Starbase - Progress Notes Week 26 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 26[/h2]
[h3](June 22nd - 26th)[/h3]

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of Week 26, hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3]

Features

• Armor set themed weapons have been added to the economy
  
• Economy configurations, fixes and design have been worked on:
  Weapon set pricing has been adjusted
  Adjustments and fixes have been made to the crafting data
  
• Weapons and electronics have been updated with less used and more logical materials
  
• Player-to-player trading design has undergone fixes
  
• Auction House logic for viewing auctions has been improved on
  
• Auction House usability has been improved and sell page has been simplified
  

Stations/Lot Designer

• Spaceship shop for players to sell their own ships is being made
  
• Colliding art assets in Small Hall 5 have been removed
  
• "Hallway End" -modules' priority snaps have been lowered, resulting in better alignment with the rest of the hallways
  
• Housing slots in Starting station have been replaced with un-rentable ones, in preparation for the upcoming Proia Station
  
• "Small hall 8" has been added to the Lot Designer
  

Other

• Angled beam 72x72: Attachment plates should now snap better
  
• 30 degree beams short ends should now snap together
  

[h3]Code[/h3]

Gameplay

• Small improvements and fixes have been made for player-to-player trade
  
• Player position update has been modified to fix projectiles not to unintentionally hit moving players (for example self shot ship projectiles)
  
• Recovering despawned ships is now possible
  
• Ship recovery should now successfully despawn ships in local station even if spawning fails
  
• Unauthorized removal of bolts should no longer be possible in the safe zone
  
• Durability's Spaceship Designer colors and the misplaced "beam not connected to the largest frame section" warnings have been fixed
  
• "Torque deadzone" now adapts also to highly maneuverable ships, reducing issues with the 1/10000 thrust level steps
  
• An issue where thrusters would operate with outdated input values when the device requirements were restored has been fixed
  
• RangeFinderDevice not hitting its own entity has been fixed
  
• Lot building not progressing beyond the first pieces has been fixed
  

User Interface

• Closing inventory causing lag has been fixed
  
• Auction House Sell Tab is being worked on: Dragging functionality has been added to work with the slots as well as rendering of UI elements
  
• Page buttons have been added to Auction House pages
  
• Trade now gets rejected when the player that doesn't accept the trade modifies the offer
  
• All received trade requests are now rejected when sending a request, so both players don't have active requests from each other
  
• Complex item tooltips and magazine amount not showing correctly to the other player has been fixed
  
• Trading backpacks with items inside has been prevented
  
• Dragged items being dropped in the world when trade was cancelled has been fixed
  
• Rearranging items in the trade window with double-click has been prevented
  
• Bolt Tool helper now warns if there is a bolt profile that is not in usable place
  

Spaceship Designer

• V-snap tool doesn't interact with locked layer objects anymore
  
• A number of issues that occurred when exiting the game via ALT+F4 or similar means while in the
• Spaceship Designer have been fixed
  
• 'Save finished' and 'load finished' log messages have been added to the bottom of the screen
  
• Saving has been prevented when CTRL+S or File/Save is pressed and there are no changes in the scene
  
• Blueprint upload failing when scene is saved after visiting the test mode has been fixed
  
• Pipe, cable and furniture layer opacity settings have been added to settings menu
  
• A bug that caused the settings menu to get stuck in certain situation has been fixed
  
• The brush plane depth slider has been adjusted to increments of 0.25 (previously 0.05)
  
• Temporary modifiers preventing component base color from being properly updated have been fixed
  
• An optional auto deselect feature has been added that deselects highlighted parts upon switching to the paint tool
  
• SSCProperties toggle has been added to temporarily disable premium colors
  
  

[h3]Art[/h3]

Animations and Emotes

• New gameplay animations are underway: move stop to prone, move stop for relaxed run with a rifle, move stop for run with a tool, move stop for run with pickaxe (+relaxed)
  
• Midair death animations polished
  
• Tweaks made to jump and landing related animations (1st person)
  
• Emote_scorn and emote_tantrum are in the making
  

Weapons

• Projectile for rail gun turret is in the works
  
• Autocannon muzzle flash and projectile effects have been modified
  
• Antigel rifle effects have been updated
  
• Battlerifle effects have been updated: hit FX, muzzle flash, and correct reload FX added to the weapon
  

Stations/Lot Designer

• VIS Headquarters A and Empire VIS Headquarters: red color has been adjusted to be deeper and sharper, updated model and texture maps have been added for the office floor
  
• FarLOD model and texture maps of Mass Transit Side Stop have been updated
  
• Marketplace updates
  Main Hall exterior decorations have been updated
  Hangar exterior decorations have been updated
  Holograms are in the making
  
• Blue light strips for imperial capital station are in the making
  

Other

• Initial object (rock) placements for all current large ice asteroids have been made
  
• L-sized sharp asteroid rock formations have been made
  
• UI icons have been made for the ammo categories
  
• Bastion armorset's texture and paintjob quality has been polished
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐