Chair Lift

A chair lift that functions as a cable car system from Mass Transit, primarily for Ski Resorts but also good for other uses. Features ground level loading/unloading, gravitative chairs with functional safety guards that open and close, and multiple pylon types activated at different elevations.

• Awesome new station and chair lift models
• Full length stations with complete cable connections
• Gravitative chair lift
• Working chair lift guard
• Improved pylon angles

• Base & Summit Stations
• Chair Lift Cables (with 2 pylon types or no pylon activated at different elevation levels)
• Chair Lift vehicle (6 seater with safety guard that raises and lowers at stations)
• Custom station network (not accessible from UI)

  Found in Public Transport > Cable Car menu

1. Place your base station on COMPLETELY FLAT ground with the attached pylon facing uphill – the custom station network does not Flatten or Lower Terrain (so that it can function at ground level instead of second story) but the station itself does Flatten Terrain, so initially placing the station on uneven ground will cause the station nodes to get placed at unintended heights.
2. Drag Chair Lift Cables from your Base Station – keep the line as near to 180º as possible for the best look and don’t build segments longer than 12u or you’ll get nodes with missing pylons (or just delete every other node that has a missing pylon with Elektrix’s Road Tools). Segments can be elongated past 12u with Move It.
3. For steeper segments, Page Up the elevation level to at least 12m to activate the second pylon type which is angled differently for steeper inclines. Since it has to be activated at 12m height, use Move It after placing to lower the node so the ladder is just above the ground.
4. Build your Summit Station on COMPLETELY FLAT ground with the attached pylon facing downhill. You’ll want to line it up with the cables so it connects as near to 180˚ as possible.
5. Draw the last segment of cables to the Summit Station.
6. Using Service Vehicle Selector 2, select the Chair Lift as the only vehicle type for each station.

• Invisible Pylons can be activated at the third elevation height (24m) for custom builds.
• Skiers in pictures are props included for scale only, there’s no animated loading/unloading.
• It still functions as a cable car system, meaning the chairs stop on both sides of each station to load/unload passengers and there’s no way to prevent cims from riding downhill.
• Cims do not visually load onto the chairs, they just wait at the station with their luggage and then load in/out. With more skill, sub-meshes of seated passengers could be added but there doesn’t seem to be a suitable flag.
• Chairs use the Stopped submesh flag to open the safety guards while stopped at stations.
• Move It can be used to copy/paste either of the two pillar types from the cables by selecting Buildings from the Marquee tool or convert to PO to adjust angles.

• Gravitative Cable Car or Chair Lifts won’t hang properly
• Service Vehicle Selector 2 to select Chair Lifts as your vehicle

To-do:

• Semi-transparent glass for chair lift stations
• 2 and/or 4 seat chair

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Built with purchased models and dozens of hours spent learning, tweaking and troubleshooting.
Had to crash course Blender, UV mapping, vertex painting, vertices reduction, ModTools scripts and so much more to make this project happen.