The Lift Excelsior PortfolioWelcome back!After a long hiatus, The Lift Excelsior Portfolio is now back on the Skyscraper Simulator Forum available for public download!
Many of the plans made back then have since been scrapped, though Build 2 has since been released and contains a new building, Blanchardstown Centre.
After several dealings with severe disrespect in this community, I decided to make this project private last year, though now it's been a while, I've decided I'm going to give this forum another chance. The forum, and the community around Skyscraper nowadays, is so incredibly dead, I feel it's only right I breathe some new life into it. I'd hate to see Skyscraper completely die out so I'm going to do everything I can to keep it alive.
I will no longer be tolerating any disrespectful posts on this topic. By posting on this topic, I take it you understand that I am a real human being, just like you, I have a life off the Internet as well as on it and I cannot devote every living second of my time to this project. If you cannot treat me with respect in your posts,
there will be consequences.Current Buildings:1. Athlone Town CentreAthlone Town Centre is the Irish Midlands' premier shopping destination. Situated in the heart of Athlone, Co. Westmeath, the large shopping centre is anchored by many big chain stores including H&M, Zara, Next, M&S and TK Maxx, and also contains an 11-storey Sheraton hotel, lots of apartments and a three storey basement car park. All the main lifts are KONE MonoSpace but some of the shops and other businesses have different brands of lift. This project was completed in April of 2025.



2. Blanchardstown CentreBlanchardstown Centre is Ireland's second largest shopping centre behind Dundrum Town Centre, located in north Dublin and opened in the late 90s. This is my second attempt at emulating it after my failed 2021 single building attempt, this version including the main shopping centre, much of the landscape and parking, the multi-storey car park and three extraneous retail parks. Many types of lift are included, from Schindler Eurolifts to ThyssenKrupp Galaxies and LiSA-modded Schindler hydros to Oakland hydraulics.



3. Example Plaza and the Skyscrapersim Coding Tutorials seriesI have created a YouTube series of tutorials on how to make your own Skyscrapersim building from the ground up, and Example Plaza is the basic demo building that goes along with those tutorials. It is a simple 22-storey office tower with 10 KONE TMS traction lifts and a few other interesting features.
Watch the first episode in the tutorial series here:https://youtu.be/YFiO7GeX4i0?si=FsbLaY2so5jRw-kLWhat buildings do you have coming up?Future projects will be revealed whenever I feel ready to do so. All of the original plans regarding things like the Spaceport trilogy have been cancelled and other projects which I have been working on for a while will replace them and be shown at some point soon.
Download link for the Build 2 full releasehttps://drive.google.com/file/d/1KkxOVbCTtf33GVAzBfdKJrQ_YVBd7-qU/view?usp=sharingHow to add The Lift Excelsior Portfolio to Skyscrapersim:- Before you install this project, you must first install the EG881 Integration Project. Textures from this project are necessary for my buildings and you will also need ObjectPlus to have custom working escalators.
- Follow the Google Drive link above to download the zip file. Depending on your OS, it may require manual extraction or it may extract itself.
- Open the folder entitled "The Lift Excelsior Portfolio." In it should be two subfolders, buildings and data.
- Copy everything from the buildings and data folders into your main Skyscraper buildings and data folders. Make sure everything goes in the right place or there will be errors.
- Run Skyscrapersim and try running the buildings. They should now be working and ready to go!
Notes on this release:- This project has been tested in Skyscraper 1.12 Alpha and Skyscraper 2.1 Beta on an M4 chip Mac computer. The code should work as far back as the 2018 build but this has not been tested. If you encounter errors running the buildings, always update your version of Skyscraper before asking for troubleshooting help.
- Credit is given to Mn10 for the Mn10 Scripts, which are used in these buildings and redistributed along with the package to aid installation.
- Credit is also given to EG881 for the ObjectPlus script and EG881 textures, neither of which are included with this project.
- I am open to bug reports, but please make them realistic. Do not report bugs that aren't real bugs, as this is very annoying and disrespectful. Me forgetting to add a door to the stairwell is a bug, but the floors disabling because you jumped out of a lift too early is not a bug; that is user error and that can be easily corrected.
- Please ask my permission if you want to redistribute anything from this project.
Help! The building(s) won't load! What do I do?Update your version of Skyscraper first. Even if it looks recent and says 1.11 Alpha or similar, it may still be very old. You'll be amazed how often this fixes things.
Always, always update your version of Skyscraper before asking for troubleshooting help, and make sure you have properly installed the package and all of its dependencies. If you still get script errors after all of these steps, make a reply on this topic and I will investigate.[/b]
That's all for now, folks. Enjoy the buildings, and I hope to see you soon for the announcement of some new projects.