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Progress Notes Week 35

(August 24th - 30th)

• Two versions of Urchin have been added to the Demolition Job
  
• Demolition Job rewards have been tested and balanced
  
• Refuel terminals have been added to ore towers
  
• Radioactive materials and trade design have been worked on
  

• The foundations of the Advertisement Designer were tasked
  
• The finalization of the Ship info page design is in the works
  

• Work Hub update:
  
  
  
  • Assembly hall has been removed
    
  • Hall for the upcoming repair job has been placed
    
  • Platform for landing and take-off has been added
    
  
  
• Weapon and Ammunition -terminals' locations have been adjusted
  
• Take-off terminals and instancing areas have been placed to various landing platforms
  

• Cargo Beam devices properly update their power consumption and no longer lock onto their own structure
  
• Torque deadzone adaptation should now be stable also in ships with multiple FCUs
  
• Cables and pipes in ship blueprints can be fixed using Cable/Pipe Tool
  
  
  
  • Cables and pipes layers have been added to blueprint tab in Universal Tool, uncategorized layer has been merged with miscellaneous layer
    
  
  
• Bolts, cables and pipes should no longer be worth extra credits when in stacks
  
• Ammo stack creation now also sets the primary material for the stack instead of leaving it invalid
  
• A bug with item collections not being listed in sell terminals has been fixed.
  

• Density calculation has been fixed
  
• A bug with tooltips values not being initialized, causing UI to sometimes show incorrect values, has
• been fixed
  
• A bug that allowed moving ores and items too big to fit inventory slots from stations / world to the player inventory has been fixed
  

• Item pickup sound, when picking up items with a shortcut key, has been fixed
  

• Budget window now counts cables and bolts towards the total voxel volume
  
• An exception has been added to allow cable sockets to overlap with other objects
  
• Ship integrity visualization can now be toggled on/off from the button
  

• Aiming at buttons/monitors animations have been improved
  
• New pickaxe hacking animations have been worked on
  
• Stop animations have been polished
  

• Work hub level art and holograms have been updated
  
• Updated Workhub sign has been added for Demolition Job
  
• Missing farLOD from demolish_hall found in the work_hub_station has been re-added
  
• Duplicate farLOD pieces found from some grid_slot_scenes have been removed
  
• PvP Station colors have been updated: clear team starting points and neutral areas
  
• Lighting has been updated in Mass Transit Corner Stop and Mass Transit Side Stop
  
• Legacy assets have been removed from station hall small modules and level art checked and fixed
  
• Level art in medium and large Spaceship Designer Halls have been updated due to legacy assets being removed
  

• Updated inventory icons have been added for: Sentinel Rifle, Tactical Shotgun and Grenade Launcher
  
• Empty shell asset has been created for Long Rifle
  
• Mining Saw spark texture has been worked on and electrical arc reload effect has been added
  

• Updated mining backpack texturing is in progress
  
• Mesh and textures have been created for blueprint projector asset
  

Progress Notes Week 34

(August 17th - 21st)

• Design for the remote explosives has been finished and is now being implemented
  
• Design for mining laser changes is underway
  
• First version of the Ore Collector design has been finished and is now being implemented
  
• Design for "Transfer all"-feature for all connected containers in mining backpack has been worked on
  
• Progression design for Demolition Job has been finished
  
• Cutting Tool has been added to Demolition Job
  
• New shipwrecks have been added for Demolition Job: Carrier and Vasama Vanette
  
• "Total mass" text in Universal Tool material tab has been changed to "Total volume"
  
• New asteroid belt tech has been tested
  
• Economy configurations and fixes have been made: tool, weapon and ammo prices have been adjusted
  

• The ship detail/info page is being worked on, "Hauling request screen" is in the works
  

• Starting station's layout has been changed
  
• Workhub update is in progress
  
  • Hall created for the upcoming Repair Job
    
  • Grid slot layout has been changed. Waiting for level art and LOD update.
    
  
  
• Shop signs have been updated
  
  
  
  • The legacy name "Market station" has been changed to "Marketplace"
    
  • The legacy name "Showroom" has been replaced with the spaceship shop's logo
    
  
  
• OKIM Industries' spaceship shop has been updated
  
  
  
  • Magnus and Moonfish have been added. NOTE: These ships will spawn in the rotation they've been built, but that will be fixed.
    
  • Shop terminals have been moved in front of the ships for better visibility
  
  

• Triangle thruster extension/Booster design is in progress
  

• Refuel base logic implementation underway
  
• A bug fixed that occasionally caused the player to drift away after sitting down on a chair
  
• Torque deadzone adaptation adjusted further; especially poorly maneuvering ships should be able to fly straight better
  
• Angular changes (damping, practically) are now applied to moving ships
  
• Pieces split from a larger moving one start with a matching velocity
  
• Pricing support added for items that are made of materials other than their default material
  
• When despawning ships with cargo frames the cargo will be put into station storage if possible
  

• Some bug fixes:
  
  
  
  • Social menu Context menu duplicates when right-clicking in the "quick access"-area has been fixed
    
  • Quickbar assert when there is no quickbar data saved has been fixed
    
  • Modular armor slot double click / dragging not setting item to slot has been fixed
    
  • Ammo being removed when item is dragged to equipment slot has been fixed
    
  • Modular armor slots color appearing wrong has been fixed
    
  • Dragging armor pieces to some modular slots failure has been fixed
    
  • Item type without inventory entry not loading into the quickbar upon login has been fixed
  
  

• The overlap test to detect overlapping objects that were bolted/welded together has been improved
  
• The default Multi-user Undo System action history size has been set to 100
  
• Settings menu options for configuring Multi-user Undo System history size have been added
  
• A bug that caused the Spaceship Designer settings to only apply to the current Spaceship Designer editor has been fixed
  

• 1st person animations polished for: Long rifle
  
• Work on remote explosive animations resumed
  
• Rummage animations polish has been worked on
  

• Legacy station assets are being removed, which temporarily affects the visuality of station structures
  
• Rando player spaceship shop logo has been updated
  
• Hologram LODs have been created for the player spaceship shops
  
• OKIM Industries' spaceship shop logo sign holograms added to help players more easily identify
• entrances to the shop
  
• Sunny Ship Center and Marketplace holograms have been changed
  
• A mesh for the new Rando logo has been created
  

• Auto Cannon VFX has been updated
  
• FX offset issue in Buzzsaw has been fixed
  

• New large asteroid cluster settings have been tested in-game
  
• Assets for the Explosive Drill have been added
  
• Battalion armorset textures have been added
  
• Updated mining backpack texturing is in progress
  
• Various UI assets worked on:
  
  • Camera overlay for taking screenshots
    
  • Quickbar on/off toggle buttons
    
  • Tooltip storage size requirement icons
  
  

Progress Notes Week 33

(August 10th - 14th)

• Design for a more customizable quickbar system has been done:
  Basic movement and resizing features have been designed as well as the ability to bind each quickslot individually without having to go through the settings menu
  
• Material tooltip design has been updated
  
• One new Spatha shipwreck has been added to Ship Demolition Job
  
• Tooltip descriptions for crystals have been fixed from "Ore" to "Crystal"
  
• Design for Ship Demolition Job tutorial phase is progressing, programming tasks have been created
  
• Tweaks in material and blueprint tabs of the Universal Tool have been done, testing is currently underway
  
• Beam welding design has been tweaked, testing is now easier to find optimal results on what kind of connections can be allowed
  
• More material and damage tests have been done, new exploit fixes have been implemented and different damage configuration values have been tested
  
• Economy configurations have been made for station beams, they now use Valkite+Bastium in 90:10 ratio
  
• Player progression and exploration design is underway
  
• Material progression related design is being worked on, structural integrity and durability on beams with different materials has been tested
  

• Design for the ship detail/info page is underway
  
• Design for Durability view for Universal Tool started
  

• Shops that sell player-made ships - Rando 1, Rando 2 and Okim Industries - have been added to the game
  
• Player spaceships are removed from the original Spaceship shop, "Laborer" ship has been added
  
• "Arrowhead" has been raised in Rando 1 Spaceship shop, to disable its hatch from hitting the floor
  
• Design for the first phase of player-made stations continued
  
• Station Foundation unit has been created
  
• A collision in Large Hall 05, which disabled its usage in Lot Designer, has been fixed
  Small Hall 12 has been added to Lot Designer
  

• Triangle thruster extension/Booster design is in progress
  

• More fixes have been made to scrap detection and deletion system
  
• Torque deadzone adaptation has been redesigned; highly maneuverable ships hopefully fly straight better and encumbered ones are able to maneuver
  
• Cargo Frame mass center bug potentially deteriorating ship controls during flight has been fixed
  
• Audio support added for ships about to fail structurally due to motion, and a sound for such a failure
  
• When detecting the ship frame, Durability no longer transfers from Thruster Bases to Beams via non-bolted connections such as cable pieces
  
• An assert fixed where the Lifeline bound chair is locked onto a Cargo Frame
  
• Components previously ignored when calculating the Building Budget volume are now correctly considered also in-game and by Durability
  
• Thruster blockedness scanning now originates within the thruster, not next to it
  
• An issue where beams were incorrectly highlighted in certain welding situations has been fixed
  
• Spaceship Designer's beam welding tool is now finished
  
• Autoreload is disabled while in the inventory to allow easier moving of magazines
  
• Various bugs in the new station lot loading system have been fixed
  
• Tech for player station building is being planned
  
• Large lots not blocking player movement on the far borders of the lot has been fixed
  

• An issue with ore tower resource bridge not syncing correctly to other players has been fixed
  
• Asserts and a crash fixed when logging out while ores are being vacuumed
  
• Company Rank Right overrides added for members
  

• Auto bolt and weld action execution speed has been optimized
  
• An issue that broke 'Save as' dialog in Spaceship Designer has been fixed
  
• Confirmation added when deleting modules and folders
  
• A shift-button selection for modules should now work
  
• Version history should now show correct blueprint types in different editors
  
• Mouse wheel input no longer leaks through asset browser
  
• Moving multiple modules with one drag & drop is now possible
  
• Support added for moving and deleting multiple modules with context menu as well
  
• Drag & drop -feature for moving single modules between folders is finished and committed, modules within folders are also now ordered alphabetically
  
• Paint tool brush visualizer now ignores hidden layers and raycasts hit the paintable parts
  
• Parts' durability is now updated when material type is changed
  

• New animations made for bow emotes (/bow1 and /bow2)
  
• New midair death animation is in the works
  
• Work on updating all 1st person "relaxed" animations continues
  
• 1st person animations polished for: Rail rifle and Long rifle
  
• Animations added for interacting with buttons while seated
  
• Rummage animations have been polished
  

• Updated LOD + farLOD models to VIS HQ floors: Main hall, Storage and Loading dock A.
  
• New LOD + farLOD models added to Spaceship shop's side-shops (Bolt, Starsol, Sunny ship center), and level art.
  
• Hologram LODs created for Command Center, Spaceship Design Workshop, Spaceship Shop and Empire VIS Headquarters
  
• Imperial capital station holograms have been updated to match the new Rando player ship shop
  
• Level art for Auction House has been added to Marketplace and Command Center
  

• Minor tweaks made to Laser cutter's heat distortion
  
• Buzzsaw's FX has been updated
  
• Plasma rifle's reload and idle effects updated
  

• New upcoming armor set Battalion is in the making
  
• Juggernaut armorset texture quality polished and paintjobs have been updated
  
• Pioneer unique armorset coloring has been adjusted slightly due to the Juggernaut paintjob update
  
• Small color fix has been made for the Red Brigand large shoulder piece
  
• Battalion armorset texturing is in progress
  

Progress Notes Week 32

(August 3rd - 7th)

• Demolition Job: Pincer shipwreck has been designed and added to the spawn list
  
• Demolition Job: the scrap attractors position has been adjusted so collected parts won't float through the floor
  
• Damage model tests and adjustments have been made
  
• 14 new ships have been added to the game's economy configurations
  
• Inventory tooltips for items have been improved to include more information
  
• Design for Cosmetics Shop UI is underway
  
• Design for the ability to change the position and properties of quickbar(s) is underway
  
• Design for the ability to create custom advertisement signs in-game has been started
  

• Robur station has been added for the on-going PVP event
  

• New modules for Spaceship Designer are under design
  
• Material Tool has been tested and fixes and improvements requested
  
• Design for the ability to add decals to spaceships is underway
  

• FCU (all models) and MFC now have matching device field names by default
  

• Object thickness and hit angle now affect projectile damage
  
• Fixes made to scrap detection and deletion system
  
• Lifeline warp and stun are disabled upon an Insurance transfer, and locking a Lifeline-bound chair with a Cargo Frame unbinds it
  
• Tractor Beam related bugs disabled, needs a refactoring for proper multiplayer support
  
• Players standing on ship cargo no longer push the cargo (or the ship)
  
• An issue that prevented picking up welded beams has been fixed
  

• Mining backpack now correctly updates its slots when using a shop
  
• Work on adding additional slots to backpack is underway
  
• Work on fixing levers not being droppable is underway
  
• Company Roster not sending group invites fixed
  
• Work on adding Audio support for Resource Bridges is underway
  

• Socket tool audio support added
  
• Cargo beam and frame audio support added
  
• Thruster sound tweaks have been made
  

• Some of the bugs in the newly introduced station system have been fixed
  
• An issue where buying custom ships created new saves when they weren't needed has been fixed
  
• Item descriptions should now show correctly in Spaceship Designer
  
• Paint tool brush visualizer now ignores hidden layers and raycasts hit the paintable parts
  
• Parts' durability is now updated when material type is changed
  

• Work on updating all 1st person "relaxed" animations continues
  
• 1st person animations polished for: Antigel, Assault rifle, Battle rifle, Gauss rifle, Laser rifle and Rail rifle
  
• Emote_chestpound and emote_ayy are in the making
  

• VIS HQ LOD and farLOD models updated to floors: Sky deck, Office, Office base, Generator room and Loading dock B
  
• Marketplace updates: "Observation deck" and "intersection room" LODs have been updated,
  LODs have been created for exterior holograms
  

• Reload effect has been made for Pistol
  
• Rail Rifle: the particle spawn and scale rates adjusted to work better at greater distances and a "shock/pulse" has been added to the weapon
  
• Flame Thrower: the particle spawn and scale rates adjusted to work better at greater distances
  
• Bolter: new reload added, particle spawn and scale rates updated to work better at greater distances and a "shock/pulse" has been added to the Bolter
  
• Long Rifle: reload and shockwave effect added, the distance settings of particles tweaked
  
• Mini Gun: reload and shoot exhaust added
  

• Moon fogs adjusted to not be so heavy
  
• YOLOL chip should no longer clip through the device rack chip reader
  
• Dreadnought armor set texture quality polished and paint jobs updated
  
• Red Brigand unique armor set coloring adjusted slightly because of the Dreadnought paint job update
  
• Juggernaut armor set texture quality update in progress
  

Progress Notes Week 31

(July 27th - 31st)

• Improved tooltips that show materials and extra information have been worked on
  
• The new auto reload feature with Buzzsaw in the Demolition Job has been tested: the scrap attractor mass limit in the Demolition Job has been increased by 5%
  
• A new version of the mining backpack has been designed: 6 additional slots, all item slots dynamic, can hold small (one handed) items or medium (two handed) items
  
• Armor weigh and density adjustments and tests have been made
  
• Spaceships have been modified to be used in the Demolition Job
  

• The color picking submenu for the Cosmetics Shop UI has been worked on
  

• Visibility range of Bolt Profile highlights has been increased
  
• Fixed Weapon mount 2 Bolt Profile has been updated: bolts now snap to all positions found in the profile
  

• Beams can now be welded together using the Welding Tool. Beams are also welded when fixing them in ship blueprints using the Building Tool
  

• Correct functionality has been added to the browse/buy/sell view
  
• Auction house UI integration to the Auction Client continues
  
• Chat messages have been added for "already in a group" / "already invited" situations
  
• Invites now get removed if the invited player leaves the game or the invite expires
  

• Player station tech is being worked on, technical support for player created stations and lots has mostly been added
  
• Material tool raycasting now ignores all non-plate and non-beam components
  
• Minimum brush size has been reduced from 0.5 to 0.1
  

• Animation has been made for aiming at a resource port and when a successful connection can be made (1st person)
  
• All 1st person "relaxed" animations are being updated
  

• Market station exterior holograms have been added
  
• Final market station exterior decoration update is underway
  

• Plasma turret's muzzle flash has been modified to be even closer to the handgun version, with bigger side effects etc.
  
• Reload effects have been made for Shotgun and Gauss Rifle
  
• Rocket Launcher VFX have been updated and smoke trail reduced
  
• Assault Rifle VFX have been updated and reload effects have been added
  
• Flame Thrower VFX have been updated: stream is more connected, idle effect has been added
  
• Wrong offset on side lights on autocannon muzzle flash has been fixed
  

• Dreadnought armorset texture polishing is in progress
  
• The flickering on the purple ship thruster effect has been fixed