ACE Airport Pack

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

I want to be like everyone else...

TOMORROW?!?

That made me feel included.

Great work ace and volt, I'm looking forward to the full release of this pack, it's going to be awesome!

[jayo 44]

This is going to be sexyyyyy!!!!By the way are those plane models by you.Is there by ny chance that you made a BA one??????

[sbbcff 0]

I can't wait so long~~~~~

[skyliner22 16]

JAL and Singapore and those CRJs will be very helpful for my CJ! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sEAhAwk fAn121 0]

!!!! Voltaire stop teasing us and also i heard you are releasing this thing where we can create our own liverys? ooo exciting!

[bearmans 0]

DAMNATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HELL AND BUGGERY!!!! I go on holiday tomorrow for 2 and a half weeks. This was pre-planned its a conspiracy! I hate you all! All of you for conspiraring against me.

Nice work btw lads!

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

yes...release would have happened now, if the file wasn't TOO BIG (16, 4 MB). I'm going to split the file and I'll have to re-type the entire description. It is expected to hit the STEX after 19:00 GMT (or 14:00 US eastern time).

ACE

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

1 more hour omgomgomgomgomg i am going to go insane in the membrane

[pilotdaryl 25]

11:00 PACIFIC WESTERN TIME!!! YEOW!!!!

Pilotdaryl explodes and dies.

[Voltaire 52]

The RMIP release is going live.... NOW.

@jayo: Yes, there is a BA plane, a 747-100 with the '90s livery. There's a preview of it some pages back but you won't have to wait long to get the real thing.

@bearmans: we would have released a month ago if not for the nightlighting... worth the wait, I say! Don't worry, by the time you get back I'll have the MML lots redone too

[pilotdaryl 25]

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[JFman00 1]

I love you. If this computer at work had SC4 I would be building an airport, medicaid claims be damned!

[allan_kuan1992 6]

congrats on the release! =)

- Allan K.

[MTLT_17 26]

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

I will be having fun tonight!

MT

[-Spader- 0]

Awesome!  I can't wait to use these!!!!!!

[Montu 0]

Hello,

GREAT work on this release, the 747 does look very SC4ish and realstic. I will most def. be using this in my new airport.

But also,

I also hate to be the bearer of bad news, But I noticed soemthing in this pack that could be a possible render error.

1. The tail wing texture varies on each planes and it looks incomplete to me,

2. The wing texture on each plane is also different.

3. JAL is..... Orange??? (JAL is red.)

I don't know what happened here. it is possible that it is a render error that you have overlooked, it happens to the best of us sometimes. Another thing is that I noticed Lufhanasia texture is noticable lighter than the rest. is this intentional or just by accident?

I would like to see the tail and wing texture to be fixed if it is indeed wrong. If it is not wrong, then could you explain why each planes has a noticably different tail and wing texture than other planes?

[hamsterTK 93]

well, ehhh. Oh BTW, the JAL plane looks pretty red to me

ACE: if it is wrong, please leave the files unlocked while you fix the problem....

Im just glad these things are released lol.

[Voltaire 52]

Different airlines paint their planes differently - and not just the stripes and logos. Just take a look around any of the major aircraft-spotter sites. Of course, I could have used the same wing and stabilizer skins over and over, but can you imagine a row of these giant wings all lined up together, all the same? Boring Boring Boring, Not a good idea. I went the extra mile (10 miles really, by the time I was done) and your concourses will look 1000% better for it.

Just because I did not use the same shade of magenta-red as the 767 skin... does not mean it's wrong. After 1500 hours using BAT, LE and Reader in the last 2 years, I know a lot about choosing colors that look good in SC4. Here's the science behind choosing this color, which btw is also used on the Virgin Atlantic, Jazz, and TWA jets:

   -  it keeps on looking red even in the violet-blue SC4 night environment.

   -  it does not shout for attention the way a pure RGB red would. Colors that distract from their surroundings are not a good thing, I feel they show a lack of concern for users who will need to view them repeatedly in their cities.

   -  at higher zoom levels this color is still unobtrusive, even with SC4's habit of over-concentrating and brightening colors at a distance.

[ShadeSlayer 15]

omg*****bbq, released on the least convenient time (leaving for cadet camp tomorrow morning for 3 weeks.. rawr).

Downloaded it a bit earlier, is awesome.. You guys need to make some sort of tutorial on the terminals/concourses/whatever cuz I'm confused as hell.

Uhm.. well.. I think there should be an end piece for the new ramp color.. like you know the one on the other ramp where it cornered and had an X in the middle:

________

|.....X....|

|.....|.....|-- Plane

|.....|.....|

|.....|.....|

|.....|.....|-- Plane

|.....|.....|

In other news.. BLARGH!! (I'm high.. lawl)

OHHH Voltaire... you're online... add a Westjet texture (or 3) and winglets to those 737s, thx.

[ShadeSlayer 15]

oops, double post..

[ShadeSlayer 15]

omg*****bbq, released on the least convenient time (leaving for cadet camp tomorrow morning for 3 weeks.. rawr).

Downloaded it a bit earlier, is awesome.. You guys need to make some sort of tutorial on the terminals/concourses/whatever cuz I'm confused as hell.

Uhm.. well.. I think there should be an end piece for the new ramp color.. like you know the one on the other ramp where it cornered and had an X in the middle:

________

|.....X....|

|.....|.....|-- Plane

|.....|.....|

|.....|.....|

|.....|.....|-- Plane

|.....|.....|

In other news.. BLARGH!! (I'm high.. lawl)

[nycsc4 5,250]

great job ACE and Voltaire! I think the orange looks great and the planes are amazing in game! I am just glad you finally released them after all your hard work! thanks!

ShadeSlayer: oh God...

[ShadeSlayer 15]

I had a bowl.. like.. a half hour before that

that triple post.. I think the editing is messing up.. like editing the message and making a new one of the message before the edit.. weird stuff.

[ilikehotdogsalot 308]

i really would like to thank ace and voltaire for their huge amount of work in this project, you did not know how excited i was when i saw these on the stex, i was literally jumping on top of my bed in joy! one of the sets has a 100 percent rating, something i've never seen before in the stex, and the rest have 97 and above ratings, which goes to show people appreciate your work!

i spent most of the day today creating my very first airport in simcity 4, and i have to say it was easier than i expected, just time consuming! it looks great, with the terminals and the liveries of airplanes!

THANK YOU!

[jayo 44]

Wow this iarport pack is good.You should have done a BA  livery.

MY DAD IS A MUSTARD SEED-THANK YOU

[tomdapom 79]

I have a query that is annoying me quite a lot: why does the 747 have a different base texture to all the other planes? It looks out of place, and I can't edit it on LE either. Am I missing a plugin or something?

BTW: Thanks for this wonderful upload, it is amazing!!! (Apart from the textures... )

[The boy formerly known as Evil Muzz 27]

Guys, please stop complaining about what should have been done. Someone has put in a tremendous amount of time and work and the end product is mind-blowing. Take what you're given and appreciate it. I find it quite rude to be saying what isn't there and should be.

I've told ace this before on MSN, Volt, but I need to tell you: You guys are masters of BAT. The modelling is so flawless and perfect. The texturing is seamless, Volt, I realise it's pretty hard to texture an aircraft shape (from past experience ) but this is perfect, spot on! I wasn't originally going to use this for my airport, but now I am deffinently going to use it for at least one terminal. Fantastic job, I couldn't have wanted more than this for an airport pack, well done!

[Cockatoo 2,256]

Oh dude!?! It's even better in the game than I thought it would be! I love all the plopable air-craft so much and you put even in a Cathy Pacific and Virgin Atlantic one!!! (Needed for CJ)

I know how hard you guys must have worked on this and I'm just not sure how to thank you. You guys rock, 11/10 seariously.

[ace_bovenopdeberg 24]

First of all: thank you for all the positive comments!

Some questions that need to be adressed:

jayo - There is a British Airways livery (the '80s one I think).

tomdapom - Yes the 747 jetways do have a different ground texture. Thankfully, there is a RMIP-2 release to match that. RMIP-2 SAE 4 includes the ramp and taxiway lots that fit in with the 747.

ACE

[tomdapom 79]

Ace, however in this pic, there is the ground texture that I wanted:

So how do you do that?