EG881 Integration Project 2011
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EG881 Integration Project 2011 (also known as Integration Project 2011, EG881 IP2011, or IP2011) is a project aimed towards integrating all escalatorgeek881 (EG881) buildings into one large project, as well as providing a central release and discussion center for all EG881 buildings and content. Currently it only exists on the Skyscraper forum as an extra for Skyscraper Simulator.
History
Before Integration Project 2011, all buildings were released on their own discussion topics on the Skyscraper forum. Due to the vast number of active projects at the time, it was difficult to find the correct topic for a particular building. On the building creator's side, maintaining several independent projects, especially those with extra content, would cause their data and releases to get disorganized, especially when trying to store them.
In March 2011, as a last ditch effort to organize all building projects, it was decided that all buildings would use the same set of folders that would contain textures, sounds, and other content that were used in the buildings (that were not already bundled with any Skyscraper Simulator release). Because releasing buildings one at a time under this system causes content for other buildings with this system to get deleted or changed, all of the buildings had to be released at the same time.
Later that month, work began on organizing and preparing the new concept of an "Integration Project". Shortly after the introduction of IP2011, all EG881 buildings were updated for the new system. Then, after a bank of escalators were coded in Northeast Triad Convention Center as a small experiment, it was decided that Integration Project 2011 would contain a special in-code function that would automatically create escalators, called Escalator2011. The original Escalator2011 had very limited features, but more features and updates would be added later.
The first release of EG881 Integration Project 2011 was on April 4, 2011, which contained updated code for old projects (to make them work on newer releases), major updates to the active projects (Triton Center 3, Northeast Triad Convention Center, and Terrace Version 3), and the first release of Escalator2011.
