Week 13 (March 23rd –  27th)

Hello everyone! It’s time for another week of Starbase progress notes!

Design

Features

• Assembly Job tested, Bolt Profile snapping feature made the bolting really easy.
• Assembly Job tested, item blocker entities added on each doorway so objects cannot be thrown through the doorways.
• Buzzsaw power usage configured to 10/sec, which equals to 100 seconds of continuous sawing with one power pack.
• Bolt Tool and the bolt profile override feature tested, works without issues.
• Chat features worked on, default settings adjusted.
• Insurance terminals’ location and parenting fixed in origin map.
• Mining Job tested in the new Work Hub, working without issues.

 Stations

• Empire VIS HQ -grid slot has been updated: structures inside the slot. have been relocated and rotated to enable a better view of the Capital.
• Mining Job grid slot has been replaced with the Work Hub grid slot.

Spaceship Designer

• Locales fixed and updated.
• Economy design worked on.

Other

• Socket position changed in battery asset, cabling adjusted in ships with battery to fit this change.
• Locales added for objects and resources.
• New armor sets added to starting mega station economy.
• A moon rocket worked on, flights to the moon tested.

Code

Gameplay

• Rental lot blueprint unloading has been improved.
• An issue where non-loaded rental lots crashed the editor on stopping the game has been fixed.
• Blueprints appearing inside already built objects has been fixed.
• When the client stops operating a ship in a despawn area, the ship now immediately despawns.
• Sitting issue with cradle mounted chairs has been fixed.
• SawTool sound effects have been implemented and bugs surrounding it have been fixed.
• Welding Tool beam effect has been refactored.
• Restriction added to detaching to station lots that the player has access to, so players can’t detach whatever parts they want.
• The detachment network synchronization has been finished, the Welding Tool is now ready for testing.

User Interface

• An issue where ore processing made only one processed entry at a time has been fixed.
• Picking up magazines now moves ammo.
• An issue has been fixed where items disappeared from the sell list when the player sold 0 amount of the item.
• Position of the damaged item indicator has been fixed.
• Containers not filling up correctly when picking up ores fixed.
• Swapping and merging ores in the mining backpack works now as well as dragging between the bank tab and the mining slots.
• Snapping to closest possible bolt profile location, when within BoltToolComponent defined area has been implemented.
• Feedback Tool has been updated and the tool’s data management has been refactored.

Audio

• Missing sort button sounds have been added.
• Item shop transaction button sounds and item sell menu button sounds have been added.

Spaceship Designer

• ‘Continuous placement’ option has been added for asset placement. Enabling this option allows the user to keep placing the asset until cancelled.
• A bug that allowed entering the test mode while undo actions were still being execute has been fixed.
• A Blueprint type metadata has been added to blueprints. This value can be used to filter blueprints, for example to display only ship or station blueprints.
• Some of Spaceship Designer’s network messages unintentionally leaking to peers not inside the Spaceship Designer session has been fixed.
• A basic paint tool with point and click colouring has been added. The tool supports undoing and redoing.
• A client timeout when attempting to join a hosted session with a large map has been fixed.
• Save selection as blueprint functionality has been fixed.

Planets

• Moon terrain rock collisions have been optimized.

Renderer

• Planet hit detection for projectiles has been implemented.
• Skybox stretching during baking caused by direction blending has been fixed.

Art

Stations

• New signs for the frame shop at back alley are underway.
• Frame shop ad adjustments are in the making.
• Job instance effects for station use: proper UV’s to the basic shapes so that UV scrolling can be used with them added as well as building blocks that can be used in the making of ads.
• Prospector shop module exterior decoration has been finalized.
• Station hall LODs have been updated.
• UV scroll support added to the flat font used in ads and signs.
• New windows added to station halls.
• Landing platform lighting in the making.
• LODs updated in ship repair maps.

Animations

• New animations and polishes to ads have been made.
• Pistol run animations have been polished.
• Sitting reload animation has been polished.
• An animation for the sell shop has been updated.

Other

• New asteroid clusters have been made.
• Bulwark armoset’s textures and paintjobs have been polished.
• Modular Battery’s socket location has been fixed.
• More weapon flat logos have been added to the game.
• Effects and beam types have been added to Welding Tool’s attach/detach mode.
• New beam end models which could replace the particle effects have been tested.
• Dashed line effects have been made for ad use.
• Some armor set piece configs that did not allow the pieces to be dropped to the game world have been fixed.

Gallery of the week

Videos

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