Hmm, it needs some work, but I think you have a fair concept here. Try and get some more expert input than me. ;)

To tell you the truth, I honestly do not know how, I might have to make it a Unity file and finish it there.

Never nade a vehicle in unity either though...

If you could send me the file somehow... do you have skype?

lol, yes no one did address  the Jet Boat on the site, me and MacDane did have a talk about it and came up with an idea for it

 

are you sure you are not trying to make what is called a water jet? like the ones found on jet-skis?

 

the idea me and MacDane came up with was a catamaran that raised up on hydrofoils when it picked up speed, he even gave me an idea of how it should look like

 

i haven't got on to making it yet due to the Sky King?

 

and as Fai said contact him or me for help!

it is a water jet, but it uses a compression system similar to that of an air jet.

Come on guys, I want to see your comments.

I need all the help I can get.

its cool but it needs a bit more work

 

I understand, how would you suggest I fix it?

make it more smoother and did u get my pm

 

Well would this just be a surface skimming veichle or more of a coast guard resucue ship?  Because if it was a rescue ship you would have a flat top.  If not more of a water skimmer for speed I would do rounded edges at the back and litteral wings and something to keep it down on the water because if it goes overally fast it might literally fly for a couple seconds and then crash.  It's happened in real life.  Just not with a veichle like that.  ;)

You should make it so the turbine doesn't just jut out of the bottom.  I think you should make it so the bottom of the hull should be that of a Planing hull, so it looks a bit more like a boat.

Hmm... Im going to do some work and maybe add some stuff k?

how do you make domes?

Well, we already made a Jet and Tank ... WHY NOT? :D

Wow, this is old.

 

And to answer your question, it involves creative use of the follow me tool.

if it's thrust vectored then why do you need a rudder?

 

Nice idea, but liquids cannot be compressed so your compression chamber is useless. Maybe you could use the ram jet idea so it doesn't have to have a turbine, there could be an intake at the top and when the boat made it to certain speeds the air would be forced into the turbine and compressed (the faster you were going the better the ramming would work), then mixed with some fuel and ignited and shot out under water. At certain speeds it wold start to get quite a bit of lift out of the water too. The efficiency of the vehicle world be very low at low speeds so there could be a retractable propeller to get it started.

spitfire 

It does not, where do you see one?

Well, I could just make a SCRAMjet and eliminate both the turbine AND the compressor. :)

How do you creatively use the follow me tool exactly?

needs to be more bullet like

you mean a jetski?

 

 

 

:O

There are several methods you could use to get the follow me tool to behave well.

 

The basic mode is to just draw a shape and pull it along an edge.

If you want it to be more accurate, try to select the edge before you choose the follow me tool and then click on the shape you want to follow that edge.

 

You can also select a surface, and then apply the follow me tool on a shape that will follow the edges of the entire surface.

 

For complex models, this can become tricky but I find that dividing your models into components can make this a lot easier.

 

Try to look at the sketchupvideo channel on youtube for a video on the subject.

 

Though even with a SCRAMjet you would need the intake to be above the surface of the lava, because like I said before, liquids cannot be compressed, and that is the idea behind RAM jets, SCRAM jets and normal jet engines. And if you used a SCRAM jet you would need to get the boat up to hypersonic speeds before the SCRAM jet world work (that's pretty dam fast for a boat). Maybe you could use a RAM/SCRAM hybrid so it could have a lower minimum functional mach number. You could also maybe have a booster rocket to help get it up to speed although this would only work once(unless you had multiple rockets) the only other problem I see is that traveling at hypersonic speed at our current worlds(and on lava) would make it so you would pass the whole world in a matter of seconds.

spitfire

Bagels? Hello?

Do you want me to resolve it?  Because I can do that...

No I don't mean to resolve your post at all. I linked another boat post simply for reference. I hid some of madgamers updates and resolved a couple.

 

But please read the last line of my above comment box okay? Aubrey states that Olim's sub will also function as a high speed jet boat. So keep working on this project if you want to. That can't be a bad thing.

This was a rather long time ago, i doubt I will work on this again, it was my first skp model, nothing i ever planned on trying to get implemented.

 

i ALREADY have a mars boat...

 

but its more like an all-terrain vehicle boat thing. with a rocket:D

maybe more of an oval shape and maybe 4(visible) jet engines. But great.

In Google Sketchup? Blender?

i beleive me, and many other martians have mentioned this before, but i want to suggest once again the ideas of

 

A) water spawn points (or different spawn points in general)

 

B) vehicles like this only being available on maps with water (maybe)

hey theres my own vehicle post!!

 

yay!!!

yes, but with my model, you dont need extra spawn points, as it can drive normally on land... as it has wheels...

So basically just another hovercraft...

No what I think teriva means is that it functions basically like a buggy, but instead of wings appearing, wheels pop out instead

2.0 is turning out pretty well, I got about half of it done, after it is done, though, it will require some "polishing"