Week 7 (February 10th –  14th)

Here are the progress notes of Week 7:

Design

Features

• Shop search bars should be deactivated if the player looks outside of the screen.
• Small changes to tooltips, moving text and testing possible layout changes.
• Material armor value updates: Now medium-high caliber infantry weapons cause damage to objects faster.
• Shotgun projectile mass increased to make it little more effective against light armors.
• Economy configurations for the Empire Outpost station.
• General design worked on for significant updates to equipment and storage UIs.
• Small adjustments made to the Utility Panel technical design to simplify components required.

 Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Issue where Autobolt “Apply to selection” mode leaves some plates unbolted fixed.

Code

Gameplay

• Support added for showing locations in the universe in the main menu.
• Ship thruster exhausts damage and push components & players have been added.
• Bounds & selection related issues in autobolting have been fixed.
• Bolting of a moving target has been fixed.
• Support added for ammo stacking.
• New bolt indicators have been added to the Bolt Tool.

User Interface

• Player invitations are now case sensitive.
• The maximum amount of Company ranks is now 50.

Audio

• A check added for player shooting inside a ship (to filter out incorrect battle detection).
• A bug where battle music was triggered inside safe zones has been fixed.
• Interactable buttons’ audio issues have been fixed.

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Station tech refactoring changes have been merged into the main codebase. Most systems now support player stations.
• Multiplayer issues in mining job have been fixed.
• Custom ships now automatically spawn to the world after buying them instead of being put in the inventory.

Art

Stations

• Holograms in multiple areas has been finished.
• Skyscraper walls have been finished.
• Decoration for skyscraper elevator chutes, pillars and floors have been finished.
• Assembly Job/Spaceship Factory/Spaceship Shop/Asteroid Collection ads have been created.
• Mining Job ad has been updated.
• Rotation support has been added to signs and signs no longer cast shadow.
• VIS office floor LOD updated.

Moons and Asteroids

• Moon rock material has been updated.
• Material for rough asteroid rocks made and tested on different sizes of rocks.
• Large and medium size rock topology fixes have been made.
• Texture scales for solid planet asteroids have been updated.
• The most of the asteroid surface object settings have been added and tweaked.

Other

• Several transition animations have been made for entering/exiting “weapon lowered” and universal tool stances.
• New emotes have been added, animations’ hand lengths modified.
• Animations for landing during movement have been polished.
• The skybox has been updated and made slightly less brighter.
• Cargo crate textures and tintmasks have been updated.
• UI: Item storage filter icons: 6 categories with 4 states. Used to filter out and hide items when browsing item storages.
• UI: An additional icon to the category filter set to represent misc and semi-built asset combinations in inventory has been added.
• Resource Port asset: concept and preliminary model are done.

Gallery of the week

Videos

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