I like trees ( 27.02.2025)

Hello everyone, welcome to dev diary, unlike other dev diares this one will be more of, season recap with a little treat in the end.

Why trees ?

By trees I mean research tree ofc. What is currently in mod is culmination of 2 years, spent on modding. But, that was not always the case. First two Ui's had nothing to do with tree, but research, that is other case.

My first ever UI done

This UI never made to first version of mod back when, there were 3 modules. It was my first step, towards hell I am today : a UI hell.

UI that made to the first version of mod is that one below

First ever published research UI

Ofc, my second attempt was to make an actual tech tree, but given back then my lack of resources for artists, and my total lack of experience, the best what could be done was this:

At least now there is tree!

Now that we finally have something, that barely resembles tree, its time to polish it a bit. With each UI showcased here, I always thought I did a good job, but when I am writing this right now, compared to what I am currently doing, I do see huge difference between what is now, and what was before.

Now we are talking, not the best but not bad!

This was UI, that I was truly for first time proud of. Even looking now at it, I still think it was decent, not best but decent.

And now here we are : 2 years have passed, yes exactly those images you just saw, are timelapse of 2 years, since I started modding.

What is purpose of this diary?

This diary serves here as i said , a quick season recap, of course I have not mentioned entire AoTD timeline here, from Vaults of Knowledge, to Seats of Power, to projects like Orion Sector. I choose research tree, because this is the thing I always wanted to do in starsector.

Thank you all

Thank you all for sticking with me for over 2 years now. It was amazing journey and now its time , to start season 3, with kick!

Prelude to VOK 4.0 : 3rd Overhaul of Research Tree

And yes, we started with lack of tree, now we will finish with a "cultivated one ". For past few days I have been working on third rework of tech tree. And here we are, third iteration!

New tech tree!

And down here : a small showcase of how tech tree "works"

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I hope you will like the new design and that is it for this dev diary, next one will talk about new technologies and small insight into upcoming patrol fleet rework.