Introduction

• Create a Car
• Create a Boat
• Create a Helicopter
• Create a Super Car that is all Three
• Linear and Angular Motors

    In a virtual world, such as Second Life, where people can fly and teleport, why would someone need a vehicle? Despite this, vehicles are very popular in Second Life where there are many different types of vehicles. In this chapter recipes will be presented for three different vehicle types. A fourth vehicle will combine all of the previous four and produce a “Super Car”.

    The recipes in this chapter cover three categories of vehicles. A car was selected to represent land vehicles. A boat was selected to represent water vehicles. A helicopter was selected to represent air vehicles. Finally, a super car was created that shares attributes with all of the previous vehicles. The super car is comfortable on land, sea or air. The vehicles covered by this chapter are presented in Figure 5.1.

Figure 5.1: Second Life Vehicles

    The first vehicle to be covered will be the car. Many of the vehicles share characteristics with the car. Implementation of these common characteristics will not be repeated in the later recipes. Therefore, it is important to review the car recipe, no matter what type of vehicle you are interested in creating.