Starbase - Progress Notes Week 17 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 17[/h2]
[h3](April 20th - 24th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 17, hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Material purity features and UI design are underway
  
• Balance adjustment: Weapon body electricity conversion increased from 500 to 1500 electricity per second
  
• Balance adjustment: Reduced Rechargeable Battery electricity storage capacity from 20,000 to 10,000 units
  
• Balance adjustments tested and configurations made to ships to support that
  
• Furnace math reworked and debugged into a "final" form, it can now survive from possible design alterations
  
• Inventory icons fixed for turret pieces
  
• Design for resource net integration with inventory systems continues
  
• Prototype options for Lictor fire control system updates worked on
  
• Design for Company functions continues, Shared property and blueprints design, Member and Rank access pages and Job access design worked on
  
• Design for armor color customization continues
  

Stations

• Marketplace alley terminal placement has been fixed, it was hidden inside level art
  

Spaceships

• Furnace ship testing continues, main goal was to test if the ship can handle all the mass of the furnace modules and fly properly
  
• Autocannon ammo clip rotations fixed in Lictor, Veles and Lancer
  
• Pre-cabled/pipe bolted modules worked on: plates added, new small extension module with 3 hardpoints (Wing prototype module), hatches added for main thruster module and buttons added for hatches in modules
  
• Asteroid hauling ship tests underway, some issues found when hauling bigger asteroids
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• The rental lot content offset issue has been fixed
  
• Hinge joints not opening/closing properly has been fixed
  
• Support added for initial building limits for in-game structures
  
• A delay in starting looped joint sounds has been fixed
  
• Support added for pre-made ships that have autogenerated LODs
  
• Assembly Job rewarding system issues have been resolved
  
• An issue fixed where the first hit on an asteroid wouldn’t spawn nuggets
  
• Thruster grabbing regarding converters has been fixed
  
• Bugs in lot file caching have been fixed
  

User Interface

• Resource Bridge syncing has been updated and support for selling material has been added
  
• Feedback Tool’s keybindings have been updated and code refactored
  

Audio

• Building Tool’s building audio not working when fixing things has been fixed
  
• Spaceship Designer toggle button sounds have been added
  
• Missing UI sounds and drop-down menu audio support have been added
  
• The most of the lot terminal menu audio has been implemented
  

Spaceship Designer

• Placement and preview spamming are now prevented
  
• An assert that occurred when spamming selection transformation or when pasting a single bolt has been fixed
  
• Group selection system breaking when returning from test mode has been fixed
  
• Incorrect module LOD position saving has been fixed
  
• Station designer's asset browser tooltips have been enhanced and localized
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations

• Ad animation scaling has been updated and other small issues have been resolved
  
• Additional info ads have been added to market station
  
• Welding Tool now has animations for welding and reloading (1st person)
  
• Animation blend times have been improved between idle and movement states (3rd person)
  
• Mid-air death animations are in the making
  

Moons and Asteroids

• New rocks have been added to alpha moons
  
• Ice asteroid materials have been adjusted, multi-material tests have been made
  
• Snow and frosty rock materials for asteroids is in the making, multi-materials tests have been made
  
• The positions and rotations of the largest asteroid clusters have been adjusted
  

Other

• Pipe Tool UV mapping has been finished
  
• Tintcolors and fracture textures have been added to the beam fracture models, plate material has been added to the plate fracture models
  
• Weapon turret assets have been finished
  
• Flight test mode button icon has been added to Spaceship Designer
  
• Autocannon and weapon body assets have been updated
  
• Fogs have been adjusted
  
• Cliff rock density tests are underway
  
• Medium modules exterior decorations update is underway
  
• Steadfast armor set's texture and paintjob quality have been polished
  
• Market station’s shop decorations update is underway
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐