Starship EVO News

The latest experimental build introduce a key component to gameplay, the System view of the holomap.
Here you can view planets, stations and spaceship belonging to the system you are currently located in.

Two viewing mode can be activated:

• Map: planets are ordained and station are visible.
  
• Orrery: planets are shown at their real position. Stations and spaceship are visible.
  

Some tweak have been made to the planetary system generation: you will have to migrate any entity built on the space habitat as it will spawn in a different place.

Another big change is the update of the Unity version the game is using.
To allow this the netcode solution had to be migrated too.
It wont change much for now apart from minor performance improvements. But it means that I will now be able to make some progress on the netcode side!

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Bugfixes:

• #3314 Remote Player invisible inside ship in multiplayer.
  
• #3364 Holomap not showing stars.
  
• #3393 Teleport power stats are incorrect.
  
• #3395 Gravity unit does not draw power.
  
• #3433 Hinge incorrect title in config window.
  
• #3413 Crashes with very large ship.
  
• #3380 Cannot load some world different from the starting one.
  
• #3436 Space Habitat gravity is now extending higher.
  
• Second starter block used will break game.
  
• #3463 Underwater object pushed in a direction.
  
• #3465 Quit to title issues.
  
• #3458 System map issue after new warp.
  
• System map warp target still visible
  
• Galaxy map grid not visible
  

Thanks for playing!
Francois

This build introduces more planets type.
There is now Ice, lava, gas, sand, thunderstorm, terrestrial, moon-like and oceanic planets, each in several forms.
These are simple placeholder for now while waiting for a full fledged procedural planetary tech.


An earth-like planet.

A colder one...

And a slightly hotter one!

Bugfixes:

• Drops not being cleared on quit to title.
  
• #3345 #3093 Massive amount of drops causing FPS drop.
  
• Raycast length issue on Space Habitat terrain.
  
• #3348 Rare instance of camera freeze.
  

This build is currently available in the experimental branch!

Thanks to all the players!
Francois

This build improves the turret experience when used with camera, fixes a few turret incorrect collisions issues and improve performance on the space habitat.

Improvements:

Physics performance on the space habitat has been improved (collision and raycast):

Flying a spaceship close to the ground
Firing Beam weapons
Using gimballed weapons
Turrets:

Improper collisions when using decorative children entity.
Turret in raw mode (camera or player seated) will reset player input on enter or on collision.
Camera used with turret now stick more precisely to the turret axis.
Bugfixes:
#3297 Build HUD element is drawn before frosted effect.
#3263 Incorrect Turret collision baking when an axis has decorative children entity attached.
#3170 Photo mode and turret not compatible.
#3307 Can delete brick supposed to be un-deletable under some conditions.
#3301 Big performance hit when firing beam on the Space Habitat.
#3322 Gravity area for spaceship does not extend high over the ground.
#3325 #3313 Player locomotion instability on low end GFX hardware.
#3318 #3305 Blueprint spawned can have destroyed texture.
#3321 #3271 Quit To Tile and then reload game is broken.

Thanks to all the players!
Francois

Another build with more fixes.

Bugfixes:
#3293 Game not saving on quit.
#3298 Game FPS drop on warp in some instance.
#3298 Teleport moves player to incorrect position.
#3299 Copy-Paste can copy the undeletable children base brick of a mechanism.

Thanks all for playing the game!
Francois

The latest builds introduced changes to the player locomotion following community feedback.
The jetpack modes selection has been streamlined. Now a simple Jetpack toggle key is used to switch mode, and going to a 0g zone will automatically trigger a switch to the 6 dof mode.
This should make it more clear for newcomer but also faster to switch for more experienced one.

Furthermore there has been a few fixes and improvements to the walking logic and 6 dof logic. Hopefully it should be a lot better! As most of the experienced players have been almost exclusively using the anti-grav mode the others mode (6dof and simple walk) have always been historically lagging behind a bit in term of feel and polish.

There was also a lot of fixes related to the interstellar travel.

Builds released: 20w28a, 20w28b, 20w27a and 20w27b,
Both DEFAULT and EXPERIMENTAL beta branch are now in 20w28b.

New Features and Changes:

• Locomotion Tab is removed.
  
• Jetpack keybind added, F by default.
  
• In a gravity field player can switch Jetpack On and Off.
  
• In a gravity field Jetpack on will align the player to the gravity field.
  
• In a zone without gravity the jetpack will be automatically activated.
  
• In a zone without gravity the player can control its roll with the Q and E keys. (6dof mode)
  
• New tutorial starting zone to accomodate the change (Zone 1 removed)
  

Community Suggestion:

• #3219 6dof pivot around head.
  
• #3274 Copy and Paste range scale with copied region size.
  
• Tweaked formula for body align to gravity field feature.
  

Bugfixes:

• #3223 Lag after a few warps.
  
• #3226 Crash on large ship because of light texture. Temp fix, for now there will be no light on such ship.
  
• #3257 #3240 #3235 #3258 Children build on children entity position player at wrong place when activating yoke.
  
• #3260 #3256 #3239 Painting or Deleting bricks after viewing Ship preview can cause freeze.
  
• #3242 Yoke on children entity without seat position player in incorrect position.
  
• #3241 Player Locomotion in walk mode can be floaty when looking up and down.
  
• #3268 Hoverpod linked from hotkey issue.
  
• #3216 Bevel Texture.
  
• #3177 Player walking on terrain can be jittery.
  
• #3289 Issue with paint on blueprint load.
  
• #3285 Camera mode does not reset camera roll.
  
• #3283 Player roll when entering 0-g and moving sideway.
  
• #3279 #3284 Sliding issues with character walk.
  
• #3280 Copy-Paste rotation widget still shows on tool unselection.
  
• #3282 Mecanism destroyed during activation causes infinite audio loop.
  
• #3287 Window tile border width.
  

Cheers
Francois