Week 50 (9.12. – 13.12.2019)

Here are the progress notes of week 50:

Design

Features

• New test entities added to a cargo beam test map, the beam power consumption tested again.
• Object rotations in carry mode tested, axis lock threshold adjusted for better user experience.
• Cargo lock beams power consumption tested, the power consumption levels adjusted for better balance.
• Cargo lock beams power consumption tested in test environment and with Nautilus cargo ship in real gameplay situation.
• Four new mining backpack variants created.
• UI screen issues in asteroid mining job fixed, all the screens are working again.
• Economy configuration updates: major test adjustment to infantry weapons.
• Triangle thruster and receiver bolt profiles updated.
• New shop UI worked on.
• Material cube bolt positions tested, bolt profiles will be created to improve usability.
• Density property changes, effects on damage formula and possible updates and improvements to damage calculations.

 Spaceships

• Triangle thruster bolting updated in Ithaca V1, Lictor, Veles, Zilant and Pioneer.

Code

Gameplay

• Further testing on torpedo guidance made.
• Inventory issues caused by refactoring fixed: items unintentionally dropping to world, not picking up, stacking on wrong situations and whole bunch of others.
• Dragging area of station inventory UI is now larger and more intuitive.
• Ships are now spawnable only from areas that have access to the station inventory they are saved into.
• Remote LOD ships now have “traditional” thruster sounds.
• Mass units related debugging and reconfiguring made.
• Internal handling of material mass and density unified, resolving various display and logic issues.
• Network and memory relays changed to have enabled flags on both sides of the connection; both must be on to function.
• Cargo beams sometimes remaining in effect when shut off fixed.
• Device networks treating nearly depleted batteries as infinite power sources fixed.

User Interface

• Ship sub pages added to the company tree.
• ‘Add member’ button in Company Roster now sends company invitation and ‘Join’ button accepts the company invitation.
• Invitations now close when inventory menu is closed.

Starbase Spaceship Creator

• Feature that allows opening a damaged owned ship inside the SSC in the making.
• Multiplayer issues that occurred when joining a SSC session during edit to test mode change have been fixed.

Renderer

• Renderer support added for rendering early and late 3D GUI, render flags added to HUI functions to allow terminals to render early.
• Early and late GUI support bridging between game and renderer.

Art

Stations

• Collision errors fixed for material cubes at market station
• VIS skydeck decoration polishes made
• Storage floor decorations work underway
• Main hall parenting polishes made

Weapons

• Sentinel rifle have been added to the game (with temp textures), rig made and configured to work in-game.
• SMG Gatling textures updated and paintjobs updated for better combinations.
• Torpedo Launcher: Some visual tweaks to the Torpedo Launcher, a few details removed.
• Transition animation made for pickaxe and rifle weapons when entering weapon lowered stance when standing.

Other

• Skybox stars redesign underway.
• Material Cubes: All the material cubes now have similar bolting holes like the biggest versions have.
• The thruster effects optimized by removing unnecessary particles etc.
• A beam mesh’s incorrect origin position fixed.
• Asteroid rock designs underway.

Gallery of the week

Videos

That was all for now, until next week!

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