Starbase - Progress Notes Week 14 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 14[/h2]
[h3](March 30th - April 3rd)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 14:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Shoulder piece art for insignia configured
  
• Assembly Job added to Work Hub and is now accessible in game again, after build error fixes
  
• New fracture destruction effect tested, needs polishing and new fracture models
  
• Early game player progression looked into, earning credits with new mining system tested
  
• Ship and ship pricing economy tweaked, making cheap mining ships for new mining system tested
  
• Chat UI worked on, color scheme improved with new color palettes and brighter colors
  
• Chat UI visibility improved on, option to hide or show channel names added
  

Stations

• Faction stations' Ship Design Workshops' instance areas had faulty LoadMode settings, which have now been fixed
  
• The following grid slots have been updated for the upcoming Prospectors shop: Mining hall (Small), Mining hall (Large) and Trading hub hardware (small)
  

Spaceship Designer

• Mockups and designs worked on for the Version Control and Blueprints in Asset Browser
  
• Descriptions for tools added
  

Other

• Vasama Vanette with modular ore cargo crates and resource port finished
  
• New devices under Cargo folder, locale changed: Resource Port is now Resource Bridge
  
• Asset locale updates and fixes: locales added for all type of hinge rods, dimension info added for text panel and ItemNames in ItemComponents fixed
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Projectile spawn position issues when shooting while aboard a ship have been fixed
  
• Other players' tool animations are now synced properly
  
• Thrust is now reduced when the ship structure blocks thruster exhaust
  
• A bug where SawTool would trigger audio events multiple times has been fixed
  
• Blueprints now disappear after using Welding Tool
  
• Blueprints now disappear when a station lot is resigned
  
• Welding Tool's ammo consumption and reload have been updated
  
• Preventing players and their items entering station lots they do not own is in the making
  

User Interface

• Support added for dropping & picking up items bought from shops
  
• Bolt Tool raycast hitting items on player's back has been fixed
  
• Drag and drop code has been refactored
  
• Issues with moving between mining backpack slots and station storage have been fixed
  
• Merge problem with vacuumed ores has been fixed, player can't collect more ores than allowed anymore
  

Audio

• Chat menu sounds have been finished
  
• Spaceship Designer sounds are in the making
  
• Support for common button sounds in various Spaceship Designer UI elements has been implemented
  

Spaceship Designer

• Basic ambient light settings have been added to Spaceship Designer
  
• An issue where entering the Spaceship Designer while still loading a station resulted in significantly lowered FPS has been fixed
  
• Issues where objects were leaking in and out of edit and test modes in Spaceship Designer have been fixed
  
• An issue where the multi user undo system would break when returning from the test mode in multiplayer has been fixed
  
• Spaceship Designer-bought ships spawning in wrong orientation has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations

• New ad animations are in the making
  
• Saw Tool's 1st person reload animation is in the making
  
• Rifle stand aiming animation has been polished
  
• Sitting pickaxe mining animation state has been tweaked
  
• All heavy crouch animations with wrong positioning have been fixed
  
• Prone animations have been polished
  
• Rocket Launcher relaxed crouch transition has been finished, pistol relaxed crouch transition is in the making
  

Other

• New asteroid clusters have been made
  
• The drone rank plates have been updated to be visually more fitting with the armor pieces
  
• Height terrain and cliff rock tests have been made
  
• Skyscraper base module prototype build is in the making
  
• Baseplate armoset's texture polish has bene finished
  
• Flat logos have been made for Reaper Cannon and Sentinel Rifle, older weapon logos have been updated
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐