Week 6 (February 3rd –  7th)

Here are the progress notes of Week 6:

Design

Features

• Old tooltips remade with a bigger font, to improve readability.
• Ship weapons tested against basic materials and ships to get better feel of current material and weapon balance.
• Company functionality design worked on: co-ownership, disband / owner leaving and general Company controls.
• Inventory buy limits tested and confirmed, currently settled on 5000.
• Asteroid spawner rotation offset configurations tweaked to improve the Mining Job experience.
• Configurations updated: Oninum Armor value adjusted from 5000 to 3500.  Autocannon projectile mass increased from 10 to 11. Laser Cannon projectile mass reduced from 6 to 5. Damage adjustments tested against Onimum, new values feel better.
• New bolt profiles made for mounted weapon body 2.

 Stations

• VIS grid slot: support beams added, collisions fixed, walkways, landing platforms, hallways and take-off docks updated.
• Skyscrapers worked on: corridor apartment entrance and roof modules updated and new room modules created.

 Spaceships

• Vasama and Twin Vasama re-balanced, some plating had to be removed / relocated.

Code

Gameplay

• Support added for kill zones that instantly kill players and destroy objects.
• An assert fixed with the building tool autofill feature.
• A bug where virtual bridges disappear from components with multiple virtual bridges has been fixed.
• Custom ships created via SSC are now bought for the intended price instead of obtaining them for free.

User Interface

• Inventory tabs have been added to Material Sell menu.
• Bank tab code has been refactored.
• Filter buttons have been added to sort players and ships.
• An issue related to too long company names fixed by making the company name be maximum of 24 characters long.

Audio

• First simple approximation of projectile-to-ship context detection for battle music has been implemented.
• Distance filtering has been added to hostility events, so that fighting far away doesn’t start the battle music.
• Player distance-to-ship parameter has been added for player-ship association in battle context.

Planets

• Ship collisions with planets have been implemented.
• A bug where planets would disappear after visiting SSC was fixed.
• Planet memory usage has been optimized.

Art

Stations

• Asteroid Collection Zone ad design has been made.
• Asteroid Mining Job sign post and new logo sign pieces have been created.
• Skyscraper wall level art underway.
• Skyscraper base module building underway.
• Elevator hall and salvage shop decoration updates.
• VIS office module has been updated and some windows added.

Moons and Asteroids

• Alpha moon terrains have been finished.
• Updated moon textures are in the making.
• Procedural object placement for moons has been adjusted.
• Asteroid rock and material updates.
• Rock meshes topology fixes have been made.

Other

• Cargo crate baking and texturing have been made.
• Universal Projector’s high poly, low poly, UV’s, bakes and materials have been finished.
• Resource Grid Utility Panel’s assets design modified.
• Resource Grid Utility Panel & Box’s assets finished, high poly, low poly, UV’s, bakes and materials have been finished
• Armor sets: Jackal set textures and paint jobs have been polished.
• Weapon lockers have been updated.
• Whiplash gun’s hit effect edited and switched.
• Offset on maneuver thruster’s effect has been edited as the spawn point had been moved.
• Maneuver thruster on torpedo changed for a smaller on.

Gallery of the week

Videos

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