Das Boot

[Officer Tibbles]

Out of boredom and driven by the fact that no one has built a damn decent submarine yet, I took it upon myself to do so.

So I present... DAS BOOT(The Boat [A U-Boat])

*MAJOR UPDATES*

• I have listened to the feedback, and I have fixed the unreal jerky movement with realistic, sluggish and smoothed/slowed ones.
• I have added a nice little roll feature, that when surfaced, the boat will roll back and forth with the swell
• I have completed the deckgun, and torpedo systems
• Added lots of pretty sounds!
• Added crash dive and emergency surface features!
• I made the conning tower more realistic, and painted the keel!

Please note that the current version is buggy as hell, and I should have it up and release worthy by tommorrow. Also, sorry for the terrible video quality, last time I ever use WMM. The video showcases it's newest features...






Features!
It's decently sized!
It has a fully working holographic periscope!
It has a fully working holographic snorkel!
It uses resources to work!
It keeps perfect depth!
It moves realistically!
It auto balances to make depth maintenance simple and automatic!
It has NO WEAPONS

I'm going to start working on weapons for this. My older version that I WAS going to release had a deck gun, but I scrapped that because it looked like shit.

Controls!
Pitch Adjustment - W/S
Forward - Space
Slow and Stop - Shift
Turning - A/D
Periscope - Alt (Toggle)
Snorkel - R (Toggle)

When surfaced, or the tip of the snorkel isn't submerged, it will use fuel to move. Run out and your stuck with your batteries. Max surface speed is about 15 knots.

When fully submerged without the snorkel, you will start to drain your batteries! Surface or be within snorkel depth to start recharging them. Max submerged speed is about 7 knots.

Future Plans!
Add weapons
More sounds (Random ambient noise and orders)
Emergency Dive / Blow ballast tanks


Video!



So, trust the explanation and look at the pics!

[Officer Tibbles]

Bumped for video, seeing how no one has really looked at this thread.

[ebook1]

Really nice submarine ya got here A+ and a

[Tolyzor]

tbh iv seen a better uboat model than that before, and that's about as far from realistic movement as you can get. Boats and subs move sluggishly, not with jerky mouseaimed accuracy like that.

Old style physics using thrusters, control surfaces and buoyancy/weight tools (or perfectly emulating them with applyForce) works far better for this type of application.

The batteries and realistic speeds is good though, what do you mean when you say its got a holographic periscope and snorkel?

[Officer Tibbles]

They are made of E2 holograms :3

Also, I was thinking about the unrealistic movement, and in my next update, that will be fixed along with some torpedoes and a deck gun and maybe a flak cannon too.

[ebook1]

Might i suggest using garrys bombs 3 and gcombat for those

[Jat Goodwin]

so this is why you were like "yo dawg, teach me how to use Sony Vegas".

Vergy nicey.

[Officer Tibbles]

Added torpedo test video in op.

[F12Bwth]

tbh iv seen a better uboat model than that before, and that's about as far from realistic movement as you can get. Boats and subs move sluggishly, not with jerky mouseaimed accuracy like that.

Old style physics using thrusters, control surfaces and buoyancy/weight tools (or perfectly emulating them with applyForce) works far better for this type of application.

Yes, You see this is where you should post this sub expression. Which is what you have made. Give it out and everyone can have a submarine.

If you want to see how a sub using fin propellers and bow planes and wire weights with prop buoyancy moves. I have a short clip of mine at the end of this video. I am not showing off. But if you want to improve your expression it should move realistically.. I really need to finish that sub and find a better video of its turning and diving.

[Divran]

Use PewPew weapons ^^