Progress Notes Week 30
(July 20th - 24th)
Hello everyone, it's time for progress notes again. Here are the notes of week 30:
Design
Features
- Work on the Demolition Job continues: instancing area and instructions terminal have been added, and the job has been tested
- Design work for beam welding continues
- New pyramid plates have been added to economy
- Material progression and balance design has been worked on
- Damage model update design has been worked on
- Asteroid belt material distribution planning is in the works
- Blueprint design is underway: blueprint obtaining and progression have been worked on
User Interface
- Design for the Cosmetics Shop item and cart pages has been worked on
- Updated mockups have been made for the Decal Tool
Spaceship Designer
- 8 new Pyramid plates have been added to the Spaceship Designer
Code
Gameplay
- Work on ship beam welding continues, beams can now be attached without snapping a beam to a blueprint first
User Interface
- Feedback Tool's screenshot editor now uses correct tool icons in the toolbox
- Support has been added to Feedback Tool's screenshot editor for creating, duplicating and deleting tools with a context menu and rearranging existing tools by dragging
Art
Emotes
- Emote_halt has been finished
- Emote_slap is in the making
Stations / Lot Designer
- Large hall 5 has been redesigned to fit the large lot area, and added back to Lot Designer with an updated thumbnail
- Minor visual fixes and tweaks to nearly all of the Lot Designer Hallway modules
Weapons
- Saw's hit effect has been tweaked, and the amount of sparks has been increased
- Plasma rifle's projectile and muzzle flash have been tweaked
- Laser turret projectile's texture, hit effect and muzzle flash have been updated
- Front/side texture tests have been made for projectiles
- Axe melee weapon's textures have been fixed slightly
- Grenade Launcher VFX have been updated: new reload, shoot, projectile and hit effects
- Repeater Pistol has been updated, projectile and hit effect updated
- Rail Rifle VFX have been updated
Other
- Inventory icons have been added for: Flamer, Reaper Cannon, Combat Shield, Axe, Kukri and Khopesh
- Hunter armorset's texture quality has been polished and paintjobs updated
- A new version for Sunny Ship Center sign has been created and a damaged version has been made for the second hand ship shop
- A proper desktop shortcut icon has been added
Gallery
Videos
Don't forget to check our official Starbase forums and our blog for more pictures and videos of the weekly development.
Until next time! 🪐