Starbase - Progress Notes Week 35 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 35[/h2]
[h3](August 24th - 30th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 35 - hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3]

Features

• Two versions of Urchin have been added to the Demolition Job
  
• Demolition Job rewards have been tested and balanced
  
• Refuel terminals have been added to ore towers
  
• Radioactive materials and trade design have been worked on
  

User Interface

• The foundations of the Advertisement Designer were tasked
  
• The finalization of the Ship info page design is in the works
  

Stations

• Work Hub update:
  
  • Assembly hall has been removed
    
  • Hall for the upcoming repair job has been placed
    
  • Platform for landing and take-off has been added
    
• Weapon and Ammunition -terminals' locations have been adjusted
  
• Take-off terminals and instancing areas have been placed to various landing platforms
  

[h3]Code[/h3]

Gameplay

• Cargo Beam devices properly update their power consumption and no longer lock onto their own structure
  
• Torque deadzone adaptation should now be stable also in ships with multiple FCUs
  
• Cables and pipes in ship blueprints can be fixed using Cable/Pipe Tool
  
  • Cables and pipes layers have been added to blueprint tab in Universal Tool, uncategorized layer has been merged with miscellaneous layer
    
• Bolts, cables and pipes should no longer be worth extra credits when in stacks
  
• Ammo stack creation now also sets the primary material for the stack instead of leaving it invalid
  
• A bug with item collections not being listed in sell terminals has been fixed.
  

User Interface

• Density calculation has been fixed
  
• A bug with tooltips values not being initialized, causing UI to sometimes show incorrect values, has
• been fixed
  
• A bug that allowed moving ores and items too big to fit inventory slots from stations / world to the player inventory has been fixed
  

Audio

• Item pickup sound, when picking up items with a shortcut key, has been fixed
  

Spaceship Designer

• Budget window now counts cables and bolts towards the total voxel volume
  
• An exception has been added to allow cable sockets to overlap with other objects
  
• Ship integrity visualization can now be toggled on/off from the button
  

[h3]Art[/h3]

Animations and Emotes

• Aiming at buttons/monitors animations have been improved
  
• New pickaxe hacking animations have been worked on
  
• Stop animations have been polished
  

Stations / Lot Designer

• Work hub level art and holograms have been updated
  
• Updated Workhub sign has been added for Demolition Job
  
• Missing farLOD from demolish_hall found in the work_hub_station has been re-added
  
• Duplicate farLOD pieces found from some grid_slot_scenes have been removed
  
• PvP Station colors have been updated: clear team starting points and neutral areas
  
• Lighting has been updated in Mass Transit Corner Stop and Mass Transit Side Stop
  
• Legacy assets have been removed from station hall small modules and level art checked and fixed
  
• Level art in medium and large Spaceship Designer Halls have been updated due to legacy assets being removed
  

Weapons

• Updated inventory icons have been added for: Sentinel Rifle, Tactical Shotgun and Grenade Launcher
  
• Empty shell asset has been created for Long Rifle
  
• Mining Saw spark texture has been worked on and electrical arc reload effect has been added
  

Other

• Updated mining backpack texturing is in progress
  
• Mesh and textures have been created for blueprint projector asset
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
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Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.

Until next time! 🪐