Week 27: transition to 4k done

Its been a very busy week. So much so that for this week I am not going to edit this post too much, instead it will just be a list of the things I've done this week. In diary form. Sort of. Here we go:

1. increased droprate in singleplayer matches compared to multiplayer matches in order to promote SP more
   
2. removed C key being used for some attack move type thing
   
3. You now always get only The Sunfish in the tutorial as a blueprint.
   
4. I added the following to the tutorial tooltip for the sunfish: ". There are dozens of ships and weapons to unlock in this game. Kill ships to find more blueprints!"
   
5. Hopefully this will make it extra clear to new players that there is more stuff to unlock, since i've gotten feedback that people dont know about it
   
6. all ships now have thumbnails
   
7. added descriptions to all ships (descriptions provided or inspired by Laoch)
   
8. disabled surveyor and harvester in BR
   
9. spaced out Sunfish description more in the tutorial
   
10. updated minimap visuals again
    
11. restyled main menu a bit
    
12. made yellow letters in the main menu more white to make it more homogeneous
    
13. harvester build button is now hidden until a refinery is made
    
14. surveyor build button is now hidden in battle royale
    
15. Renamed the description of the brachio from battlecruiser to warship
    
16. Removed some MP3's, changed brachio's description, changed main menu styling
    
17. You can now no longer see buttons for upgrade shipyard beam, flak or missile in battle royale (since there is no shipyard)
    
18. Ship button data is now retrieved on game start, then hidden and the economy tab is opened (unless its in BR, then the ship menu stays open). This fixes the ship build list flickering on game start
    
19. 4k tooltips need serious work, working on it
    
20. replaced wave survival setup background
    
21. font size of tooltip now scales to 4k
    
22. tooltips are now readable in 4k
    
23. refined minimap and tooltip style
    
24. enemy tooltips now no longer have the red border but have a red title text instead
    
25. Healthbars now scale to 4k
    
26. building upgrade buttons text and icons now scale to 4k
    
27. Ship button data is now retrieved on game start, then hidden and the economy tab is opened (unless its in BR, then the ship menu stays open). This fixes the ship build list flickering on game start
    
28. fixed shield bar and text sizes
    
29. added a border around ship build buttons that i might add to all other buttons as well
    
30. restyled ingame menu and tabs and added the health, icons and fleet toggles
    
31. tweaked menu tab icons and positioning
    
32. copied old toggle buttons functionity to the new GUI
    
33. Spent 3 hours arguing with unity over something that should just work. It works now with an less than elegant solution. So I'm one step closer to the tooltip hovers working again on menu items
    
34. Added re-selection of units upon clicks of GUI buttons
    
35. Added sound effect for jump button click and for escape menu open
    
36. ship tooltips now work on hover in the new menu
    
37. tooltips now work for ships and buildings in the new menu
    
38. added tooltips for constructionboost, jumpbutton, mediumbutton, heavybutton, flakbutton, beambutton, missilebutton, artillerybutton, supportbutton, escalationbutton
    
39. Added tooltip for icons, health, tight and loose fleet toggle. Refind harvester and surveyor tooltips.
    
40. wrote descriptions for all ability buttons
    
41. moved region button in main menu more to the right
    
42. toggle icons are now actually hidden when you open cinematic cam or hide GUI
    
43. updated speed module tooltips (thanks @algor)
    
44. made minimap scaling more dynamic and reduced minimap size
    
45. fixed adma, bongolongo, tuberat and typec thumbnails
    
46. removed 1200 lines of code from one of our most messy scripts
    
47. building upgrades work again and now scale properly to 4k
    
48. objective box of tutorial is now wider
    
49. top textbox is now centered correctly
    
50. using cinematic camera is now a tutorial objective
    
51. tooltip title is now no longer red after first hovering over an enemy and then over a menu button
    
52. tooltip title is now no longer red after first hovering over an enemy and then hovering over a zabu repair, mine, plant, beacon or asteroid
    
53. Thomas(StellarWarfare) — 20-07-2021
    
54. added a check that when placing building it checks if the objects it will display a Height of are actually in view of the camera. if the camera can't see it then it will no longer show those 'height' indicators. This prevents the 'floating height values' bug.
    
55. Fixed the 'building height indicator' font size and styling in 4K and the background of it in HD
    
56. restyled the leave confirmation menu
    
57. unit icons now scale for 4k as well as HD
    
58. made leave confirmation text yellow to stand out more
    
59. Not sure if it was ever reported, but when you go to the tutorial and then go to skirmish or wave defense you will still get tutorial voice overs and objectives. I have now disabled it by forcing the game variant to be gamevariant.regular whenever going to skirmish, wave defense or multiplayer matches. It can then be overridden later if required, but it prevents the issue
    
60. Added the Engager and Cleaver ships. Made thumbnails for them.
    
61. restyled all menu buttons
    
62. moved control buttons to the top
    
63. moved build menu to the bottom
    
64. removed power and metal costs for buttons and added them to the tooltips instead
    
65. changed the display order of buildings
    
66. added an effect to all ship and building buttons
    
67. changed border styling for all ship and building buttons
    
68. replaced the minimap again
    
69. basically restyled entire GUI today
    
70. made new styling for the tabs
    
71. changed the colors of a lot of buttons to be roughly the same shade of blue
    
72. added the Railcannon (medium, half railgun damage, half railgun cooldown)
    
73. resized all ship and building thumbnails from 256x256 to 75x75 and move the menu back to the top right. styled icon and health toggles. reduced size of build menu tabs so that they fit in line with the rest of the buttons. made ship button texts smaller. changed ship and building buttons overlay for better readability. changed tooltips for ships so that they display the ship frame name first and then the players custom name for the ship (I.e. Corvette - Titankiller)
    
74. power and metal icons and values are now visible for all ship, building, ability and upgrade buttons that have costs associated with them
    
75. Disabled the local firing script when we are networking. This fixes the 'cooldown twice as fast' bug
    
76. cut lens dirt effect in half
    
77. powerplant cost is now displayed properly
    
78. added debug info to each of the victory conditions
    
79. added the Raider medium tank
    
80. removed old health/stealth canvas from each ship since it might increase performance more
    
81. removed all old stealth indicator and health bars from buildings
    
82. added a second sunfish blueprint to make sure people find them.
    
83. made and set thumb for the Hunter
    
84. removed surveyor and harvester stealth icon
    
85. if you find ship frames in the loot it now uses a 256x256px image rather than the 75x75 px used for buttons
    
86. check if all ships and module loot and button images work (they do)
    
87. now using 256x256 image for buttons again because the quality is just more crisp. So reverted all ship and building icons. Double checked blueprint images for modules, ships and weapons as well
    
88. set default images for each
    
89. hovering over the economy tooltip will now show how much power and metal you have gained in the previous minute
    
90. units dying is now more gradual
    
91. new players now get a popup to set their name
    
92. cleaned up todo list
    
93. changed some tooltip texts
    
94. disabled some debug texts
    
95. added a check to make sure a player set name field not having reference to the popup would not cause errors
    
96. in battle royale only the ships and ability menu should be visible now
    
97. fixed transport still having stealth icon
    
98. fixed a bug algor pointed out about the default ship weapons reverting to Auto Howitzers. Fixed now with his help
    
99. beam weapon Battle royale bug is fixed @Brackman
    
100. neutral structures in BR are now twice as big for better visibility
     
101. added icons to neutral structures
     
102. removed icons from neutral structures because it looked ugly
     
103. increased amount of transports that spawn in Battle Royale from 3 to 6
     
104. made sparks on the nano repari stations less big
     

That's it. Hopefully I can clear the rest of the todo list early next week so that I still have some spare time for marketing. The GUI rework set me back 9 days instead of the expected 3, so I'm fairly short on time. I will keep you guys up to date though!