Starbase Progress Notes: Week 36
Here we have the first weekly progress notes, starting from week 36.
We've divided these notes into categories, Design, Code and Art.
2.9.-6.9.
Design
Features
Code
Gameplay
Art
Stations
Gallery of the week
Videos
So what do you think, are you excited about these weekly Starbase news?
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding these, feel free to leave them here!
If you've not wishlisted Starbase on Steam, do that now!
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Here we have the first weekly progress notes, starting from week 36.
We've divided these notes into categories, Design, Code and Art.
2.9.-6.9.
Design
Features
- Starbase Alpha and DTU social features were tested
- Tooltip popup time and mouse movement range adjusted
- New player pushing physics
- All asteroid mining halls configured, all terminals are now online and working
- Cargo Lock Frame Controller design finished
- Indestructible material stats configured
- Economy configurations added and fixed in editor, economy is finally in the game
- Station inventories, feature goals and process
- Control windows and UI design for Clans/Teams/Guilds
- Improvements on version history
- VIS rebuild, module scene fixes and generator deck build
- In-game tools for test mode, inventory in test mode should be limited certain tools
- Starbase Spaceship Creator guide draft finished
- New builds started for Empire and Kingdom outposts (new outposts include civilian buildings in addition to military hangars)
- New designs for stacked lots
- Adjustments and updates were made on multiple ships (i.e fuel infopanel max value)
- Spaceship assembly guide was updated
Code
Gameplay
- Support added for decal component recoloring to scene fixer
- Thruster network improved
- Mag boots - Model support added for align indicator
- Player: Added debug visualization to player pushing/collision and prevented interaction when noclipping
- Prevention of bolting ship blob entities modified containing thrusters onto another ship blob
- Added warnings for negative or absurdly high material densities, and warnings for indestructible structural components without a connection to a permanently static component (when durability-scanned)
- Durability Test Tool's handling of indestructible components improved
- LocalSoundEnvManager's handling of AudioObjects reworked and their volumes in order to reduce audible snaps
- TestAllStructures mode in the Durability Test Tool added
- Settings-navigation improved
- The asteroid distribution math improved
- Support added to the hinge grip for an offset, to allow the hinge rods themselves to be grippable
- Physics mesh resolution separated from the object placement resolution to allow for more easier performance & quality tweaking
- Backpack scrollbar removed and set slot amount vertically to five
- Quickbar properties now allowed to be toggled separately for large quickbar and small quickbar
- Sold item set to disappear automatically from player's back
- Header text updates when a topic is chosen from tree
- The blueprint server will store and supply all blueprint management related metadata
- Economy system tests
- Price server created
- Support added for changing target format on the fly
Art
Stations
- Level art + LOD update for mega_station_slot_37152_ship_showroom_a, mega_station_slot_18576_upper_intersection_1_a and mega_station_slot_18576_metro_1
- Voxel error fixing by adjusting the width from 1.1988cm to 1.8cm
- Lods checked for station_modules_halls_medium, modules recolored to default color theme
- Tweaks and recolouring on Research Hall level art modules
- Decal placement and lights for level modules finished
- Recolor of the empire shop finished
- Transponder device highpoly modeling, texturing, baking and extra normal details in Substance Painter
- Substance designer texture experimentations
- Frame device controller highpoly and lowpoly tested and coloured
- Arclighter textures and paintjobs finished
Gallery of the week
Videos
So what do you think, are you excited about these weekly Starbase news?
If you have any questions or suggestions regarding these, feel free to leave them here!
If you've not wishlisted Starbase on Steam, do that now!
AGVYY
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