ACE Airport Pack

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

Hey everybody,

As you may have already seen in the airport showcase thread, I've been working on some
airport BAT's: walkway-, jetway- and terminal puzzle pieces.

Here are some pictures of what I've accomplished so far:
































Pic without voltaire's textures








Lot overview








Large scale application (complete airport not finished yet)









As soon as I finish modding these lots, I'll release them on the STEX. Also, I'm
planning on making a 'bigger' set with large terminals and walkways in addition to the
base pack.

I'll make updates in this thread regularly and show some new pictures.....

Comments and suggestions welcome!

                   ACE

[EDIT: missing image links added]

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

That's looking very promising! It's a shame that SW is dead, because we would invite you along, but nonetheless, that looks spectacular, excellent work!

[ACEfanatic 7]

Easily the best airport pack since Joerg's.

Any chance of a closer look at the lot overview?

-ACE

[allan_kuan1992 6]

Hey, the textures are there! Thanks for taking in the advice! I suggest you to consult with Voltaire on the textures. Otherwise the current outlook looks promising! Great work ace_bovenopdeberg!

I suggest that you move the plane (maybe even make the lot bigger for the plane) on this longer gate...:

...so that the jetway's front is placed in the middle of the front of the aircraft, like in the smaller gates. As an example, there are 2 smaller gates in the bottom right corner of this photo (before the longer gate at the hub).

(For moderators: Please only resize the image if they are too large. I do not know the requirements for the photo sizes. Deleting these photos is like deleting half of this post.)

Allan

[Nomad1 53]

Looking good! I would model some various baggage carts and some fuel trucks, etc. to complete the look. Just a suggestion...

Nice work.

[zzsim 3]

 Wow, this has been exactly what I wanted since joerg's airport pack!  The details amazing, and there seems to be an endless amount of combinations to make a truely large scale and realistic airport.  I can't wait to use this !

[Pixelrage 34]

This looks incredible!

[MarcosMX 222]

Im not a mod but the pics are OK Just remember that the limit is 800x600.

Anyways You are doing an incredible work. Keep it up.

[quert 10]

The Jetways seems a little to far back in on the planes....consider moving them forward a bit? Anyways... looks great!!!! Whens the release?

[choco1 4]

They look fantastic! And incredibly realistic! Well done, I would love to have these in my cities as I've been wanting some really realistic airport buildings just like this.

Great stuff.

[pilotdaryl 25]

You know what, I'd be glad to help you with some of the textures for the gates using RMIP-2 textures.  They're not all perfect, that's all.  Some of them are too small.  You did them correct, though.  I'll whip up some newer textures that fit perfectly for the 707.  All I need now are some of the lots so I can measure them.  Then, I'll send them back, and keep reworking them till you like them.  Don't worry, I'm not gonna touch your jetway.

I'll use Nicholson Airport to test them.

I'm not gonna release them into the STEX for you.  I'm just here to help you, that's all.

By the way, your works are really good, and I'm thinking of letting you join the airport team, coming later this month...

[SC4Noobie 5]

This is looking good. Too bad Simwings is dead... I wonder why. Well, I can't wait till the realease

[pilotdaryl 25]

I'lll also try getting a gate for the midjet.

Not only that, I'll make special lots for the new gate textures.

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

Thanks for all the positive comments...

The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz - Is there anything I need to know about airport lots to prevent crashing, like in SWAP? PM me for this plz.

allan_kuan1992 - I know that the jetway is a bit centered on the plane, but moving the plane backwards would increase the lot size to 4 x 3. If you feel strongly about it, I'll make a 4 x 3 lot too though.

Nomad1 - good idea, I might make some later on.....

quert - release is planned.....this month, i guess.

pilotdaryl - I appreciate your offer to help, but I'm waiting for a reply from Voltaire on this.

I'd like to know more about this airport team...who has joined already? What's the goal? etc....

PM me for all this stuff plz.

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I'm not quite done modding the lots yet, but I have made a plan of things that could be improved/added later:

More lots/BAT's:

         - More terminal pieces

         - entrance lot

         - ground clutter, like fuel trucks etc. around the jetways

        (- ATCT's)

        (- Hangars)

         - ....

Better lots/BAT's:

        - less roofjunk (what do you think, is it too much?)

        - (better) nightlights

        - ....

Do you have anything to add?

Oh, and remember: I'll work on large stuff, like huge terminals, later.

         ACE

[bmag_20 61]

between this and the RMIP by votaire, airports are now going to be more customizable than ever! those lots are looking terrific. I can't wait!

[hamsterTK 93]

Man, those terminals are wonderful. Once this stuff is out airports are gonna be better than ever.

[florent94 0]

why don't you place theses lots in the stex?!!! I can't wait now ^^

and what are precisely your new lots you plan to create for the ace airport pack?

If you have ever begin, please send us pictures to enjoy.

[xiziz 11]

first off: Wonderful bats, there much... much... okay there way above my bats for the SWAP!

Second, you were asking Muzz what would be needed to make it compatible with the SWAP, easy, dont have any airportenabled pecies(they shoudl still be sorted as airports with queries and Regional Transportation Map. All pecies that are airport enabled need roadacsess, wich might be tricky for some of your pices, so most would not be airportanabled anyway(gangways/gateways), and one can only have at a total 20 airport-enabled peices on a map, else it will crash(which is one of swaps main problems, when people plop to many terminals/small terminals).

Most people locate their airports out of their cities anyway, so it isnt really an issue(making the lots eyecandy, even if it looks like they work). But if you do want to make some lots Airport Enabled, i can send over the tutorial Thalassicus sent to me(on how to do this).

Then make an Airport controlerfile for use with only your pack(not Joergs/SWAP and any packs with these as dependances).

Then use the controlerfile from SWAP 2.2(ver on the stex), add your lines and point out to users to chose one, and only one of these files to use with your pack.

Note making it compatible with just SWAP(Which is Joergs and Thallasicus packs, put together and updated with new pieces and fixes) will make your pack need SWAP as a dependancy. One of Volitares packs(the first one) has SWAP as a dependance too.

So i think the easier way out is to not have them airport-enabled(not giving the bonus original airports do) at all. Since airports are THE most complex thing you can decide to modify and mess with in the game, i messed up bigtime and got several people more or less hating me because "i" had ruined their work by missing a number. Swamper fixed the bug and i updated SWAP with this his files(totaly replacing mine). That was the last time i bated something for the public. So id say you try to get swamper to do this for you, since he is probably the best one at it, and he will get it right first time, that is if you do want to enable some pices.

Keep up the good work, and it would be lovley to se some more pictures ^^ Really nice bats, and they really look a lot like airport buildings, not like my cementblocks and tincans ^^

[talltower 0]

will you be able to see the airplanes takeoff/land because in most of the other air port pack you only place areas for a plane to appear

[bourneid 13]

This project as well as the RMiP runways by Voltaire will produce some of the best looking airport layouts yet seen in the game.

I look forward to getting my grubby little hands on these lots...mahhaaa 

I have already started the runway and taxi-ways and they turned out better then I expected. So I really cant wait for these to complete my modern airport....for my journal.

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

UPDATE

Thanks for your comments, bmag_20, hamsterTK, bourneid and florent94.

xiziz - thanks for explaining the stats on airport lots to me; I'm almost done modding the lots!!!!!

release tommorow if I'm lucky.

talltower - My airport pack only includes jetway-, terminal- and walkway puzzlepices. There are other pack which concentrate on paved area's (runway's, taxiways) like RMIP(2) on the STEX. These packs allow you to build your own runways with planes that take off/land.

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Modding half-done so release possibly tommorow (14/6).

I also started on a fuel truck for the jetways. Still need to add beter textures.

Just a pic of an (unfinished) airport I'd like to show you.

            ACE

[collgab 10]

wwo really nice airpoart pack can't wait till it comes out!!!

[men2xcess 2]

Hope to see this very soon...not sure if this was asked already, if it was sorry for redundancy. will it be capatable with Joergs pack?...Also... What are the chances of you doing a version of the Sa Carneiro Air Terminal in Porto Portugal...I wish I had some decent pictures, its gorgeous even has a glr/metro terminus right in front...If this is not the place to request this I apologize.

[Superchan 23]

looks real great, it would be nice to have realistic piceses from real world terminals.

[allan_kuan1992 6]

Hmm... Since I don't really see any double-jetway gates to be in your airport pack currently, here is a picture of one of them in Shanghai's Pudong International Airport. This picture was taken with Google Earth.

The next picture shows 5 planes using these dual-jetway gates.

Try making one of these gates by combining the smaller gate and the larger gate together into one lot.

Allan

[Murakumon 1]

Wow, really looks amazing. Altough there were SOOO many airport projects that just stoped. But this does look VERY GOOD. I think it's pretty much ready for use already. ( Hits bookmark button )

[bmag_20 61]

Ahhh all the suspense is killing me!!. Hope everything is going well with the project. Looking forward to some more updates soon!

[Yoman3 5]

Great work so far. As for my 2 cents maybe make or have someone make you a nice terminal.

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

UPDATE

just a small update......

men2xcess, Yoman3 - I am about to start to BAT some new terminal pieces, so you might see some here soon.

allan_kuan1992 - good idea, I've already made 3 double-jetway BAT's:

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After I finish the lots for these jetways, and maybe add some more terminal pieces, I'll release all the lots. After that, I'll release some add-on's with more lots.

Keep comments and suggestions comming!

                      ACE

[florent94 0]

I think a checkin zone (like in great airports) gonna be welcome!!!