[2020] Starbase – Progress Notes Week 19 (2020) | Starbase Dev Tracker

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 19:

Features

Assembly Job and Mining Job rewards adjusted back up to 5000-6000 credits per minute, so getting a proper mining ship will not be too tedious
New mining ships tested in the asteroid belt, The Hauler seems to be the best choice for the first mining ship
Asteroid Mining Job reward issue, where players standing close to the instancing area would also receive credits, was fixed
Collision issues were fixed in ship market map
Stations now turn their ore stocks into refined ore correctly
Potential improvements to YOLOL parsing logic are being investigated
Customization UI design continues, edits to the inventory of equipment tab were made
YOLOL updates were made to the buses, they now slow down earlier and landing-mode activates faster
Socket Tool tooltip description now has binds which update automatically if changed

Stations

Lot Designer modules have been updated: New hall modules have been added (Large 8-9 and Medium 14-16), irrelevant warning decals have been removed and new modules had rubber pads on the floors, which have now been replaced with decals in order to keep the floors flat
Large Spaceship Shop’s floors have been updated: Red areas now mark the location of each ship
Holes found in each of the large spaceship shops’ exterior structure have been blocked
Take-off docks pointing “downwards” have been removed in Spaceship Shop (Large)
Ore storage tower base structure has been built. Level art and LODs pending
Capital Imperial A’s housing slots have been updated: All the areas that have no gameplay yet have been replaced with temporary “empty slots”, which are old housing slots without LotAreas or LotTerminals, the remaining 72 rental lots (36 small, 25 medium and 11 large) can be found at the tip of the station’s “wings”

Spaceships

Twin Vasama & Vasama: Couple decoration plate colors updated, related to recent decoration base material/color change

Gameplay

An issue where spotlight lamps wouldn’t work after saving map in editor has been fixed
Device crash in ship showroom has been fixed
The lot doorway connection code has been refactored
Melee tools’ collision check skipping player collision has been fixed
Inventory support for resources is in the making
Magnetic boots have been set to remember their last state between game sessions
Despawn issues of ships inside ship factory have been fixed
Some small inventory issues have been fixed
Implementation for dropping items while moving is underway
Grabbing/ungrabbing poses while moving have been fixed
Tractor beam’s syncing has been fixed
Cargo lock netsync and multi master problems have been resolved
Cargo frame’s wall model being offset when ship is spawned in has been fixed
Changes to Socket Tool implementation have been finished
Autobolting issue with devices on client’s end is underway
Sliders for grabbing rotation sensitivity have been added

User Interface

Personal window system has been refactored
Company rank rights which aren’t implemented yet have been disabled
An issue where player couldn’t move refined ores to cargo crates has been fixed
Rank edit page has been tweaked
Resource Bridge – Resource Bridge connection not disconnecting when the bridges are too far apart has been fixed
Chat rights are now clickable in Company rank rights
Dragging ore from crate slots when Resource Bridge connection is lost now ends the dragging and returns the ore back to the ship inventory
Groups now disband when the player is the last member in the group and there are no pending invites
More chat messages have been added, such as ‘Company name unavailable’.
Feedback Tool’s screenshot preview functionality has been improved

Audio

A limit for total volume per looped sound type has been added
Spaceship Designer’s button sounds (save, remove, undo, redo) have been plugged in
Support has been added for Spaceship Designer’s slider sounds

Spaceship Designer

Asserts that occurred with large maps have been fixed
Crashing when saving an empty scene in ship designer has been fixed.
Entering the ship designer with an owned ship has been disabled until the feature has been fully implemented and tested

Animations

The amount of movement animations (run/walk/crouch) has been reduced to a few core ones
Long rifle ADS fire and reload animations have been polished (1st person)
Laser rifle reload and fire animations have been polished (1st person)
New emotes have been made (ponder2, poke_aim_up, poke_aim_down) and some have been configured (wave2, poke)
Run stop animations (both rifle and unarmed) have been polished

Stations

Station hall modules now have flat floors
Station halls have been updated and LODs completed
LODs and texture maps of mega_station_modules_metro_stop_side_1 have been updated
Ship showroom has been updated with red highlights under the ships
The exterior decoration for “market_station_upper_shop” module has been finalized

Other

New Pipe Tool has been finished and is waiting for texturing
New Badges for some Empire divisions and military groups
Parts that will be animated inside editor for in-game ads of shops have been assembled in editor
Sparrow full set low poly model is ready to be textured
Vanguard armor set’s texture and paint job quality polished
Inventory icons for electricity network resource and armor sets have been made
Moon rocks have been fixed and moon terrain textures have been updated
Materials updated for rocky asteroids, now 4 materials instead of 2 are in use
Minor color issues have been fixed and layers in various maps have been updated