Starbase - Progress Notes Week 4

[h2]Progress Notes Week 4[/h2]
[h3](January 20th - 24th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! It is time for another week of progress notes!

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• A mock-up designed for new Assembly Job workstation layout
  
• Assembly Hall reworked, so all the workstations can be identical and fit well
  
• Issue where mining backpack's inventory icons were not visible in game fixed
  
• Font, text locations, names and other changes made for Player Profile page
  
• Tax related design worked on and new tax values tested
  
• Mining laser statistics and damage adjusted
  

Stations

• New starting station 'Capital Imperial A' has been created and added to the universe
  
• Threshold in marketplace hangar module has been lowered, since it caused the player to get stuck
  
• Blueprint terminals have been removed from take off docks
  

Spaceships

• Veles' armor plating improved and propellant tanks fixed
  
• Beam structure near rear triangle thruster stack on Ithaca v4 reinforced
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Ship LODs warping out of place when viewing client warps to a new cell fixed
  
• Camera panning fixes made
  
• Issues with missile thruster propellant consumption fixed and tested
  
• Torque adjustments made and issue fixed with torpedo YOLOL
  
• Rotation and translation by thrust adjusted
  
• Effect-support added on torpedo maneuver thrusters
  
• Ship prices can now be configured
  

User interface

• Issue with bank's inventory scrollable items not clipping correctly fixed
  
• A bug where newly created characters were not able to equip weapons fixed
  
• Ores bought to backpack from shop will now be stacked and merged with current ores in the inventory
  
• Material amount bought is now in kilovoxels instead of voxels
  
• Item on the backpack slot is now spawned / removed when the item on the large backpack slot changes
  
• Swapping items via quickbar only unequipping current item on hand fixed
  
• Backpack changes not reacting to swap (item on large slot wouldn't change on player's back) fixed
  
• Item Shop code refactored
  
• Message of the Day added to the main menu and infobox added to it
  
• Common function for "Click to edit" input boxes added
  

Audio

• Player context tracking improved
  
• Context tracking added for projectile-environment collisions
  
• First iteration of battle logic now works
  

Renderer

• Depth scaling added to particle emit rate
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Hall LODs updated
  
• VIS main hall exterior decoration: windows placed in loading docks and other floors
  

Weapons

• Proper textures and paintjobs added for the Sentinel rifle
  
• Sentinel rifle now has a 3rd person reload animation
  
• Torpedo trail effects updated and new explosion effect made for the hit
  

Other

• Snapping points and rotations of multiple models fixed
  
• Slanted triangles fixed
  
• Combat shield orientation and position fixed
  
• New 3D stars single object has been made and skybox updated
  
• Cargo crate updated: lid won't clip with the crate itself anymore
  
• Thruster nozzle textures fixed
  
• Problems with voxel generation in the displays of the modular control asset set fixed
  
• Preliminary HUD icons for transponder states have been made
  
• Rank plates for the drones armor sets made
  
• Asteroid base material adjustments
  
• Sit animations when wielding a weapon/tool are being worked on
  
• Landing animation for pickaxe
  
• Crouched relax in/out animations for rifle and pickaxe polished
  Distance scaling to existing weapon effects being implemented
  
• Particle visibility on plasma turrets tests underway
  
• Beam for weaker laser cutting tool updated
  

Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and Frozenbyte's blog for pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🚀