Week 4 (January 20th –  24th)

Here are the progress notes of Week 4:

Design

Features

• Mockup designed for new Assembly Job workstation layout.
• Assembly Hall reworked, so all the workstations can be identical and fit well.
• Issue, where mining backpack inventory icons were not visible in game, fixed.
• Font, text locations, names and other changes made for Player Profile page.
• Tax related design worked on and new tax values tested.
• Mining laser statistics and damage adjusted.

 Stations

• New starting station Capital Imperial A has been created and added in the universe.
• Threshold in marketplace hangar module has been lowered, since it caused the player to get stuck.
• Blueprint terminals have been removed from take off docks.

 Spaceships

• Veles’ armor plating improved and propellant tanks fixed.
• Beam structure near rear triangle thruster stack on Ithaca v4 reinforced.

Code

Gameplay

• Ship LODs warping out of place when viewing client warps to a new cell fixed.
• Camera panning fixes made.
• Issues with missile thruster propellant consumption fixed and tested.
• Torque adjustments made and issue fixed with torpedo YOLOL.
• Rotation and translation by thrust adjusted.
• Effect-support added on torpedo maneuver thrusters.
• Ship prices can now be configured.

User Interface

• Issue with bank’s inventory scrollable items not clipping correctly fixed.
• A bug where newly created characters were not able to equip weapons fixed.
• Ores bought to backpack from shop will now be stacked and merged with current ores in the inventory.
• Material amount bought is now in kilovoxels instead of voxels.
• Item on the backpack slot is now spawned / removed when the item on the large backpack slot changes.
• Swapping items via quickbar only unequipping current item on hand fixed.
• Backpack changes not reacting to swap (item on large slot wouldn’t change on player’s back) fixed.
• Item Shop code refactored.
• Message of the Day added to the main menu and infobox added to it.
• Common function for “Click to edit” input boxes added.

Audio

• Player context tracking improved.
• Context tracking added for projectile-environment collisions.
• First iteration of battle logic now works.

Renderer

• Depth scaling added to particle emit rate.

Art

Stations

• Hall LODs updated.
• VIS main hall exterior decoration: windows placed in loading docks and other floors.

Weapons

• Proper textures and paintjobs added for the Sentinel rifle.
• Sentinel rifle now has a 3rd person reload animation.
• Torpedo trail effects updated and new explosion effect made for the hit.

Other

• Snapping points and rotations of multiple models fixed.
• Slanted triangles fixed.
• Combat shield orientation and position fixed.
• New 3D stars single object has been made and skybox updated.
• Cargo crate updated: lid won’t clip with the crate itself anymore.
• Thruster nozzle textures fixed.
• Problems with voxel generation in the displays of the modular control asset set fixed.
• Preliminary HUD icons for transponder states have been made.
• Rank plates for the drones armor sets made.
• Asteroid base material adjustments.
• Sit animations when wielding a weapon/tool are being worked on.
• Landing animation for pickaxe.
• Crouched relax in/out animations for rifle and pickaxe polished.
• Distance scaling to existing weapon effects being implemented.
• Particle visibility on plasma turrets tests underway.
• Beam for weaker laser cutting tool updated.

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week! 🚀