[sau]Gondola

Now with Special Snow version!

[sau]Gondola:

Meet the [sau]Gondola, a gorgeous traditional Venetian rowing boat. This is the first animesh vehicle in SL. Our animesh bodyguard, Kane, will rowing for you. And of course a non-animesh version included if you want enjoy the rowing by yourself.

The[sau]Gondola used [sau]Sage marine system. The concept of this system was inspired by modern video games. We want this system easy to use for everybody even those people who never driven a boat in SL or RL before.

It included 2 single animation and 5 pairs of romantic couple animations, 3 pairs of adult animations which are all exclusively made just for this boat. There is a full animation set for the animesh gondolier too to make everything looks realistic.

This gondola is fully material supported, with our real time reflection technology, the graphic has been pushed to the limit of SL.

You can test drive and buy gondola in these location(s):

HQ: http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/sau/128/128/1000

Featuring:

The [sau]Gondola[boxed] included these contents:
-[sau]Gondola[Animesh]   The animesh version, 65 LI
-[sau]Gondola  The non-animesh version, 19 LI
-[sau]Gondola[Display]  Gondola with boat rack for display, non scripted, 20 LI
-[sau]Boat stand  In case you want a modern boat stand, for decoration.
-[sau]Floating dock[1]    a modular hexagon dock

Quick start:

-Sit on the boat to start, Please note, the first person who sit on the boat will be driver.
-In non-animesh version, you can switch animation to gondolier, it will let you temporary attach the paddle too.
-Press W or forward button to speed up. Press S or backward button to slow down.
-When sitting, you can click the seat to adjust poses/animations, positions for each passenger.
-Click [Everybody Drive][Owner Drive][Group Drive] in the menu to switch permissions.
-Click [E-brake] or Press C to active the emergency brake which stops your boat instantly.
-Click [Textures] to change textures for your boat.
-Click [LightsOn][LightsOff] to switch lights.
-Click [Camera] to choose from different camera presets.
-Click [BobOn][BobOff] to switch bobbing/rocking effect for your boat.
-Click [Text All][Text Some][Text Off] to switch current thrust notice mode.
-To receive update, find any Caspervend redelivery terminal, use redelivery feature for getting latest version of your product.

The AVsitter part:
-Pretty like what you see in most of your furnitures.
-I added a [SWAP2] button to swap between sitter set1(rear seat set) and set2(front seat set), if you want to switch where you sit, please use this button

Congratulations! You can enjoy your boat now! But if you want to know some detailed information. Please continue to read:

Attention:

Although I'm trying to bring you everything I can do. There are still some limitations that I'm not able to break. So trying a DEMO in world is always, always recommended.
-Due the limitation of animesh, it's impossible to resize for the animesh version. To keep all version synced, resize feature has been disabled for the non-animesh boat too. But don't worry, I'm still looking for a resolution.
-The shape of gondola in real life is not symmetrical. The so-called "IRON" part is totally flat in real life, I changed the design a bit just for the visual design.

Updates:

29th July 2019

-Added 3 pairs of adult animations

28th Jul 2019
-Added animesh control module.

8th Aug 2018
-Adjusted permission system , now [Everybody Drive][Owner Drive][Group Drive] works for all menu options
-When avatar left the boat, the bobbing/rocking is on by default
-Automatically load camera when driving.

2nd Aug 2018
-Added Camera system to let you select from different camera presets.
-Added Light system for lighting effects.
-Added Nose-up feature.
-Bobbing/rocking can be turn on/off now. Rotating when parking bug has been fixed.

18th July 2018
-You can use C for emergency brake now.
-You can switch from 3 different thrust notice mode (OFF/ Only tells when 50% and 100%thrust/ Telling current thrust all the time. )
-The graphic system supports more textures now so there will be more texture in future :P

Detailed information:

-This system use cruise control only which means you don't have to press button all the time. Driving boats is a bit different to the ground vehicles. In most case you may want chat with friends etc when driving in open water. which means tap and go is the easiest way to enjoy your driving experience.

-The max speed for each boat is around 100~300 for example, every time you press W or forward, it increase by 1~3.  Since keyboard doesn't have pressure detection, the thrust is related to how long time you press and hold the button. You can still press and hold W or forward to speed up quickly. If you want drive boat slowly, give it a tap instead, or if you want it really slowly, tell me and I can adjust for you.

-When you slow down, you need to press or hold the S or backward button. When the thrust reached zero, you need to press S or backward button again to start reversing.
Please note thrust = zero doesn't means the boat stops all movement since friction of water is there. This is designed to like this to simulate realistic boating.
If you want stop the boat instantly, use E-brake from menu or press C instead.

-The boat doesn't tells you its current thrust all the time since a lot of chats will floods your nearby chat. So we designed the boat only tell you when thrust is 0, 50%, 100% and reverse. Now you can switch from 3 different thrust notice modes.

-It doesn't have gears since the "gears" in SL is mostly just a speed limiter. But we'll review your feedback and may add it in future.

-The [sau]Sage marine system is still a baby now and we want make it grow up to the tough guy or beautiful women you wanted in future. This system is actively developing, more features and adjustments are coming. So please keep an eye on this page.

-Lite version and Full version:
Lite version is only for events, it's affordable to all customers, but there are some reasons for its low pricing, It usually have single texture and animation/pose only, and no future update, no customer support unless there's a critical issue or payment issues. But hey that doesn't means lite versions are bad. It still uses the latest version of this system.

-Feedbacks, advises, your opinion, your voice:
These are very very very welcomed. But please, actual opinions please, these will make the whole system better and better.

Thanks for reading this online manual. Hope you enjoy our boats scripted by [sau]Sage marine system, have a nice day!