Third generation of an experimental vehicle engine that uses procedural animation and raycasting.
The multi-legged mech engine started development back in mid-2008.
It's been my little pet project that I've lovingly kept working on to try to achieve perfection. I hope you enjoy it too.
As it's been a constant work in progress, it does lack polish in terms of customisation, I'm sorry. However, I am a strong believer in allowing MODIFY when it's possible to do so, so feel free to make it your own :)
The reason for the price is really to motivate further development and more handcrafted mechs.
Feel free to suggest improvements and ideas to me via IMs. I've got a trello board at: https://trello.com/b/XK6TSj0a/mecha
Usage:
- Rez on land
- Sit on vehicle
- Mouselook / First-person controls
- WASD or Arrow keys - you can move forward/back and also strafe
- EC or Pg Up/Dn - you can move up and down, with enough momentum you do a small hop
Due to very complex and emergent nature of the features, mechanics and simulated physics engine, issues range from small inconvenience to great comedy:
- Third-person control is available but unsupported due to lack of vertical mobility (pitch up/down)
- No way to adjust sit pose yet
- Carrying objects requires it to have a special script
- Carrying objects can tempt you to play fetch with other mechs
- It's non-physical, but moves like a physical object
- You can climb walls with impunity
- You can climb ceilings if you don't mind inverse controls
- You can fall and land on your back (it's possible to waggle your way to recovery... but I'd recommend re-rezzing)
- Experience a rare non-physical movement system
- High quality mesh commissioned from a talented creator
- If you master the controls, you can even go upside down ceilings
- Linked to CasperUpdate system to be notified of updates available
Terrible
I do not know who the reviewers below are but this is terrible. A complete waste of Linden. The movement is horrible and disjointed. After 4 messages and 3 weeks, the creator is not messaging back. 2,000 Linden down the drain it sits in my Trash folder.
Fantastic
It's absolutely awesome, I'm trying to figure out how to add a turret
COOLEST SH*T EVER
Like... BADASS work. Can fullbrite and customize colors. Crashed me once so far but WORTH IT. SPIDER TANKS ARE GOOD FOR PICKING UP CHICKS 14212/10 WOULD RECOMMEND
its unlinke anything ive ever used in SL!!!
if you want to know how this thing works in SL just watch the spider tank in watch dogs or war of the worlds or just anything with a spider tanks and yea its pretty close to that i guess.
i realy love this thing just wish it had more features and a NC for more info
Been wanting one of these..!
I've hunted high and low for a good spider-mech for quite some time. Thanks, Nexii, for making this available! I hope to see more cool stuff like this in the future!