions in that menu “you ain’t gotta go home, but you can’t stay here”. The result is a general layout of: 1) Passive info…
DetailsThese 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…
DetailsFigured 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…
DetailsRelease 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…
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