Starbase News

We’ve just revealed a new Starbase video!

In the video you can see what the day cycle looks like in the Starbase universe. In addition, if you look closely you can see the public transportation at the station tirelessly at work day in and day out.
https://youtu.be/pD8IXxCgM0s
Take some time for yourself to relax and watch Starbase - Eos 222 Timelapse from the link above!

Join the discussion on the official Starbase Discord.



And don't forget to wishlist Starbase on Steam!

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

[h2]Progress Notes Week 15[/h2]
[h3](April 6th - 9th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 15:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Color palette updated for in-game chat, old colors replaced with new colors that are easier to read
  
• Chat colors for leaders in Group and Team chats set to follow same logic as in Company officer chat
  
• Faction functions and chat needs design worked on for separate faction and faction officer channels
  
• Option to show channel names (long or short) and timestamps (long or short) added
  
• Buzzsaw tested, issues detected in the 3rd-person view passed on to be fixed
  
• Jobs in Work Hub tested and a configure issue fixed in Assembly Job: now spawned components are despawned when carried outside the hall
  

Spaceships

• New mining ship being build
  
• The positions of plates changed in Spatha variants to fix an issue where the ship was not flying straight
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• An initial implementation for recovering ships that were not properly despawned has been added
  
• Small fixes in player animation activation and scrap detection/deletion have been made
  
• A feedback system for component-specific voxel volume changes has been implemented
  
• Buzzsaw only consumes ammo when actually cutting stuff now
  
• Buzzsaw's distance calculation has been improved and audio issues have been fixed
  
• Welding Tool now only consumes ammo when welding things
  

User Interface

• Issues with item shop amount validation and button styles have been fixed
  
• A maximum amount added when buying to station storage
  
• Syncing has been added for crates so that other players can see the changes made to the slots correctly
  
• A locking system has been added for crates when the slots are being dragged so other players can't intervene
  
• Implementation of the feedback server is underway
  

Audio

• Menu entry button sound support has been added
  
• Some of the tool button styles with audio support have been added to Spaceship Designer
  
• Spaceship Designer window sounds have been plugged in
  

Spaceship Designer

• The individual components of multi-component entities can no longer be selected, instead both components are automatically selected, this prevents the user from accidentally separating the components from each other
  
• The budget window can now estimate and show the modification price of a ship being edited in the Spaceship Designer
  
• A system has been added for preventing the duplication and creation of unallowed objects in the ship creator
  
• A bug that allowed the Spaceship Designer UI to stay open when being kicked or banned has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations

• Buzzsaw's 1st-person reload animation has been finished
  
• Aim animations have been polished
  
• Falling and fly animations for Pickaxe (relaxed) are in the making
  
• Death animations are in the making
  
• Relaxed pistol crouch transition & heavy crouch transition are in the making
  
• Crouch transition & heavy crouch transition have been finished
  

Other

• New large asteroids have been made, variation added to the clusters
  
• More variations of asteroid materials are in the making
  
• Multi-material testing and overall material adjustments on big asteroids have been made
  
• Maneuver thruster's misalignment has been fixed
  
• Autocannon's ammo connection angle has been changed to 30 degrees
  
• Moon rock density tests are underway
  
• Exterior decorating and decal bleed fixes on medium halls in the making
  
• Asteroid hall farLOD tintmask and color map updated
  
• Mega station's ship showroom farLOD has been finished
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

Unfortunately, there are no development videos this week. But we did post a new official video on YouTube, so make sure to check that out if you haven't already. Click here to watch it.

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

Until next time! 🪐

A new Starbase video has just been released! This video showcases what the beginning of the game looks like, starting from earning your first credits to being ready to leave the starting station.
https://youtu.be/W27X7DHn5XA
Eager to know what your brand new endoskeleton can do to start out in the Starbase universe? Find out by watching Starbase - Getting Started from the link above!

Join the discussion on the official Starbase Discord.



And don't forget to wishlist Starbase on Steam!

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

[h2]Progress Notes Week 14[/h2]
[h3](March 30th - April 3rd)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 14:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Shoulder piece art for insignia configured
  
• Assembly Job added to Work Hub and is now accessible in game again, after build error fixes
  
• New fracture destruction effect tested, needs polishing and new fracture models
  
• Early game player progression looked into, earning credits with new mining system tested
  
• Ship and ship pricing economy tweaked, making cheap mining ships for new mining system tested
  
• Chat UI worked on, color scheme improved with new color palettes and brighter colors
  
• Chat UI visibility improved on, option to hide or show channel names added
  

Stations

• Faction stations' Ship Design Workshops' instance areas had faulty LoadMode settings, which have now been fixed
  
• The following grid slots have been updated for the upcoming Prospectors shop: Mining hall (Small), Mining hall (Large) and Trading hub hardware (small)
  

Spaceship Designer

• Mockups and designs worked on for the Version Control and Blueprints in Asset Browser
  
• Descriptions for tools added
  

Other

• Vasama Vanette with modular ore cargo crates and resource port finished
  
• New devices under Cargo folder, locale changed: Resource Port is now Resource Bridge
  
• Asset locale updates and fixes: locales added for all type of hinge rods, dimension info added for text panel and ItemNames in ItemComponents fixed
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Projectile spawn position issues when shooting while aboard a ship have been fixed
  
• Other players' tool animations are now synced properly
  
• Thrust is now reduced when the ship structure blocks thruster exhaust
  
• A bug where SawTool would trigger audio events multiple times has been fixed
  
• Blueprints now disappear after using Welding Tool
  
• Blueprints now disappear when a station lot is resigned
  
• Welding Tool's ammo consumption and reload have been updated
  
• Preventing players and their items entering station lots they do not own is in the making
  

User Interface

• Support added for dropping & picking up items bought from shops
  
• Bolt Tool raycast hitting items on player's back has been fixed
  
• Drag and drop code has been refactored
  
• Issues with moving between mining backpack slots and station storage have been fixed
  
• Merge problem with vacuumed ores has been fixed, player can't collect more ores than allowed anymore
  

Audio

• Chat menu sounds have been finished
  
• Spaceship Designer sounds are in the making
  
• Support for common button sounds in various Spaceship Designer UI elements has been implemented
  

Spaceship Designer

• Basic ambient light settings have been added to Spaceship Designer
  
• An issue where entering the Spaceship Designer while still loading a station resulted in significantly lowered FPS has been fixed
  
• Issues where objects were leaking in and out of edit and test modes in Spaceship Designer have been fixed
  
• An issue where the multi user undo system would break when returning from the test mode in multiplayer has been fixed
  
• Spaceship Designer-bought ships spawning in wrong orientation has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Animations

• New ad animations are in the making
  
• Saw Tool's 1st person reload animation is in the making
  
• Rifle stand aiming animation has been polished
  
• Sitting pickaxe mining animation state has been tweaked
  
• All heavy crouch animations with wrong positioning have been fixed
  
• Prone animations have been polished
  
• Rocket Launcher relaxed crouch transition has been finished, pistol relaxed crouch transition is in the making
  

Other

• New asteroid clusters have been made
  
• The drone rank plates have been updated to be visually more fitting with the armor pieces
  
• Height terrain and cliff rock tests have been made
  
• Skyscraper base module prototype build is in the making
  
• Baseplate armoset's texture polish has bene finished
  
• Flat logos have been made for Reaper Cannon and Sentinel Rifle, older weapon logos have been updated
  

[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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 13[/h2]
[h3](March 23rd - 27th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 13:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Assembly Job tested, Bolt Profile snapping feature made the bolting really easy
  
• Assembly Job tested, item blocker entities added on each doorway so objects cannot be thrown through the doorways
  
• Buzzsaw power usage configured to 10/sec, which equals to 100 seconds of continuous sawing with one power pack
  
• Bolt Tool and the bolt profile override feature tested, works without issues
  
• Chat features worked on, default settings adjusted
  
• Insurance terminals' location and parenting fixed in origin map
  
• Mining Job tested in the new Work Hub, working without issues
  

Stations

• Empire VIS HQ grid slot has been updated: structures inside the slot have been relocated and rotated to enable a better view of the Capital
  
• Mining Job grid slot has been replaced with the Work Hub grid slot
  

Spaceship Designer

• Locales fixed and updated
  
• Economy design worked on
  

Other

• Socket position changed in battery asset, cabling adjusted in ships with battery to fit this change
  
• Locales added for objects and resources
  
• New armor sets added to starting mega station economy
  
• A moon rocket worked on, flights to the moon tested
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Rental lot blueprint unloading has been improved
  
• An issue where non-loaded rental lots crashed the editor on stopping the game has been fixed
  
• Blueprints appearing inside already built objects has been fixed
  
• When the client stops operating a ship in a despawn area, the ship now immediately despawns
  
• Sitting issue with cradle mounted chairs has been fixed
  
• SawTool sound effects have been implemented and bugs surrounding it have been fixed
  
• Welding Tool beam effect has been refactored
  
• Restriction added to detaching to station lots that the player has access to, so players can't detach whatever parts they want
  
• The detachment network synchronization has been finished, the Welding Tool is now ready for testing
  

User Interface

• An issue where ore processing made only one processed entry at a time has been fixed
  
• Picking up magazines now moves ammo
  
• An issue has been fixed where items disappeared from the sell list when the player sold 0 amount of the item
  
• Position of the damaged item indicator has been fixed
  
• Containers not filling up correctly when picking up ores fixed
  
• Swapping and merging ores in the mining backpack works now as well as dragging between the bank tab and the mining slots
  
• Snapping to closest possible bolt profile location, when within BoltToolComponent defined area has been implemented
  
• Feedback Tool has been updated and the tool's data management has been refactored
  

Audio

• Missing sort button sounds have been added
  
• Item shop transaction button sounds and item sell menu button sounds have been added
  

Spaceship Designer

• 'Continuous placement' option has been added for asset placement. Enabling this option allows the user to keep placing the asset until cancelled
  
• A bug that allowed entering the test mode while undo actions were still being execute has been fixed
  
• A Blueprint type metadata has been added to blueprints. This value can be used to filter blueprints, for example to display only ship or station blueprints
  
• Some of Spaceship Designer's network messages unintentionally leaking to peers not inside the Spaceship Designer session has been fixed
  
• A basic paint tool with point and click colouring has been added. The tool supports undoing and redoing
  
• A client timeout when attempting to join a hosted session with a large map has been fixed
  
• Save selection as blueprint functionality has been fixed
  

Planets

• Moon terrain rock collisions have been optimized
  

Renderer

• Planet hit detection for projectiles has been implemented
  
• Skybox stretching during baking caused by direction blending has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• New signs for the frame shop at back alley are underway
  
• Frame shop ad adjustments are in the making
  
• Job instance effects for station use: proper UV's to the basic shapes so that UV scrolling can be used with them added as well as building blocks that can be used in the making of ads
  
• Prospector shop module exterior decoration has been finalized
  
• Station hall LODs have been updated
  
• UV scroll support added to the flat font used in ads and signs
  
• New windows added to station halls
  
• Landing platform lighting in the making
  
• LODs updated in ship repair maps
  

Animations

• New animations and polishes to ads have been made
  
• Pistol run animations have been polished
  
• Sitting reload animation has been polished
  
• An animation for the sell shop has been updated
  

Other

• New asteroid clusters have been made
  
• Bulwark armoset's textures and paintjobs have been polished
  
• Modular Battery's socket location has been fixed
  
• More weapon flat logos have been added to the game
  
• Effects and beam types have been added to Welding Tool's attach/detach mode
  
• New beam end models which could replace the particle effects have been tested
  
• Dashed line effects have been made for ad use
  
• Some armor set piece configs that did not allow the pieces to be dropped to the game world have been fixed
  

[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! 🪐