Xantha - Space Insect Organic Ship

COPY ONLY VERSION

This is the Xantha, a single rider space craft built upon modified space insects.

It includes the cockpit.

All pictures were taken within the SL viewer with ALM turned on and Windlight Day Cycle Dynamic Richness.

Members of the same group the vehicle is set to will be able to drive the craft even if not owners, use this feature in your RP for authorized pilots groups.
Here are a few instructions on how to operate this vehicle

- Rez it on your land. It will be in parked state by default
- Right click --> Pilot (instead of the default "Sit Here")

Now you're sitting in the cockpit, which is inside of the Space Insect's guts. To operate the vehicle:

WASD or arrow keys to move and rotate

E/C or PageUp/PageDown to lift the craft up or down

E+C or PageUp+PageDown (key pressed together) extended speed with Cruise Mode (+50% speed for 5 seconds, enters Cruise mode right after those 5 seconds). No cool down time between calls to the extended speed.

Cruise Mode can be turned off by using the forward or backward controls (W/A/up arrow/down arrow).

All other controls like the turn and the lift still work and don't disable Cruise Mode

MOD version only:

Feel free to modify the scripts as you need. Their current state is memory limited to the current memory usage, please be aware that you might allocate more memory to the scripts if you're implementing more functions

The ship behavior is controlled by 3 main scripts

- SpaceShip script, the actual vehicle. Also sends messages to the linkset to trigger some other behavior. Location: Root Object

- ShipStatesCtrl script, controlling the main graphic behavior: glow control over the main shell depending by the vehicle state and keys used to control the vehicle. Location: Top Shell Object

- SpaceShipExtraSoundPlayer script, used to make one or more parts in the linkset play multiple sounds based on link messages from the vehicle. Location: FlameHeat1/2/3 Objects

The mod version package also contains ALL material textures used for this ship. If you need to download them, make sure to use TARGA (.tga) format to preserve the alpha channel: it is not being used for transparency and it's not there by mistake!

The base color textures with alpha, use this as a mean of glow mask.

Normal maps alpha contains Glossiness information.

The Specular Map alpha contains Environment map information.

The DevKit folder contains base textures from the high resolution model with no other surface detail, plus all the UV layouts for each single piece

A few extras were added, like sounds and poses.