Simtropolis user Shackman showed everyone that stacking the airport terminal pieces on top of eachother actually looked pretty good. I was impressed enough to immediately begin working on a full set of pieces, and now the project is nearly completed. So far all of the S3 pieces are done on level 2 and 3 (double and triple height), besides some minor alignment corrections, as well as some combination and additional pieces. I don't have access to the original models so the pillars are there, but they really don't ruin it, and there's a lot fewer visual artifacts than you would expect. Take a look:
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Look for this soon!
indeed. looking almost anxiously for it!
I'm holding off on building my next airport until these are available.
Hey fafalone,
I was playing around with LE and this topic as well. It already was looking pretty good but I still wasn't content with the result. I really like your concept of the overhanging parts. I was always missing something like this. There came one piece with one of the SCAG markings pack but I'd like to have something being more a "part of the building". If you have some modeling skills (I don't have them) you could do something like marked building in the picture and add it to the pack.
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Important notice:
I was building some parts like these with LE using the exiting ACB-pieces, but the jetways of the lots were overlapping the pieces and the result was an ugly effect.
My intention was to create a more homogenous line of aircrafts parked at gates. The background is, that most of the modern European airport have terminals, which provide a flexible parking of Narrow-Bodies and Wide-Bodies next to each other. The available space is based on the width and the length of the longest aircrafts used. As the Wide-Bodies are longer they're usually parked closer to the building than Narrow-Bodies. The nose of the wide bodies disappeares between the connection buildings The result is a homogenous line of tails of different aircraft types. The current lots use lots of space and a mixed use terminal is looking strange.
In reality you can almost touch the nose of an A346 of Lufthansa from inside of the terminal when being parked at a gate in Munich. A 320 seems to be parked with much more distance to the building.
So it would be perfect, if a jetway-terminal-connection building, which is bridging the airport roads, would overlap the jetways of the lots a little bit. In this case one could create a more realistic lining of aircrafts at a mixed use terminal.
If you're interested in the concept and the problems I've experienced with lotting pieces like these I can post some in-game-pictures of my trials in here. Maybe it's giving you more ideas.