[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 15 (2020)

Week 15 (April 6th – 9th)

Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes!

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Design

Features

• Color palette updated for in-game chat, old colors replaced with new colors that are easier to read.
• Chat colors for leaders in Group and Team chats set to follow same logic as in Company officer chat.
• Faction functions and chat needs design worked on for separate faction and faction officer channels.
• Option to show channel names (long or short) and timestamps (long or short) added.
• Buzzsaw tested, issues detected in the 3rd-person view passed on to be fixed.
• Jobs in Work Hub tested and a configure issue fixed in Assembly Job: now spawned components are despawned when carried outside the hall.

 Spaceships

• New mining ship being build.
• The positions of plates changed in Spatha variants to fix an issue where the ship was not flying straight.

Code

Gameplay

• An initial implementation for recovering ships that were not properly despawned has been added.
• Small fixes in player animation activation and scrap detection/deletion have been made.
• A feedback system for component-specific voxel volume changes has been implemented.
• Buzzsaw only consumes ammo when actually cutting stuff now.
• Buzzsaw’s distance calculation has been improved and audio issues have been fixed.
• Welding Tool now only consumes ammo when welding things.

User Interface

• Issues with item shop amount validation and button styles have been fixed.
• A maximum amount added when buying to station storage.
• Syncing has been added for crates so that other players can see the changes made to the slots correctly.
• A locking system has been added for crates when the slots are being dragged so other players can’t intervene.
• Implementation of the feedback server is underway.

Audio

• Menu entry button sound support has been added.
• Some of the tool button styles with audio support have been added to Spaceship Designer.
• Spaceship Designer window sounds have been plugged in.

Spaceship Designer

• The individual components of multi-component entities can no longer be selected, instead both components are automatically selected, this prevents the user from accidentally separating the components from each other.
• The budget window can now estimate and show the modification price of a ship being edited in the Spaceship Designer.
• A system has been added for preventing the duplication and creation of unallowed objects in the ship creator.
• A bug that allowed the Spaceship Designer UI to stay open when being kicked or banned has been fixed.

Art

Animations

• Buzzsaw’s 1st-person reload animation has been finished.
• Aim animations have been polished.
• Falling and fly animations for Pickaxe (relaxed) are in the making.
• Death animations are in the making.
• Relaxed pistol crouch transition & heavy crouch transition are in the making.
• Crouch transition & heavy crouch transition have been finished.

Other

• New large asteroids have been made, variation added to the clusters.
• More variations of asteroid materials are in the making.
• Multi-material testing and overall material adjustments on big asteroids have been made.
• Maneuver thruster’s misalignment has been fixed.
• Autocannon’s ammo connection angle has been changed to 30 degrees
• Moon rock density tests are underway.
• Exterior decorating and decal bleed fixes on medium halls in the making.
• Asteroid hall farLOD tintmask and color map updated.
• Mega station’s ship showroom farLOD has been finished.

Gallery of the week

Unfortunately, there are no development videos this week. But we did post a new official video on YouTube, so make sure to check that out if you haven’t already! Click here to watch it.

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See you next week!🪐