Vettura

Vettura is a vehicle mod for Minecraft: fully modelled vehicles you drive, wreck and make yourself. It began as the vehicle mod built into the world of Apocalypse: First Light and is now a mod of its own, developed by Antaurora.

Why “Vettura”? Vettura is Italian for “car” (say vet-TOO-ra), a plain name for what this mod is about.

Install Vextris with it: 0.1.2 (0.1.1 works too).

All screenshots: in game, with the Aureveil shader pack.

• Suspension and tyre physics.
• A 5-speed manual with automatic clutch on the T15; vehicle packs can have an automatic gearbox.
• Transfer case: 2H, 4H and 4L.
• Hold G and your hand turns the key until the engine catches. Lights, high beam, turn signals, hazards, wipers, heat and A/C, horn.

Driving: the damage panel, speedometer, gear and warning lights

• A small single-cab diesel pickup, 60 L tank.
• Choose the paint, wear, fuel and where the key is when you place it: in the ignition, behind a sun visor, in the glovebox, or anywhere in the cab.
• Doors, hood, tailgate, visors, glovebox and ashtray open; two more seats over the wheel arches in the bed.

The Halstead Tamarack T15

Under the hood

• Diesel and petrol buckets, 50 L each; fluids in the forge:diesel and forge:gasoline tags work too.
• Crashes, arrows, explosions, fire and lava damage the body, the tyres and the glass.
• An arrow can flatten a tyre; a broken window no longer protects whoever sits behind it.

An arrow and a trident in the hood

• Use it on a step in a road for a slope, or between two road ends for a curve.
• It reshapes your road with its own blocks; take a piece away and every block comes back as it was.
• The only item with a crafting recipe in 1.0.0.

A step in the road turned into a slope

• Tested on a dedicated server with two clients.
• On joining, the vehicle packs are compared with the server’s; a missing or different pack is named.
• A driver who logs out gets out first: the vehicle stays parked, switched off, key in their pocket.

• Recommended: Aureveil, our own shader pack. It draws Vettura’s headlights on the world, the rain and the water on the glass.
• The T15 carries LabPBR materials (the Creator Kit bakes them for your vehicles too), so shader packs that read LabPBR show the paint, metal and glass.
• With other shader packs the vehicles work, but the headlights don’t light the ground and the glass stays dry. Tested without shaders and with Aureveil only.

Headlights at night in the rain

Rain on the windshield, wipers on

• A vehicle pack is a folder or zip in vettura/packs/: model, textures, numbers and sounds.
• Four wheels, up to 6 seats; lamps, glass and moving parts come from the names in your model.
• Java add-ons can register vehicles too.

• A white-box example coupe as a pack and as a Blender file.
• Scripts: Blender export, texture baking, the hit hull, the checker, pack zip and icon.
• Download: Vettura-Creator-Kit-1.0.0.zip, with the guide on the wiki.

• Required: Vextris 0.1.2 (0.1.1 works too).
• Optional: Embeddium and Oculus.
• Shader pack: with Aureveil the shader pack draws the headlights, the rain and the water on the glass.
• Wiki: vettura.staticgrove.net