Week 40 (September 28th -October 2nd)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 40:

Design

Features

• Ore Collectors adjustable power consumption design has been finished
• Universal Tool usability improvements regarding ship blueprint have been designed
• Armor system testing is underway, values have been fixed and tested based on feedback
• Material design: density values of heaviest ores have been fixed to make them less painful for ships to carry around
• First phase of transponder re-design has been completed and code tasks were created

Stations

• DURATΞCH Spaceship shop has been added to Starting station
• Crusader’s “Nate” has been placed back into Okim Industries’ spaceship shop 2
• Duplicate ships “Vigo”, “Port Authority Shuttle” and “Merino” have been removed from Rando spaceship shop 2 and Okim Industries’ spaceship shop 2
• New player spaceships have been added:
  • Salamander, Transferens (updated), Consultor, The Martok, Mitersaw, Walter, Chemos Badger-28, Bumble, Worker Ant, Marmot-TNK, Modulus FR, Modulus MN, Modulus, Markolf Typ1, Javelin, Immerius

Spaceships / Spaceship Designer

• Design for thruster device field automatic naming to match Main Flight Computer in Spaceship Designer was finished
• Virtual mass for ore crates in Spaceship Designer has been worked on; allows testing how cargo mass would affect spaceship durability and behavior

Other

• Shipwreck for upcoming Repair Job is under work and being tested

Code

Gameplay

• Work on station building continues
• Work on ship-to-ship resource transfer continues
• Work on Repair Job continues
• A fix was made for Player velocity to not start immediately decaying after unseating (with mag boots turned off)
• Sound manager anomalies, related to frequently changing sound sources being handled as a combination, have been reduced
• Frame integrity now detects chains of poorly connected frame beams, further reducing for example the exploitability of replacing long beams with several short ones
• A fix was made for angular forces being produced on other objects by thruster exhausts
• Pushing things with exhausts has been made less stable

User Interface

• A fix was made for item shop not having savior for preview
• A fix was made for item sell panel not updating icon
• A frame for test flight mode tooltip was made and tested in a few places that could be used to open or close it
• The implementation of dialog for test flight tooltips has been started

Audio

• Bullet impact sound system has been worked on

Spaceship / Station Designer

• Station part count limit added to Mega Station Designer
• Station build area limit added to Mega Station Designer
• Rotating multiple objects in local space now chooses the local space of the latest chosen component

Art

Animations and Emotes

• Work on remote explosive animations continues
• Work on 1st person emotes continues
• New rifle fire animations have been made (3rd person)
• Rummage animation has been polished (3rd person)

Stations

• Floating holograms have been removed around Work Hub

 Armor

• New upcoming armor set “Praetorian”
• Strix armorset texture quality polished and paintjobs have been updated
• Adamant armorset texture quality polishing in progress
• Updated Mining Saw effects by reducing them in size to make them less prominent and dominating over the action
• Updated Pickaxe Hit VFX to be quicker and the sparks more random
• Updated the Mounted Laser Hit VFX to be more stronger and intense at the point of impact

Other

• Large ice asteroid tests are underway
• A new version of the audio signal device has been made
• All Ship Designer asset icons should now be finished and assigned

Gallery of the week

Videos

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See you next week!🪐