[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 30 (2020)

Week 30 (July 20th -24th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 30:

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Design

Features

• Work on the Demolition Job continues: instancing area and instructions terminal have been added, and the job has been tested
• Design work for beam welding continues
• New pyramid plates have been added to economy
• Material progression and balance design has been worked on
• Damage model update design has been worked on
• Asteroid belt material distribution planning is in the works
• Blueprint design is underway: blueprint obtaining and progression have been worked on

User Interface

• Design for the Cosmetics Shop item and cart pages has been worked on
• Updated mockups have been made for the Decal Tool

Spaceship Designer 

• 8 new Pyramid plates have been added to the Spaceship Designer

Code

Gameplay

• Work on ship beam welding continues, beams can now be attached without snapping a beam to a blueprint first

User Interface

• Feedback Tool’s screenshot editor now uses correct tool icons in the toolbox
• Support has been added to Feedback Tool’s screenshot editor for creating, duplicating and deleting tools with a context menu and rearranging existing tools by dragging

Art

Emotes

• Emote_halt has been finished
• Emote_slap is in the making

Stations/Lot Designer

• Large hall 5 has been redesigned to fit the large lot area, and added back to Lot Designer with an updated thumbnail
• Minor visual fixes and tweaks to nearly all of the Lot Designer Hallway modules

Weapons

• Saw’s hit effect has been tweaked, and the amount of sparks has been increased
• Plasma rifle’s projectile and muzzle flash have been tweaked
• Laser turret projectile’s texture, hit effect and muzzle flash have been updated
• Front/side texture tests have been made for projectiles
• Axe melee weapon’s textures have been fixed slightly
• Grenade Launcher VFX have been updated: new reload, shoot, projectile and hit effects
• Repeater Pistol has been updated, projectile and hit effect updated
• Rail Rifle VFX have been updated

Other

• Inventory icons have been added for: Flamer, Reaper Cannon, Combat Shield, Axe, Kukri and Khopesh
• Hunter armorset’s texture quality has been polished and paintjobs updated
• A new version for Sunny Ship Center sign has been created and a damaged version has been made for the second hand ship shop
• A proper desktop shortcut icon has been added

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week!🪐