Starbase - Progress Notes Week 7 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 7[/h2]
[h3](February 10th - 14th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 7:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Shop search bars should be deactivated if the player looks outside of the screen
  
• Small changes to tooltips, moving text and testing possible layout changes
  
• Material armor value updates: Now medium-high caliber infantry weapons cause damage to objects faster
  
• Shotgun projectile mass increased to make it little more effective against light armors
  
• Economy configurations for the Empire Outpost station
  
• General design worked on for significant updates to equipment and storage UIs
  
• Small adjustments made to the Utility Panel technical design to simplify components required
  

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Issue where Autobolt "Apply to selection" mode leaves some plates unbolted fixed
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Support added for showing locations in the universe in the main menu
  
• Ship thruster exhausts damage and push components & players have been added
  
• Bounds & selection related issues in autobolting have been fixed
  
• Bolting of a moving target has been fixed
  
• Support added for ammo stacking
  
• New bolt indicators have been added to the Bolt Tool
  

User Interface

• Player invitations are now case sensitive
  
• The maximum amount of Company ranks is now 50
  

Audio

• A check added for player shooting inside a ship (to filter out incorrect battle detection)
  
• A bug where battle music was triggered inside safe zones has been fixed
  
• Interactable buttons' audio issues have been fixed
  

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Station tech refactoring changes have been merged into the main codebase. Most systems now support player stations
  
• Multiplayer issues in mining job have been fixed
  
• Custom ships now automatically spawn to the world after buying them instead of being put in the inventory
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Holograms in multiple areas has been finished
  
• Skyscraper walls have been finished
  
• Decoration for skyscraper elevator chutes, pillars and floors have been finished
  
• Assembly Job/Spaceship Factory/Spaceship Shop/Asteroid Collection ads have been created
  
• Mining Job ad has been updated
  
• Rotation support has been added to signs and signs no longer cast shadow
  
• VIS office floor LOD updated
  

Moons and Asteroids

• Moon rock material has been updated
  
• Material for rough asteroid rocks made and tested on different sizes of rocks
  
• Large and medium size rock topology fixes have been made
  
• Texture scales for solid planet asteroids have been updated
  
• The most of the asteroid surface object settings have been added and tweaked
  

Other

• Several transition animations have been made for entering/exiting "weapon lowered" and universal tool stances
  
• New emotes have been added, animations' hand lengths modified
  
• Animations for landing during movement have been polished
  
• The skybox has been updated and made slightly less brighter
  
• Cargo crate textures and tintmasks have been updated
  
• UI: Item storage filter icons: 6 categories with 4 states. Used to filter out and hide items when browsing item storages
  
• UI: An additional icon to the category filter set to represent misc and semi-built asset combinations in inventory has been added
  
• Resource Port asset: concept and preliminary model are done
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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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! 🪐