Vehicles category?

[Paul Hexem]

Is it me, or does it seem like the vehicles category needs to be futher sub-categorized?

For example... Looking for boats under the VEHICLE category, I find thousand prim, non-drivable yachts, for example. Sure, it's technically a water vehicle in RL, but should it be under the vehicle category in SL?

And maybe it's me, but I have this one pet peeve... An attachment isn't a vehicle. It's an attachment. Vehicles are 32 prims. If I can't do it in 32 prims or less, I generally rethink my design. Or I start sculpting. Or both.

[Chelsea Malibu]

Boats are broken down unless they have changed something over the past few weeks.  Motorboat, Sailboat and RowBoat.  You can also do a search for what you want then use the indexing to refine your search.

However, IMHO, Non Drivable boats are structures not vehicles.

 

[Rya Nitely]

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Gadget Portal wrote:

Is it me, or does it seem like the vehicles category needs to be futher sub-categorized?

For example... Looking for boats under the VEHICLE category, I find thousand prim, non-drivable yachts, for example. Sure, it's technically a water vehicle in RL, but should it be under the

vehicle

category in SL?

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There is a category for non driveable boats. If these are under Vehicles they are under the wrong category. Non driveable boats should be under Home and Gardens - Decor - Static/Display Vehicles - Boats.

[Rya Nitely]

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Gadget Portal wrote:

 

And maybe it's me, but I have this one pet peeve... An attachment isn't a vehicle. It's an attachment. Vehicles are 32 prims. If I can't do it in 32 prims or less, I generally rethink my design. Or I start sculpting. Or both.

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As for an attachment not being a vehicle? I have a sailing ship where 30 prims is the ship and about 50 prims is an attachment. You jump in it and you sail off. The attachment is simply a way of getting around the 32 prim limit for physical vehicles. It's a tool, like sculpting. If you can drive, sail or fly in an item it is a vehicle. How it's built is not an issue. Look up the definition of the word vehicle.

[Paul Hexem]

I did not know that.

If that's the case, I'm gonna start flagging.

[VonGklugelstein Alter]

most main categories have huge chunks and common sub categories missing.. its like sorting.. they never finished the reports section so why would they finish the product categories.

[WADE1 Jya]

I think an attachment vehicle can still be a vehicle, as long as it has some sort of engine base used in conjunction with the attachment. If it has no engine, that is cheesy yes! :matte-motes-big-grin-squint:

I've made some proper two-seater vehicles that (if you do not use the attachment) appear invisible while driving. Using an attachment is a handy way to bust through that vehicle prim limit. Without this technique many vehicles designs would be impossible, or enormously simplified to the point it becomes a sorry reduction of original concept.

[AnnMarie Otoole]

Actually a vehicle in SL is only an object until it gets a passenger.  Only then does it become a vehicle and achieve vehicle privileges such as being able to run scripts in a no-script parcel.