MPV80 Multi Purpose Vessel

BEFORE YOU BUY!

By buying this mod, you agree not to share it or leak it in any way. This would not serve any purpose other than me losing motivation to build any more mods. Also watch the videoclip - so you know what you get.

About this mod.

This is the MPV80 (multi purpose vessel). It's the first biggish ship in BeamNG.drive. So it's kinda experimental and that's why I don't put a high price tag on it although I have worked many months on it. Most of the time I am pleased with the water and pressured body physics of BeamNG.drive although it can get messy if object is very small or deformed heavily.

Specifications:

Lenght: 80m Width: 20m

Weight: about 3700-3900 tons, depends of the configuration.

Speed: 32 kmph (around 115 kmph for Extreme Tug).

Crane: 100t safe lifting capacity.

Room for development:

Custom engine controller could be made to get rid of the unrealisticly high rpm, although i'm not shure if it's possible - there's going to be serious slipping in power transfer to the propellers with lower rpm.

Sinking:

This ship is not sinkable with collisions. Sinking with collision would be too unrealistic - It would sink like a rock if only 1 hull beam brakes. That's the physics of pressured bodies. There is a special command to sink the ship - it will break one of the hull beams.

Spawning:

I's not spawning at the right water level and will probably spawn to the bottom of the sea like a car would. It was fixed in some version of the game after the floating cars arrived by the development team - but at the next update the spawning issue came back. If you are located above the deep water - It will spawn to the camera location. To avoid water pressure implosion or too high fall - the game should be paused before spawning and World Editor used.

Node count:

This ship with crane, ramp and helipad is almost at maximum node count of 4000 nodes per vehicle. So I cannot add anything else. They can only be separate props. The damage model detail is as good as it gets with this limit. Watch the videoclips for collisions.

Inside:

The ship hull is hollow inside - I refrained from making any engine blocks - they would be under water.

Node linking:

Node linking seems to be not working correctly with many linkable nodes. So only the heavy duty bollard, crane and davit has a link node.

Custom flag making:

To make a custom flag - there is a flags folder under materials, inside the zip file. Search for a template.png - you can draw anything on it. Don't change the name.

System requirements:

I'm running this mod with GTX1070 and i7-4790 just fine. If you can run 4-5 regular cars without issues, you'll be fine too.