Progress Notes Week 22

(May 25th - 29th)

Hello everyone! Here are the progress notes of week 22, hope you enjoy!

Design

Features

• Collection area sizes were adjusted in the Asteroid Mining Job: now the collection area covers the whole collection shaft
• Sell terminals were added to new ore storage towers
• Station windows were added to the LotBuildingManager as part of the framework which is mandatory to build first
• Asteroid Mining Job rewards were increased by 50%
• Furnace Design has been worked on, current math calculations have been finished
• Anubis has been added to the market and to the economy
• Major material price adjustments and related economy design configurations have been made
• Design for trade UI changes have been made
• Improvements for social menu player invitations (group, company and friends) have been made

Stations

• New Kingdom Outpost station has been updated:
  • Kingdom's Spaceship shop -grid slot has been placed
  • Vertical bridges rotated to their correct setting
  • StationAreaEntity has been resized and centered
  • Spaceship Design Workshops' instance load modes have been corrected

• Proving Grounds updated:
  • Spaceship Design Workshops' instance load modes have been corrected
  • StationAreaEntity has been resized and centered
  • "Ore storage tower" has been completed, and several copies have been placed on stations: Capital Imperial (Origin), Empire Outpost and Kingdom Outpost

Spaceship Designer

• The number of Main Flight Computers (MFC) is now limited in Spaceship Designer (max 5)
• Spaceship Lamps have been finished: 8 colors for each variant

Code

Gameplay

• 'Approaching safezone border' -messages now appear when approaching from either side of the zone, not just from outside
• Lot hologram code has been optimized to perform a bit better
• A flashlight has been implemented for robots
• An option has been added for magnetic boots unseating behavior
• Ship recovery system has undergone some changes
• Item prediction issue when moving items between inventories has been fixed
• Durability now shows everything in yellow when designing a ship that does not yet have a valid frame
• Lifeline has been tweaked
• Stations now manufacture the intended amounts of items in all cases

User Interface

• Lifeline icon now show up only if there are friendly ships within the range
• Reward fluctuation system has been implemented
• Initial bare-bones version of a screenshot editor has been implemented for the Feedback tool
• UI for player trade is in the making

Spaceship Designer

• Lot designer blueprints have been hidden from asset browser and open blueprint dialog in the ship designer, and vice versa
• A bug that allowed buying invalid ships has been fixed
• Forced autosave added before the user opens the open blueprint dialog
• Forced autosave added before the user opens a previous autosave stash file

Planets and Moons

• Issue with moon surface not counting as a collision when releasing grabbed items has been fixed
• Moon surface generation has been updated

Renderer

• Asteroid ring optimization is in the making

Art

Animations

• Walk stop and crouch stop animations have been polished
• Giggle and clap4 emotes are in the making
• Emote_sulk has been modified heavily
• Emote_yes2 a and b have been updated: 2a got a small modification and up down aimings, 2b got heavily modified
• 1st person animations have been made for the Pipe Tool

Stations

• LODs for Station_hall_b_medium_18 have been updated
• LODs for station_modules_trading_market_station_elevator_hall have been updated
• LOD/farLOD models of mega_station_slot_37152_command_center_1_a have been updated and new texture maps have been baked and painted

Other

• Hall and hallway module icons have been updated in Station Creator, so that they match the actual modules
• Remote explosive, remote detonator and explosive pack assets have been added with preliminary textures, and are ready for final texturing and gameplay implementation
• Resource Bridge: Vcxel generation improved, so that it accurately aligns with the connection surface
• Ore storage tower level art has been finished
• Normal maps for snowy asteroid rocks have been adjusted
• Sharp XL asteroid rocks have been made
• Asset for small control panel speaker and small signal baton have been created
• Lifeline icons have been updated

Gallery

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Until next time! 🪐