Starbase

by Frozenbyte

Here are the progress notes of Week 6:

Old tooltips remade with a bigger font, to improve readability.
Ship weapons tested against basic materials and ships to get better feel of current material and weapon balance.
Company functionality design worked on: co-ownership, disband / owner leaving and general Company controls.
Inventory buy limits tested and confirmed, currently settled on 5000.
Asteroid spawner rotation offset configurations tweaked to improve the Mining Job experience.
Configurations updated: Oninum Armor value adjusted from 5000 to 3500. Autocannon projectile mass increased from 10 to 11. Laser Cannon projectile mass reduced from 6 to 5. Damage adjustments tested against Onimum, new values feel better.
New bolt profiles made for mounted weapon body 2.

Stations

VIS grid slot: support beams added, collisions fixed, walkways, landing platforms, hallways and take-off docks updated.
Skyscrapers worked on: corridor apartment entrance and roof modules updated and new room modules created.

Spaceships

Gameplay

Support added for kill zones that instantly kill players and destroy objects.
An assert fixed with the building tool autofill feature.
A bug where virtual bridges disappear from components with multiple virtual bridges has been fixed.
Custom ships created via SSC are now bought for the intended price instead of obtaining them for free.

User Interface

Inventory tabs have been added to Material Sell menu.
Bank tab code has been refactored.
Filter buttons have been added to sort players and ships.
An issue related to too long company names fixed by making the company name be maximum of 24 characters long.

Audio

First simple approximation of projectile-to-ship context detection for battle music has been implemented.
Distance filtering has been added to hostility events, so that fighting far away doesn’t start the battle music.
Player distance-to-ship parameter has been added for player-ship association in battle context.

Planets

Stations

Moons and Asteroids

Other

Cargo crate baking and texturing have been made.
Universal Projector’s high poly, low poly, UV’s, bakes and materials have been finished.
Resource Grid Utility Panel’s assets design modified.
Resource Grid Utility Panel & Box’s assets finished, high poly, low poly, UV’s, bakes and materials have been finished
Armor sets: Jackal set textures and paint jobs have been polished.
Weapon lockers have been updated.
Whiplash gun’s hit effect edited and switched.
Offset on maneuver thruster’s effect has been edited as the spawn point had been moved.
Maneuver thruster on torpedo changed for a smaller on.