Starbase - Progress Notes Week 13 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 13[/h2]
[h3](March 23rd - 27th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 13:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Assembly Job tested, Bolt Profile snapping feature made the bolting really easy
  
• Assembly Job tested, item blocker entities added on each doorway so objects cannot be thrown through the doorways
  
• Buzzsaw power usage configured to 10/sec, which equals to 100 seconds of continuous sawing with one power pack
  
• Bolt Tool and the bolt profile override feature tested, works without issues
  
• Chat features worked on, default settings adjusted
  
• Insurance terminals' location and parenting fixed in origin map
  
• Mining Job tested in the new Work Hub, working without issues
  

Stations

• Empire VIS HQ grid slot has been updated: structures inside the slot have been relocated and rotated to enable a better view of the Capital
  
• Mining Job grid slot has been replaced with the Work Hub grid slot
  

Spaceship Designer

• Locales fixed and updated
  
• Economy design worked on
  

Other

• Socket position changed in battery asset, cabling adjusted in ships with battery to fit this change
  
• Locales added for objects and resources
  
• New armor sets added to starting mega station economy
  
• A moon rocket worked on, flights to the moon tested
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Rental lot blueprint unloading has been improved
  
• An issue where non-loaded rental lots crashed the editor on stopping the game has been fixed
  
• Blueprints appearing inside already built objects has been fixed
  
• When the client stops operating a ship in a despawn area, the ship now immediately despawns
  
• Sitting issue with cradle mounted chairs has been fixed
  
• SawTool sound effects have been implemented and bugs surrounding it have been fixed
  
• Welding Tool beam effect has been refactored
  
• Restriction added to detaching to station lots that the player has access to, so players can't detach whatever parts they want
  
• The detachment network synchronization has been finished, the Welding Tool is now ready for testing
  

User Interface

• An issue where ore processing made only one processed entry at a time has been fixed
  
• Picking up magazines now moves ammo
  
• An issue has been fixed where items disappeared from the sell list when the player sold 0 amount of the item
  
• Position of the damaged item indicator has been fixed
  
• Containers not filling up correctly when picking up ores fixed
  
• Swapping and merging ores in the mining backpack works now as well as dragging between the bank tab and the mining slots
  
• Snapping to closest possible bolt profile location, when within BoltToolComponent defined area has been implemented
  
• Feedback Tool has been updated and the tool's data management has been refactored
  

Audio

• Missing sort button sounds have been added
  
• Item shop transaction button sounds and item sell menu button sounds have been added
  

Spaceship Designer

• 'Continuous placement' option has been added for asset placement. Enabling this option allows the user to keep placing the asset until cancelled
  
• A bug that allowed entering the test mode while undo actions were still being execute has been fixed
  
• A Blueprint type metadata has been added to blueprints. This value can be used to filter blueprints, for example to display only ship or station blueprints
  
• Some of Spaceship Designer's network messages unintentionally leaking to peers not inside the Spaceship Designer session has been fixed
  
• A basic paint tool with point and click colouring has been added. The tool supports undoing and redoing
  
• A client timeout when attempting to join a hosted session with a large map has been fixed
  
• Save selection as blueprint functionality has been fixed
  

Planets

• Moon terrain rock collisions have been optimized
  

Renderer

• Planet hit detection for projectiles has been implemented
  
• Skybox stretching during baking caused by direction blending has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• New signs for the frame shop at back alley are underway
  
• Frame shop ad adjustments are in the making
  
• Job instance effects for station use: proper UV's to the basic shapes so that UV scrolling can be used with them added as well as building blocks that can be used in the making of ads
  
• Prospector shop module exterior decoration has been finalized
  
• Station hall LODs have been updated
  
• UV scroll support added to the flat font used in ads and signs
  
• New windows added to station halls
  
• Landing platform lighting in the making
  
• LODs updated in ship repair maps
  

Animations

• New animations and polishes to ads have been made
  
• Pistol run animations have been polished
  
• Sitting reload animation has been polished
  
• An animation for the sell shop has been updated
  

Other

• New asteroid clusters have been made
  
• Bulwark armoset's textures and paintjobs have been polished
  
• Modular Battery's socket location has been fixed
  
• More weapon flat logos have been added to the game
  
• Effects and beam types have been added to Welding Tool's attach/detach mode
  
• New beam end models which could replace the particle effects have been tested
  
• Dashed line effects have been made for ad use
  
• Some armor set piece configs that did not allow the pieces to be dropped to the game world have been fixed
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐