Starbase - Progress Notes Week 27 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 27[/h2]
[h3](June 29th - July 3rd)[/h3]

Hello everyone, it's time for progress notes again. Here are the notes of week 27, enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3]

Features

Ship machinery and electronic components have been looked into for crafting materials configurations
Crafting data configurations have been updated
New economy configurations made to support crafting data changes
Issues related to sorting auctions has been fixed
Company Jobs tab UI has been updated
Design work for Auction house Sell page continues
Tutorial and the starting experience of the game is being designed
Correct colors have been added to the Paint Tool in Spaceship Designer

Stations

It's now possible to spawn and despawn ships in Proia station's VIS HQ
Grid slot for the upcoming Player spaceship shop has been created, the actual shop is still being worked on by level artists
More rental lots and landing platforms have been added to Proia station

Other

Scrollbars have been added for script and toolbox window in Spaceship Designer
Pipe tool now has a bigger aim sphere

[h3]Code[/h3]

Gameplay

Items carried on back slot have been fixed not to unintentionally push player
Player roll and pitch binds have been added
The temporary solution related to Ore Crate contents has been fixed to properly affect mass centers of structures (thus triggering FCU updates upon crate content changes).
You can no longer grab chairs if someone is sitting there (this prevents "motion sickness simulations")

User Interface

More slots have been added to mining backpack
Normal backpack weapon slot not working has been fixed
Priority device field has been added to Modular Ore Cargo Crates
YOLOL support has been added to resource bridges
Insurance transfer menus now show 15 transfer points, and a scroll bar has been added to insurance terminal
A game crash caused by other player adding a broken item to the trade window has been fixed
Information about graphics settings has been added to Feedback Tool's report data

Spaceship Designer

Default autosave interval has been extended from 10 seconds to 10 minutes
Autosave countdown reset on scene change has been disabled. The option has been removed from the settings menu
The number of locally stored autosave files has been increased from 5 to 20
Paint tool option sliders have been fixed
Filtering search has been added to scene view window in Spaceship Designer
A bug that caused overwriting saved blueprint versions with unsaved changes has been fixed
An issue where paint tool caused test mode to freeze has been fixed
Paint colours now use an index based system instead of directly referring to the mach::COL value
Brush plane depth now works independently of brush size
An issue where paint tool options weren't properly saved when swapping in and out of test mode has been fixed
Brush plane visualization grid not being properly drawn in all situations has been fixed

[h3]Art[/h3]

Animations and Emotes

New one-handed tool draw & holster animation has been made (3rd person)
New one-handed tool crouch relaxed idle animation has been made (3rd person)
New one-handed tool crouch universal tool idle animation has been made (3rd person)
Pickaxe crouch relaxed idle using wrong transition animation has been fixed
Emote_scorn is now finished
Emote_shutdown now has crouch and prone versions of the animation
Stop animations have been polished

Weapons

The autocannon muzzle flash effect has been polished
The laser turret's projectile effect has been tweaked to make it less bright, including changing texture and scale
The rail gun turret projectile has been updated with a new texture, tested with and without trail
The muzzle flash and projectile of the rail gun turret have been modified
Laser turret and rail gun turret effects have been updated
Some muzzle texture issues and broken FX hit components have been fixed
New textures and tweaked behaviour for muzzle added for Mini Gun
Battle rifle and long rifle FX have been tweaked
Rummage rifle animation has been made (3rd person)
New mounted weapon and turret textures are in progress
Updated inventory icons have been added for Revolver, Repeater Pistol, Pistol. (short and long versions)
Updated inventory icons have been added for Minigun, Whiplash and SMG

Stations

FarLOD model and texture maps of Mass Transit Corner Stop have been updated
Tintmask of Mass Transit Side Stop has been updated
Large Hall 9 and Large Hall 3 LOD have been updated
Large hall 4 is in the process of being redesigned to fit the large lot area and will be added back to the Lot Designer once completed
Large hall 7 has been redesigned to fit the large lot area, and added back to Lot Designer
Large hall 3 has been redesigned to fit the large lot area, and added back to Lot Designer
Metro signs have been added
Animated hologram ad and different size variations of it have been made for advertising advertisement space for the players

Other

Hologram effects have been made for gridslot decor plates (not added in the game yet)
Placement tests for sharp asteroid rocks are underway
Work on different moons is underway
New moon2 WIP large rock towers are in the making
Bastion armorset head emissive light was enabled and textures have been slightly fixed
Hunter armorset texture polishing is in progress
Large-sized sharp rock clusters for the rock asteroids have been made
Medium sized asteroid rock formations are in the making
A new texture suitable for beams, made of overlapping particle chains (squishy connection) has been created

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Until next time! 🪐