First of all, thanks for your purchase. At 72 Stormo we strive to provide state of the art vehicles, made from the ground up in Blender, and usually nothing is bought or downloaded from the Web.
This tug christened Gatika (a small town in the Basque land of Spain) is one of the most modern tugs operating ocean side harbors, and can be seen in operation in the capital city of Basque Land, Bilbao.
The real one, of course, which is also equipped with the awful looking yet incredibly versatile Voith Tractor Propelling system. This double vertical shaft props allow the tug to move in any direction virtually without loss of speed or manouvrability. At the cost of increasing fuel consumption and difficulty of maintenance, the Voith system allows an unmatched speed in handling big vessels, thus erasing the (theoretical) increased fuel consumption.
In Second life waters we do not bother with fuel consumption, but we do mind the visual look and the boat handling.
And the Second Life Gatika tug you just bought gives you all that.
The tug is able to move forward and backward at the same pace, and turns "on the anchor" like the real one.
The Gatika tug in real life carries a pilot, a deck crewman and a sailor. The Gatika in Second Life does the same.
Since there is no hold or interiors modelled (a choice to save prim space), the sailor stands on the middle deck of the tug, ready to handle the deployable rafts (one each side, carrying two people each), and the crewman is ready to direct the water jets from the twin water cannons.
Gatika in Second Life is equipped like the one in real life, with twin cannons able to fight effectively a HD fire about 60 metres away. A special, transferable HUD handles the up-down-left-right turning and the three steps power levels.
The HUD itself is copiable and resizable.
***PLEASE TRY DEMO IN WORLD****
- Full mesh boat, original mesh
- Low lag engine script
- Customizable, full perms textures provided
- Sits pilot and two crews
- Firefighting capabilities, 2 water cannons
