This skip HUD lets you use pretty much every chat command without the hassle of having to remember them or type them out. There are *very* few exceptions. It also has a set of features that are now standard throughout the family of skip HUDs for Bandit/The Mesh Shop sailing boats.
I've always made my HUDs to be flexible, to allow the provision for people to modify my HUDs to get their perfect skip HUD, if that's what they want to do. This V2 HUD makes that a lot easier.
There is now one script to power all the HUDs, changing from a variety of similar scripts that had minor variances or features introduced on later HUDs and not present on older HUDs.
They also use one texture for all the buttons, and I'm hoping that the texture will continue to be relevant for any new Bandit/TMS releases *crosses fingers and hopes*.
The benefit of all this work is that I can make pre-built HUDs with less fuss for those that choose to buy them for each boat, and people that wish to re-purpose a HUD for more than 1 boat can do so if they're able and confident in their modding skills :)
Each HUD now has two sides, with each side having a minimize and maximize button to hide/show the HUD.
The front side contains the buttons you'll use commonly or those that represent major functions on the boat.
The reverse side contains the buttons less commonly used and also one of the major new pieces of work in bringing these V2 HUDs in to existence, i.e. the wind setter.
I've tried to make the wind setter very flexible, so that it can give you exactly the sort of interface you find most useful.
The wind setter is used to set both wind direction and wind speed. The large centre dial sets the direction, while the arc on the right of the wind setter sets the boat speed.
The wind setter will operate in one of two modes. The most commonly used mode is BWind, applicable to very many Bandit/TMS boats. The least commonly used mode is Boss, and at the time of writing is only used by the Bandit IF and Madpea (though I'm guessing that it will feature in new boats eventually).
That means that it will work for pretty much every sailing boat Bandit/TMS make. As long as the boat actually listens to objects, that is. That includes the Laser, Nacra, B55, B60, IF, Pacha, Cafe del Mar, OD65 and I'll stop boring you there...
For those confident in their modding skills, I have included with each of the available HUDs a large set of buttons for you to modify and repurpose each HUD for other Bandit/TMS boats that you may own. You can either buy ready built HUDs from me, or you can build your own one-HUD-to-rule-them-all HUD, if that's what you wish. This has always been possible, but with the common script and common textures across the family of HUDs it's now much simpler for you to do.
Should delivery fail, either IM me or use any Caspervend redelivery terminal (my marketplace store is linked to my Caspervend dropboxes, makes life easier :)
See item in Second Life- simplifies giving commands
- fully mod/copy (script copy only), so tweak away
- minimizes when not needed
Excellent Product!
This is perfect straight out of the box for using the Bandit IF. No need to remember, or key in local commands. A few clicks and off ya go!
Incredibly useful!
Can't believe no reviews of this for almost five years... just got my IF this week and found this soon after. Having struggled my way through some of the narrow channels of Sansara without it, having this have opened the doors and windows and let the fresh air in again! It makes wind speed and direction setting so simple, and has other functions too that I am yet to discover. But if you laid out L$3K for your IF, you'd be crazy not to spend the L$49 for this HUD, your life will be SO much easier.
I made the HUD a little smaller and moved it on my screen across to the left edge, leaving my view clearer at the bottom. You put it where it works for you, and what size you want it too, because you can! :)
Wonderful
This HUD is perfect, I'm able to sail around the Blake sea effortlessly. Raise the main sail and jib with 2 clicks, remove the fenders, flip to the wind direction and speed pane with one click and then change your wind direction as you turn about. It's so fricken easy with this. Thanks for making it
a great help and addition to sailing
this HUD creation is a great help in sailing the IF Bandit Boat I have, 3 thumbs up!
Love this product
Love this product, makes tooling around the Blake effortless
Very Helpful
This works great and is very useful... I hope to see a version for the TMS Nacra soon