Starbase - Progress Notes Week 33 (2020)

[h2]Progress Notes Week 33[/h2]
[h3](August 10th - 14th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 33 - hope you enjoy!

[h3]Design[/h3]

Features

Design for a more customizable quickbar system has been done:
Basic movement and resizing features have been designed as well as the ability to bind each quickslot individually without having to go through the settings menu
Material tooltip design has been updated
One new Spatha shipwreck has been added to Ship Demolition Job
Tooltip descriptions for crystals have been fixed from "Ore" to "Crystal"
Design for Ship Demolition Job tutorial phase is progressing, programming tasks have been created
Tweaks in material and blueprint tabs of the Universal Tool have been done, testing is currently underway
Beam welding design has been tweaked, testing is now easier to find optimal results on what kind of connections can be allowed
More material and damage tests have been done, new exploit fixes have been implemented and different damage configuration values have been tested
Economy configurations have been made for station beams, they now use Valkite+Bastium in 90:10 ratio
Player progression and exploration design is underway
Material progression related design is being worked on, structural integrity and durability on beams with different materials has been tested

User Interface

Design for the ship detail/info page is underway
Design for Durability view for Universal Tool started

Stations

Shops that sell player-made ships - Rando 1, Rando 2 and Okim Industries - have been added to the game
Player spaceships are removed from the original Spaceship shop, "Laborer" ship has been added
"Arrowhead" has been raised in Rando 1 Spaceship shop, to disable its hatch from hitting the floor
Design for the first phase of player-made stations continued
Station Foundation unit has been created
A collision in Large Hall 05, which disabled its usage in Lot Designer, has been fixed
Small Hall 12 has been added to Lot Designer

Other

Triangle thruster extension/Booster design is in progress

[h3]Code[/h3]

Gameplay

More fixes have been made to scrap detection and deletion system
Torque deadzone adaptation has been redesigned; highly maneuverable ships hopefully fly straight better and encumbered ones are able to maneuver
Cargo Frame mass center bug potentially deteriorating ship controls during flight has been fixed
Audio support added for ships about to fail structurally due to motion, and a sound for such a failure
When detecting the ship frame, Durability no longer transfers from Thruster Bases to Beams via non-bolted connections such as cable pieces
An assert fixed where the Lifeline bound chair is locked onto a Cargo Frame
Components previously ignored when calculating the Building Budget volume are now correctly considered also in-game and by Durability
Thruster blockedness scanning now originates within the thruster, not next to it
An issue where beams were incorrectly highlighted in certain welding situations has been fixed
Spaceship Designer's beam welding tool is now finished
Autoreload is disabled while in the inventory to allow easier moving of magazines
Various bugs in the new station lot loading system have been fixed
Tech for player station building is being planned
Large lots not blocking player movement on the far borders of the lot has been fixed

User Interface

An issue with ore tower resource bridge not syncing correctly to other players has been fixed
Asserts and a crash fixed when logging out while ores are being vacuumed
Company Rank Right overrides added for members

Spaceship Designer

Auto bolt and weld action execution speed has been optimized
An issue that broke 'Save as' dialog in Spaceship Designer has been fixed
Confirmation added when deleting modules and folders
A shift-button selection for modules should now work
Version history should now show correct blueprint types in different editors
Mouse wheel input no longer leaks through asset browser
Moving multiple modules with one drag & drop is now possible
Support added for moving and deleting multiple modules with context menu as well
Drag & drop -feature for moving single modules between folders is finished and committed, modules within folders are also now ordered alphabetically
Paint tool brush visualizer now ignores hidden layers and raycasts hit the paintable parts
Parts' durability is now updated when material type is changed

[h3]Art[/h3]

Animations and Emotes

New animations made for bow emotes (/bow1 and /bow2)
New midair death animation is in the works
Work on updating all 1st person "relaxed" animations continues
1st person animations polished for: Rail rifle and Long rifle
Animations added for interacting with buttons while seated
Rummage animations have been polished

Stations / Lot Designer

Updated LOD + farLOD models to VIS HQ floors: Main hall, Storage and Loading dock A.
New LOD + farLOD models added to Spaceship shop's side-shops (Bolt, Starsol, Sunny ship center), and level art.
Hologram LODs created for Command Center, Spaceship Design Workshop, Spaceship Shop and Empire VIS Headquarters
Imperial capital station holograms have been updated to match the new Rando player ship shop
Level art for Auction House has been added to Marketplace and Command Center

Weapons

Minor tweaks made to Laser cutter's heat distortion
Buzzsaw's FX has been updated
Plasma rifle's reload and idle effects updated

Armors / Player

New upcoming armor set Battalion is in the making
Juggernaut armorset texture quality polished and paintjobs have been updated
Pioneer unique armorset coloring has been adjusted slightly due to the Juggernaut paintjob update
Small color fix has been made for the Red Brigand large shoulder piece
Battalion armorset texturing is in progress

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]

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

Until next time! 🪐