Starbase - Progress Notes Week 17 (2020)

27 Apr 2020Developer post

Progress Notes Week 17

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 17, hope you enjoy!

Features

Material purity features and UI design are underway
Balance adjustment: Weapon body electricity conversion increased from 500 to 1500 electricity per second
Balance adjustment: Reduced Rechargeable Battery electricity storage capacity from 20,000 to 10,000 units
Balance adjustments tested and configurations made to ships to support that
Furnace math reworked and debugged into a "final" form, it can now survive from possible design alterations
Inventory icons fixed for turret pieces
Design for resource net integration with inventory systems continues
Prototype options for Lictor fire control system updates worked on
Design for Company functions continues, Shared property and blueprints design, Member and Rank access pages and Job access design worked on
Design for armor color customization continues

Stations

Marketplace alley terminal placement has been fixed, it was hidden inside level art

Spaceships

Furnace ship testing continues, main goal was to test if the ship can handle all the mass of the furnace modules and fly properly
Autocannon ammo clip rotations fixed in Lictor, Veles and Lancer
Pre-cabled/pipe bolted modules worked on: plates added, new small extension module with 3 hardpoints (Wing prototype module), hatches added for main thruster module and buttons added for hatches in modules
Asteroid hauling ship tests underway, some issues found when hauling bigger asteroids

Gameplay

User Interface

Resource Bridge syncing has been updated and support for selling material has been added
Feedback Tool’s keybindings have been updated and code refactored

Audio

Spaceship Designer

Placement and preview spamming are now prevented
An assert that occurred when spamming selection transformation or when pasting a single bolt has been fixed
Group selection system breaking when returning from test mode has been fixed
Incorrect module LOD position saving has been fixed
Station designer's asset browser tooltips have been enhanced and localized

Animations

Ad animation scaling has been updated and other small issues have been resolved
Additional info ads have been added to market station
Welding Tool now has animations for welding and reloading (1st person)
Animation blend times have been improved between idle and movement states (3rd person)
Mid-air death animations are in the making

Moons and Asteroids

New rocks have been added to alpha moons
Ice asteroid materials have been adjusted, multi-material tests have been made
Snow and frosty rock materials for asteroids is in the making, multi-materials tests have been made
The positions and rotations of the largest asteroid clusters have been adjusted

Other

Pipe Tool UV mapping has been finished
Tintcolors and fracture textures have been added to the beam fracture models, plate material has been added to the plate fracture models
Weapon turret assets have been finished
Flight test mode button icon has been added to Spaceship Designer
Autocannon and weapon body assets have been updated
Fogs have been adjusted
Cliff rock density tests are underway
Medium modules exterior decorations update is underway
Steadfast armor set's texture and paintjob quality have been polished
Market station’s shop decorations update is underway

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

Until next time! 🪐