[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 20 (2020) | Starbase Dev Tracker

Week 20 (May 11th – 15th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 20, hope you enjoy!

Design

Features

Mining job rewards have been increased by 50%, also outer materials will get higher rewards from the Collecting Area and inner materials will get higher rewards from the small Collector
The mining job collectors effective area has been increased: ore nuggets are now collected more efficiently from the workstation area
Spawn area markings added to Asteroid Mining Job workshops where asteroids spawns; this helps in multiplayer to identify area where players should not stand when spawning new asteroids
Modular Ore Cargo Crate inventory slot size was changed from 1×1 to 2×2, it can now be placed only to large slots
New instructions screen were added to Mining Job and the lua files have been configured
Economy configurations made for stations turning ore into refined materials
Empire Outpost trade value was adjusted: some ores are now less valuable
Two new armor sets were added to the economy
Design worked on for recovery/towing feature improvements
Design for device connection (plug/cable/pipe) highlights were updated: Universal tool designs have been updated, combining them with new Spaceship Designer design
Design for company tax system worked on
Trade window design for ships is underway
Notification improvements worked on for group, company and friend requests
Different trading options have been worked on (player-player, player-company and public trading/auctions)
Socket tool (Socket accidental removal issues): Sockets can’t be no longer collected, if there is cable, pipe or device (hybrid button etc.) connected to the socket; Also bolted socket can’t be collected

Stations

Lot Designer’s Asset Browser has been updated: Folder and module names have been changed to be more easy to understand, Small hall modules have been added to the “Halls” folder, Everything is now in size- and type-based order; Bug in the alphabetical order code has been fixed
“Small hall 7” has been changed into “Medium Hall 17”

Spaceships

Spaceship modules and tutorial ship updated: Propellant tank supports have now pipe ports open by default
Hauler, Carrier and Tugger have been added to the list of premade ships in Spaceship Designer
Anubis has been reworked with new c*ckpit, durability fixes and new panels

Code

Gameplay

An issue where building lamps was not possible in lots has been fixed. Lamps also now light the environment as designed
Device fields disappearing from the Universal tool if their names are set to nothing has been fixed
Welding Tool is now being able to build unbuildable holograms in lots
Lot building progress is now module-by-module in lots, starting from the lot doorway: i.e. modules not connected to a doorway through a module with a complete framework cannot be built until a connection is established
MFC IDs should no longer run out
Despawning a ship with active thrusters no longer produces an exhausts related assert
Durability testing colors have been improved, including yellow highlight for otherwise valid beams that are not parts of an existing frame
Durability has been modified to accept beam connections in 15-degree steps when considering validity for the frame
Small errors in ship prices shown to client have been fixed
Container code has been updated (a typo caused ores to get lost in some specific situations)
An issue where LODs were not showing for specific derelict ships has been fixed
Ship recovery feature is underway
Ships can no longer be collected when they are bolted to an asteroid
Sockets can no longer be removed if they are attached to pipes, cables, buttons, or if something is bolted to it
Newly built missiles should now lock properly

User Interface

Resource bridge getting stuck when despawning the ship while connected has been fixed
Mouse hovering not working in mining backpack UI when scrolling has been fixed
An issue with cargo crates being “inside” cargo crates has been fixed
Issues with adding Cargo crates to station storage and dropping them out from it (with and without ore) have been fixed
Crate slots not working correctly when scrolling the UI has been fixed.
Ore crate becoming unusable if an ore crate is disconnected while ore is being dragged has been fixed
A more convenient way for developers to read bug reports from the Feedback tool is being implemented

Audio

Audio support has been added to Cable Tool and Pipe Tool
Spaceship Designer’s object manipulation sounds and button release sounds have been plugged in
Support has been added for Spaceship Designer’s asset browser search field and visibility/lock buttons
Music system is now prevented from entering battle state when ship received damage from a player inside

Spaceship Designer

“Exit without saving” button has been added to the File menu
Pressing “File” / “New” now autosaves to a blueprint before resetting the scene
Pressing “File” / “Save Blueprint and Buy Custom Ship” will now properly save, buy and exit instead of just saving on the first attempt
Saving and save prompts are now prevented when nothing has changed in the scene since the last save
Player movement bounds have been added. If the player reaches the 50 km movement bounds border they get a message that recommends turning back
Better placeholder stringification of timestamps added to blueprints in the object browser
Unnecessary lot designer error spam has been reduced
Assert on failed action redo has been fixed
An issue where open scene parameters reset on test mode visit has been fixed
MUUS memory usage on actions that get sent over network has been optimized
Spaceship Designer now uses 64 bit floats for transformation operations
Color settings have been added for My Selection and other selection highlights
Default options not reloading if the user has an options file from a future build has been fixed
An issue where modules were not sorted correctly in lot editor has been fixed
Custom color index feature has been added to menu label pairs in SpaceTooltip
Colorisation has been added to the paint info tooltip text based on paint usage level
Tool switch has been added to SSCPlacement when an object is picked and paint tool is active, resetting active tool to select-tool

Planets and Moons

Player surface movement glitching on steep moon hills has been fixed
Assert in editor has been fixed when warping to a moon that isn’t the first one due to mismanagement on shared terrain object collision generation tasks

Art

Animations

New animation has been made for unarmed stand idle: all related animations have been updated to match the new pose (emotes, transitions etc.)
Emote_cough has been polished, emote_thumbs2 up down aim animations have been finished and configured
Run stop animations (rifle) have been polished

Stations

Final exterior decoration updates done for medium-sized hall modules
Work hub assembly hall decoration updated
Various decorative station assets with broken automated LODs have been manually fixed

Other

UI: material icons updated to 2x size
UI: inventory category icons updated to 2x size
Level of detail (LOD) models have been created for the player drone base model
LOD optimization for moon rocks is in the making
Some moon related bugs have been fixed
Two new colored armorset combinations have been added to shops (Wedge and Trooper)
Snow material has undergone some fixes and ice material has been created
Parts for Starsol and Seneschal visuals in-game ad concepts are in the making