[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 10 (2020)

Week 10 (March 2nd –  6th)

Hi everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 10:

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Design

Features

• Three new special ore distribution zones configured: there are now five special zones where ores are distributed with different weights compared to the rest of the universe.
• Marketplace terminals fixed.
• Economy configurations fixed for torpedoes.
• Design for a Spaceship Designer Coloring Tool worked on.
• Spaceship Designer multiplayer issue: removing cable with Cable Tool breaks if client and host is removing cable simultaneously fixed and verified.

 Stations

• Kingdom Headquarter station and Kingdom Outpost Ruins added to the universe.
• Ship and shop terminal issues fixed for Kingdom stations.
• Vertical hallways’ offsetting priority snap points have been fixed.
• Three hall modules’ base structures have been modified to disable any possible collisions with each other (Large hall 2; Ship weapon shop 2 A; Armor shop 1 A).
• Temporary “very-farlods” have been removed from grid slot scenes, and will be replaced if and when needed.

Spaceships

• Issue where Ithaca V4 used up its coolant too quickly was fixed by adding more coolant cells.

Code

Gameplay

• Instancing area visualization disappearing when changing groups has been fixed.
• Ore nuggets are now immune to the mining laser.
• Blueprint code refactoring is underway.
• Entering the game with broken profile (invalid or missing character data) is now prevented.
• Explosion shock waves were fixed to not affect players inside safe zones.
• Player stuck recovery system has been enabled to be active at all times.
• Nearby ship acceleration/deceleration sounds have been added.
• Cargo Frame wall/field was refactored into being supported by the current physics processing.
• SawTool can now target and cut properly.

User Interface

• A bug where material disappeared when dragged to existing stack in inventory has been fixed.
• Netsyncing added for beam effect so that other people can see the effect.
• Company Rank names not changing correctly when player changes them has been fixed.

Audio

• Item pick-up and drop audio support has been implemented-
• Multi-position ambient system fixes have been finished-

Spaceship Designer

• Mining job now correctly gives money from asteroids with cables/bolted things on them, syncing fixed.
• Cell translation not working when jumping more than 1 cell has been fixed.
• Range Finders being active in Spaceship Designer has been fixed.

Planets

• Incorrect moon terrain object visibility fading fixed.

Art

Stations

• Decal tweaks, collision and parent checks, VIS HQ grid slot finalization.
• Farlods, module halls, and mega station gridslot updated.
• Work hub: Signs and adverts made for different work hub jobs.
• Asteroid hall decorations and polishes underway.
• Sub modules and their LODs coloured.
• Skyscraper base modules in the making.
• Commercial boards in the making.
• New windows have been added.
• Farlods added for all shop modules.

Moons and Asteroids

• Alpha moons have been updated.
• Asteroid cluster tests have been made.
• Spherical height maps tests underway.

Animations

• New sign animations made, robot logo and animation adjustments in the making.
• Sit animations for Rocket Launcher and Reaper Cannon have been made.
• 1st person animations for Saw Tool are in the making.
• Jumping and shooting animations have been polished.
• The new LOD distances added for large asteroid rocks and formations.

Other

• Turret Utility Body: Asset redesign that fixes collision has been finished.
• Turret Arm Saw Tool: Concept, assets and textures have been finished.
• Turret Arm Saw Tool: Larger versions of the blade and tool have been made to test how large assets the robot arms can support.
• Tools: Saw textures polished, paintjobs added.
• Devices: Resource bridge hose nozzle textures updated.
• A spark effect for the mining saw has been finalized.
• LODs made for multiple assets, railgun barrel LODs have been optimized.

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week!🪐