Week 21 (May 18th – 22nd)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of Week 21, hope you enjoy!

Design

Features

• New instruction terminals added to all Mining Job workstations
  • Issue with the screens being destructible by players was fixed, now all screens are static and indestructible
• Ship blueprint feature for fixing ships on the go is under design
• Economy design: plans for in-depth material value overhaul is being worked on
• Economy configurations made for the newly added stations
• Resource systems conversion components have been checked on, design for simplified system for inventory integration is being investigated
• Changes made to the group and company chat notifications design: everyone in group/company now have identical group chat log
• Furnace design is being worked on

 Stations

• New Kingdom outpost station is being worked on
• Proving Grounds station has been finished and added to the universe
• Medium Hall 18 added into Lot Designer

Spaceships

• Modified blueprints created from Spatha, Knight and Wing, without cables and pipes
  • These can be used in the Demolition Job
• Generator button issue in Remus has been fixed, buttons would not work correctly due to difference in their “OnStateValue”
• Anubis has been added to the pre-made ship list in Spaceship Designer

Spaceship Designer

• Updates to the Spaceship Designer Asset browser have been made:
  • New folder called “Hardpoints”: hardpoints are now in this folder
  • Turrets folder is now called “Weapons”: this folder consists of only weapon parts now
  • New machinery sub-folder created, called “Utility”: fixed mounts, turntables, cradles and robot arms now under this folder
  • Generator folder is now called “Power”: battery is now located here
  • Furnace folder has been renamed to “Tools”: Tractor Beam, Utility Body, Utility ammo have been moved to this folder
  • Interactables folder is now called “Controls”: Progress bars, Text Panel, Panel base, FCUs and MFC are now under this folder
  • YOLOL: YOLOL rack parts are now in this folder

Code

Gameplay

• Gas converter not being detected by the box thruster even when placed properly has been fixed
• An issue where lamps in lots not being buildable due to material consumption issues has been fixed
• Thrusters can no longer generate propellant
• Ship recovery cost now takes ship’s carried material value into account
• Asteroids now have a larger loading range of 200m (from 12m), a bug where asteroids wouldn’t occasionally load has been fixed
• Station lots no longer reload when finishing building the blueprint
• Issue fixed in resource network calculations that caused a part of the network to advance very slowly and seemingly not consume some resources at all
• Recovering ships that are hosted by a player has been allowed
• Issue with grab, release and blocked -highlights not showing up when blocked by a LOD model has been fixed
• Ship chair quick-bind system has been revised to fix an issue with constant resetting

User Interface

• Item collection tooltips now show the name of the collection if it has been named
• Warning triangles and flashing error messages have been added to item shop when chosen item cannot be bought
• Inspect CV window not showing rank insignia of the inspected player has been fixed
• An issue where company invites were not always showing the Company name has been fixed
• Received and sent group invites now show up in Social tab group page UI
• A bug where objects ended up in the world when trying to drag to a slot that doesn’t allow it has been fixed
• Support added for inclusion of basic hardware statistics in Feedback tool’s reports

Audio

• Movement sound volume adjustment has been fixed
• Audio feedback for approaching, entering and leaving safe zone and snap mode toggle in grabbing tools has been plugged in
• Support added for feedback sounds on unsuccessful firing of bolt tool
• Support added for reloadable tools to indicate shortage of bullets by audio

Spaceship Designer

• Saving blueprints with an existing name has been prevented
• Autosave reliability has been improved: autosave must now be manually recovered from the File context menu
• An issue where using the rotate or move tool could cause the editor to become unresponsive has been fixed
• An issue where loading a premade ship blueprint and saving the current scene caused nothing to save has been fixed
• Generated ship LOD models appearing in incorrect rotations and positions has been fixed

Planets and Moons

• Range finder device not detecting moon surfaces has been fixed
• Optimizations to improve the moon noisemap baking efficiency are being worked on

Art

Animations

• Pipe Tool rig has been made
• Reload animation has been made for the Welding Tool (3rd person)
• Transition animation for activating the Universal Tool during crouch with pickaxe equipped has been made
• Transition animation made for activating the Universal Tool during crouch with pistol equipped
• Issues with arms incorrectly holding the pickaxe when in hammer mode or when moving when in prone position have been fixed (3rd person)
• New emote animations are being worked on

Stations

• Unnecessary geometry with flipped normals has been fixed in station_base_ramp_108x216x216
• The exterior LODs for Marketplace’s “Back Alley” have been updated
• The hallways’ farLOD model and texture maps in Empire Spaceship Design Workshop (Large) have been updated
• Irrelevant warning decals have been removed from various Lot Designer modules, grid slots and decorative objects

Moons and Asteroids

• Ice material variation for asteroids has been made
• Two snowy material variations for asteroid rocks have been made

Other

• Remote explosive, remote detonator and explosive pack assets with preliminary textures have been finished, ready for final texturing and gameplay implementation
• Asset created for small control panel speaker and small signal baton
• Lifeline icons have been made

Gallery of the week

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