Week 44 (28.10. – 01.11.2019)

Here are the progress notes of week 44:

Design

Features

• Instancing tested on ship spawn locations (docks and landing pads).
• Grabbing Tool’s throw mechanism tested and tweaked.
• Mining laser now takes the armor of plates into account when trying to cut through them (strong armor plates take longer to cut through).
• Economy configuration fixes and updates.
• Missing locales added to the Ship Creator.
• New battery modular plugs tested.
• Configurations that the new updated rechargeable battery asset works with existing ships.
• Updated battery configured to support modular power plugs.
• Ship maps updated with new battery configurations.
• Storage system and universal tool UI: Design completed for basic storage system UI and interaction.
• General UI: task to unify UI elements across various UIs in the game.
• Design worked for Company UI Overview, Member settings and Company Settings – General.

 Stations

• Design started for the Module Creator – a tool for players to create their own station modules, such as halls, landing platforms and hangars.
• Metro stops’ ladders and walkways have been updated to match the grid slots’ new walkway intersections.
• Small asteroid hauling slot has been added to the game.
• Pillarway renamed as Vertical bridge.
• Vertical bridge module ready.
• Walkways updated in every grid slot.

 Spaceship & Station Creators

• Ship Creator: Setting starting line in one YOLOL chip affects other chips.
• Ship Creator: YOLOL chips keep running outside of test mode.
• Ship Creator: Module icons shouldn’t render through objects.
• Mega Station Creator: Snapping grid slots in 45 degree angles is now possible with the angled corner grid slots.
• Mega Station Creator: Priority snap points updated for angled corner .grid slots to enable 45 degree snapping.

Spaceships

• Weapon fixed mount pivot and rotation updated, connector plug positions fixed.
• Weapon fixed mount rotations fixed/updated in:
  • Kingdom Knight ( laser, autocannon and plasma)
  • Republic wing ( autocannon, laser and unarmed)
  • Wekufe (laser, autocannon + A2 variants)
  • Geist (laser & autocannon variants)
  • Arrowhead
  • Empire fighters (old ships)
  • Succubus
  • Empire Centurio (turrets)
  • Veles (turrets)
  • Test Lictors (turrets)

Code

Gameplay

• Support added for using player-held tool modes’ bones for tool shoot-effect poses.
• Editor configs fixed for offsetting player-held tool effects not having any effects.
• YOLOL chips not saving their saved starting line fixed.
• Ship despawn areas fixed.
• An initial UI support added for station inventories.
• Support added for dynamically calculated impact damage when a player is hit by an object.
• A rotation issue with seating animation fixed.
• A rotation syncing issues with remote players fixed.
• Pushing issue with objects originated from ships fixed.
• Initial cargo collisions implementation released.
• Several aspects of multiplayer ungrabbing fixed.
• The material collection code refactored: material collection prevented if amount requested exceeds remainder on ticket.
• Support added for processing multiple components as a bunch.
• New properties added to the mining job collector.
• Terminals now show the correct sell prices, instead of showing prices without tax.

User interface

• GUI dropdown updates and fixes.
• Settings menu has been updated.
• Option added to hide in-game assert popup without disabling the feature completely.
• Dragged item showing incorrect slots as available slots fixed.
• Fixed weapons not shooting when changing teams.
• Support added for station and lot tiles.
• DEV CV now has info tiles for stations and lots.
• Scroll bar now works correctly on Social Tab.
• Leave group-button now removes the player from the group.
• Rendering added for team ships, team members and other players in the roster.
• Search added for ships and +add button to roster members so they can be added to the team.

Spaceship Creator

• SSC terminals can now be used to host editing sessions. Group members can join ongoing sessions through the terminal.
• Fixed autobolter not using the bolt types suggested by the autobolting algorithm.
• Autobolter no longer attempts to place overlapping attachment plates.

Renderer

• Motion vectors tested: now reduce ambient occlusion artifacts on dynamic objects
• Texture mapping fixes and improvements
• More volumetric fog tests underway

Art

Stations

• Decos updated and many assets polished
• Roofs have been decorated and rubber pads updated on main walkways
• Level art updates and polishes

Weapons

• Long rifle textures updated with better roughness detail balance and less pattern on the plastic shell.
• Long rifle paintjobs updated with more optimized shapes for better combinations.
• Arclighter muzzle flash effect reworked to have better resolution lightnings and other improvements.
• Arclighter idle, projectile, charge and muzzle flash effects were updated with more standardized blue colors and their light intensity was lowered.
• Weapon effect updates underway.
• Rocket Launcher UV’s updated.
• Arclighter now has 3rd person reload animation.
• New rifle carry stand idle animation.
• Tactical shotgun third-person reload animation polish.

Other

• New rocks for asteroids and rock placement tweaks in the making.
• New Rechargeable Battery Asset finished.
• Collision errors with level art and metro grids fixed.
• New reload animation for cable tool.
• Bolt, cable and welding tool rigs updated with left hand IK targets.
• First-person and third-person carry animation tests underway.

Gallery of the week

Videos

That was all for now, until next week!

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