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RiverRock Shopping Mall

It's finally here! After over 2 solid months of continuous and intense work, I am proud to present the biggest project I've ever done to date: the RiverRock Shopping Centre.

This is a huge 12x24 USA indoor suburban mall, loosely based off of the Provo Towne Centre Mall in Provo, UT. Completely custom made from the ground up, this mall has it all! There are 3 department store anchors: "JC Penney, Dillard's, and Sears". Also included is a 4th theater anchor "Cinemark", and two upscale restaurants: "The Cheesecake Factory" and "The Bamboo Hut" The mall is a two level design with over 100 stores, a large central food court, indoor children's play area, and a comfortable upper level lounge to rest your feet. Please enjoy this special BAT.

 

Specs:

 

This mall consists of two 12x12 ploppable lots. Place them back to back for one seamless lot. (use your "End" key to rotate the lots in game.) Specs are split evenly between the two lots. Both lots will require transportation, power, and water. access.

 

Jobs: 816 (each lot) for a total of 1632 CS$$ (this is a high number, so make sure you have the demand.)

Placement Style: Ploppable. Found under the landmark menu.

Cost: $80,000 each half for a total of $160,000.

Bulldoze: $14,000 each half for a total of $28,000.

Night Lighted: Yes.

 

Dependencies: Peg's Scenic Drive Kit. The one and only dependency!

 

This lot uses a custom BSC parking lot texture set as seen in Peg's Scenic Drive Set. It's a very popular set and is used throughout the STEX. There is a good chance you already have an instance of the set in your plugins folder already. I recommend installing and loading the mall first, open up the game and see if the parking lots appear on the lots. If they don't, download Peg's set as listed above. I'd recommend using tis set anyways as it's a great and seamless way to expand the mall's parking lots to more realistic sizes.

 

Installation: Unzip the downloaded folder and place the "Mall" folder within your plugins directory. You can rename the folder to your liking or place it into any plugins subfolder if you wish to for organization.

 

Support: This project has been thoroughly tested. If you experience any serious problems, please private message me and let me know. The only known issue I have with it is a "LOD shadow" accross the parking lots caused by the way my hardware acceleration handles shadows. The LODS are custom fit and are very thinly placed across the parking lots to allow for car props amongst the modeled curbs.

 

If this phenomenon is effecting you, simply turn your shadow settings to "low" (my recommendation) or set your graphics acceleration to "software"

 

I'd love to here from your comments. Thank you and please vote as well.

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Oh, that is sweet as hell! I will definately be putting this in my cj, thanks for the hard work on it! 10/10

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Wow Wow Wow...why are you anal reduntant people giving this a 9/10? This is a great example of a 10/10. Top notch work on ur bat man. I didnt see the development of this or anything anywhere..what a surprise to me. My mall area will thank you greatly

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Sorry SimFox, that sounds like the LOD shadow issue I was referring to in the notes. I haven't figured out a way to remedy the issue without putting the LODs so high over the parking lot and roads that I can't lay props on them. Try turning your shadow settings to low and the problem should go away.

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Too large but interestingly integrated into 2 12x12 lots! I have to second another poster who commented it look liked in abandoned shape. Still there is no denying this is admirable work. kendiecasttsoi's strict rating system (refuse to diplomatically give out 9/10 or above too easily) Nightlights: 7/10, Roof: 5/5, base/lot: 5/5, structure:7.5/10, texture/details: 8/10, usefulness/realism:5/5, artisitc merit/creativity: 5/5 TOTAL: 42.5/50 = 85%

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Hey here is thought if you ever go to a real mall are the roads ever perfect??? Nope they are not and are the lines ever really perfect as well and again no lol.... So that is why I love this Mall so much cause JaWood has done something so diffrent and it turned out for the better and not the worse here....

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Awsome! im gonna put this in my city im building on the Central Kitsap map im playing on where i live!

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Another thing that should probably be altered is the amount of garbage these lots generate. Each is turning up 300 (tons?). I think it is a way too much when these are plopped garbage starts to pile up all over city very fast.

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NICELY DONE! This is a 9/10 Very realistic, and I like those star-shaped domes. The only thing I don't like, as others have mentioned, is the roads at the base.

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i like it i like to see brandsmart usa and new best buys and circuit city brandsmart the bigest electronic store in south florida and ga i like to see in simcity 4 game

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