About the real boat:
Offshore style pleasure boat built by Wellcraft in the late 1980's, it was made famouns as the perfered ride of Sonny Crockett in the hit TV show "Miami Vice"

Length: 37'7"
Beam: 8'6"
Weight: 4445.2Kg
Total HP: 930 
Top Speed: 55+ knots


Notes about the Model:
polygon count ~14000 

The model is built as acurately as possible using web references ranging from a sales brochure published by Wellcraft in 1987 to photos of a sister ship that I found for sale on the web.  VS still has a bit quirky handling at higher speeds, but it has goten better over time, so watch the high speed turns.  As long as you keep steering inputs to only a few degrees at speeds over 30 knots you will be fine.  This package includes a custom level of detail (LOD) model for more seamless switching when the model is viewed at a distance.  The gauges are lit for night "missions" but I have not figured out a way to get teh needles to light up, so they are pretty hard to read.  While it is a nice improvement over the completely dark dash of my previous boats at night, it does still need some work.  I recommend turning off the "show particles" option in VS, while the bow waves look nice on larger ships, they are too large for a boat this size, and move in a funky way at high speeds, you choice.

If you happen to have a .wav file of the miami vice theme, and would like to play it while you drive, you can copy the file into the scarabKV directory in Virtual Sailor's boats directory, and rename it to horn.wav.  Then when you hit the horn it will play ;)

Model, textures and cfg by Mike Sumner (CigDriver on VS forums)
This boat may not be redistributed in any form without my consent.


Mike Sumner
www.animatedexistence.com/vs
mike@animatedexistence.com