Functional Cable Car "Hoher Kasten" Switzerland
This is AFAIK the first animated mountain cable car in our new virtual world. With this project I could combine my two favorite hobbys: aviation and cablecars/ropeways. For installation just load 'lsbhoherkasten' into your community folder. This will also place a POI for the mountain 'Hoher Kasten' itself.
The original plant is situated in the beautiful area of Appenzell in the eastern part of Switzerland. The cable car starts from Bruelisau (934m ASL) and climbs up to the mountain 'Hoher Kasten' (1791m). It is about 2.7 km long and operates with two cabins for 50 persons each. Two pilons in the lower part (35 and 55m high) provide distance to the terrain.
The model simulates a continuous operation, with about 1 min stays in the end stations. Departure and arrival are realised with realistic speed reductions. The wheel groups follow the rope (more or less), even at the pylons. Just follow the cabins with a helicopter or the MSFS drone to see the details.
To get there you may start at the near, existing airport LSZR Altenrhein, best with a helicopter or the drone. To ease observations, I have also created a virtual heliport near the valley station. Just select it with "LSBR Bruelisau" in the start menu of MSFS after you have loaded the 'lsbrheliport' into your community folder.
Restrictions:
- The ropes are not bended by cabin weight. Could be interesting to study and realise such a complex animation.
- Transitions between terrain and buildings are not yet optimal. To make it better I would need a terrain cutout function from Asobo.
Update to version 1.1 for the World Update 6, 6.10.2021
- The mountain station is now visible at the correct altitude (of course with the WU6 mesh).
- The summit has a nice revolving restaurant and an impressive antenna tower. I have integrated them.
- A lot of people are now visiting the summit.
To see this people, please load the following addon from Dave (many thanks to his superb work!) into your community folder:
https://flightsim.to/file/5452/dave-s-3d-people-library
I hope, you enjoy my experiment. Please comment and let me know, if there should be important corrections. Have fun!
Update to version 1.2, 19.10.2021
- Compatability to new "projectlifts" from "mamudesign" (additional cabin removed)
- More realistic colour for the pilons
5 months ago
Scania_500
Great Scenery! Thank you!
2 years ago
kapazunder33
Wie auch die Säntis-Seilbahn: Hervorragend!! Nur leider habe ich hier beobachtet, dass die Leute auf und in der Bergstation etwas im Boden versunken sind.. Evtl. mal wieder so eine unangenehme Nebenwirkung vom letzten Update?
2 years ago
Das hat m.E. mit dem Mesh zu tun, welches im Gebirge nicht immer identische Höhen bei verschiedenen LODs aufweist. Wenn man aber alle Objekte auf Sealevel (ASL) ausrichtet, sind sie in der Höhe zwar stabil, aber man kann sie nicht mehr fassen und rumschieben (Fehler vom MSFS). Im Moment bleibt nur ein Kompromiss.
2 years ago
Alpinflier
bluegolf24
Wie Deine neue Säntis-Szenerie ist die Bergstation mit der Seilbahn eine sehr sehenswerte Ergänzung für den FS2020. Hier noch ein kleiner Mittschnitt vom heutigen Rundflug in den Appenzeller Alpen: https://youtu.be/yRZpTFTCMko
2 years ago
kelarius
Ich möchte deine Seilbahnen nicht mehr missen! 😊
2 years ago
Tomaso_Facchetti
Hi! Thanks for this Scenery. I‘m working on a new scenery „Säntis Bergstation“ and just wanted to ask if you are also working in this area. Not to find out in the end, we made the same work 😉 is it difficult to create a moving cable car? For the moment im only working on static buildings on top. But if its not to complicated, i would like to ad a moving cable car… ps: i did not download your file yet and can not give you my vote. but i will do soon
2 years ago
You may stop your work, we made the same work. Accidentally I will publish just today my new Saentis scenery including the summit station building. Animating a cable car is first of all learning a lot of the involved programs. But then it is not too complicate.
By the way, if you want to design the rest of the buildings on Saentis summit, this would be great. I will not do that.
2 years ago
Alpinflier
Bruchpilot80
Great work, flew from the top to the base in my H135 and it worked as advertised! Will fly the "Stoosbahn" next R44 maybe?
If you are looking for any other project ideas here are two both in in the US. The Incline Railway in Chattanooga, Tennessee about a mile long from bottom to top and the Mount Washington Cog Railway in Mount Washington, New Hampshire, about three miles long and the first mountain cog in the world. The Cog might be to complex to do if even possible.
Thank you for a most worthwhile download and showing what can be done with the sim to make it even more alive, especially for those of us who fly helicopters to enjoy.
3 years ago
Thank you very much for the nice comment and your proposal. But to be honest: there are so many scenic cable cars in Switzerland to be done. Hopefully there are other MSFS designers to work on your local scenery .
3 years ago
Alpinflier
SearchN
I love such add ons and take my hat off to such skill. I know the high box, have often driven up there and have also hiked there a lot. What is urgently missing is a nice model of the Säntis buildings on the summit and of course at the bottom.
3 years ago
kelarius
great work, excellent job on the animation!
3 years ago
MechanicalMad
Yeah very cool! Especially now with the tower!
What is next? Säntis tower and buildings? 😉 Would be cool.
Or Titlis...
One question: What happens with this mod if I also have the "Project Lifts" mod installed? Does it work?
https://flightsim.to/file/14840/project-litfts-europe
3 years ago
i also use that mod, no issue my end
3 years ago
MechanicalMad
THEOLI4D
Hi, are you likely to update this and your other older mods to SU 5 soon?
3 years ago
Soon we will get World update 6 including new photogrammetry and mesh for Switzerland. When this is out and stable, I will update my sceneries. Ok?
3 years ago
Alpinflier
JohnG
Great job. For future works it would be very interesting and very grateful if you could do in Spain those of Madrid "Casa de Campo", Barcelona Montjuïc, Fuente De (ascent to the peaks of Europe) in Cantabria, Teide in Tenerife. And Gibraltar. Greetings and my thanks for your time.
Estupendo trabajo. Para futuros trabajos sería muy interesante y de mucho agradecimiento que pudieras hacer en España los de Madrid "Casa de Campo" , Barcelona Montjuïc, Fuente De (subida a los picos de Europa) en Cantabria, Teide en Tenerife. Y Gibraltar. Un saludo y mis agradecimientos por tu tiempo.
3 years ago
jaimedo41
Strangely, on my pc, however very powerful, the scene does not load in MSFS, unlike all the big scenes of flightsim.to.
Has anyone had this problem and how could it be solved ??
Thank you.
Complement to my message above:
Finally, I solved my problem.
In fact, I had renamed the scene to "Cable Car 'Hoher Kasten'" in Community.
By removing the 2 ' before and after Hoher Kasten, the scene is now recognized. MSFS does not accept scenes whose names contain special characters ....!
3 years ago
philbrou
ganz tolle Arbeit! Macht unheimlich Freude, DANKE!
3 years ago
HausiAir
Absolument excellente idée! SUPERBE ! ! ! Très belle réalisation... Oui plus les détails sont visible et plus la scène prendra de la valeur! Bon travail pour les prochaines mises à jour!
3 years ago
patrik