Starbase - Progress Notes Week 5

[h2]Progress Notes Week 5[/h2]
[h3](January 27th - 31st)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 5:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Assembly Hall station modules updated with fixed level art
  
• Cargo Crate configurations tested, after some code rework the Crates now work properly
  
• New single entity object created from the new Cargo Crate components
  
• Economy configurations: new items added to market, infantry weapon pricing adjusted and general economy rule adjustments were made
  
• Insurance transfer terminals added to the new station
  
• Autocannon electricity usage increased from 110 to 150 per bullet
  
• Autocannon projectile velocity reduced from 900 to 800
  
• Utility panels:
  Design for UI that players use to move resources (power, propellant, building materials) between station storage and lot/ship devices. Design for basic alternative, automatically providing devices with resources from storage
  
• Station storage:
  Design for updated station item storage UI logic, targeting better filtering and sorting of item grid. Design for shop UI adjustments improving interaction with station storage
  

Stations

• Skyscraper modules have been updated to minimize the needed module and instance amount
  
• Station lot areas have been made compatible with the upcoming Utility panel
  
• Capital Imperial A's missing MapPartNames have been added
  
• Landing platforms in Capital Imperial A have been relocated due to possible collisions with the public transport
  
• Collisions caused by the "slanted triangle" asset update have been fixed
  

Spaceships

• Twist handles for propellant containers added for Zilant
  
• Cable added to Lancer, to fix an issue where lever was not connected to the data network
  
• Mining laser and mining laser controls removed from Ithaca V2 and V4
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• An issue fixed, where camera panning to YOLOL chip resulted in an unplayable game state when the chip was destroyed
  
• YOLOL chip is now locked when pressing escape while zoomed into it
  
• Support added for safezones that are larger than a single universe cell
  
• Chat notifications for leaving/approaching/entering safe zones have been added
  
• Building tool now restores object armor/environment damage as well as voxel damage
  
• Showroom ships loading into the main menu fixed
  
• Support added for cargo crates having the latch on the crate rather than the lid
  
• Sitting rotation restrictions updated, feature implemented for pilot chairs
  
• Custom ships can now be created via SSC
  
• Client showing incorrect prices for some items fixed
  
• Economy now treats bolts, cables and pipes within ships correctly
  

User interface

• An issue where materials dropped to the world spawned in wrong sized cubes has been fixed
  
• Dragging not starting when pressing LMB and dragging item out of equipment slots has been fixed
  
• Weapon with magazine not reloading on the first try after logging has been fixed
  
• Opening animation has been added to the main menu's message box
  

Audio

• Damage signalling has been updated
  
• Main menu state has been implemented
  
• Background music in SSC has been fixed
  
• Tracking of aggressive players added to detect end of battle better
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Art notes

• VIS headquarters has been fully updated with level art
  
• New logo sign pieces have been made
  
• Texture stretching on device rack cores and the new socket to the socket core have been added
  
• Thruster textures and tintmasks have been finished
  
• UI inventory category icons have been updated
  
• Resource Grid Utility Panel and Resource Grid Utility Box have been added (allow transfer of resources between station storage and devices)
  
• Alpha moons have been updated
  
• Backpacks: Thruster pack textures updated and paintjobs added
  
• Armor sets: All base armor pieces were fixed to have white base colour
  
• New asteroids made and some distance/size tests made with them
  
• Asteroid base material microdetail/color adjustments and testing has been made
  
• The depth based emission of particles modified (reducing particles based on distance)
  
• Particles added to thrusters
  
• Existing flamer effect reworked and new hit effect made for it
  
• The laser turret hit effect updated with depth settings
  
• Landing animations have been polished
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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

Until next time! 🚀