pioneerspacesim/pioneer — pull request #2975 by nozmajner (2014-06-28 13:29:02+00:00)
Title: Varada light shuttle

A new ship from Mandarava-Csepel shipworks.
A tiny shuttle/racing ship. It has the bare minimum cargo space, so it's a ship of trade-offs. Either you have a hyperdrive and a ton of fuel, or an autopilot and 4t of free space.
It has mediocre delta-V since it's intended mostly for short and quick in-sys runs. It has quite good accelerations and maneuverability.
It has a 62 ly hyperspace range due to it's low mass (10t fully laden), so it's a quite capable courier. It would be similar to a world-tour on a motorbike, without stop though, so it's not for the faint of heart.
No weapon mount, so you need to rely on it's thrust and maneuverability if somebody attacks you.
The price is about the double of the Xylophis, due to it's quite better engines.

LOD1 is 5848 tris, LOD2 is 1675. I figured it doesn't really need a third LOD, but if anybody thinks it should have one, then do tell me.
Textures are DDS, diff is 1024x, the others are 512x.
Has shields and collision mesh (531 tris). I didn't made animated collision for the gears though.
![screenshot-20140628-010838](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/4182678/3420852/d5e55214-fec7-11e3-982e-f9976b162e4b.png)