Week 28 (July 6th -10th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 28:

Design

Features

• Repair Job is in the making: a mock up station has been created for build test scenes and blueprint repair has been tested
• Laser idle ammo has been added to economy and crafting data
• Some economy fixes and configs have been made
• Rangefinder asset collision tests have been made
• Assembly Job’s instruction terminal issues have been fixed. All the terminals are now static and indestructible again
• Refuel terminal’s UI design has been finished
• Demolition Job has been tested
• Material and blueprint tabs’ designs are in the making for the Universal Tool
• Asteroids maximum loading amount has been reduced from 10 to 2 to improve performance in the belt. Only 2 asteroids are fully loaded at the time, other asteroids remain LODs

User Interface

• Cash Shop design is in the making: layout has been reworked and some mock ups have been created

Stations

• The disposal shaft in Ship Demolish hall has been updated to look like a large shaft instead of multiple single ones
• The broken take-off terminals in the Command Center have been fixed
• Ore storage towers’ resource bridge connection should now be synced with other players / group members

Code

Gameplay

• An issue where rangefinders reported zero distance in some ship setups has been fixed
• Building hologram outline has been added to the options menu
• Issues with the player character animation direction have been fixed
• Ship blueprints can now be made visible on spawned ships and the blueprint can be repaired using the Building Tool

User Interface

• All items are now stackable
• Double-clicking items now sends them first to equipment, then to station inventory
• An issue with Resource Bridge’s device fields affecting mining backpack’s normal slots has been fixed
• Animation context activation has been added for the Resource Bridge emote
• ‘Invite received’ signal has been added to FriendClient, so that the invite could be added to chat
• An issue that prevented the player from picking up ore nuggets with the ‘P’ key has been fixed
• Ores can now be picked up to the large bag slots

Spaceship Designer

• Module library’s first version has been committed. Deleting/renaming folders and deleting module parts works now
• Layer control buttons have been added for pipes and cables
• Paint tool part selection optimization is underway
• Colour update syncing has been added to the component colouring action
• Maximum brush size and plane depth have been reduced to (at least temporarily) decrease the amount of network traffic caused by the new syncing

Art

Animations and Emotes

• Saw Tool reload animation has been finished (3rd person)
• Remote explosive related animations are in the making (3rd person)
• One-handed tool fire animation has been made (3rd person)
• Rig has been made for the mounted weapon turret
• Rummage animations are in the making (3rd person)

Stations

• FarLOD texture maps of the Spaceship Shop have been updated
• New farLOD has been added for the Empire and Kingdom versions of the Spaceship Shop
• FarLOD model and texture maps of the Ship Demolish Hall have been updated
• Lot Designer thumbnails have been updated to hall modules: Small 5; Medium 1-3, 5, 7-8, 14, 18; Large 4, 9
• Small Hall 10 has been added to Lot Designer. (Small Hall 9 has also been created, but due to categorizing issues, is still being worked on.)
• Hologram and sign LODs have been updated to work with various distances, but are not yet fully implemented

Weapons

• Antigel Rifle, Autocannon and Rail Gun Turret have had updates on their muzzle flash
• Texture issues and some commit errors with Minigun have been fixed
• Laser Rifle, Bolter and Revolver effects have been updated
• Gauss Rifle VFX (muzzle/trails) and Long Rifle (hit effect) have been updated
• The common hit_12mm effect now has some additional extra longer lasting sparks
• Minor tweaks have been made to Resolver’s muzzle
• Updated inventory icons have been made for Antigel, Battle rifle and Gauss Rifle
• Mounted weapon and autocannon WIP textures have been added and the blue default weapon tintcolor has been enabled

Other

• The wrongly assembled plasma cannons in the ship weapon shop in the Marketplace that had a mix of plasma and laser parts have been fixed
• Asteroid LODs have been optimized to have more LOD levels
• Medium sized asteroids have gained some few clusters and have been adjusted visual

Gallery of the week

Videos

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