Week 47 (18.11. – 22.11.2019)

Here are the progress notes of week 47:

Design

Features

• New mining backpack tested and configurations adjusted: processing materials now has raw and processed materials in their own slots and conversion rates of the processing have been updated.
• Mining job halls worked on: issue where players would not receive rewards in certain areas of the hall fixed by making the reward area larger.
• Group instancing in mining job workstations tested, instancing with groups still has issues.
• Cargo lock frame electricity consumption design reviewed.
• Inventory icons for materials configured and fixed.
• Device configuration improvements:
  • Robot arm joint properties adjusted to better reflect intended use.
  • Robot arm tools reconfigured for better function.
  • Pilot chair stand support added to all turret mounts similar to advanced cradle.
• Autobolting tested for triangle thrusters, new bolt profiles made for the new triangle thruster bolt points.
• Economy design worked on:
  • Insurance and debt design.
  • Ship manufacturing and building cost calculations.
  • Ship pricing logic and math for code.
  • Electricity usage for Cargo Lock Beams and – Lock Frames, building electricity costs (3D printing).

 User Interface

• UI for Ships and Stations reworked to use similar systems.
• UI created for a Company owned ship.
• UI for Company ship Access control improved.
• Company Navigation bar rearranged.

 Spaceship & Station Creators

• Triangle thruster bolt profile tested in Spaceship Creator:
  • Thrusters bolt together now.
  • Re-bolting triangle thrusters tested on Spatha.
  • Bolt profiles adjusted: Autobolter placed longer bolts for beam connection.
• Triangle thruster bolt profile now works better with autobolter.
• Frame integrity calculations updated.

Code

Gameplay

• Ship pose stability improved when switching between LOD and the actual ship model.
• Proper client side support for inventory deletion added and fixed.
• Buying and despawning should now assign ships properly to station inventories.
• Station inventories are now automatically deleted when they have been empty for at least a minute and the player is not located at corresponding station.
• Client side (station) inventories set to properly track their ships.
• Localization added for Durability features.
• Fixes added for structural collisions of physics actors with origins outside their bounds.
• Mass flow distribution improved in ship frame integrity calculations.
• Collision sound effects added for simple collisions.
• Cargo lock and Tractor beam and Range finder visual and audio effects tweaked.
• YOLOL field added to Cargo Lock Beam for status.
• Pipe and cable tool ammo consumption adjusted.

User Interface

• Functionality added for Company Rank edit page.
• Problems with writing and locales fixed.

Spaceship Creator

• Durability Tool’s deselection and error box selection fixed.
• Several multiplayer connection related issues have been fixed.
• Several multi-user undo bugs have been fixed.
• A bug that prevented clients from seeing their bolts has been fixed.
• Assets with multiple components showing multiple times in the asset browser fixed.
• All components of multi-part assets should now keep their layers correctly when saving and loading.

Renderer

• Texture mapping: texture scale and displacement improved.

Art

Stations

• VIS main hall parenting and decorations polish continues.
• VIS loading docks worked on.
• VIS deco: details and decals added to unpolished parts.
• Tintmask and albedo maps for large wall modules fixed.
• LOD for station_trading_market_back_alley worked on, basic shape done and details added.
• Outer LOD for station_trading_market_upper_shops fixed and merged with the inner one.
• UVs worked on for station_trading_market_upper_shops.

Weapons

• Assault rifle weapon design worked on.
• Torpedo launcher’s redesign work continues.
• Rocket launcher textures updated to be the same quality as the other weapons.
  • Proper paintjobs were created for the weapon.
• First-person carry animations updated for multiple weapons.
• Rocket launcher magazine model fixed to use proper UVs.

Other

• Pilot chair: snap points added to weapon cradle and versions of fixed mount 2, so that pilot chair’s stand can be placed.
• Third-person rifle relaxed pose updated.
• Left hand animations when interacting with levers and buttons while armed implemented.

Gallery of the week

Videos

That was all for now, until next week!

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