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Sydney Ferries - First Fleet class

The "First Fleet" are a series of nine catamaran ferries which operate around Sydney harbour, named after the ships of the British First Fleet which sailed to establish the colony in Port Jackson, Australia. They were designed by Alan Payne and put into service in the mid-80s.

The ferries are about 25m long, and travel at a speed of 11 knots (20km/h, speed factor of 4 in-game). The real ferries can carry up to 400 people, but I have set the capacity at 180. I really don't get why vanilla transit capacities are so small..

REQUIRES MASS TRANSIT DLC. This is based off the Ferry added in the Mass Transit DLC - requires the Ferry depot, lanes, piers etc.

Tris Main/LOD: 2303/424
Texture: 2048^
The gold strip you can see in screenshots is line-coloured.

I opted not to name it after one of the ships specifically, and have removed references to Sydney. I also used the NSW Transport logo (the lovely Waratah) instead of the more contemporary Sydney Transport Ferries logo (the bouncy one you can see on the Tangara) because it had a nicer contrast.

I'm really happy with how this one turned out! I put itn lots of little details around the deck, and used one of the lights on the boarding.. vestibule.
I would've added more but the way the shader adds that wet splotchiness to everything kind of erases finer shading.

Here's a neat bit of history about the First Fleet ferries: http://sydneyferry.blogspot.com/2014/10/the-story-of-first-fleet-ferries.html

Change notes 6/11/2019
- Adjusted the diffuse, which was too bright (it's still 2048^ though, sorry)
- Applied normal smoothing to the mesh, should look a bit less blocky around the curvy bits, basically
- Changed the shader to remove the splash gradient
- Updated the illumination texture to suit the altered shader, and dimmed the lights to match the RiverCat.