Week 36 (August 31st -September 6th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 36:

Design

Features

• Design for being able to adjust auto-generated LOD detail in Spaceship Designer has been worked on
• First version of the Demolition Job has been finalized
• Repair Job design has been updated
• Ore Collector has been tested and reconfigured, it can now be found from shops and the Spaceship Designer
• Material distribution design has been worked on
• Radiation and scanner design continues
• Iteration on factory devices is underway:
  • Blueprint projector basic feature testing and design iteration
  • Design review and iteration for robot arm tools
  • Reworking old design for factory printer field devices
• Design for bolt-less attachment system and joint attachment/detachment feature is in the works
• Floating and overlapping pieces on Demolition Job ships have been fixed
• Design for controller support and keybind layout has been worked on

Stations

• New player spaceships and spaceship shops added: Rando 3 and Okim Industries 2
  • Starting station’s layout has been changed accordingly
• “Hallway End” -modules have been updated: Missing priority snaps added and exterior made to match other hallway modules better.
• “Hallway ramp” -modules have been added to Lot Designer
• Work hub direction sign updated to match the new station layout
• The issue of PvP Station not showing up in the build has been fixed

Spaceships / Spaceship Designer

• Spaceship Designer:
  • Windows frame 192x36x24 is now in “Windows Frame” folder, the default color has been changed to match with other plates
  • Crafting data has been fixed for Curved window Frame 120x120x24 cm, Window Frame 96x36x24 cm, Window Frame 144x36x24 cm and Window Frame 192x36x24 cm; these plates are no longer considered as windows
  • Socket tool cable/pipe now counts towards Cable limit in Spaceship Designer
• Spaceships:
  • Ithaca IV: overlap issue in the beam structure has been fixed

Code

Gameplay

• Automatic scrap deletion inside safe zones has been enabled
• Durability now considers unbolted parts to belong in a structure (especially in Spaceship Designer editing) if they are connected in-game via two bolt-less connection technologies
• Mass center calculations of single-entity structures of reasonable size have been fixed
• Cargo mass locations experiencing semi-random lag, causing especially faster carrier ships to behave oddly, has been fixed
• Bolting now supports thinner object combinations than before
• Blueprint projector basic functionality is done
• Issues with weapons with single-shot magazine not reloading successfully after the first shot have been fixed
• Remote explosives implementation is underway

Audio

• First iteration of trigger device has been added

Spaceship Designer

• Save confirmation has been added before resetting or loading a new scene
• Potential fix for infinite Multi-user System overlap loop bugs has been worked on
• Overlap debugger rendering only one of the overlapping components has been fixed
• Action execution speed has been increased for many actions that used to check for overlaps without actually needing to, this used to cause lag spikes especially on large ships
• Lot blueprint holograms not showing up the first time after a lot is rented and edited has been fixed

Art

Animations and Emotes

• Work on remote explosive animations continues
• 3rd person animations for resource port nozzle are in the making

Stations

• Grid slot decorations have been updated due to legacy asset removals
• 2 animated holograms for the upcoming “Second hand spaceship shop” have been made
• Holograms for the upcoming “Advertisement Designer” have been categorized
• FarLOD texture maps of Demolish Hall have been updated
• Legacy assets have been removed and replaced with proper ones in Command Center
• Legacy assets have been removed and replaced with proper ones in Small Hallway modules
• Icons for the following assets have been made
  • Basic and Angled outer plates
  • Rail objects
  • Office chair parts
• Logo hologram mesh for the upcoming DURΛTΞCH spaceship shop has been added
• Hologram LODs of Starting station’s red sector have been updated

Weapons

• Explosive drill textures have been added
• Mining Saw sparks have been adjusted by making them more constant in direction along with numerous other tweaks
• Laser Cutter hit point and effects have been adjusted
• Mounted AutoCannon shoot and hit has been updated

Other

• New asteroid belt optimization and configuration is underway
• Wrong texel density on “Plate Basic 432x432cm” has been fixed

Gallery of the week

Videos

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