Across the Seas - Maritime Simulator Alpha (UE based version)

[MarkoBarthel]

Hello Captains,

 

Download Page for the Launcher

 

Welcome to the Unreal Engine based version of Across the Seas. The free alpha/beta version is now ready to download via the new custom launcher system. 

What comes with the first release. You can test sail 3 types of boats. One small fishing boat, a small two-shafted yacht and as an larger ship the Agile. More ships will follow in the next couple of weeks. As a first scenery, you can sail in the Dover Calais area. Hower Dover is not finished yet. I use Dover as a test object for the physics of the floating point precision. I have also added low-poly terrain up to the Elbe approach. So you can sail from Calais along to the Dutch coast to the Elbe. But for now, it's terrain only, no trees, building or other objects are placed. The water floor with depth is ready but currently not visible. It's only visible at the start location screen, minimap and the sonar. So anchoring is also currently only possible in the Dover Calais area. I'm working on that, to allow anchoring at the low-poly terrain also. Another limitation is, there are no boat wakes yet.


Key's for the sim:

1 - Bridge view

2 - Orbit camera

3 - First persion view

4 - Freefly camera (hold SHIFT - faster movement)

 

ESC - Pause menu

TAB - Open and close radial menu

T - Weather and time window

O - Mooring panel

CTRL + O - Mooring and anchoring window

M - Minimap

G - GPS window

R - Radar

E - Sonar and echosounder

U - Autopilot panel

I - Wind direction and strength widget

P - Electrical panel

B - Binocular

F - Flashlight

K - Battery switch on- / off

L (held) - Lights panel

L (pressed) - Cycle through lighting states

CTRL + C - Hide and unhide the ingame UI

SPACE- Throttle to zero

W, A, S, D -  FPS view movement

ARROW LEFT - Rudder port by 1%

ARROW RIGHT - Rudder starboard by 1%

ARROW UP - Increase throttle by 5%

ARROW DOWN - Decrease throttle by 5%

CTRL + ARROW UP - Increase throttle engine 1 by 5%

ALT + ARROW UP - Increase throttle engine 2 by 5%

CTRL + ARROW DOWN Decrease throttle engine 1 by 5%

ALT + ARROW DOWN Decrease throttle engine 2 by 5%

ALT + ARROW DOWN

NUM-BLOCK 7, 9 - Bow Thruster (increase / decrease by factor 0,1)

NUM-BLOCK 1, 3 - Stern Thruster (increase / decrease by factor 0,1)

NUM-BLOCK 5 - Thrusters to 0 power

LEFT ALT + Left mouse click disconnect rope while hovering the mouse over the rope

CTRL + Mouse scroll wheel, hieve in and out the rope while hovering the mouse over the rope

CTRL + Left mouse click (Minimap)  add waypoint for ship course plotting

CTRL + Right mouse click (Minimap) remove last waypoint for ship course plotting

 

Custom boat import is also implemented. Here is an description for adding and setup your own watercrafts.