Week 8 (February 17th –  21st)

Here are the progress notes of Week 8:

Design

Features

• Inventory testing, trying to reproduce issues regarding the drag and drop feature
• Thruster exhaust damage areas configured and tested
• Maneuver thrusters exhaust damage configured to ignore players
• Electricity usage calculations worked on for refining raw ores
• Economy configurations and insurance/terminals fixed in a mega station
• Detailed designs worked on for updated equipment UI elements and interactions
• Inventory icons added for objects: all objects in the shops now have icons
• Design for company ownership functions (ships and bank accounts) worked on

 Starbase Spaceship Creator

• A fix regarding turrets starting to move by themselves after being detached tested and verified
• More bolts added to Wing to fix an issue where the ship loses Ship warp class and gets a loose plating after opening hatch

Code

Gameplay

• An issue where tractor beam model wasn’t showing until it grabbed something has been fixed
• Tractor beam doesn’t target objects carried by the player anymore
• The planet kill zone re-killing players who use insurance after dying in the zone has been fixed
• Net pose extrapolation reliability has been improved in cases where the host’s framerate varies greatly
• Various fixes made related to cargo held by Cargo Beams
• Autobolter support added for existing attachment plates
• An issue fixed where ammo stacks appeared only after second component was collected
• Snapping works now with Cable and Pipe tools in a moving ship

User Interface

• Promote and demote toggle functionality to Company Ranks is in the making
• Everyone can now invite people to groups and not only the group leaders
• An issue where social tab remove button was not removing group members fixed
• Company news are now sorted so that the most recent is on top

Audio

• Added button press/release audio support that works as intended with different interactions

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Localization support for the remaining mission and directory names has been added
• A bug that allowed certain parts to be placed in overlapping positions has been fixed
• Autobolter tool crashing when applied to certain maps has been fixed
• Issues with ship spawning locations and rotations with SSC terminal have been fixed

Art

Stations

• New lights have been placed and lighting updated
• Storage floor LOD has been finished
• Station farlods and hall modules have been updated
• Farlods have been added for all shop modules
• Market station interior ads for the shops in the making
• Window LODs have been updated
• Advertisement assets: Assets for Ares Weapons ad underway

Moons and Asteroids

• LOD generation distance setting tests for small and medium asteroid rocks underway
• Some tweaks have been made to rock placements
• Moon rocks have been optimized and XL rocks for alpha moons are in the making

Other

• New weapon/tool lockers for spaceships in the making, older models have been updated
• Resource Port: Asset finished, high poly, low poly and materials done.
• Inventory icons have been made for loose cable and loose pipe items.
• Modular Ore Cargo Crate: Asset finished, concept and preliminary model are done as well as high poly, low poly and materials
• Armorsets: Pathfinder set textures and paintjobs have been polished
• Tests on how to improve the feel of flying animations have been made

Gallery of the week

Videos

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