The Pearl Tower, New Scenery for Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 with the help of Bleder 2.9 and SDK

Hi Guys!
I love the film “Skyscraper” with Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and I love to fly within the new Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. So it made sense to recreate “The Pearl” and integrate it into the simulator. It is breathtaking to fly around this building.
Have fun with the video!
"The Pearl" tower is now available on secure.simmark... !!!
It bases on this video:
• The Pearl Video (2)
Music: Cinematic Dubstep Background Musik by AShamaluevMusic
Yours Torsten
Background:
“The Pearl”, the fictional skyscraper and world’s tallest building, is not just the setting of much of the action of the film “Skyscraper” (dir. Rawson Marshall Thurber, 2018). Importantly, it is a construction that directly relies on the film’s genre forbearers, a symbolic edifice, making architectural and visual the pastiche that is the film itself.
Briefly, Skyscraper centers on Will Sawyer (Dwayne Johnson) and his family, as they combat terrorist (who are really thieves) both inside and outside the about-to-open 225-story “Pearl” skyscraper, which dominates the Honk Kong skyline. “The Pearl”, built by Zhao Long Ji (Chin Han) can’t open until Sawyer gives his risk-assessment report, while he has been assessing the building, he and his family have been the building’s only residents on the 98th floor (the commercial floors below have already opened).
Constructing my “The Pearl” for the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020
It was very difficult and took more than 90 houres to recreate this amazing building with the help of Blender 2.9.
First of all, the search on the Internet only brought a few pictures from the east, e.g. posters, film images, etc. No schemes or construction plans per se. So I came across Scott Hieatt's website ( scotthieatt.com ) during my research. Based on his website, the video about "The Pearl" and the pictures, I was able to implement the external structure and some details. Thanks Scott for this support!
Most of the clues gave me the scenes from the film "Skyscraper" ( amzn.to/3aWpqdO or amzn.to/3ssdqGx ) themselves. The film opens showing the construction of The Pearl in a glossy cable-news profile ( • (SKYSCRAPER) The Pearl... ), with a time-lapse of its construction and integration into the Hong Kong skyline as well as the tourist-oriented commercial world of the film. This sequence establishes both the location as well as the internal details. The base of “The Pearl” sits directly on Victoria Harbor, with an internal structure filled with multi-story voids, which we later see will be spaces for wind turbines and a huge atrium garden space. Once it stands complete, its geography is quite well established, on the southern tip of Tsim Sha Tsui peninsula in southern Kowloon. It is set between the tallest building in Hong Kong, The International Commerce Centre, to its north-west and Tower 2 of the International Finance Centre, to its south-west. Just south of ”The Pearl” is the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, with its distinctive layered, curved roof. The opening promotional video also makes clear the layout of many of the floors, as well as some of key locations and their mechanics, e.g. the wind turbines, an interior elevator, the spherical pearl at the top of the spire, etc. The video also giving the audience a sense of scale, with “The Pearl” (at 3,500’) towering over the Burj Khalifa (at 2,717’) and the Empire State Building (at 1,250’).
And at the end, I'm a newbee in Blender 2.9, in creating the building, in animating the specials and in export and developement via SDK in the Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020. So it took a lot of time to learn (how to) and it was so may times frustrating to spent 10 houres to do something and than to research that the whole workflow spent a few minutes, if you take another way. But now my Baby is born!
Special thanks to "Flying Theston" ( / @flyingtheston ) and his tutorials. I think it would be nearly impossible to find a way from Blender into MSFS 2020 without his videos.
And many thanks to all the creators of Blender 2.x tutorials.
If you have questions ... don't be shy

[@SHLee14]

This is so awesome Torsten! Great job!

[@torstenkoal9479]

Thank you. Yes it is amazing ...

[@rannicel]

When you love skyscrapers and planes:

[@AndreFace]

i love the move, and this is amazing

[@jjgames8500]

Little suggestion: you should create a model of the penthouse with all the rooms in it.

[@alexindk0]

I just bought this product. I am very proud congratulations to the author!

[@torstenkoal9479]

thank you

[@lemon5155]

skyscraper is the best movie!! ngl

[@lucakohler182]

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[@torstenkoal9479]

Danke

[@yashwadkar8027]

really amazing work I am just curious how did you manage to create the shape of the pearl without knowing the floor plans...

[@07senreivBEN]

As you can see in the video, there is no actual floor plan. Since the movie stated how many floors are there and the inner and outer appearance is pretty much showcased in the movie. It is easy to render it BUT it takes a lot of time

[@Mario_Slayed]

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[@camiloramirez3987]

Gracias por mostrarnos un mejor enfoque a este rascacielo ficticio

[@torstenkoal9479]

Por favor, con mucho gusto hecho!

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Skyscraper yay❤️❤️❤️

[@liberalbuddies7801]

Amazing thanks

[@avalox9756]

Hello, I purchased this skyscraper model How can I See an FBX model, is there a way to get this model?

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How I can purchased

[@Rafal_Stajniak]

my tech i going to this direction :)

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[@alexindk0]

I have a question: for this graphic do you use any graphic mods? What settings do you use?

[@torstenkoal9479]

basic settings

[@martaosorno3956]

Me envías el Link de descarga del modelo 3d

[@user-cw6yw8hh9p]

สวยมากเลยนะถูกใจ

[@torstenkoal9479]

Thank you.

[@phongt1921]

It not true

[@torstenkoal9479]

Yes. It's true ...

[@Haz_wizZYT]

@@torstenkoal9479 she's talking about the building irl

[@torstenkoal9479]

@@Haz_wizZYT ah yes. I understand. Yes it is a fictional building from the movie.