Starbase - Progress Notes Week 30 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 30[/h2]
[h3](July 20th - 24th)[/h3]

Hello everyone, it's time for progress notes again. Here are the notes of week 30:

[h3]Design[/h3]

Features

• Work on the Demolition Job continues: instancing area and instructions terminal have been added, and the job has been tested
  
• Design work for beam welding continues
  
• New pyramid plates have been added to economy
  
• Material progression and balance design has been worked on
  
• Damage model update design has been worked on
  
• Asteroid belt material distribution planning is in the works
  
• Blueprint design is underway: blueprint obtaining and progression have been worked on
  

User Interface

• Design for the Cosmetics Shop item and cart pages has been worked on
  
• Updated mockups have been made for the Decal Tool
  

Spaceship Designer

• 8 new Pyramid plates have been added to the Spaceship Designer
  

[h3]Code[/h3]

Gameplay

• Work on ship beam welding continues, beams can now be attached without snapping a beam to a blueprint first
  

User Interface

• Feedback Tool's screenshot editor now uses correct tool icons in the toolbox
  
• Support has been added to Feedback Tool's screenshot editor for creating, duplicating and deleting tools with a context menu and rearranging existing tools by dragging
  

[h3]Art[/h3]

Emotes

• Emote_halt has been finished
  
• Emote_slap is in the making
  

Stations / Lot Designer

• Large hall 5 has been redesigned to fit the large lot area, and added back to Lot Designer with an updated thumbnail
  
• Minor visual fixes and tweaks to nearly all of the Lot Designer Hallway modules
  

Weapons

• Saw's hit effect has been tweaked, and the amount of sparks has been increased
  
• Plasma rifle's projectile and muzzle flash have been tweaked
  
• Laser turret projectile's texture, hit effect and muzzle flash have been updated
  
• Front/side texture tests have been made for projectiles
  
• Axe melee weapon's textures have been fixed slightly
  
• Grenade Launcher VFX have been updated: new reload, shoot, projectile and hit effects
  
• Repeater Pistol has been updated, projectile and hit effect updated
  
• Rail Rifle VFX have been updated
  

Other

• Inventory icons have been added for: Flamer, Reaper Cannon, Combat Shield, Axe, Kukri and Khopesh
  
• Hunter armorset's texture quality has been polished and paintjobs updated
  
• A new version for Sunny Ship Center sign has been created and a damaged version has been made for the second hand ship shop
  
• A proper desktop shortcut icon has been added
  

[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! 🪐