Starbase - Progress Notes Week 12 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 12[/h2]
[h3](March 16th - 20th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 12:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Instancing area configured and added to ship showroom
  
• Mining Job instancing issues with parent hierarchy fixed
  
• Buzzsaw damage configured and tested, the tool is now more balanced
  
• Pickaxe testing and adjusting: no longer a good weapon against materials with high armor value
  
• Mining Hall rotation fixed in Work Hub grid slot
  
• Ore zone weight configurations that were producing unwanted outcomes in ore distribution were fixed
  
• New items added to the economy, old economy configurations fixed and adjusted and locales worked on for economy
  
• New updated design worked on for Universal tool: incorporating device network operator systems and evaluating potential commonalities with transponder visuals
  
• Hinge bolt profiles updated
  

Stations

• All Spaceship Design Workshops have been updated, Workspaces rotated, relocated and their amounts raised from 6 to 8, LOD update is still pending
  
• 'Large Hall 6' added to Station Designer. Thumbnail, windows and exterior decoration still pending
  
• The "destroyed" grid slots have been added to the Kingdom Outpost B -station
  

Spaceships

• Gunship Lancer: older hinge replaced with newer model
  
• Spaceship Kodiak: older hinge replaced with newer model
  

Spaceship Designer

• Asset names and locales updated
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Massive lot blueprint memory usage has been fixed
  
• Reloadable tools and ammo conversion have been tweaked
  
• Beam effect support and network sync have been added for the Welding Tool
  
• Welding Tool now highlights objects that can be welded and its timer visualizations are finished
  

User Interface

• A bug that caused dragged items to stretch has been fixed
  
• Icons and ammunition amounts being in the wrong place for right hand and leg have been fixed
  
• Slot rendering to handle special cases in backpack has been refactored
  
• A bug that allowed modular limbs to overlap with other items in the backpack has been fixed
  
• Material UI slot rendering code has been refactored
  
• Mining backpack slots' hovering problems have been fixed
  
• Snapping to closest possible bolt profile location, when within BoltToolComponent defined area has been implemented
  
• Bolt profile visualizations have been adjusted so that snapping target is visible
  
• Feedback Tool's sidebar menu has been finished and localizations are underway
  

Audio

• Sound issues when releasing buttons inside inventory have been fixed
  
• A damage audio event for 'armor damage' has been added
  
• Audio support has been added to sorter buttons, 3D menu tabs and lists
  
• The most of the list item interaction sounds have been finished
  
• Insurance menu tab buttons for proper audio support refactoring underway
  

Spaceship Designer

• Saving a blueprint when editing custom ship no longer disables changes to the in-game ship
  
• Selecting modules no longer selects components behind them in Spaceship Designer
  
• Rotational stability of object chains in Spaceship Designer has been improved
  

Planets

• Weapon down scoping heavily dropping FPS on planet surfaces has been fixed
  

Renderer

• Double buffering has been added for skyboxes
  
• Applying environmental damage on the planet is in the making
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Final fixes to VIS decal bleed have been made
  
• VIS HQ empire grid slots' additional art has been added
  
• Assembly Hall LODs have been finished, some LOD updates made to modules
  
• Asteroid Hall farLODs have been finished and tintmask coloured
  
• New windows have been added to mega stations
  
• FarLODs have been added for all shop modules
  
• An UV mirroring issue with Market Station has been fixed
  
• Commercial signs for Sunny Ship Center are underway: perspective fixes, final touches and optimizations made
  

Animations

• More animations have been added to Market Station, an animation for sell shop is in the making
  
• 'Offers ad' rotation direction has been fixed
  
• Pickaxe relaxed run/walk animations have been polished
  
• Pilot aim and pistol aim animations have been polished
  
• Sit aim animation updates are in the making
  

Other

• Bastion armor set's elbow position has been fixed
  
• Bulwark armor set's textures and paintjobs polished
  
• Object (rock) placements for asteroids updated and new asteroid clusters have been finished
  
• Modular battery redesign in the making that includes a status bar indicator
  
• New job instance effects have been added
  
• Weapon flat logos are in the making
  
• New logos for laser and auto-cannon turrets have been made
  
• Buzzsaw hit effect has been updated
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐