Week 16 (April 14th – 17th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 16:

Design

Features

• Assembly Job tested, some issues found in bolt profile auto aim bolting in objects with more challenging geometry
• Fracture debris destruction effect tested
• Asteroid Mining Job rewards tested, some configurations made to the bonus rewards and balancing needs to be done to the rewards
• Economy settings tested and future features planned
• Economy design: ship weapon prices adjusted and missing items added to the turret shop
• Design for missing highlights for multiple choice buttons in settings menu worked on
• Upcoming chat channels design is underway
• UI for armor customization tool worked on
• Ship recovery feature: Initial design for potential future updates worked on, Design tests on initial system completed
• Device resource networks: Investigating possible ways to improve system compatibility with possible future goals, Ongoing design for resource net integration with inventory system
• Ongoing design for UI improvements to inventory, storage, and universal tool dialog

 Spaceships

• Durability issue in Ithaca V1 fixed: beam frame was a bit inconsistent near one of the main thrusters, frame near rear thrusters reinforced
• Hedron and Urchin were found to have legacy YOLOL chips, YOLOL code edited to fit the current chip and old legacy chip was replaced
• Mining ship tests underway: testing how long it takes to fly to the asteroid belt and fill up all all the crates

Spaceship Designer

• Furnace modules added to category so they can be used inside Spaceship Designer
• Ship design with furnace started, the ship needs a very durable frame since the furnace modules are heavy
• Weaponry and Warheads limited object types configured and locales added
• Spaceship Designer economy design tested

Other

• All curved end plates are now correctly arranged by size
• Material types for ship windows updated to correct type

Code

Gameplay

• Manipulating non-owned ships in safe zones is now allowed
• Cancelling a ship spawn now returns the ship to the inventory
• Issues where grabbing lock remained after the grabber unloaded entity or when the player died have been fixed
• Small ship despawning issues have been fixed
• A tracking system for resources (fuel, power, etc.) is in the making
• Support for lot inventories has been finished
• Buzzsaw’s reload audio event not firing has been fixed
• Lot visualizations having wrong rotations has been fixed, lot area restrictions are now finished

User Interface

• Item shop not allowing to buy multi-part items such as small button has been fixed
• The rest of the item shop’s max buy amount issues have been fixed
• The ore vacuuming system now notices if there isn’t enough power and stops vacuuming ores
• Item pickup checks have been fixed, won’t allow picking up Mining and Assembly Job spawned items anymore
• Feedback server implementation is underway, some UI tweaks have been made

Spaceship Designer

• Station designer’s background appearing in wrong orientation has been fixed
• A log that can display text lines has been added to the bottom of the screen. This is currently only used to display a warning that an object in the current placement cannot be created
• Lot terminal menus no longer display non-station lot blueprints
• A bug that prevented multi-part robot arm selection has been fixed
• A bug that prevented properties window device fields from updating properly in multi-selection has been fixed
• A crash that occasionally happened when transforming objects too fast has been fixed
• Alphabetical sorting has been added to module library in station creator
• The possibility to use custom decimal count for sliders in settings menu has been added

Planets

• Support added for instancing multiple planet groups

Renderer

• Gas giant’s orientation has been fixed in Spaceship Designer
• Testing and fixing dynamic sky system refactor for the new mixed render queues and buffered updates has been finished
• The explosion damage on solid planet has been implemented

Art

Other

• Retopology for Pipe Tool has been finished
• Additional info/decoration animations have been added for market station
• Weapon turret assets’ low poly and UV’s have been updated
• A new tiling metal fracture material which works with voxel fracture pieces and fracture debris assets has been finished
• Rock instance amounts and render distances have been optimized,
• New small pebble rocks have been finished and tested
• Touchstone armor set’s texture and paintjob quality has been polished
• Ad animations have been updated
• Small adjustments have been made to rocky asteroid materials
• Ice asteroid materials are in the making

Gallery of the week

Videos

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