[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 28 (2020) | Starbase Dev Tracker

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 28:

Features

Repair Job is in the making: a mock up station has been created for build test scenes and blueprint repair has been tested
Laser idle ammo has been added to economy and crafting data
Some economy fixes and configs have been made
Rangefinder asset collision tests have been made
Assembly Job’s instruction terminal issues have been fixed. All the terminals are now static and indestructible again
Refuel terminal’s UI design has been finished
Demolition Job has been tested
Material and blueprint tabs’ designs are in the making for the Universal Tool
Asteroids maximum loading amount has been reduced from 10 to 2 to improve performance in the belt. Only 2 asteroids are fully loaded at the time, other asteroids remain LODs

User Interface

Cash Shop design is in the making: layout has been reworked and some mock ups have been created

Stations

The disposal shaft in Ship Demolish hall has been updated to look like a large shaft instead of multiple single ones
The broken take-off terminals in the Command Center have been fixed
Ore storage towers’ resource bridge connection should now be synced with other players / group members

Gameplay

An issue where rangefinders reported zero distance in some ship setups has been fixed
Building hologram outline has been added to the options menu
Issues with the player character animation direction have been fixed
Ship blueprints can now be made visible on spawned ships and the blueprint can be repaired using the Building Tool

User Interface

All items are now stackable
Double-clicking items now sends them first to equipment, then to station inventory
An issue with Resource Bridge’s device fields affecting mining backpack’s normal slots has been fixed
Animation context activation has been added for the Resource Bridge emote
‘Invite received’ signal has been added to FriendClient, so that the invite could be added to chat
An issue that prevented the player from picking up ore nuggets with the ‘P’ key has been fixed
Ores can now be picked up to the large bag slots

Spaceship Designer

Module library’s first version has been committed. Deleting/renaming folders and deleting module parts works now
Layer control buttons have been added for pipes and cables
Paint tool part selection optimization is underway
Colour update syncing has been added to the component colouring action
Maximum brush size and plane depth have been reduced to (at least temporarily) decrease the amount of network traffic caused by the new syncing

Animations and Emotes

Stations

FarLOD texture maps of the Spaceship Shop have been updated
New farLOD has been added for the Empire and Kingdom versions of the Spaceship Shop
FarLOD model and texture maps of the Ship Demolish Hall have been updated
Lot Designer thumbnails have been updated to hall modules: Small 5; Medium 1-3, 5, 7-8, 14, 18; Large 4, 9
Small Hall 10 has been added to Lot Designer. (Small Hall 9 has also been created, but due to categorizing issues, is still being worked on.)
Hologram and sign LODs have been updated to work with various distances, but are not yet fully implemented

Weapons

Antigel Rifle, Autocannon and Rail Gun Turret have had updates on their muzzle flash
Texture issues and some commit errors with Minigun have been fixed
Laser Rifle, Bolter and Revolver effects have been updated
Gauss Rifle VFX (muzzle/trails) and Long Rifle (hit effect) have been updated
The common hit_12mm effect now has some additional extra longer lasting sparks
Minor tweaks have been made to Resolver’s muzzle
Updated inventory icons have been made for Antigel, Battle rifle and Gauss Rifle
Mounted weapon and autocannon WIP textures have been added and the blue default weapon tintcolor has been enabled

Other

The wrongly assembled plasma cannons in the ship weapon shop in the Marketplace that had a mix of plasma and laser parts have been fixed
Asteroid LODs have been optimized to have more LOD levels
Medium sized asteroids have gained some few clusters and have been adjusted visual