| This scenery is the first, full rendition and fully animated of the Skyway Mont Blanc.
The Skyway is a cable car that connects Courmayeur to Punta Hellbronner, via a middle station located at Pavillon du Mont Frety. After a full overhaul in 2015, it is now known as one of the 8th marvels of the World.
But the journey doesn’t stops there. The full ride literally fly over the Mont Blanc Glacier with the Panoramique du Glaciers gondola. Starting from Punta Hellbronner tourists and alpinist will have the opportunity to admire the Mont Blanc from a unique view, and after a 35 minutes ride will eventually arrive at the Aiguille du Midi, 3842 meter above sea level.
And the trip is not yet finished. Another cable car is waiting there to bring you down to Chamonix, via the middle station located at Plan de l’Aiguille
Since the project is made for a Flight Simulator, the Heliport “Elisuperficie Franco Garda”, (located in Entreves, Courmayeur) as been also created. If offers a base for Search and Rescue missions. You can find it by typing “Entreves” in the Msfs search box or with the fictional ICAO HSKYW
FEATURING:
- All the buildings / cable cars stations involved in the Skyway all round trip: Courmayeur station, Pavillon du Mont Frety station, Punta Hellbronner station, Aiguille du Midi station, Plan de l’Aiguille station and Chamonix station.
Where available, real world technical drawing has been used to match appearance and dimensions.
All the models are custom handmade creations, with full PBR texture
The Aiguille du Midi peak has been hand sculpted and covered with procedural texturing, to best fit all the buildings around the mountain.
- Fully animated cable cars and gondolas. The Skyway, Italian side, has a special animation, the cabin rotates 360° for a spectacular view of the surroundings
- As an alpinist myself, I can’t miss the opportunity to design the legendary new Torino hut (aka Rifugio Torino Nuovo) has it’s place right under Punta Hellbronner
- Night lighting in place (as per known light sources)
INSTALLATION:
Drag and drop the folder in Community and you are done.
The package works perfectly with my Project Lifts scenery, but should be installed AFTER that. You can control scenery order by editing the Content.xml file
IMPORTANT NOTE:
Due to the mountainous terrain, lot of terraforming has been required to shape the location of the various lifts stations. The terraforming as been developed to work best with the default mesh, 3d party mesh will lead to missing terrain or terrain intruding inside some of the buildings.
LAST MINUTE FIX!
I forgot to add the exclusion polygons for hellbronner and pavillon, here you can download the fix (it is not needed if you have already installed my projectLifts scenery)
Will update this as upgrade as soon as SU6 will be released (in order to double check compatibility)
Please apologize me!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KBYExAoIZgvfjXrDhr9NvyMz5bHGVO_7/view?usp=sharing
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Write a review1heliflyer
Thank you for a great work and scenery. although I have Dave's 3D people Library I can not see any peoples inside the moving cable cars but I can see the mountaineer's at the top of Mont Blanc. it would be great and much appreciated if with your great skills you try to do similar moving cable cars between the Matterhorn Mountain and Cervinia at one side and Zermat on the other side.
Santis mountain cable cars scenery in Northern Switzerland, show the people inside the cable cars OK.
I have made a You Tube video of my helicopter flight there.
https://youtu.be/ZGlUjj6-zBA
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Hi heliflyer, thanks for your comment!. I have not placed people in my sceneries.
I have a Plan to do that in the future, but i'm waiting for Asobo's blender2msfs exporter in order to make animated characters
About Cervinia to Zermatt animated lifts, could be done, not in the near future, by now i'm fully commited in global sceneries and other stuffs!
MichelDA40
Excellent !! Merci beaucoup, c'est magnifique
Voler dans les Alpes prend une autre dimension maintenant
am31z
This is an outstanding work and scenery ! I use to ski in the Pyrenees at Peyragudes and I have seen that the lifts are there (and in most of the Pyrenees sky places). And the new lift from Lac de loudenvielle to Peyragudes is already there! I just have a question (a stupid one) - will the lifts "move" (in winter of course) or will they stay statics? Thank you again !
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Many thanks for your appreciation!
probably your comment was meant to be for my projectLifts 😋
Yeah, pretty much every lift mapped has been inserted in the project! this is the comprehensive map
http://projectlifts.altervista.org/released.html
UInfortunatly, i don't plan to make them moving, for two main reasons:
making them moving/appearing only during certain conditions (season/time of the day etc) requires using for every cabin/chair a so called simboject, and msfs doesn't like them too much (we are talking about using hundreds ot them at the same time)
Also, hundreds of moving object in a little space are going to be very heavy on CPU, and frame rate will suffer
I can try to make movement for the cable cars (since only 2 moving object are involved), but i don't want to make them manually (there are nearly 1000 of them in the project) but find a way to automate the process, and some more docs about this kind of automation is needed from Asobo, will see!
am31z 1 year(s) ago
Ok and I understand the complexity of making the lifts "move". My comment was for all your work : LIDT, Project Lift and Mont Blanc !! Again very great work !
jgisbert
You can control scenery order by editing the Content.xml file?
Où est ce fichier ?
Merci
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Content.xml , it is located here (steam path can change)
C:\Users\yourUserName\AppData\Local\Packages\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache
4791
Brilliant scenery, well done!
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thanks, love the pic shared!
To remove the Building under the default Buildings under the stations you can download this update:
LAST MINUTE FIX!
I forgot to add the exclusion polygons for hellbronner and pavillon, here you can download the fix (it is not needed if you have already installed my projectLifts scenery)
Will update this as upgrade as soon as SU6 will be released (in order to double check compatibility)
Please apologize me!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KBYExAoIZgvfjXrDhr9NvyMz5bHGVO_7/view?usp=sharing
Jonnieb
A fabulously done addon. This is really superb and deserves to be looked at. What a great idea! Thanks for doing it. I have discovered some minor discrepancies at the middle and top station - I am sending pics to you separately.
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thank you for your kind words!
As per your findings, the scenery is built to work in "online mode", with a good terrain mesh quality (i built that at with the slider at 100)
(I can of course made a version with the stations buildings snapped to ground, but this will not have cables and cabins)
Jonnieb 1 year(s) ago
I dont understand the effects of online vs. offline mode or what frontload capacity I have. It would be a hard decision to say that the cables and cars should disappear... so I guess we should live with it as is for now.
djgarfield1972
This looks great but can anyone tell me how I enter and stay in the car/lifts? I am probably missing something - do I use showcase camera and float into it or something? much appreciated in advance
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
There Is actually no way to stay inside the cabin, to make the screenshots i used the drone camera and freeze the Simulation with Dev mode (options/pause simulation)
The only way i could think One can stay inside a moving object Is Modelling It as an "airplane"
Can be an idea , with controls and such 😅
djgarfield1972 1 year(s) ago
Thanks so much for the great work and maybe that ide for the future 😊
smoothflyer
The best detailed scenery out there today. I did notice that the what seems like a heliport at the top, is not really land able. I made a video, to highlight all the little extra's and fine workmanship, that makes your scenery great. https://youtu.be/cPmDm2lyw90
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thanks for you appreciation and the great video!
The platform above Hellbronner Is Just a Panoramic terrace 😅, where one can climb and have a wonderful view of the Mont Blanc (didn't model the stairs, my bad)
I knew that someone world have tried to land, and It should be landable, but It was really a last minute addition and didn't check the functionality (the landable platform Is a cube inscribed into the circle, and It It fits, It Is a really tight one 😉)
Woody71
I've already got your Project Lift which is excellent so this is a must too, thanks 😊
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Yeahh this Is THE lift 🤓. Glad you follow my projects!
dresoccer4
This is without a doubt my most favorite scenery addon in MSFS. I had no idea these places existed, so getting to fly around them in the sim then go look up real photos and videos has literally changed my life. Now I must go there before I die.
I uploaded an image feel free to use it. Thank you for everything.
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thanks soo much!
I think that you comment is the reason why the Msfs team is trying to recreate our Earth, to let know how wonderful it is, and why we must do anything to preserve it!
Of course, the Alps is a fantastic area, and the (real) skyway experience deserves a visit, is a place rich in hystory and technology. engineering and craftmanship!
dresoccer4 1 year(s) ago
Completely agree. We must protect this magical blue orb of ours at all costs. One key way to guarantee that is to have as many people see as much of the Earth as possible so they'll grow a deeper connection, appreciation, and understanding for what we've been given and how precious it is.
choucas1305
mais quel add on !!!!
superbe une vie vient de naitre dans ce fabuleux massif
c'est super chouette et l'aiguille du midi qui prend une sacrée gueule
bravo
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thanks so much, however
i did not understand the part of your comment about the Aiguille du Midi, my french Is a Little bit poor 😞
fuzz1
Outstanding achievement. An entertaining change of pace from the typical freeware offerings and very creative. Thanks for your efforts and sharing this with us. I, too, have added this trip to my bucket list.
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thanks so much for your kind comment! Has been a pleasure to do, and also very informative. I learned a lot of stuff about the construction of the real thing , and the Epic effort all the real workers did to build this Marvel!
Foreigner
Wow fantastic job!! till today i didnt know there is a link between the 2 cables. The trip is added to my bucket list for next summer, till then i enjoy your work in the sim. Thank you very much for creating this!!
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
You mean the Panoramique/Funivia dei Ghiacciai? It Is a wonderful engineering Marvel,.It was built in the 1950's and Is still there, altought the strong Winds are able to scroll It like in a blender! It has a special "Flying" pylon (recteated in the scenery) because the great distance the Little gongolas to travel over the glaciers!
It you want to do the full trip, take your time to visit the Museums at Hellbronner and Pavillon, entrance Is free (well, you already pay the lifts)
Foreigner 1 year(s) ago
I didn't know that it is possible to travel from Italy to France and vice versa. After a little study I found out that the initial installment of the cables took place years before I was born. Did the Mont Blanc tunnel a few times by car, now it's time to do it in the air. 😉
pjonc
Superb !
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
I'm really Happy you liked It my dear friend!
Stiannorway
Downloading it right now, looking forward to this 😊
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Hope to fullfill your expectation, feel free to leave your review!
psolk
Looks phenomenal! Is there a way to lock the camera view inside a gondola and actually ride the skyway? I know I know its a flight sim not a gondola sim but I think it would actually be really cool! Thank you for all the work and effort
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Mmm i don't think Is possible 🤔
You can freeze the cabins in Dev mode via options/pause simulation (this Is the way i used to take the screenshots)
Or you can use the drone and pilot It to stay inside the cabin, at least a Flight Simulation 😅 (and, Indeed, pretty difficult One, precise drone piloting requires firm thumbs!)
614NLV
great idea and project
thanks for sharing it 😉
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Grazie carissimo!!
DC6Pilot
What an awsome work. I tried to get up to the very top with my helicopter but unsuccessful, only to the halfway building. A great 5 stars it is for me. Seeing those lifts going up and down is a treat.
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
The free h135 Is for sure able to climb up to Aiguille du Midi heights (3800) , It has also an option to Speed up the climb (more power)
You can also try to Land It, at punta hellbronner and Aiguille du Midi there are two landable spots 🤫
Sometimes the real choppers overfly the Ridge from the two Mountain pass surrounding punta hellbronner
You can also try to take off from Chamonix ,
Strongly recommend this scenery, i was planning to make this too, but no Need since this One Is nice
https://it.flightsim.to/file/15790/dz-des-bois-chamonix
aurelbdx
Awesome! Thanks 😊
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Thank you! I'm Happy you liked It!
ahunterg95
Oh wow, the scenery behind those brilliant little SDK tutorials! It looks incredible and thankyou for your youtube tutorials, they are so helpful!
mamu82 1 year(s) ago
Yeah, glad you noticed It! The very First tutorial i published was the start of this very project (i did called the project folder Skyway 😆)