Starbase

by Frozenbyte

Hi everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 10:

Three new special ore distribution zones configured: there are now five special zones where ores are distributed with different weights compared to the rest of the universe.
Marketplace terminals fixed.
Economy configurations fixed for torpedoes.
Design for a Spaceship Designer Coloring Tool worked on.
Spaceship Designer multiplayer issue: removing cable with Cable Tool breaks if client and host is removing cable simultaneously fixed and verified.

Stations

Kingdom Headquarter station and Kingdom Outpost Ruins added to the universe.
Ship and shop terminal issues fixed for Kingdom stations.
Vertical hallways’ offsetting priority snap points have been fixed.
Three hall modules’ base structures have been modified to disable any possible collisions with each other (Large hall 2; Ship weapon shop 2 A; Armor shop 1 A).
Temporary “very-farlods” have been removed from grid slot scenes, and will be replaced if and when needed.

Spaceships

Issue where Ithaca V4 used up its coolant too quickly was fixed by adding more coolant cells.

Gameplay

Instancing area visualization disappearing when changing groups has been fixed.
Ore nuggets are now immune to the mining laser.
Blueprint code refactoring is underway.
Entering the game with broken profile (invalid or missing character data) is now prevented.
Explosion shock waves were fixed to not affect players inside safe zones.
Player stuck recovery system has been enabled to be active at all times.
Nearby ship acceleration/deceleration sounds have been added.
Cargo Frame wall/field was refactored into being supported by the current physics processing.
SawTool can now target and cut properly.

User Interface

A bug where material disappeared when dragged to existing stack in inventory has been fixed.
Netsyncing added for beam effect so that other people can see the effect.
Company Rank names not changing correctly when player changes them has been fixed.

Audio

Spaceship Designer

Mining job now correctly gives money from asteroids with cables/bolted things on them, syncing fixed.
Cell translation not working when jumping more than 1 cell has been fixed.
Range Finders being active in Spaceship Designer has been fixed.

Planets

Stations

Moons and Asteroids

Animations

Other

Turret Utility Body: Asset redesign that fixes collision has been finished.
Turret Arm Saw Tool: Concept, assets and textures have been finished.
Turret Arm Saw Tool: Larger versions of the blade and tool have been made to test how large assets the robot arms can support.
Tools: Saw textures polished, paintjobs added.
Devices: Resource bridge hose nozzle textures updated.
A spark effect for the mining saw has been finalized.
LODs made for multiple assets, railgun barrel LODs have been optimized.