Ferry Fender Pack
A prop pack of Ferry Fenders, these are used to guide Ferries into their docking positions, and prevent them from hitting obstacles.
I have also seen these called Dolphins.
All assets share the same 512×512 diffuse, specular, normal map.
Each of the assets listed below comes in the 1 (1:1), 2 (2:1), and 5 (1.5:1) scale variants. I happen to think that the 1.5:1 scale looks the best (it’s the one in the screenshots), as it balances size with visual impact. I included the others in the event that others wanted to use more accurate (1:1), or more visually appealing ones (the 2:1).
They will be called things like: Ferry_Fender_Pile2 (for 2:1).
- Breasting Port-side [482 Tris, 58 Tri LOD]
- Breasting Starboard-side [482 Tris, 58 Tri LOD]
- Corner Pile [279 Tris, 37 Tri LOD]
- Curved Dock-Mount [276 Tris, 52 Tri LOD]
- Dock Pile [112 Tris, 22 Tri LOD]
- Pile [54 Tris, 7 Tri LOD]
- Straight Dock-Mount [70 Tris, 16 Tri LOD]
- Straight Free-standing [530 Tris, 48 Tri LOD]
- Turning [943 Tris, 50 Tri LOD]
All of these assets have a pivot point near the water line, so they will need to be raised up using MoveIt after being placed. They all have a water-line color change, so it should be realtively easy to eyeball the the z-position placement.
The dock-mount ones are usually placed on the edge of concrete docks, or concrete islands – they do not contain support piles.
The Dock pile is placed below the dock on the edge. The vertical piles act as "bumpers" in place of tires, or other forms of rubber bumpers. The stand-alone pile was included to act as an end-cap for the dock piles (since they are setup to be tiled – manually or with the prop-line-tool).
The corner piles are placed on sharp corners of docks, these prevent boats from hitting the sharp corner.
The stand-alone fenders are a bit more complicated to place. This setup is actually designed for vehicle transporting ferries, where they have to back into a berth. An example placement can be seen in the screenshots, where the vehicle bridge would go between the two breasting fenders. The turning fender is what the ferry will push-off against to allow it to perform a sharper turn than it is normally capable of performing.
As an aside, many small bridges that accomodate small boat travel under them will often have fenders around the supports (next to the channel), so that boats will not accidentally impact the bridge supports. The dock-mount 2:1 scale assets would probably work well there.
