Starbase Progress Notes: Week 49

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Starbase Progress Notes: Week 49
Last week's notes on the development progress, take a read and enjoy!
December 2nd - 6th

Design

Features

• Testmap built for cargo lock frame and cargo beams: electricity consumption tested for both cargo solutions
• Mining backpack tested: compression rates and processing speed for the backpack configured
• Ship weapon prices adjusted to more reasonable values and crafting material requirements updated
• Economy adjustments: material and resource value calculations and price corrections and profit margins adjusted in configurations
• Improvements to joint motor behaviour design to prepare for new types, allowing cable connections on both sides for data and power
• New UI created for creating and joining a Company
• Design for Team hierarchy for Companies, player placement in Teams and ship rights for teams worked on
• Design worked on for new storage UIs and interaction
• Performance test done with the scaled thruster effects
• New bolt points added for the bolt profile in the large hardpoint corners

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Pre-cabled module tests: Carrier module test -> module modified and now there is enough lock beams for small fighter ship

Other

• Plug component added to Navigation Receiver: bigger receiver now works on hardpoint without turntable (smaller receiver already had this connection possibility)
• Docking to the carrier with smaller ship tested:
  • Some issues with docking to a moving ship: the smaller ship needs to be in a specific spot to be locked with the lock beams

Code

Gameplay

• Building tool autofill feature, which will keep building an object even when not actively painting the targeted object, worked on
• Simplified and modified inventory code even more to better support moving items between player and station inventories
• Player mass now slows down ships and makes them heavier in collisions
• A separate manager was developed to handle thruster-like sounds of distant ships
• A visualization error in the Range Finder's laser beam effect fixed
• Cargo beams now consume power based on how much they are holding
• Power consumption of Cargo Lock Frame adjusted
• A render bug in asteroids fixed, asteroids remain invisible until the fracture swapping is completed, so the inner material won't flash across the surface when spawning in
• Building tool resources requirements estimation tweaked: maximum voxel volume is now the tool brush volume which reduces the possible error in materials consumption

User interface

• Issue with UniversalTool having an invisible panel somewhere in the world when not activated fixed
• Ore compression support added:
  • Inventory entries can be tagged with massCompressed & volumeCompressed
  • Inventory slots have more space for items which volume is compressed
  • Mass & Volume can be configured and fetched from MaterialCompressionSettings
  • UI displays compressed ores with "Compressed"-prefix and their amount is divided by compression multiplier
• Different mining backpack configurations support added: automatic processing removed from backpack that has no processing slots
• Functions created for saving and loading the player's CV state from server
• Company description boxes set to have active input when they are opened

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• "Locate in 3D view" button added to the scene view window
• Increased allowed blueprint version file size on the blueprint server
• Issues with autosaving have been fixed (sometimes not clearing the stash or clearing it when it shouldn't)

Art

Stations

• VIS loading docks decorations continue, focusing on outer decoration draft with loading docks
• VIS main hall dock decoration parenting and polishing
• Storage floor decorating continues; decals, plates and lights added
• Modeling and UV mapping completed for command center LODs

Weapons

• Assault Rifle retopology worked on
• Visual tweaks to the Torpedo Launcher, some details removed
• All the material cubes edited to have similar bolting holes as the biggest version
• Revolver, Antigel, Rail rifle textures updated: paintjobs updated for better combinations

Other

• Small asteroid rocks and clusters created

Gallery

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Videos

As always, feel free to ask any questions regarding these progress notes!
And if you haven't yet, go add Starbase to your Steam wishlist!

 

[MonoToast]

Man you guys are going to town on updates

 

[Kenetor]

Awww back to 4 images, great update though!

and of course my video version is here as always

 

[Ash]

yay new space rocks

 

[Bob Ross]

When you turn off the field, why does the ship stop moving so quickly? Shouldn’t there be more inertia?

 

[TheMarksman]

^ What he said. Is the space drag really that high?

 

[runzik]

looks so good cant wait to get my hands on it keep up the great work

 

[Henkka77]

When you turn off the field, why does the ship stop moving so quickly? Shouldn’t there be more inertia?

Afaik, its a design choice.

 

[Bob Ross]

Afaik, its a design choice.

So they chose to have no inertia from cargo locks maybe?

 

[Atreties]

When you turn off the field, why does the ship stop moving so quickly? Shouldn’t there be more inertia?

Drag on the fighters, but also the carrier ship gets a lot faster without having to drag the fighters around.

 

[Bob Ross]

Drag on the fighters, but also the carrier ship gets a lot faster without having to drag the fighters around.

That definitely makes sense. The speed change just seems so large, so the fighter must either weigh a lot or drag must be really high.

 

[[QS] Combustible]

I think the set speed after release is 0 so the carrier kept moving but the fighters had to catch up.

 

[quantin]

I think there is better to let player control the ship gun by using mouse than keyboard aim