Starbase Progress Notes: Week 37
Here are are progress notes for the week 37.
9.9.-13.9.
Design
Features
Code
Gameplay
Art
Stations
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Here are are progress notes for the week 37.
9.9.-13.9.
Design
Features
- CV issues fixed (number rounding, drag & drop fixes)
- Mining Job issues fixed (ice asteroids removed from the spawn list, "missing SpacePartType"-errors)
- Spawners tested, issues/bugs reported
- Bugs in new economy mechanics tested, future features designed
- Station inventories: detailed designs for player interaction and logic for how storage space is determined, UI mockups and interaction logic iteration
- Resource junction: adjustments, setting up the components required on the junction
- Teams options and visuals for Guilds reworked
- Durability system updated
- Issues with cable interaction (durability/eachother/bulidingtool)
- VIS rebuild continues
- Ship creator: Ship test build, progress documented
- New outposts for Empire and Kingdom finished
- Stacked lots design, walkways and support beams connecting lots to the walkways
- Stacked lots can now be stacked on top of each other even with different rotations
- Updates on spaceships (Fuel panel max value update, Durability change/update)
- Issues found in ships durability calculations, where all the mass flow was not calculated (fixed)
Code
Gameplay
- Devices with no power consumption fixed not getting their power level updated upon device network connection
- Support added for disabling device slots temporarily
- Devices not connecting to device networks after stopping grab fixed
- Pipes&cables preventing fixing tool fixed
- Tools not getting a deactivation event when they are deinitialized due to a despawned/dead player fixed
- Hinge joints snapping if moved back and forth quickly at their max travel point being investigated
- Scene fixer made to support changing search for any color property, change any color property, and support ModelComponents
- Lot inventory: More station tests made, implement created for an early version of storage area despawner/spawner
- Lot inventory: Server created and client side support for station inventory creation (and deletion for server)
- Lot inventory: Support adder for adding items in station inventory
- Player: Player rotation indicator Effect and Model separated
- Player/Animation: FPSLogicComponent cleaned and capped moving speed animation parameter values
- Various aspects of structural collisions fixed involving partially static structures
- Durability logic problem fixed that allowed a frame to include beams attached only to damaged beams
- indestructible elevator in current state tested.
- Interaction Tool: interaction release handling fixed,a check added to enforce interaction range on continuous interactions, the bolt highlighting persisting fixed in cases where the bolt tool becomes active again without properly deactivating
- Editor properties added and finalized for the terrain object placement system, almost there
- Abstract balance data type objects written for the terrain object placement configuration, similar to how the heightmap settings are defined from a separate type that is linked into the manager
- Items that are damaged are now saveable to server
- Damaged items can be dragged in and out of inventory and damage stays and is synced to other players
- Saviors use MenuCreator
- Saviors can be draggable and resizable
- Buttons and other stuff are now more easy to use and the code is a lot cleaner
- Items dragged out of inventory not appearing to other players debugged
- Tree buttons visualized
- Company Screen being worked on
- Feedback tool: Scrollbars implemented (wip), item info updated on item hover, Screen capture preview rendering successful, Tree clicking finished, Search functionality and tree item filtering implemented
- SSC and lot code rewritten that were affected by the blueprint system
- Blueprint client code finished. Fixed an assert in ssc previews
- Price server being worked on
- Metallic texture support added, removed unused normal map parameters
- Ridge material support added
- Shadow improvements
- Renderesolutionscale added to logging/profiling and also modifying the view for it
- Reloading of materials being worked on
Art
Stations
- Level art for Mega Station updated
- Level art + LOD update for Ship Showroom(s)
- Mega_station_slot_18576_ship_repair_a_farlod finished
- Modeling of the furniture being worked on
- Exteriors of all the wanted modules for Empire outpost recolored
- Empire shop recolored and polished
- Metro slot's lights being worked on: configurations and placements tweaked
- Art added for the waiting areas & chairs replaced
- A farlod created for ship_repair_hall_small, UV mapping finished and baked
- Farlod finished for mega_station_slot_18576_ship_repair_a
- Revolver textures tweaked and finished
- Pistol textures and paintjobs tweaked
- Laser rifle and shotgun textures and paintjobs tweaked
- Scifi-gun modeling and further designs being worked on
- Steam UI assets fixed as well as basic UI's
- Twitch poster for SB created
- Recoloring voxel modules, texture recolor and tint mask adjustments
- Pictures to the LOD model tintmask instructions corrected (and added it to the Starbase LOD page)
- Separate collapsible sections created for the tintmask
- Remodeling for the rails (instead of using the same model as the beams)
- Tintmasks made for the YOLOL chip and YOLOL memory chip (examples below)
- Small tweaks to the align preview effect, also recorded a video of it
- Gas containers: Had to make the hole of the utility connection shallower so that the base of the twist handle can be bolted in to it from a ok angle and distance
- Laser designator: concepts of the laser designator and highpoly mode finished.
- Resource junction: Bolting places added to the twist handle base design, highpoly mode finished.
- UI colors: Menu items replaced that used non-palette, multiplied colors or colored images with id colors from starbases palette
- Color map and tintmask finished for ship_repair_hall_small_farlod, farlod for mega_station_slot_18576_empire_ship_repair_a started
Gallery of the week
Videos
Questions? Leave them down here!
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