Starbase News

Frozenbyte has released a new Starbase video!

Since the Starbase - New Features Trailer was fully filmed in-game, it sometimes took plenty of takes to get a successful shot. This video is a collection of all the best bloopers from the trailer.

https://youtu.be/FM42eP5dFmU

Find out what kind of mistakes we made while filming the trailer by watching Starbase - Trailer Blooper Reel video from the link above!

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[h2]Progress Notes Week 6[/h2]
[h3](February 3rd - 7th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 6:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Old tooltips remade with a bigger font, to improve readability
  
• Ship weapons tested against basic materials / ships to get better feel of current material/weapon balance
  
• Company functionality design worked on: co-ownership, disband / owner leaving and general Company controls
  
• Inventory buy limits tested and confirmed, currently settled on 5000
  
• Asteroid spawner rotation offset configurations tweaked to improve the Mining Job experience
  
• Configurations updated:
  
• Oninum Armor value adjusted from 5000 to 3500
  
• Autocannon projectile mass increased from 10 to 11
  
• Laser Cannon projectile mass reduced from 6 to 5
  
• Damage adjustments tested against Onimum, new values feel better
  
• New bolt profiles made for mounted weapon body 2
  

Stations

• VIS grid slot: support beams added, collisions fixed, walkways, landing platforms, hallways and take-off docks updated
  
• Skyscrapers worked on: corridor apartment entrance and roof modules updated and new room modules created
  

Spaceships

• Vasama and Twin Vasama re-balanced, some plating had to be removed / relocated
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Support added for kill zones that instantly kill players and destroy objects
  
• An assert fixed with the building tool autofill feature
  
• A bug where virtual bridges disappear from components with multiple virtual bridges has been fixed
  
• Custom ships created via SSC are now bought for the intended price instead of obtaining them for free
  

User Interface

• Inventory tabs have been added to Material Sell menu
  
• Bank tab code has been refactored
  
• Filter buttons have been added to sort players and ships
  
• An issue related to too long company names fixed by making the company name be maximum of 24 characters long
  

Audio

• First simple approximation of projectile-to-ship context detection for battle music has been implemented
  
• Distance filtering has been added to hostility events, so that fighting far away doesn't start battle music
  
• Player distance-to-ship parameter has been added for player-ship association in battle context
  

Planets

• Ship collisions with planets have been implemented
  
• A bug where planets would disappear after visiting SSC was fixed
  
• Planet memory usage has been optimized
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Asteroid Collection Zone ad design has been made
  
• Asteroid Mining Job sign post and new logo sign pieces have been created
  
• Skyscraper wall level art underway
  
• Skyscraper base module building underway
  
• Elevator hall and salvage shop decoration updates
  
• VIS office module has been updated and some windows added
  

Moons and Asteroids

• Alpha moon terrains have been finished
  
• Updated moon textures are in the making
  
• Procedural object placement for moons has been adjusted
  
• Asteroid rock and material updates
  
• Rock meshes topology fixes has been made
  

Other

• Cargo crate baking and texturing has been made
  
• Universal Projector's high poly, low poly, UV's, bakes and materials have been finished
  
• Resource Grid Utility Panel's assets design modified
  
• Resource Grid Utility Panel & Box's assets finished, high poly, low poly, UV's, bakes and materials have been finished
  
• Armor sets: Jackal set textures and paint jobs have been polished
  
• Weapon lockers have been updated
  
• Whiplash gun's hit effect edited and switched
  
• Offset on maneuver thruster's effect has been edited as the spawn point had been moved
  
• Maneuver thruster on torpedo changed for a smaller one
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]


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

Until next time! 🪐

We just released a new Starbase video! This video will show how we filmed the Starbase - New Features Trailer, especially focusing on the scenes with a massive number of ships. In it we will explain some of the underlying technology behind those scenes and take a look at the rendering and netsync tests we’ve performed with a thousand ships.

https://youtu.be/vGvjtAAQ4RA
Find out how the trailer scenes came to life and watch us test the game's capabilities with a 1000 ships by checking out Starbase - Trailer Making-of: 1000 Ships Rendering & Netsync above!

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And don't forget to wishlist Starbase on Steam!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/454120/Starbase/

[h2]Progress Notes Week 5[/h2]
[h3](January 27th - 31st)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 5:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Assembly Hall station modules updated with fixed level art
  
• Cargo Crate configurations tested, after some code rework the Crates now work properly
  
• New single entity object created from the new Cargo Crate components
  
• Economy configurations: new items added to market, infantry weapon pricing adjusted and general economy rule adjustments were made
  
• Insurance transfer terminals added to the new station
  
• Autocannon electricity usage increased from 110 to 150 per bullet
  
• Autocannon projectile velocity reduced from 900 to 800
  
• Utility panels:
  Design for UI that players use to move resources (power, propellant, building materials) between station storage and lot/ship devices. Design for basic alternative, automatically providing devices with resources from storage
  
• Station storage:
  Design for updated station item storage UI logic, targeting better filtering and sorting of item grid. Design for shop UI adjustments improving interaction with station storage
  

Stations

• Skyscraper modules have been updated to minimize the needed module and instance amount
  
• Station lot areas have been made compatible with the upcoming Utility panel
  
• Capital Imperial A's missing MapPartNames have been added
  
• Landing platforms in Capital Imperial A have been relocated due to possible collisions with the public transport
  
• Collisions caused by the "slanted triangle" asset update have been fixed
  

Spaceships

• Twist handles for propellant containers added for Zilant
  
• Cable added to Lancer, to fix an issue where lever was not connected to the data network
  
• Mining laser and mining laser controls removed from Ithaca V2 and V4
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• An issue fixed, where camera panning to YOLOL chip resulted in an unplayable game state when the chip was destroyed
  
• YOLOL chip is now locked when pressing escape while zoomed into it
  
• Support added for safezones that are larger than a single universe cell
  
• Chat notifications for leaving/approaching/entering safe zones have been added
  
• Building tool now restores object armor/environment damage as well as voxel damage
  
• Showroom ships loading into the main menu fixed
  
• Support added for cargo crates having the latch on the crate rather than the lid
  
• Sitting rotation restrictions updated, feature implemented for pilot chairs
  
• Custom ships can now be created via SSC
  
• Client showing incorrect prices for some items fixed
  
• Economy now treats bolts, cables and pipes within ships correctly
  

User interface

• An issue where materials dropped to the world spawned in wrong sized cubes has been fixed
  
• Dragging not starting when pressing LMB and dragging item out of equipment slots has been fixed
  
• Weapon with magazine not reloading on the first try after logging has been fixed
  
• Opening animation has been added to the main menu's message box
  

Audio

• Damage signalling has been updated
  
• Main menu state has been implemented
  
• Background music in SSC has been fixed
  
• Tracking of aggressive players added to detect end of battle better
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Art notes

• VIS headquarters has been fully updated with level art
  
• New logo sign pieces have been made
  
• Texture stretching on device rack cores and the new socket to the socket core have been added
  
• Thruster textures and tintmasks have been finished
  
• UI inventory category icons have been updated
  
• Resource Grid Utility Panel and Resource Grid Utility Box have been added (allow transfer of resources between station storage and devices)
  
• Alpha moons have been updated
  
• Backpacks: Thruster pack textures updated and paintjobs added
  
• Armor sets: All base armor pieces were fixed to have white base colour
  
• New asteroids made and some distance/size tests made with them
  
• Asteroid base material microdetail/color adjustments and testing has been made
  
• The depth based emission of particles modified (reducing particles based on distance)
  
• Particles added to thrusters
  
• Existing flamer effect reworked and new hit effect made for it
  
• The laser turret hit effect updated with depth settings
  
• Landing animations have been polished
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

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

Until next time! 🚀

We have released an adventurous new trailer for Starbase, showcasing the look and features coming to the game in 2020!

https://youtu.be/GAax6kzJkfc

The trailer reveals the possibility for players to colonize moons and planets, where small outposts and early trading routes can eventually turn into huge cities with a thriving society. Players can land anywhere with no loading screens, walk around the big cityscapes and interact with other pioneers - explore the new world! Reaching even the closest moon, however, will require a massive joint effort and ingenuity from players. It will be the first major community objective.





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