[2021] Starbase Progress Notes: Week 12 (2021)

**Week 12 (March 22nd – 26th)**

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of week 12 of 2021!

Please note that the “Progress Notes” are different from the Starbase Alpha “Patch Notes”. Progress Notes are snippets from the development team and what has been worked on during the previous week, and many of the features might not be present in the current or upcoming builds of the Closed Alpha. Some features, especially in the design portion, can be subject to change as the development continues.

Design

Features

Design for solid version of pipes and cables that can transfer resources and data has started

User Interface

Naming policy has been updated to allow numerals for ships, companies and blueprints
Design for new versions of company ship access pages has been worked on
- Spawn, flight, build and deconstruct rights have been combined under operator rights
- Operator is determined by rank/team/job
- Rank may give deed, trade and decommission access to accessible ships

Stations and Cities

Old windows of Lot Designer’s medium halls have been updated with the new ones

Code

Gameplay

Ship thrusters no longer consume resources/power when they cannot function due to their structural connection, nor in the Ship Designer edit mode
Cargo Frame’s wall collisions now keep up with the ship during fast travel
Magnetic Boots now lock on Cargo Frame fields
Transponder colors were not shown properly, default color was corrected and priority was reversed
Material Point Scanner code has been refactored to work with LOD asteroids
Easy Build Mode has been worked on, ship blueprint saving functionality has been started

User Interface

Resource management UI windows have been worked on, all tabs (that should) are now scalable
Company bank accounts have been worked on
An option to show previews of mail attachments in the inbox has been added
Refactoring of the tutorial gameplay logic has been finished

Other

Foundation modules should be same height when placed on moons (free-form building)
Foundation modules should be able to be welded in place, instead of adding them to station automatically

Art

Animations and Emotes

Work on new prone transition animations continues

Stations and Cities

Details on the exterior of module hall c large 10 has been finished

Other

Finalization of Large Generator assets has been worked on
Viper armorset texture polish has been worked on
Exorium processing unit has been finished
All explosive container VFX have been updated for improved chain reaction behavior