• Attractive but low-prim (*NO* attachments)
• Sails using stable "Tako-Race-WInd" (not erratic SL-Wind)
• Customizable: COPY plus Physically MOD with tintable Sails & Hull, Navy+Pirate+Merchant sail textures
• Easy Sailing-HUD (or use standard LocalChat commands or gestures)
• 4 ships: Navy (anchors) Pirate (cutlass) Merchantman (beige) Civilian (light-blue)
HISTORICAL DESCRIPTION and CHARACTERISTICS:
Brigs are a class of sailing ship with 2 masts with square-sails (perpendicular to keel) and intermediate+forward triangular stay-sails. Brigs are very fast and quick turning, with a low draft, but cannot sail as close to the wind as Schooners and other fore-aft rigged ships. They typically were outfitted with 18 huge 36-pounder cannon and required smaller crews than major Galleon/Frigate/Ships-Of-The-Line.
FAIR & CONSISTENT IMPLEMENTATION:
To ensure consistency in: Size; Shape+Structure; Cannons: Speed; Turning; Sailing/Winds; Damage Vulnerability, etc,. all of the Restless-Swords Tall-Ships (RSTS) use identical scripts configured with ship-specific performance parameters.
Because this ship uses the "Tako-Race-Wind", the sailing wind is not the wildly erratic SL-Wind but is instead the slowly varying wind used by most SL Battle-Ships.
PERMISSIONS and PRIMS/LAND-IMPACT
* 66 Land-Impact (117 prims and 09 physics)
* Customizable: The ship is full COPY and MODIFY so you can drop in different sail texture and/or set your own flag texture and your own stern Ship-Name texture
* -- Default: Navy ship has anchor sails, Pirate ship has cutlass sails, Merchantman+Civilian ships have plain sails.
* -- Use the touch menu to change sail color and/or hull color to selectable values, or edit and set your own tint.
* careful low-prim implementation requires *NO* complex sail attachments and you can leave your ship out on display
FEATURES:
* REALISTIC yet EASY sailing using standard Chat commands (raise, lower, moor, kedger/l) or optional sail-HUD
* EASY control using LEFT/RIGHT keys to steer and UP/DOWN keys to adjust sails.
*-- Irons (dead head-wine zone) is 38 degrees (45 degrees with squares up)
* extremely low-lag so is highly responsive and smooth movement
* captain plus 1-2 optional gunners
* -- captain may be owner, or optionally public (anyone)quite as close to the wind.
* SUMMARY: slightly more cannon and health-points than schooner, but slightly slower speed and turning and cannot sail
* 2x5 side cannons touch to fire (or use optional cannon-HUD) plus 2 bow-mounted "chaser"cannons
* ship takes incremental SPD cannonball damage, speed slows as sails show damage
* -- Civilian ship has no default visible cannons but still takes damage
* -- ship starts at 23 Health-Points but eventually smokes, then burns, then sinks (unless its Repair-Depot" is used)
* innovative "cannon-camera-HUD" to rapidly look left/right/ahead/back
* careful design as a realistic implementation of the Real-Life ships (except no below-deck quarters)
* REALISTIC: no highly-raised deck-walks/cabins or high top-heavy sides, it is RL sleek and authentic: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/4174739.jpg or http://www.treasurebook.net/images/enterprise.jpg or http://www.mydreamsailboat.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/Schooner-Zodiac.jpg
IN-WORLD:
Come and see it in-world, and/or ask to take it for a sail http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Exotic%20Forest/231/202/1700
- Attractive but low-prim (*NO* attachments)
- Sails using stable "Tako-Race-WInd" (not erratic SL-Wind)
- COPY plus Physically MOD with tintable Sails & Hull, Navy+Pirate+Merchant sails
- Easy Sailing-HUD (or use standard LocalChat commands or gestures)
- 4 ships: Navy (anchors) Pirate (cutlass) Merchant (beige) Civilian (light-blue)
