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About This File
In years gone by, SC4 aviation creators gave us modular airports allowing city builders to create more realistic, sometimes-sprawling airports with customisable terminals, concourses and runways.
But in 2024, some aspects could use an update. New models of aircraft have been designed and launched, while older ones have retired. Airlines have started up, closed down, merged and rebranded.
This set is designed to bring a new set of airliners to the modular airport systems released by AC Team and others, which are now all found in the SC4D LEX Legacy Ultimate Airport Pack. This pack is the only external dependency for this set (and this set also doesn't make sense unless used together with the runways, taxiways and terminals found in the legacy pack).
What's included here:
Passenger airliners from five aircraft families in a range of airline liveries:
- Airbus A220 - the smallest Airbus, a large regional jet or small mainline jet.
- Airbus A320neo - the 'new engine option' versions of the A320 family, a single-aisle jet that is one of the most common in the sky.
- Airbus A330neo - the 'new engine option' version of the A330 family, a twin-engine widebody jet for medium/long-haul flights.
- Airbus A350XWB - the newest Airbus widebody jet equipped with advanced tech, capable of ultra long haul flights.
- Boeing 777 - the largest Boeing twin-engine jet, also used on long-haul routes.
Each one is lotted on a jetway lot. The widebody jets are on lots designed to fit in with the original AC Team Boeing 747 gates, while the narrowbody jets fit in with original Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 gates. There are also a few planes on 'remote' gates - using air-stairs rather than a jetway. These will link nicely to passenger walkways from the 'RMIP' sets.
There are lots for empty gates, and some lots included if you want to customise things with parked planes and planes on your taxiways.
These are primarily for visually simulating an airport - but the planes do return some revenue to your city (in line with other modular plane lots released in the past - simulating fees paid by airlines).
The A320neo, A330neo and 777 have been developed as updates starting with models I recovered in old files from when I was part of the SimCity Aviation Group (SCAG). Original 777 model credit to Pilotdaryl. A350 and A220 models I have created new.
Dependency:
SC4D LEX Legacy Ultimate Airport Pack - specifically the AC Mega Textures and AC Mega Props packs.
Note on installation:
In order to overcome an issue with uploading, I've split the download into two .zip files. Core files needed for all airliner lots are in Vol1. Further airliners are in Vol2. Please download both - hopefully these can be combined in future.
The contents are structured into folders under JoelMk2/Next Gen Planes/[Aircraft Model]/[Airline Name]. For the planes/liveries you don't want to use you can remove either the .sc4lot file in this folder, or the entire folder (this will remove the lot and the aircraft props). I would suggest this if you want to reduce your plugins folder size and your Airports menu length.
What's New 1.0.2 View Changelog
Released
Updated the Vol 1.zip with revised narrowbody (A220 and A320neo) lots. These have been changed avoid using Maxis base texture (light industrial pavement). This has been replaced with visually identical (but seperate ID) texture from AC Mega Dependency (found in the existing dependency download). This update prevents an issue when using pavement replacement mods. Please redownload and overwrite Vol 1 if experiencing this issue. Vol 2 is not affected.
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