Update log
Full Starship Simulator update
The complete published notes, normalized for clean reading and source attribution.
Extracted changes
- Gameplay
- UI and audio
• Toned down the strength of the M Class stars out of the window, and removed the LTY class stars from view as they are far too low a magnitude to be visible.
• Migrated all of the text data from the Sensors UI to the Galaxy-Gen system, so descriptive text for celestial objects is immediately available to any game system.
• Migrated the data handling code for all of the stellar text fields on the Sensors UI to a self-contained macro for easy re-use.
• Overhauled how knowledge levels work for celestial objects, so that it's now stored on a per-object basis instead of having generic booleans for the entire star system.
• Fixed knowledge level 3 (short range) scans not registering properly on the Sensors UI.
• Added a lot more data points to the stellar sensor output.
• Added a Dust Sublimation line to star system generation, so that no planets form where the equilibrium temperature exceeds 2000 Kelvin.
• Increased the required equilibrium temperature for lava worlds to 1200 Kelvin, up from 874 Kelvin.
• Began implementing Tidal Truncation Radius for stars, which will form the outer limit of Oort Clouds and the extent to which a star can affect the FTL drive.
• Added plants to all of the planters on B Deck (Thanks @Clairimus Prime !)
We're that much closer to the public demo update now, with the following action points remaining:
• Create a Planets version of the stellar data points macro.
• Implement the macro data points on the Medium and Short range sensor modes.
• Create a new tutorial for the new sensors UI.
• Model a number of new wall/floor/ceiling panels, mostly around Engineering.
• Polish some more of the ship's framework.
• Clear off some bugs and do a general quality pass.
Note from Claire - We hope that everyone had a lovely Christmas, we certainly did! All five of our children were here for Christmas, which was chaotically amazing <3 Unfortunately, Dan had a two day stay in hospital with a pesky kidney stone but all seems okay now, so well done to him for getting through the Christmas stress, horrible pain ( I'm not sure which was worse for him :D), and all of this update :)
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