Gmünd Stuttgart Ferdinand v1.3 update

Okay, there's plenty of time passed, i was quite busy making new things and dealing with various issues. Anyway, today we have an update for our Gmünd, main point of which is top speed tweak, and new charger code(it transmits necessary data to the vehicle now, so charger can be used for similar cars(geometry-wise) without additional update).

 Here's the list of all new things in this update:
1. Top speed tweaked, it's about 2 times faster now or so.
-Clocks custom time zone bug totally fixed, using llGetUnixTime now(credit goes to Aryn Gellner for pointing at that function).
2. Heating and temperature issue fixed, engine heats up and cools down smoothly now.
3. New code for gauges cluster warning lights - smaller size and more effective.
4. Electricity and charger code changed - make sure to rez your GEMC JG 1500 Charging unit and accept update.

Couple more words about new charger code. With this update we added llCastRay function to it, so it can detect the vehicles better. All you have to do is to "aim" the charger to make it face the car you want to charge(same way as GFS fuel cans). So now it will not pick wrong car if there are more than one in charger range. That's it for now folks, hope you'll enjoy new update.

Picture of the day: runnin' ultra settings here, guys. 

GEMC, 2013. 

Gmünd Stuttgart Ferdinand top speed "issue"

Gmünd Stuttgart Ferdinand update

After a month of work we have our v1.2 update rolled out.
Here's a list of stuff we added and fixed:

1. NTBI GFS added(more detail, video). You have to pick fuel manually by clicking one or another button on GFS fuel pump. Picking wrong fuel will result in engine damage(RP feature). You can disable and re-enable fuel system by clicking car for menu, then going to "Vehicle", and clicking "Fuel System" button.
2. Script time greatly reduced, from 0.45 in v1.0 to 0.02-0.03 in v1.2 in parked mode. It's below average avatar script time.
3. Rebalanced handling. Car turns more sharp now, still offering pleasure of driving on cruise speeds.
4. Different fixes and improvements. Small script memory reducing, LCD clocks fix(custom time zones fixed), "simplified" gearbox mode revived in some sorts, glowing brake disks rebalanced(now cool down longer for show purpose), paintable bumpers added("Rear doors" paint button on UniHUD), and so on.
5. Batteries code changed - old batteries are not working with new car. Contact BeckHan Ra if you have old batteries you'd like to replace with new ones.

GFS Pump

GFS Pump#2

Painted bumpers and racing decal(UUID: 8b2c57d3-fcaa-707d-5723-ba90864501c7)

GEMC, 2013.

Blur

 There's new awesome machinima by Natacha Randt, called "Blur". It features some great camerawork, acting, plot, all those things, as well as poetry by Karima Hoisan, and what is more important to me, most of action is running around GEMC Yamato Marquis.

 So, if you still haven't seen that masterpiece, here's the link: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zcp-wMswgc

 Let's give her some thumbs-up, I bet it was hell of a job to shoot such a professional thing in SL.

New release

And here are the news:
we are just released our 8-months-in-work babe, the Gmünd Stuttgart Ferdinand!

Grab it here!

There was a wall of text describing epic adventures over making this car, but I deleted it. Too tired.
Gonna take one-week break and patch our homestead sim up a bit, and then get back to cars and other moving things.

-BeckHan

One more thing: READ THE MANUAL!

So yeah

, SL won't log me in due to some servers maintenance, so I decided to use this time to write one more post(because I'm really bored and have nothing else to do).

We're dumped our fairy idea of having full sim in favour of having homestead sim again. With 9 months wasted and no building progress on full sim we had, it seems fine.
New place is called Highview, and still under construction(yeah inno, we have our sims closed for almost year already).
Tho, here some photos of our old place in it's half-built state. Photos were made by professional Ortiga Waco, who was given exclusive access to our secret base:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ortigawaco/8045395970/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ortigawaco/8045331143/in/photostream
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ortigawaco/8045307684/in/photostream

And let me finish for now. More news still about to come, so stay tuned.

-BeckHan

"I hate writing!" D:

Sorry for delay, but I really hate writing. Also I hate making photos for MP listings. Also, more news(mostly good) are about to come within couple weeks.

-BeckHan