Starbase Progress Notes: Week 26 (2020)

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Starbase Progress Notes: Week 26 (2020)
June 22nd - 26th

Hello everyone. Here are the progress notes of Week 26, hope you enjoy!

Design

Features

• Armor set themed weapons have been added to the economy
• Economy configurations, fixes and design have been worked on:
  • Weapon set pricing has been adjusted
  • Adjustments and fixes have been made to the crafting data
• Weapons and electronics have been updated with less used and more logical materials
• Player-to-player trading design has undergone fixes
• Auction House logic for viewing auctions has been improved on
• Auction House usability has been improved and sell page has been simplified

Stations / Lot Designer

• Spaceship shop for players to sell their own ships is being made
• Colliding art assets in Small Hall 5 have been removed
• "Hallway End" -modules' priority snaps have been lowered, resulting in better alignment with the rest of the hallways
• Housing slots in Starting station have been replaced with un-rentable ones, in preparation for the upcoming Proia Station
• "Small hall 8" has been added to the Lot Designer

Other

• Angled beam 72x72: Attachment plates should now snap better
• 30 degree beams short ends should now snap together

Code

Gameplay

• Small improvements and fixes have been made for player-to-player trade
• Player position update has been modified to fix projectiles not to unintentionally hit moving players (for example self shot ship projectiles)
• Recovering despawned ships is now possible
• Ship recovery should now successfully despawn ships in local station even if spawning fails
• Unauthorized removal of bolts should no longer be possible in the safe zone
• Durability's Spaceship Designer colors and the misplaced "beam not connected to the largest frame section" warnings have been fixed
• "Torque deadzone" now adapts also to highly maneuverable ships, reducing issues with the 1/10000 thrust level steps
• An issue where thrusters would operate with outdated input values when the device requirements were restored has been fixed
• RangeFinderDevice not hitting its own entity has been fixed
• Lot building not progressing beyond the first pieces has been fixed

User Interface

• Closing inventory causing lag has been fixed
• Auction House Sell Tab is being worked on: Dragging functionality has been added to work with the slots as well as rendering of UI elements
• Page buttons have been added to Auction House pages
• Trade now gets rejected when the player that doesn't accept the trade modifies the offer
• All received trade requests are now rejected when sending a request, so both players don't have active requests from each other
• Complex item tooltips and magazine amount not showing correctly to the other player has been fixed
• Trading backpacks with items inside has been prevented
• Dragged items being dropped in the world when trade was cancelled has been fixed
• Rearranging items in the trade window with double-click has been prevented
• Bolt Tool helper now warns if there is a bolt profile that is not in usable place

Spaceship Designer

• V-snap tool doesn't interact with locked layer objects anymore
• A number of issues that occurred when exiting the game via ALT+F4 or similar means while in the Spaceship Designer have been fixed
• 'Save finished' and 'load finished' log messages have been added to the bottom of the screen
• Saving has been prevented when CTRL+S or File/Save is pressed and there are no changes in the scene
• Blueprint upload failing when scene is saved after visiting the test mode has been fixed
• Pipe, cable and furniture layer opacity settings have been added to settings menu
• A bug that caused the settings menu to get stuck in certain situation has been fixed
• The brush plane depth slider has been adjusted to increments of 0.25 (previously 0.05)
• Temporary modifiers preventing component base color from being properly updated have been fixed
• An optional auto deselect feature has been added that deselects highlighted parts upon switching to the paint tool
• SSCProperties toggle has been added to temporarily disable premium colors

Art

Animations and emotes

• New gameplay animations are underway: move stop to prone, move stop for relaxed run with a rifle, move stop for run with a tool, move stop for run with pickaxe (+relaxed)
• Midair death animations polished
• Tweaks made to jump and landing related animations (1st person)
• Emote_scorn and emote_tantrum are in the making

Weapons

• Projectile for rail gun turret is in the works
• Autocannon muzzle flash and projectile effects have been modified
• Antigel rifle effects have been updated
• Battlerifle effects have been updated: hit FX, muzzle flash, and correct reload FX added to the weapon

Stations / Lot Designer

• VIS Headquarters A and Empire VIS Headquarters: red color has been adjusted to be deeper and sharper, updated model and texture maps have been added for the office floor
• FarLOD model and texture maps of Mass Transit Side Stop have been updated
• Marketplace updates
  • Main Hall exterior decorations have been updated
  • Hangar exterior decorations have been updated
  • Holograms are in the making
• Blue light strips for imperial capital station are in the making

Other

• Initial object (rock) placements for all current large ice asteroids have been made
• L-sized sharp asteroid rock formations have been made
• UI icons have been made for the ammo categories
• Bastion armorset's texture and paintjob quality has been polished

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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!

 

[Mr. Extinct]

Aww yiss
Even more prognotes

 

[Meetbolio]

Great progress!

 

[Torokin]

The armour themed weapons seem like a really cool concept! Talk about customisability! Can't wait for this game to be released.

 

[Kenetor]

So many more signs!

 

[Jabbah14]

Everything looks so cool Good job

 

[[QS] Combustible]

The advertisements are very nice, but in the future it would be a nice to have unique advertisements that aren’t just copy-pasted marketplace signs. Great updates as always!

 

[BigAll]

Nice

 

[Durtle02]

• Armor set themed weapons have been added to the economy

yall mind if i pog

 

[SubaruSama]

I just love the advertising^^

 

[Meboy1000]

Nooooooo my ships with rangefinders now are all broken if they hit things thery are bolted to, whyyyyyyy, its such a good mechanic thooooo Can rangefinders at least not hit certain bits of the ship, like other rangefinders? stacking rangefinders to get a good edge covering is a must for most ships with tangefinder setups

 

[Kodey]

Awesome stuff!

 

[Accad]

I noticed some differences on this (dope) model! Nice attention to detail!

 

[Nudel]

nice, good job. Can't wait for the player ship shop! I am not good at designing^^

 

[Stromakus]

This is awesome. As always. Your work is very good. Thanks for all what are you doing. This game will be masterpiece.

 

[BigAll]

Better and better Nice