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[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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 12[/h2]
[h3](March 16th - 20th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 12:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Instancing area configured and added to ship showroom
  
• Mining Job instancing issues with parent hierarchy fixed
  
• Buzzsaw damage configured and tested, the tool is now more balanced
  
• Pickaxe testing and adjusting: no longer a good weapon against materials with high armor value
  
• Mining Hall rotation fixed in Work Hub grid slot
  
• Ore zone weight configurations that were producing unwanted outcomes in ore distribution were fixed
  
• New items added to the economy, old economy configurations fixed and adjusted and locales worked on for economy
  
• New updated design worked on for Universal tool: incorporating device network operator systems and evaluating potential commonalities with transponder visuals
  
• Hinge bolt profiles updated
  

Stations

• All Spaceship Design Workshops have been updated, Workspaces rotated, relocated and their amounts raised from 6 to 8, LOD update is still pending
  
• 'Large Hall 6' added to Station Designer. Thumbnail, windows and exterior decoration still pending
  
• The "destroyed" grid slots have been added to the Kingdom Outpost B -station
  

Spaceships

• Gunship Lancer: older hinge replaced with newer model
  
• Spaceship Kodiak: older hinge replaced with newer model
  

Spaceship Designer

• Asset names and locales updated
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Massive lot blueprint memory usage has been fixed
  
• Reloadable tools and ammo conversion have been tweaked
  
• Beam effect support and network sync have been added for the Welding Tool
  
• Welding Tool now highlights objects that can be welded and its timer visualizations are finished
  

User Interface

• A bug that caused dragged items to stretch has been fixed
  
• Icons and ammunition amounts being in the wrong place for right hand and leg have been fixed
  
• Slot rendering to handle special cases in backpack has been refactored
  
• A bug that allowed modular limbs to overlap with other items in the backpack has been fixed
  
• Material UI slot rendering code has been refactored
  
• Mining backpack slots' hovering problems have been fixed
  
• Snapping to closest possible bolt profile location, when within BoltToolComponent defined area has been implemented
  
• Bolt profile visualizations have been adjusted so that snapping target is visible
  
• Feedback Tool's sidebar menu has been finished and localizations are underway
  

Audio

• Sound issues when releasing buttons inside inventory have been fixed
  
• A damage audio event for 'armor damage' has been added
  
• Audio support has been added to sorter buttons, 3D menu tabs and lists
  
• The most of the list item interaction sounds have been finished
  
• Insurance menu tab buttons for proper audio support refactoring underway
  

Spaceship Designer

• Saving a blueprint when editing custom ship no longer disables changes to the in-game ship
  
• Selecting modules no longer selects components behind them in Spaceship Designer
  
• Rotational stability of object chains in Spaceship Designer has been improved
  

Planets

• Weapon down scoping heavily dropping FPS on planet surfaces has been fixed
  

Renderer

• Double buffering has been added for skyboxes
  
• Applying environmental damage on the planet is in the making
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Final fixes to VIS decal bleed have been made
  
• VIS HQ empire grid slots' additional art has been added
  
• Assembly Hall LODs have been finished, some LOD updates made to modules
  
• Asteroid Hall farLODs have been finished and tintmask coloured
  
• New windows have been added to mega stations
  
• FarLODs have been added for all shop modules
  
• An UV mirroring issue with Market Station has been fixed
  
• Commercial signs for Sunny Ship Center are underway: perspective fixes, final touches and optimizations made
  

Animations

• More animations have been added to Market Station, an animation for sell shop is in the making
  
• 'Offers ad' rotation direction has been fixed
  
• Pickaxe relaxed run/walk animations have been polished
  
• Pilot aim and pistol aim animations have been polished
  
• Sit aim animation updates are in the making
  

Other

• Bastion armor set's elbow position has been fixed
  
• Bulwark armor set's textures and paintjobs polished
  
• Object (rock) placements for asteroids updated and new asteroid clusters have been finished
  
• Modular battery redesign in the making that includes a status bar indicator
  
• New job instance effects have been added
  
• Weapon flat logos are in the making
  
• New logos for laser and auto-cannon turrets have been made
  
• Buzzsaw hit effect has 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 11[/h2]
[h3](March 9th - 13th)[/h3]

Hello everyone! Another week is here and another post of progress notes along with it!

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Components and locales configured for the Assembly Job
  
• Instancing areas added to the Assembly Job workstations
  
• Spawners and component arrangements configured, so more products can be spawned
  
• Decals added to the Assembly Job workstation floor, to indicate where to drop the assembled products
  
• New special ore zones added to the asteroid belt, there are now 13 special ore zones
  
• Icons added for rails and other objects, missing inventory icons added for missile parts and two plates
  
• Chat bug and feature fixes: incorrect opening and closing of the context menu, highlights and missing or incorrect elements fixed
  

Stations

• VIS Headquarters grid slots have been added to mega stations: Capital Imperial A and Empire Headquarters B
  
• ShipTransportAreaEntities and ShipSpawnTerminalEntities have been added into Ship Design Workshop
  
• Vertical Bridges have been added into build
  

Spaceship Designer

• Total object limit configured so that attachment plates, cables and pipes are excluded from total object count
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• An issue where built lot objects were not saved has been fixed
  
• Grabbing Tool's invalid pose highlights causing FPS drops has been fixed
  
• Lot blueprint unload not unloading whole blueprints has been fixed
  
• Ship despawning is now allowed for a group member if the ship owner is not present
  
• Client issues when buying a large amount of items have been fixed
  
• Buying more items than inventory has room for has been prevented
  
• Various aspects related to Grabbing Tool's pose validity checks have been fixed
  
• Normals of collisions involving LODs have been fixed
  
• Blueprint snapping issues have been fixed
  

User Interface

• CV profile page has been updated to match current design, unused variables deleted
  
• Bolt Tool has been improved, bolt profile visualization worked on
  
• Assembly Job has been updated, locales changed
  
• Feedback Tool's text inputs and menu structure have been updated
  

Audio

• Various UI sounds have been added to the game
  

Spaceship Designer

• Esc menu now has button for exiting test flight mode when in Spaceship Designer
  
• Asteroid pieces in Mining Job won't turn to debris anymore
  
• An issue where ships would not fit into Spaceship Designer has been fixed
  

Planets

• Grabbing Tool issues with planets have been fixed
  
• Asteroid rock spawning has been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• More animated signs have been added to Market Station
  
• New logos are in the making
  
• Sign and advertisement gradients have been updated with dithering to reduce banding
  
• Animated pointing arrows and holographic area have been added to Asteroid Hall
  
• 'Sell' advertisement has been made for Market Station
  
• Skyscraper roof building is underway
  
• New farLODs are in the making
  
• New commercial signs are in the making
  

Moons and Asteroids

• More asteroid clusters have been worked on
  
• Planet terrain height tests are in the making
  

Animations

• Small improvements have been made for various animations
  
• All tools/weapons now have sit animations
  
• Pistol and tool aim animations have been fixed
  
• Jumping and landing animations have been polished
  

Other

• Inventory icons for alloy materials (Velidenum, Armored Velidenum and Bastonium) have been made
  
• Assets and inventory icons for the current alloy materials have been made
  
• Job Instance effects have been made for station use
  
• Floating decals and decal bleeds fixes have been made
  
• Armorsets: Hammerhead set textures and paintjobs have been polished
  
• First iteration of the new area indicator cube for certain areas in space is in the making
  

[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 10[/h2]
[h3](March 2nd - 6th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! It's time for another week of progress notes:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Three new special ore distribution zones configured: there are now five special zones where ores are distributed with different weights compared to the rest of the universe
  
• Marketplace terminals fixed
  
• Economy configurations fixed for torpedoes
  
• Design for a Spaceship Designer Coloring Tool worked on
  
• Spaceship Designer multiplayer issue: removing cable with Cable Tool breaks if client and host is removing cable simultaneously fixed and verified
  

Stations

• Kingdom Headquarter station and Kingdom Outpost Ruins added to the universe
  
• Ship and shop terminal issues fixed for Kingdom stations
  
• Vertical hallways' offsetting priority snap points have been fixed
  
• Three hall modules' base structures have been modified to disable any possible collisions with each other (Large hall 2; Ship weapon shop 2 A; Armor shop 1 A)
  
• Temporary "very-farlods" have been removed from grid slot scenes, and will be replaced if and when needed
  

Spaceships

• Issue where Ithaca V4 used up its coolant too quickly was fixed by adding more coolant cells
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Instancing area visualization disappearing when changing groups has been fixed
  
• Ore nuggets are now immune to the mining laser
  
• Blueprint code refactoring is underway
  
• Entering the game with a broken profile (invalid or missing character data) is now prevented
  
• Explosion shock waves were fixed to not affect players inside safe zones
  
• Player stuck recovery system has been enabled to be active at all times
  
• Nearby ship acceleration/deceleration sounds have been added
  
• Cargo Frame wall/field was refactored into being supported by the current physics processing
  
• SawTool can now target and cut properly
  

User Interface

• A bug where material disappeared when dragged to existing stack in inventory has been fixed
  
• Netsyncing added for beam effect so that other people could see the effect
  
• Company Rank names not changing correctly when player changes them has been fixed
  

Audio

• Item pick-up and drop audio support has been implemented
  
• Multiposition ambient system fixes have been finished
  

Spaceship Designer

• Mining job now correctly gives money from asteroids with cables/bolted things on them, syncing fixed
  
• Cell translation not working when jumping more than 1 cell has been fixed
  
• Range Finders being active in Spaceship Designer has been fixed
  

Planets

• Incorrect moon terrain object visibility fading fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Decal tweaks, collision and parent checks, VIS HQ grid slot finalization
  
• Farlods, module halls, and mega station gridslot updated
  
• Work hub: Signs and adverts made for different work hub jobs
  
• Asteroid hall decorations and polishes underway
  
• Sub modules and their LODs coloured
  
• Skyscraper base modules in the making
  
• Commercial boards in the making
  
• New windows have been added
  
• Farlods added for all shop modules
  

Moons and Asteroids

• Alpha moons have been updated
  
• Asteroid cluster tests have been made
  
• Spherical height maps tests underway
  

Animations

• New sign animations made, robot logo and animation adjustments in the making
  
• Sit animations for Rocket Launcher and Reaper Cannon have been made
  
• 1st person animations for Saw Tool are in the making
  
• Jumping and shooting animations have been polished
  
• The new LOD distances added for large asteroid rocks and formations
  

Other

• Turret Utility Body: Asset redesign that fixes collision has been finished
  
• Turret Arm Saw Tool: Concept, assets and textures have been finished
  
• Turret Arm Saw Tool: Larger versions of the blade and tool have been made to test how large assets the robot arms can support
  
• Tools: Saw textures polished, paintjobs added
  
• Devices: Resource bridge hose nozzle textures updated
  
• A spark effect for the mining saw has been finalized
  
• LODs made for multiple assets, railgun barrel LODs have been optimized
  

[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! 🪐

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