V.M.E Light Utility Vehicle --obsolete

This vehicle has been replaced by the VME Ulfur - Light Utility Vehicle

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The G.CS-LUV-1 Light Utility Vehicle by Valkyrja - Maintenance & Engineering is a small, electric pick-up truck, ready to be modified for personal, commercial and military usage.

Designed as a platform, the LUV relies on modifications to make it suitable for its user. By itself, the truck comes without anything but the most basic components to serve as a survival-capable vehicle.

A single large battery provides power for multiple hours. Standard-loadout also contains an additional passenger-seat. In case the vehicle happens to land on its roof, a gyroscope is set up for override to bring it back on the wheels. And as with most V.M.E-vehicles, a tow hitch is included to attach various trailers to it.

[b]This item is survival-ready, but with limitations![/b] You are required to modify this vehicle to fit your game to use its full potential![/code]


[b]Ready for [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1089115113]DAS[/url]![/b]
[i]The vehicle is set-up to be operated with the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1089115113]Driver Assisting System[/url]-Script, including lights. Just load the script into the empty programmable block and you're good to go!

Since the scripts strongly interferes with the vehicles general behavior, I decided against including it in the blueprint.[/i]


[h1]Compatible trailers:[/h1]
[list][*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2205480303]V.M.E G.XS-T321 Single-Axle Survival Trailer[/url]
[*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2212405760]V.M.E G.MS-T341 Mobile Autocannon Trailer[/url]

[*][url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2303052343][AGI] ST-65 Survival Trailer[/url][/list]


[h1]Datasheet[/h1]
Blocks: 223
Non-armor blocks: 83
PCU: 1,593
Triangles: 195,946
Grid mass: 14,385 kg



[h1]Authors Note[/h1]
While the selection of available Rovers is contiously rising on our survival server, I often find myself in the position, of not having just the right vehicle I need in the moment when this need occurs. This causes me to constantly having to remove parts and equipment from vehicles and exchange it with others.

The LUV was made to have a more basic platform available than the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2205477829]Light-Duty Truck[/url], which has much less room for personal modifications due to its rather complex conveyor-layout. However, its simplicity makes the LUV-1 [b]not[/b] a good rover for rookie-players. 

Even though the battery will last for ~2 days with one charge, you will still have to recharge the vehicle eventually and will have to find a solution to do so. Given the circumstances of your game, you may simply slap a small reactor or two on it to keep it powered, or you fit a rotor-dock to your base (see screenshots).

To use the LUV-1 in non-breathable atmosphere, you are advised to cut out the control-seat and replace it with a basic cockpit. An Air Vent is already setup and connected to provide it with oxygen.

The trucks bed can comfortably hold two medium cargo containers or other equipment with similar length. Also the vehicle is stable enough to not tip over if you stack up to three loaded medium containers on top of each other. You might push these limits even further, but don't overdo it. This still is just a small 4x4 Rover after all.


[code][b]How-to: Rotor-Dock[/b]
For survival, easiest way to recharge the battery on the vehicle is to build a rotor on ground-level to your base (with power-supply) and put a rotor-head between the headlights at the front of the vehicle. You will have to grind down the flat half-block, and replace it with a full one to fit the head onto it. Then move the vehicle towards the base's rotor until the head meets the center, attach it to the base and set the battery to recharge. ([url=https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/1669108843133757583/9E0851C5AC805D17F34144DBB8EBED6869E44498/]visual reference[/url])

Credits

Visual Mods & Skyboxes for Screenshots

• by Darth Biomech
• Scratch and Edge Be Gone!
• by Whiplash141
• Screen Gunk Be Gone!
• by Whiplash141[/list]
• Varia
• [list][*]Logos were converted to LCD-Panels with Whips Image Converter
• by Whiplash141[/list]