Starbase Progress Notes: Week 40
Here are the progress notes from the week 40!
30.9.-4.10.
Design
Features
Code
Gameplay
Art
Stations
Gallery of the week
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As always, feel free to ask any questions regarding these progress notes!
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Here are the progress notes from the week 40!
30.9.-4.10.
Design
Features
- Bolt profile added to the cargo crate base and the cargo crate example map updated
- Asteroid mining job testing
- Assembly job hall layout tweaked, hall built from modular pieces
- Station inventories and resources: plan for implementation steps, utility device details designed
- Ship turret device system improved: ammunition information added to turret ammo structs
- Designs for Company stations, lots and main page
- VIS rebuild: bottom level readjusted for slanted triangles
- Spaceship Creator Terminals placed to ship assembly halls
- Faction showrooms and dock decals updated
- Cargo crates and holders can now be assembled
- Ship creator's devices tested, many of the gadgets now work
- Mega station creator's default settings updated to enable 45 degree rotation
- Slot connector module tweaked
Code
Gameplay
- Durability unregistered for broken joint devices added
- Cargo frames updates and fixes
- Mag boots: Now get magnetized only when the object the player is on can't be pushed
- Explosion fixes: shock wave applied to pieces that are split apart by the explosion
- Spawn syncing optimized in projectiles
- Various durability features adjusted
- Support added for ignored joints in the connected actors query to physics
- A virtual, non-physical joint between the mover and the rail added
- Latch part type changed to improve structural durability handling
- Damage: Resource containers reducing capacity when damaged fixed
- Threaded and spread object placement implemented and collision checks
- Locale tool not finding correct locale keys fixed
- Maintainability improvements finished
- Chat: Style and layout related updates
- Tool documentation updated
- Roster menu now has an add member popup window and close button for member information
- Clipboard functionality added to company menu
- Member medal images and rank imaged added to the member information UI
- Blueprint terminal added that allows spawning blueprints into the game world
- Autosave saves now directly into the blueprint server when a blueprint is open
- Shop server adjustments: now prevents purchases that result in too many inventory entries
- Price server memory and its consumption examinations
- Texture reloading issue fixed when changing textures and tint mask index fixes
- Volymetric fog fixes
Art
Stations
- Ship showroom farlod fixed, updated and finished
- Maintenance hall lobby: Baked textures and tintmask adjusted and fixed and details added
- Command center farlod with baked textures updated
- Tintmask fixes for mega stations and farlods
- Command center deco for downstairs underway
- Maintenance hall level art updates
- Missile launcher: Sliding lock updated and launch tubes enlarged to fix collision issues
- Fps weapons: concepts underway involving devices/magazines for Arclighter and Reaper cannon
- Reaper cannon textures updated
- Arclighter idle effect updated
- Signs modeled, adjusted and completed for texturing
- Pipe tool design tweaked
- Voxel model recolouring fixes
- Rail textures updated and cargo crate voxel collision fixes
- Voxel collision fixes for cargo crates and weapon crates
- UI icons: Icons finished for gas containers, fuel rods and cooling cells
- UI icons: Icon created that indicates damaged items in inventory
Gallery of the week
Click here for full-sized images:
Video
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!
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