[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 34 (2020)

Week 34 (August 17th -21st)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 34:

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Design

Features

• Design for the remote explosives has been finished and is now being implemented
• Design for mining laser changes is underway
• First version of the Ore Collector design has been finished and is now being implemented
• Design for “Transfer all”-feature for all connected containers in mining backpack has been worked on
• Progression design for Demolition Job has been finished
• Cutting Tool has been added to Demolition Job
• New shipwrecks have been added for Demolition Job: Carrier and Vasama Vanette
• “Total mass” text in Universal Tool material tab has been changed to “Total volume”
• New asteroid belt tech has been tested
• Economy configurations and fixes have been made: tool, weapon and ammo prices have been adjusted

User Interface

• The ship detail/info page is being worked on, “Hauling request screen” is in the works

Stations

• Starting station’s layout has been changed
• Workhub update is in progress
  • Hall created for the upcoming Repair Job
  • Grid slot layout has been changed. Waiting for level art and LOD update.
• Shop signs have been updated
  • The legacy name “Market station” has been changed to “Marketplace”
  • The legacy name “Showroom” has been replaced with the spaceship shop’s logo
• OKIM Industries’ spaceship shop has been updated
  • Magnus and Moonfish have been added. NOTE: These ships will spawn in the rotation they’ve been built, but that will be fixed.
  • Shop terminals have been moved in front of the ships for better visibility

Other

• Triangle thruster extension/Booster design is in progress

Code

Gameplay

• Refuel base logic implementation underway
• A bug fixed that occasionally caused the player to drift away after sitting down on a chair
• Torque deadzone adaptation adjusted further; especially poorly maneuvering ships should be able to fly straight better
• Angular changes (damping, practically) are now applied to moving ships
• Pieces split from a larger moving one start with a matching velocity
• Pricing support added for items that are made of materials other than their default material
• When despawning ships with cargo frames the cargo will be put into station storage if possible

User Interface

•  Some bug fixes:
  • Social menu Context menu duplicates when right-clicking in the “quick access”-area has been fixed
  • Quickbar assert when there is no quickbar data saved has been fixed
  • Modular armor slot double click / dragging not setting item to slot has been fixed
  • Ammo being removed when item is dragged to equipment slot has been fixed
  • Modular armor slots color appearing wrong has been fixed
  • Dragging armor pieces to some modular slots failure has been fixed
  • Item type without inventory entry not loading into the quickbar upon login has been fixed

Spaceship Designer

• The overlap test to detect overlapping objects that were bolted/welded together has been improved
• The default Multi-user Undo System action history size has been set to 100
• Settings menu options for configuring Multi-user Undo System history size have been added
• A bug that caused the Spaceship Designer settings to only apply to the current Spaceship Designer editor has been fixed

Art

Animations and Emotes

• 1st person animations polished for: Long rifle
• Work on remote explosive animations resumed
• Rummage animations polish has been worked on

Stations/Lot Designer

• Legacy station assets are being removed, which temporarily affects the visuality of station structures
• Rando player spaceship shop logo has been updated
• Hologram LODs have been created for the player spaceship shops
• OKIM Industries’ spaceship shop logo sign holograms added to help players more easily identify entrances to the shop
• Sunny Ship Center and Marketplace holograms have been changed
• A mesh for the new Rando logo has been created

Weapons

• Auto Cannon VFX has been updated
• FX offset issue in Buzzsaw has been fixed

Other

• New large asteroid cluster settings have been tested in-game
• Assets for the Explosive Drill have been added
• Battalion armorset textures have been added
• Updated mining backpack texturing is in progress
• Various UI assets worked on:
  • Camera overlay for taking screenshots
  • Quickbar on/off toggle buttons
  • Tooltip storage size requirement icons

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week!🪐