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DEDWD Art Deco Hotels  1.0

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I thought I'd release something special for my 50th lot. Earlier this year I spent an afternoon wandering around South Beach, Miami taking photo's of the Art Deco buildings. I thought this style of building would be an asset to the game, adding a bit of character, so I built a hotel based on some of the style features found there (and other places).

This package contains four hotels; the Excelsior (yellow), Pacifica (blue), Vermonte (green) and Flamingo (pink). Each hotel is basically the same, but with different colours, textures and lighting. There are four plopable lots; one for each hotel. There are also two growable lots; one 3x2 (Stage 8 CS$$) and one 3x3 (Stage 6 CS$$). The growables use a building family so the hotels will grow randomly.

Like the real buildings, they are sortof interesting to look at during the day, with a bit of Art Deco styling and colours. But also like the real buildings, they come to life at night with the neon and flood lighting. If you've seen "The Bird Cage" you will know what I mean. So if you don't use night mode in the game, you might want to for these.

These lots are BSC BTE enabled. This means they will contribute to reward chains. Having enough of these in your city may entitle you to specific rewards.

 

 Lot Specs

PLOPABLE specs (Growable are the same, except stage and size, see Readme)

 LOT SIZE: 3 x 3
 MENU: Civic/Landmarks
 TYPE: Services
 JOBS:
CS$ commerce 1133
CS$$ commerce 286
 CUSTOM COMPONENTS: Custom icon, custom query UI

 

 Installation

Pre-reqs
This lot needs the following pre-reqs. If they are not contained in the package, there's a hyperlink to them on the STEX.

 File In Zip? Link to file (if not in zip)
 DEDWD_ArtDecoHotels_buildings.dat Y  
 DEDWD_ArtDecoHotels_commonfiles.dat Y  
 BSC_MiscellaneousTextures_v1.dat N Included in BSC Textures Vol 01

 

-CB Edit: Fixed description formatting. Thanks @gwada971 for reporting.

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As a native Miamian, let me tell you, these are good. Anyone who says these aren't art deco enough, take it from me, I live in the backyard of these buildings. The only thing I could suggest is more variation between the different buildings, but this is definately one to download!

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I don't know what people are on about, this is exactly what an art deco building is. These are the real life art deco which people used to build everywhere. I love em!

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I like these overall I just wish they didnt have parking lot in the back so I could plop them right up against the beach. Anyhow great work

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This is very impressive! I wish we had more art deco style buildings. I actually found this one when I did search with art deco as keyword and stumbled upon this. It's too bad, because there seems to be very few buildings designed in art deco style. Anyway, double thumb up! Some (at this time) rare pieces of Art Deco incarnations to use for my SimCity 4.

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what is wrong i can't get any of the custom buildings nightlighted, Anyone know what to do?

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If you have a look in the readme that popped up when you installed these, right at the bottom was a section on nightlighting for BAT buildings. You need a patch from Maxis (on Maxis website).

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really nice and awesome work... only critique is that the growables are taking over my skylines.

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Hey, these aren't bad. Intended for beachfront areas (maybe?), but wouldn't look out of place on a strip of casinos either. Would help if they were a bit taller, though.

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ACE! These are fantastic. Wollongong has a number of Art Deco buildings as well, but they aren't really looked after. They should do something like this, albeit on a smaller scale than Miami, but it would enhance the city nonetheless. Great job!

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