Starbase Progress Notes: Week 39
Here are the weekly progress notes from the week 39.
23.9.-27.9.
Design
Features
Code
Technology
Art
Stations
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Here are the weekly progress notes from the week 39.
23.9.-27.9.
Design
Features
- Ingame ship editor multiplayer features planned
- Building Tool color indicators and alpha values tweaked
- Cargo Crate usability tested, Bolt Profile used on the Crate
- New cargo crate added to economy, crafting data and prospector shops
- Mining hall instancing problem in the station_capital_corner_publisher_demo-map fixed
- Generator enhancer and solar panel math added
- Economy config updates, building tool device added to shops
- Station inventory design updated, progress on UI and interaction design
- Updates on Design Blueprints: saving details, moving from console to another and design changed to bind Blueprints to consoles individually
- VIS rebuild continues: 'backside' of the mainhall, exterior walls, ramps, take off docks and storage deck
- Updates to a demo station: visual changes to make the station look better in first-person view
- Empire outpost almost completely redone according to new requirements
- Mega station showrooms remodeled and adjusted
- Stacked lot designs: collisions and walkway fitting fixed
- Updates on multiple ships:
- FUIButtons replaced with hybrid buttons
- shiptransportAreaEntity removed
- Hinge handles added
- New autotest ship maps added, button and movement tests made
- Module ship build finished, blueprint storing system tested
- Old ships split for testing: some ships could be split and those split sections could be made into modules
Code
Technology
- Support added for triangle mesh collision detection
- Server side fixing
- Physics/collision detection improvements
- Scene fixer: layer filtering support added and recolouring jobs support added
- Make joints not wake up their target actors unless really intending to move
- Base cube corners optimized and recasting for missing raycasts added
- Discovery of bottleneck parts in Durability calculations of frameless structures improved
- Building Tool: holograms fixed and support added for missing voxel threshold auto-completion
- Fixed grabbed objects losing internal slot connections upon grabbing
- Fix universal tool causing redundant input for clients.
- Warhead detonation adjusted so that it is not dependent from attachment to missile but what triggers it
- Further improvements on missile collisions: the detonation now bypasses the YOLOL, forward-extrapolating collision predictions in the making
- Lot inventory: another device for storage logic handling added and proper storage area calculations added
- Mag boots: Boots now start their ground detection a little bit higher and ignore entities that have no collision. Zero gravity rotation allowed when boots are on, but not magnetized
- Objects now able to push players from below and vice versa when magboots are not on
- Durability visualizations improved and large-scale accuracy of contacts between voxel entities of high component counts changed
- Check added to prevent cargo lock fields from working when player is inside
- Visualization added for the latch bolt areas and latch config added
- Grabbing rotation quicksnap interaction updates
- Header updated when item is click on grid update
- Feedback tool: dragging related tweaks done
- UI-server integration implementation done for packing up all the required data for server and from it
- Close window buttons, art and functions added
- Show offline members toggle-button added
- Context menu rendering works now and filter dragging
- New buttons for Company Information menu made and bottom line button styles changed
- Blueprint server issues with the storage server fixed
- Server syncing blueprint improvements finished
- Blueprint server subscription system and proper syncing between the blueprint client and server implements underway
- Price server fixes
- Volymetric fog in the making: tests with bad light scattering and the fog
- Processing and implementing of split out texture underway
Art
Stations
- New module lots added along with some colour configurations
- Market station modules recoloured and maintenance modules updated
- Repair hall tweaks and collision checks updated, tintmasks and colormasks updated
- Torpedo assets: assets finished, high poly, low poly, UV's, baking and materials
- Grid slots collision error fixed
- Baking fixes for the rocket launcher asset
- Repeater cannon bake finalization and implementing it into game
- Rocket launcher texture density fixes
- Texture seam and voxel collision issues with the rails fixed and optimized
- Hologram material to temp signs for a demo added
- UI icons: UI icons for the set that includes the gas container, fuel rod and cooling cell assets in the making
- Textures: Repeater pistol textures and paintjobs finished, Falmer textures and paintjobs on the go
- Effects: Archlighter idle effect updated
Gallery of the week
Click the thumbnails to open pictures in full size:
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!
