GEMC: July 2016

This vehicle is built under "Real Scale" initiative. Learn more: https://sl-gemc.blogspot.com/2019/03/real-scale-initiative-by-gemc.html

Common features.
1. Fuel - this vehicle is equipped with GFS fuel system. It uses REGULAR FUEL. It has one fuel tank, accessible from the right side. Fuel capacity is 13.2 gallons(50 liter).

Fuel cap location.

2. Electricity - this vehicle is equipped with battery and electricity consumption system. Battery is located on right side of the engine compartment in the back of the car. It supports all GEMC batteries types, so you can choose your favorite. OEM battery for this vehicle provide 40Ah output.(see Batteries and electrical devices policy update for details).

3. Gearbox - Platypus Typ 707 is equipped with manual sequential gearbox. You can switch between positions with E/C or PgUp/PgDn buttons.

Gearbox positions:

Transmission locked - vehicle physics off;

R - Reverse;

N - Neutral;

1st - 1st gear;

...

4th - 4th gear(highest).

The vehicle is equipped with innovative cruise control system. You can engage it by tapping W/Up key when in one of forward gears. System will be disengaged when you touch W/Up key again, or brake. You can select your desired speed using buttons on UniHUD, or by going to vehicle's menu, "Vehicle" - "SpeedLimit+"/"SpeedLimit-".

4. Starting sequence - this vehicle is equipped with realistic startup procedure. Click key on the dashboard once to switch on ignition, and then click+hold to crank up starter. Depending on car's conditions, startup time may vary.

5. Other way of starting car up is clicking and holding a button on GEMC UniHUD v2(manual).
And last way is to use gesture(in this case you just have to press a combo of buttons once, and wait for the car to start up).

Custom features.
6. Dashboard controls - dashboard controls are explained on the picture below.

Dashboard controls.

7. Water drive - turns props on and off. When props are engaged, there will be a bright red signal lamp glowing above your gauges. This function can be triggered by clicking water drive shifter in the car, or WATER DRIVE button on the UniHUD. When engaged, press your brakes button(S or Arrow Down) to switch props direction. Turn water drive off as soon as you're out of the water.

8. Hand Throttle - operates the cruise control. Can be triggered by both dashboard switch and UniHUD button.

9. Choke - slightly increases rpm with according engine sound, has no gameplay effect.

10. Bilge Pump - turning it on will force out all the water collected in the bilge compartment during your water travel. Can be triggered by both dashboard switch and UniHUD button. Has no effect on gameplay.

11. Lighter/12v outlet - depressed lighter will come out in approx. 10 seconds. Has no effect on gameplay. Enabling tablet removes the lighter(tablet cord is plugged in there instead).

12. Soft Top - can be lifted or folded down by using according UniHUD button, or by clicking soft top and holding mouse button for approx. 1 second before releasing it.

13. Clocks adjustment - click the tiny pin on clocks hub to advance your clocks by 1hr.

Other functions.
14. HUD - This car is utilizing second generation of GEMC UniHUD, which means dynamic controls layout and simple operation. Below there's an image of layouts for both driver and passenger.

15. Occupants and animations - this car provides room for 4 occupants, 2 in the front, and 2 in the back.
Passengers in the back can get up and sit on top of folded soft top, by using special button on their UniHUDs.
By default, front occupants are getting in the vehicle by climbing over the sides. To make them enter in a conventional way, slightly lift up front windows, or lift up the soft top.
Passengers eject is accessible from GEMC UniHUD, and provides eject through dialog menu.

HUD layout for driver/passengers.

16. GTFO! support - this vehicle supports GTFO! system(https://sl-gtfo.com) out of the box. Starting with 1.6 version, the vehicle uses 2 vapi keys - one for land, and one for water deliveries. The keys change automatically when the vehicle enters or leaves water, so in order to be able pick boat cargos your vehicle should be in the water, and vise versa. Once the GTFO! cargo is loaded, the vapi key will remain unchanged until the end of the trip for safety purposes. When loaded, the cargo will be shown in front cargo compartment in a shape of a suitcase. If you own a modifable version, you can attach your prims to it and use them as a cargo. To do so, change the description of your cargo prims to "CARGO"(without quotation marks). This will make those prims elegible for participation in our new cargo loading/unloading scripted sequence. Cargo prims will be loaded starting with the ones that are placed deeper inside the vehicle, and going towards the outside. Unloading is performed in reverse. With 1.6 version you can make your cargo/luggage prims move with the bonnet. In order to do so, add "ADDON_BONNET" prefix to their descriptions, in example: "ADDON_BONNET_CARGO" - that will make a prim move and be recognized by GTFO! system.

17. Customizing - this car is using dialogue menus(2019 update) for customizing. Click the car for menu, then click "Customize..." button to enter the customization menu. The menu features numbers of custom options such as additional exterior detail, interior addons, luggage, and more.
This car can be painted to any color using custom color input option, in addition to having 16 pre-defined solid colors. Also it has 16 pre-made liveries and can use custom ones as well.
You can paint the interior metal separately to make it work sell with your livery, or you can use the "From body" button to make it inherit the body color(buttons located in "Interior" sub-menu).
"Mats control"(no-mod version only) option provides ways to change specular map on the car or pick an old-style shine effect, as well as set up a custom normal map for the car exterior, or remove current one(additional maps provided in same .psd file with livery template).
Platypus Typ 707 body textures template(4096x4096 original, 103MB)
Platypus Typ 707 body textures template(1024x1024 compressed, 11MB)

GEMC, 2019.

Changes and fixes:
- UniHUD v2.21+ support added;
- shaking front wheels fixed;
- ground detection revised;
- camera resets after region crossing now;
- negative offset choices added to "cinematic" camera;
- top speed increased to approx. 107 mph(with supercharger);
- all textures reuploaded with proper sampling, materials optimized;
- gear shift sound added;
- decal transparency control added;
- materials control tab added to Custom HUD;
- liveries pool added to Custom HUD;
- you can have 2 Detective beacons enabled simultaneously;
- clicking the buttons doesn't make you "grab" the car now;
- "unflip" action now acts properly;
- horn updated;
- normal/specular maps added to livery .psd;
- number of other minor fixes.

GEMC, 2016.

GEMC

Sunday, July 31, 2016

Platypus Typ 707 release

Platypus Typ 707 manual

Thursday, July 7, 2016

Detroit Milestone v1.2 update