Adding Animals

Adding Animals

Virtual Sailor allows you to add many different types of animals, the program was made to have additional types of animals created as add-ons, and also to have their behavior fully customizable by add-on makers.

Select from the main menu Change Animals to show the animals dialog, or press Shift + A.

On the left side you will see the list of existing animals in the scene, you can add up to 64 animals of any type to the scene.

On the right side you see a list available types of animals, for each one you select you will see a picture and a short description below.

To add animals select the type you want from the right side list and press “Add”, to remove animals select the type you want from the left side list and press “Remove”.

Each animal is visible once the observer is close enough to it, if for example, you add shallow water fish they will be visible only at shallow water, for each animal there is also a different behavior, for example, sea gulls will not wish to fly at night or in rain and will head off to shelter.

Animals can be also created by users as add-ons, there can be simple animals and also more elaborate ones defined by a dynamic link library.