ZBAD - Beijing Daxing Int'l Airport HD (v1.4)

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I've documented all the process journal on my person blog (in Chinese)

Feel free to take a glance at 'em under the assistance of Google Translation

2019.5.1（On site data collection): https://www.aericaps.org/?p=21408

2019.5.7（Announcement):  https://www.aericaps.org/?p=21481

2019.6.30（Scratch）： https://www.aericaps.org/?p=21617

2019.9.8（Vehicles）： https://www.aericaps.org/?p=22300

2019.10.1（Half-way Done）： https://www.aericaps.org/?p=22350

2019.10.28（30-Day Countdown）：https://www.aericaps.org/?p=22467

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Thanks to @Preozec Cher Skay for all of the following preview images

Let's hit the nail on the head by starting up with the most critical part of the scenery, the terminal.

Interior of the terminal, which y'all expecting to see

At the top of the terminal glasses have their PBR material for specularity

Zoom out, here comes the holistic view of the terminal;

The iconic starfish-liked terminal, and the surroundings.

Back to the outside, a glance of the parking lot, all filled with Chinese vehicles.

AOC for China Southern Airlines

Apron vehicles and the tarmac,

We only put several static aircraft just to ensure the usability and the variety of selectable ramp starts.

But you can still use default AI or WT3 as a stuffing to the airport

WT3 is now supported (since v1.4), you can get the update from your chosen distributor(s).

Back to the point,

at the lower-left corner of the image below, you can see that there's a taxiway bridge

However, this is not the real terrain, but just a physical model

Will see if we can introduce the modification of terrain in the following projects as a new tech.

Nevertheless, it looks neat while viewing in close-distance

And another one

（This one is a bit further from the terminal, so we used 2D textures for the girder, just for framerates!)

A close look at the apron

All jetways can be used once you install SAM the plugin

The tower comes with good-looking AO texture

The interior of the tower, with night texture applied

Helipad on China Southern's AOC can be used（Ramp Start: AOC Helipad）

Some other details

There're 1,200 different taxiway signs throughout the airport,

all manually modeled and textured, with dynamic lighting and night textures.

The verification work for signs took us more than a week.

But as a payback, we can now ensure 80% of them are correctly matched with the reality.

Toll Gate

（Note that this area has been updated after the creation of this image）

And its night effect.

Here's the animated billboard that you usually seen in China (Flips every 10 sec)

And finally, a glance at the night effects we're so proud of
The light effects have dependency on your plugins, the default light.txt file is the most stable one.

An overview

An further overview, you can see that the whole airport and the surroundings are covered with lights

Wrap-up with the wholistic view of the entire airport.

Thanks again to @Preozec Cher Skay for the stunning previews!

The scenery can now be purchased on four distribution platforms, price depends on your exchange rate

Threshold Store: https://store.thresholdx.net/collections/scenery_/products/beijing-daxing-zbad 

The Org Store: https://store.x-plane.org/ZBAD--Beijing-Daxing-International-Airport_p_1092.html 

SimMarket: https://secure.simmarket.com/star_atlas-beijing-daxing-intl-airport.phtml

面包多 (Wechat Payment & Alipay available) : https://mianbaoduo.com/o/bread/Yp2Vlpg=

Project Daxing is the first commercial project after the establishment of Star Atlas

It has an intergenerational significance to us personally, also for the Chinese dev community.

From Heihe to Daxing, we've experienced and accumulated a lot in these two years.

Thank you all for helping us along the way, 

your encouragement is what motivates us throughout the process!

We are well aware that commercialization is the challenge, a "minefield" that is not widely been touched

But we will always treat each of our works in a rigorous and responsible manner, while exploring the way.

(In other words, subsequent updates are guaranteed!)

Also, thanks to @Bridge for giving us such a hard-won opportunity to work together!
We learned a lot from the whole process, and finally understood the meaning of "priorities."

All the chaos and confusion, effort and refinement of today will become clearer, throughout the way.

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HD Ground Texture

Animated jetways & Hangar Doors (SAM needed)

Vehicles with Chinese characteristic

Orthoimage with commercial license

Customized vegetation 

Highly accurate taxiway guidance sign

Customized dynamic lighting

Animated airport ground traffic

Experimental underground structure

Compatible with Gateway & P3D Scenery

Compatible with X-Plane 10

Detailed terminal includes internal structure

Excellent night effect 

Free update

WT3 & X-Life now applicable

Selectable Configurations

Finally, many thanks to Eric Xu, myself, for months of perseverance and not giving up halfway through!