Help with airport mod idea.

[Hutts 0]

Have an idea for an airport mod.  Basically was looking at creating an ATC for the Modular Airport packs, that would function like an airport (seeing the modular airport is not actually an airport), the thing would be, however, to use lot tracking (like the BRT) of the airport gates, and assign a value to the type of gate for capacity, and then create a custom query that would calculate the airport 'capacity' (which would not be the real capacity of the airport per the game thinks, but a given value for the mayor).  This way you could size your airport based on real data.

Any thoughts?

ADDED:

In doing a little digging (never done any modding yet) here's what i got so far: to do this, creating a custom query you'd have to track each gates instance id (if that's the right term)

#sc4game.automata.get_source_building_count(hex2dec("XXXXXXXX"))#
where XXXXXXXX would be the value of the gate lot

And in the query LTEXT entry for the 'capacity' would look something like
#(sc4game.automata.get_source_bulding_count(hex2dec("XXXXXXXX)) * 5000) + (sc4game.automata.get_source_bulding_count(hex2dec("YYYYYYY)) * 10000)#

Noticeing that like BSC and SimGoober have their own instance id's to track their lots, how would you add a properties to track gates by size like GateSM, GateMD, GateLG, to individual gate lots so your final LTEXT entry in the ATC custom query would end up something like this:

#(sc4game.automata.get_source_bulding_count(hex2dec("GATESM")) * 5000) + (sc4game.automata.get_source_bulding_count(hex2dec("GATEMD)) * 10000) + (sc4game.automata.get_source_bulding_count(hex2dec("GATELG)) * 15000)#

Going in the right direction here?

[RippleJet 36]

Hello Hutts, your idea would work!

However, you would need to get someone to bat the modular airport buildings (gates) first and then establish a cooperation with BSC for two reasons:

1. Any added functional airports need to be added to the Airports Developer exemplar, which is maintained by Swamper77 in his Airport Support file. I really don't see why the airport gates couldn't be functional.

2. In order to being able to count the number of buildings, it has to be assigned an Occupant Group (not Instance ID) that needs to be within the range tracked by the BTE script made by Daeley and included in the BSC Essentials.

I would suggest asking this same question at www.sc4devotion.com where you are more likely to get a reply both from Swamper77 and Daeley.