Starbase - Progress Notes Week 5

04 Feb 2020Developer post

Progress Notes Week 5

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 5:

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

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

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

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! 🚀