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Spirit of Tasmania - static

This pack contains static, non-functional recreations of the passenger ship Spirit of Tasmania I and Spirit of Tasmania II, both constructed in 1998 and the current fleet operating between Port Melbourne, Victoria and Devonport, Tasmania, ferrying people and their vehicles across the Bass Strait. It also contains a third, unbranded version of the ship (retaining the company's ship graphic logo but no lettering).

These do not bob in the waves, and each has one of the vehicle gates open - 1 and the unbranded have their front gates open (as at Port Melbourne) and 2 has the back gates open (as at Devonport). These are for hardcore detailer, PO-type folks - stick 'em in a dry dock, make a little road bridge out to it and stick some car props on it, that sort of thing. Put it in the sky, whatever! Yes I am aware that the front has a lower entrance as well but I had enough trouble meshing the bow without working out how to re-mesh it to separate at the door line. Sorry!

All three boats (and all other versions of them on the workshop - i.e. vehicle and float) make use of the same texture set, and (with the exception of the unbranded), the same LOD texture set, and the same LOD mesh.

Due to strangeness I experienced with the AI spawning and despawning the ship and not functioning properly, I have scaled these from 1:1 to 0.92:1 scale, and kept the non-functional versions the same scale for consistency. The difference is very slight.

Details
Tris: 16,629/16,961 / 350
Textures: 4,096x512

Thank you to Yerbert for this challenging and engaging commission, I went deep on this one and it was quite fun to build, I'm proud of it.