[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 22 (2020) | Starbase Dev Tracker

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 22, hope you enjoy!

Features

Collection area sizes were adjusted in the Asteroid Mining Job: now the collection area covers the whole collection shaft
Sell terminals were added to new ore storage towers
Station windows were added to the LotBuildingManager as part of the framework which is mandatory to build first
Asteroid Mining Job rewards were increased by 50%
Furnace Design has been worked on, current math calculations have been finished
Anubis has been added to the market and to the economy
Major material price adjustments and related economy design configurations have been made
Design for trade UI changes have been made
Improvements for social menu player invitations (group, company and friends) have been made

Stations

New Kingdom Outpost station has been updated:
- Kingdom’s Spaceship shop -grid slot has been placed
- Vertical bridges rotated to their correct setting
- StationAreaEntity has been resized and centered
- Spaceship Design Workshops’ instance load modes have been corrected
Proving Grounds updated:
- Spaceship Design Workshops’ instance load modes have been corrected
- StationAreaEntity has been resized and centered
“Ore storage tower” has been completed, and several copies have been placed on stations: Capital Imperial (Origin), Empire Outpost and Kingdom Outpost

Spaceship Designer

The number of Main Flight Computers (MFC) is now limited in Spaceship Designer (max 5)
Spaceship Lamps have been finished: 8 colors for each variant

Gameplay

‘Approaching safezone border’ -messages now appear when approaching from either side of the zone, not just from outside
Lot hologram code has been optimized to perform a bit better
A flashlight has been implemented for robots
An option has been added for magnetic boots unseating behavior
Ship recovery system has undergone some changes
Item prediction issue when moving items between inventories has been fixed
Durability now shows everything in yellow when designing a ship that does not yet have a valid frame
Lifeline has been tweaked
Stations now manufacture the intended amounts of items in all cases

User Interface

Lifeline icon now show up only if there are friendly ships within the range
Reward fluctuation system has been implemented
Initial bare-bones version of a screenshot editor has been implemented for the Feedback tool
UI for player trade is in the making

Spaceship Designer

Lot designer blueprints have been hidden from asset browser and open blueprint dialog in the ship designer, and vice versa
A bug that allowed buying invalid ships has been fixed
Forced autosave added before the user opens the open blueprint dialog
Forced autosave added before the user opens a previous autosave stash file

Planets and Moons

Issue with moon surface not counting as a collision when releasing grabbed items has been fixed
Moon surface generation has been updated

Renderer

Animations

Walk stop and crouch stop animations have been polished
Giggle and clap4 emotes are in the making
Emote_sulk has been modified heavily
Emote_yes2 a and b have been updated: 2a got a small modification and up down aimings, 2b got heavily modified
1st person animations have been made for the Pipe Tool

Stations

LODs for Station_hall_b_medium_18 have been updated
LODs for station_modules_trading_market_station_elevator_hall have been updated
LOD/farLOD models of mega_station_slot_37152_command_center_1_a have been updated and new texture maps have been baked and painted

Other

Hall and hallway module icons have been updated in Station Creator, so that they match the actual modules
Remote explosive, remote detonator and explosive pack assets have been added with preliminary textures, and are ready for final texturing and gameplay implementation
Resource Bridge: Vcxel generation improved, so that it accurately aligns with the connection surface
Ore storage tower level art has been finished
Normal maps for snowy asteroid rocks have been adjusted
Sharp XL asteroid rocks have been made
Asset for small control panel speaker and small signal baton have been created
Lifeline icons have been updated