Starbase News

[h2]Progress Notes Week 8[/h2]
[h3](February 17th - 21st)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 8:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Inventory testing, trying to reproduce issues regarding the drag and drop feature
  
• Thruster exhaust damage areas configured and tested
  
• Maneuver thrusters exhaust damage configured to ignore players
  
• Electricity usage calculations worked on for refining raw ores
  
• Economy configurations and insurance/terminals fixed in a mega station
  
• Detailed designs worked on for updated equipment UI elements and interactions
  
• Inventory icons added for objects: all objects in the shops now have icons
  
• Design for company ownership functions (ships and bank accounts) worked on
  

Spaceships

• A fix regarding turrets starting to move by themselves after being detached tested and verified
  
• More bolts added to Wing to fix an issue where the ship loses Ship warp class and gets a loose plating after opening hatch
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• An issue where tractor beam model wasn't showing until it grabbed something has been fixed
  
• Tractor beam doesn't target objects carried by the player anymore
  
• The planet kill zone re-killing players who use insurance after dying in the zone has been fixed
  
• Net pose extrapolation reliability has been improved in cases where the host's framerate varies greatly
  
• Various fixes made related to cargo held by Cargo Beams
  
• Autobolter support added for existing attachment plates
  
• An issue fixed where ammo stacks appeared only after second component was collected
  
• Snapping works now with Cable and Pipe tools in a moving ship
  

User Interface

• Promote and demote toggle functionality to Company Ranks is in the making
  
• Everyone can now invite people to groups and not only the group leaders
  
• An issue where social tab remove button was not removing group members fixed
  
• Company news are now sorted so that the most recent is on top
  

Audio

• Added button press/release audio support that works as intended with different interactions
  

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Localization support for the remaining mission and directory names has been added
  
• A bug that allowed certain parts to be placed in overlapping positions has been fixed
  
• Autobolter tool crashing when applied to certain maps has been fixed
  
• Issues with ship spawning locations and rotations with SSC terminal have been fixed
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• New lights have been placed and lighting updated
  
• Storage floor LOD has been finished
  
• Station farlods and hall modules have been updated
  
• Farlods have been added for all shop modules
  
• Market station interior ads for the shops in the making
  
• Window LODs have been updated
  
• Advertisement assets: Assets for Ares Weapons ad underway
  

Moons and Asteroids

• LOD generation distance setting tests for small and medium asteroid rocks underway
  
• Some tweaks have been made to rock placements
  
• Moon rocks have been optimized and XL rocks for alpha moons are in the making
  

Other

• New weapon/tool lockers for spaceships in the making, older models have been updated
  
• Resource Port: Asset finished, high poly, low poly and materials done.
  
• Inventory icons have been made for loose cable and loose pipe items.
  
• Modular Ore Cargo Crate: Asset finished, concept and preliminary model are done as well as high poly, low poly and materials
  
• Armorsets: Pathfinder set textures and paintjobs have been polished
  
• Tests on how to improve the feel of flying animations have been made
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

[h3]Videos[/h3]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]
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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! 🪐

[h2]Progress Notes Week 7[/h2]
[h3](February 10th - 14th)[/h3]
Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 7:

[h3]Design[/h3] Features

• Shop search bars should be deactivated if the player looks outside of the screen
  
• Small changes to tooltips, moving text and testing possible layout changes
  
• Material armor value updates: Now medium-high caliber infantry weapons cause damage to objects faster
  
• Shotgun projectile mass increased to make it little more effective against light armors
  
• Economy configurations for the Empire Outpost station
  
• General design worked on for significant updates to equipment and storage UIs
  
• Small adjustments made to the Utility Panel technical design to simplify components required
  

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Issue where Autobolt "Apply to selection" mode leaves some plates unbolted fixed
  

[h3]Code[/h3] Gameplay

• Support added for showing locations in the universe in the main menu
  
• Ship thruster exhausts damage and push components & players have been added
  
• Bounds & selection related issues in autobolting have been fixed
  
• Bolting of a moving target has been fixed
  
• Support added for ammo stacking
  
• New bolt indicators have been added to the Bolt Tool
  

User Interface

• Player invitations are now case sensitive
  
• The maximum amount of Company ranks is now 50
  

Audio

• A check added for player shooting inside a ship (to filter out incorrect battle detection)
  
• A bug where battle music was triggered inside safe zones has been fixed
  
• Interactable buttons' audio issues have been fixed
  

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Station tech refactoring changes have been merged into the main codebase. Most systems now support player stations
  
• Multiplayer issues in mining job have been fixed
  
• Custom ships now automatically spawn to the world after buying them instead of being put in the inventory
  

[h3]Art[/h3] Stations

• Holograms in multiple areas has been finished
  
• Skyscraper walls have been finished
  
• Decoration for skyscraper elevator chutes, pillars and floors have been finished
  
• Assembly Job/Spaceship Factory/Spaceship Shop/Asteroid Collection ads have been created
  
• Mining Job ad has been updated
  
• Rotation support has been added to signs and signs no longer cast shadow
  
• VIS office floor LOD updated
  

Moons and Asteroids

• Moon rock material has been updated
  
• Material for rough asteroid rocks made and tested on different sizes of rocks
  
• Large and medium size rock topology fixes have been made
  
• Texture scales for solid planet asteroids have been updated
  
• The most of the asteroid surface object settings have been added and tweaked
  

Other

• Several transition animations have been made for entering/exiting "weapon lowered" and universal tool stances
  
• New emotes have been added, animations' hand lengths modified
  
• Animations for landing during movement have been polished
  
• The skybox has been updated and made slightly less brighter
  
• Cargo crate textures and tintmasks have been updated
  
• UI: Item storage filter icons: 6 categories with 4 states. Used to filter out and hide items when browsing item storages
  
• UI: An additional icon to the category filter set to represent misc and semi-built asset combinations in inventory has been added
  
• Resource Port asset: concept and preliminary model are done
  

[h3]Gallery[/h3]

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

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! 🪐

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!

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 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]
[previewyoutube][/previewyoutube]


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!

Join the discussion on the official Starbase Discord.



And don't forget to wishlist Starbase on Steam!

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