This is your UI/UX Artist Paul. I've been touching up the visuals on the Config Screen, which we've just seen from our coder Matt. Without further ado, here are a couple of preview screens:

Extrapolating from the blue glass text field motiff, a simple recolor was a nice way to make umbrella categ…

Not an exciting update but still an important step.  Currently changing the low poly shape as the high poly version strayed away. This allows for a better texture bake. Next update will be 1000 times more exciting and colorful! 

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The Navigation/RTS screen is shaping up. Here is an example of building a reactor building. It's a much nicer interface for laying out a city than sitting inside your ship. This is also a good way of ordering fleets around at once.

Which also leads into fleet support now in multiplayer. Wh…

Hi all. This is your UI/UX Artist Paul here. This week I have a smaller delivery, but nonetheless a very important tool given Rank: Warmaster's nature. And those are the Controls for the Asset Screen. 

A minor tidbit of a graphical element set, but paralyzing to be without. In any game you have to…

Welcome to our new research screen. You can't conquer the solar system efficiently if you can't upgrade your equipment, so this screen will allow you to research new technology and items based off of tech you already have or based off of items you've salvaged or liberated from your rivals. One fea…

Progress update for the ship. High poly sculpt is currently being done in Zbrush. 

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A lot more work has been done on the single player, in this case, the not so well hidden navigation screen.  This allows a point and click means of controlling your ships and fleet.  While it has been limping along for a while, much of it's functionality required some fixing of some fundementa…

This is your UI/UX Artist Paul and tonight I have two updates. First, I've been working on making text backdrops. Second, I've begun modernizing the Research Screen!

We've had window art for a while now, as evidenced by the variety of screenshots shown already. What we've been needing however were …

In Paul's last post (UI/UX Artist: The Asset Screen Comes Together) , he showed some new asset screen art. Here's some of that same art in what's turning out to be the finalized version of the asset screen. All of the new bars are now in the game. All of the icons have tooltips, so players can see…

After deciding on a concept sihouette from my last post, I created sketch rotations. The low poly modeling comes next and is being created in Blender.

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While a lot of behind the scenes code has been updated, the more obvious front facing code is the fleet command interface in the Sim screen.   With this, this allows the player to give quick commands to their own forces, while still piloting their own ship.  Even something as simple as attack my …

Hi all. This is your UI/UX Artist Paul. I'm proud to say that the Asset Screen is coming together nicely!

First is the Corporation Bar. This is more or less your "View Totals" header. This allows the player to view the overall standing of all of one's assets in one place: all personnel, instal…

It's been a very busy couple of weeks here at LBPS Inc. Most of what I've been working on is now being tested, refined, and wrapped up. The flight sim tutorial is up and running and being tested; you can see a screenshot of that tutorial, and the Warmaster character who guides you through it, abov…

New ships will soon be coming to the game. Here's a glimpse of my concept process. Some are created wtih sihouettes or pen. I'm still a bit old school and like drawing theses concepts on paper. Using pen also allows "happy mistakes" and create shapes or lines I may not have created with pencil or…

As GDC approaches (now canceled it seems as of earlier tonight...But we are still going!), the push is to get the single player fully running by mid-March, which has unfortunately delayed the livesteams as we push for getting everything done in time.  (Sorry about that).  As shown in the pictures…

Hi all. This is your UI/UX Artist Paul. This week I have finer details to show for the Asset Screen. Specifically, the Installation Bar. 

The Installation Bar is an overview of all the player's total "immobile" possessions and assets. Things like buildings, cities, mining sites, power plants, fac…

The clock is ticking down to our visit to GDC and Game Connection in mid-March, which means it's time to finish things like our tutorials, which are written in our custom scripting language, as you can see above. Rank: Warmaster is completely moddable out of the box. Want to create your own quests…

Sharing this week are a  few pitch deck and concept images. The last image is how the builder bot scene was created in Blender, my prefered 3d program.

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The current push is to get the single player running by mid-March for the GDC/Game Conection demo.  So the idea is to start from the beginning of the player's journey and make sure all the pieces are in place to go all the way through the main game loop.  So that journey of course, starts on t…

Hello all. This is your UI/UX designer Paul here. For this week I have the newest, most zeroed-in "look" of the Asset Screen!

My last post showed the experimentation phase. Now the style is coming together. To make each bar holding the player's assets pop and self-distinguish, a gradient matching…

Every video game needs controls: "OK" or "Cancel" buttons, dropdown or popup menus for selecting from a list of options, scroll bars, and so forth. In the image above we can see a popup menu in action, allowing us to select a rank for one of our AIs. Since we're using a completely custom game engi…

Here are 2 images of the banner you can see in the future at shows we attend. 

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Hi everyone! This is your UI/UX Artist Paul. It's been a while since I posted, so without further ado, here's the update! 

As mdcode, one of our programmers, has introduced, the Asset Screen is the digital ledger where all of the player's assets from personnel to ships to cities are displayed with…

While not finished being cleaned up, the shipbuilder, one of the foundational pieces of the game has gotten the "screen maker" overhaul.  Which means the interface is far far easier to create and make alterations than before, which was by hand.  While the UI/UX interfaces originally were al…

Here are the current actoins of The Warmaster with the medals. Created in Clip Studio

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It's true, you can't smite your enemies without ships. To build ships in Rank: WarMaster, you'll need some factories, and to access your factories, you'll need the factory screen.

The factory screen will let you select factories by planet and installation and build ships by simply dragging and d…

Modulation (changing the key of a song, or changing where the "home" note is) is a technique used in many, many forms of music. Some musicals go up a half-step every 8 bars, some pieces have the same harmony for hours on end. The particular kind of modulation that I did in this next clip is not v…

Happy belated Holidays to everyone.  While I wish I had more to show, between holidays killing a lot of progress, and going and preparing for MAGfest, I don't have screen shots to show.  However, there has been a lot of background updates.  Screen Maker, which is the tool we created to more easily …

More progress work of the Warmaster. Pose titles are "think" and "idea".

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As of this week, Rank: WarMaster is running entirely off of our custom file package format, the gwob. This means that any image or sound file the game needs, it now reads out of dedicated single master file. For example, all sound effects now come from a file called, appropriately, "Sound Effects.…