Midnight on the Surface- Defense Essentials

Happy Friday, everybody.

Overview

The Midnight overproject represents a return to my roots: sci-fi stuff. My original vision was much like Modular Furniture Series 4. The difference is that whereas MFS4 was utopian and clean-ish, Midnight is more gritty, for creating sinister, dystopian sets. The objects are made from scratch by me, and thoroughly tested.

This is a another small set, with a lot of features. It’s another continuation/extension of Midnight on the Surface. This set wasn’t originally a part of the canon projects; Coni had the idea for a set of ground vehicles and gear for exploring hazardous environments, and I expanded the original concept.

The file includes:

Vehicles: Eight new ground vehicles for Security Division, with their respective canopies and doors (Armored IFV- No Cannon and Multi-role ATV- No Cannon not pictured).

Also includes a posebox for the new objects and of course a collection file.

I’ve included the master objects for the body and seat in a separate folder (so that you don’t get the flashing blue in game).

Credits:

First and foremost, to Coni, for the original concept, alpha testing and troubleshooting.

CadNav for the ATV mesh, and the bits and bobs added to the armored IFV and multi-role ATV.

Nightshift 3D for the chaingun, minigun, and tripod models

The Objects- Vehicles

Vehicles

Catalog: Electronics/Misc §1018-1218, plus §per canopy/door

Function: Special

Polys: Very, very high. Not for slower systems

Recolorable subsets: base, seat

Egghead stuff: The vehicles are loaded with features. Each truck has two deco and six posing slots. All vehicles have activatable headlights, high beams, and weapons (except the satcom ATV, which doesn’t have a weapon).

For posing the trucks in the cargo bay (of the Yellow Planet Essentials shuttle):

1. Use the code “move_objects on” to enable the slots.

2. Load the sims and doors/canopies objects onto the truck’s marker and pose them. Deactivate the truck’s marker.

The Objects- Posebox

Posebox

Catalog: Hobbies/Misc §1

Function: Posebox

Polys: Low

Recolorable subsets: N/A

Egghead stuff: The posebox has a combination of custom poses for the objects in this set.

Effects

A catalog of the special effects coded into the vehicles.

Poses and Overlays

Here’s a partial reference of the poses and overlays. Note: I didn’t catalog the weapon overlays because the catalog is already available in Midnight at the Armory- Munitions Essentials Part 5.