Skyscraper Simulator

[eventhorizon5]

I wanted to post about my simulator in here, since I think lots of people would find it really interesting. The original version of it (1.0) is from 2004, and I've been doing a complete rewrite since then - I released the first public version in January this year (4 1/2 years of development), and the 4th release will be out soon. I'm also looking for help (mainly with C++ coding), since I've been the only person making it.

But here's the basic info on it:
Skyscraper is an open-source 3D building simulator and uses my backend simulation engine called the Scalable Building Simulator. It simulates buildings in first-person 3D (including elevators, stairs, shaftwork, etc), and buildings are written in a scripting language I designed (it comes with a manual for the scripting language too). The buildings that are available are my redesigned 141-story Triton Center (which is the most complete of the buildings; I made a complete set of floorplans for it), the Glass Tower (from the Towering Inferno; half of the exterior is theoretical and only part of the exterior has been made), and the Sears Tower (currently have about 80 elevators working). There's a demonstration building called "Simple", and also some buildings created by users of the program. For a more in-depth explanation of the whole thing, watch my tutorial/demo videos that I'll post links to below. The program comes with full source code, and uses the Crystal Space graphics engine and the wxWidgets windowing system.

The website is here (will be redesigned very soon, since it looks way too old):
http://www.skyscrapersim.com
and the forum is here:
http://forum.skyscrapersim.com

Video tutorial/demo:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ah6P_j2BAN8
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeX5OyZbSGc
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ga57ZZ3NxA
Part 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2qFqv__S0U

Now for pictures

Elevator Editor:


Floorplan of the Triton Center lobby:


The 141-story Triton Center:










135th floor Grand Ballroom:




Service elevator:




Open shaft




Stopped elevator:








The Glass Tower building from the movie The Towering Inferno:


The Sears Tower (so far part of the interior is made, including about 80 elevators):


Hope you guys like it

-eventhorizon

[Austin55]

Ryan Thoryk? Ive seen your site before, its like the 7th result of a google search of the word "Skyscraper".

[eventhorizon5]

Originally Posted by Austin55

Ryan Thoryk? Ive seen your site before, its like the 7th result of a google search of the word "Skyscraper".

Yep that's me

-eventhorizon

[Flamesrule]

Thats really cool!

[elevatorman138]

Come to the Skyscraper Project and see the worlds most life like skyscraper sim

[elevatorman138]

O what sorry. I did not see it was the same thing. By the way eventhorizon5 this is elevatorman138 form the skyscrper sim form.

[Infernal_Elf]

amazing work there.

[fordgtman1992]

Wow I will download that once I get home!

How does it work? I mean it's first person, right?

So you just click on the elevator buttons and it takes you up to that floor?

[Krases]

Have you ever thought about making this compatible with google sketchup as a ruby console plugin?

[eventhorizon5]

Originally Posted by Krases

Have you ever thought about making this compatible with google sketchup as a ruby console plugin?

Only if Sketchup could then output the data in a format that my simulator can use to create the interactive environment. The Ruby console for Sketchup works in a similar way to my app's scripting language interface (since both instruct the related apps on what to do).

-eventhorizon

[Dylan Leblanc]

Wow, neat project!