Network Addon Mod (NAM) - Cross-Platform 49 (rev1)

Very Nice Work! I Love NAM  

Thank you so much for everything you've done so far. People like you who likes to help makes the world a better place. I do have a situation.

When I first started playing this game, I was annoyed with the phenomenon of cars fading in and out. So I googled for a solution and downloaded Persistent Automata Mod 2.0 from http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/23362-persistent-automata-mod/ . Later on, I encountered other problems so I googled for another solution and that's how I knew about NAM. I installed NAM 34. But now I have the problem of cars fading in and out again. I renamed the three files downloaded from http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/23362-persistent-automata-mod/ by placing a capital Z at the beginning of their names and placed them in C:\Users\Moussa\Documents\SimCity 4\Plugins\Network Addon Mod. The problem is solved. But I am afraid that I might had created another technical problem that I am not aware about. Is what I did okey?

Is more better make one way highway in draggable version. Then, combine 2 of one way highway into 1 regular highway.

Maravilha! Agrega muito ao jogo. You are fantastics 

I haven't get used to NAM 34... and there is a new one!

Thank's a lot!

After installing NAM 35 it seems that I'm still using NAM 34 and nothing has changed. I can't find the NWM transition that appears in the thumbnail, for exemple. Hope you guys can help me.

 

 

a well done version... so much was improved and expanded its taking a lot of time to sort through...

On 11/10/2016 at 10:40 AM, Nathan_spcity said:

After installing NAM 35 it seems that I'm still using NAM 34 and nothing has changed. I can't find the NWM transition that appears in the thumbnail, for exemple. Hope you guys can help me.

 

 

IDK if there are puzzle piece transitions but I do know that all of them are draggable.

On 12/11/2016 at 0:36 AM, dc'smycity said:

IDK if there are puzzle piece transitions but I do know that all of them are draggable.

There are some puzzle piece transitions in NAM 34 already, but IDK about NAM 35

On 11/15/2016 at 6:03 PM, Nathan_spcity said:

There are some puzzle piece transitions in NAM 34 already, but IDK about NAM 35

Yeah, I haven't yet had the time to look at all the great featurs of NAM 35.

I installed this version hoping it would just add to what was already there. No it just forces a new learning curve to use "flex ramps" which I have no idea how to use. I have been using puzzle piece RHW connectors to street e.g. height transition RHW puzzle piece ramps to street with great efficiency and have mastered the puzzle piecing and can do it very quickly and easily. Now it's been robbed off my menu and all I saw were the confusing flex ramps which no matter how I donked around with it I could never get it to do what I wanted and couldn't find useful documentation on how to make draggable connecting RHW ramps to street because they either simply didn't work in my install or I am clueless on how to use them.

 This seriously irritated me so I went online to see if I could find NAM 32. Nope it was deleted for version 35. Well luckily I found NAM 32 on my secondary hard drive and just manually deleted NAM 35 out of my primary plugins and reverted back to NAM 32 to avoid hassling with the new version. I'm not up for a new learning curve and then stealing things that worked fine from the menu seems pointless to me.

I think I will just stick with NAM 32 because I generally just use railway, occasionally tram rails and some Fractional Angle Roads (FAR), RHW and Symphony RHW and for what I have used it seems to be very stable and I just think it's weird to force users into a learning curve either that or I am experiencing a massive glitch. I'm getting too old for massive learning curves when it was already working. I have the belief if it ain't broke don't fix it.

So I want to use this but it has a bug and you need patch 640 but it is not here and even google can't find the 640 patch so essentially this is useless.

Thanks but no thanks.

38 minutes ago, SherylinRM said:

So I want to use this but it has a bug and you need patch 640 but it is not here and even google can't find the 640 patch

Hi there,

The NAM only requires the game patched to 1.1.638.0 (EP1) to proceed with the installation. This can be downloaded from this page, or at the Maxis Files section at SC4Devotion.

If you'd like to install it, the nightlights update can be found here, and must be applied after the EP1 update.

Hope this helps.

@cyclone

I already have that patch installed.

Ok then so why do others say in others forums that patching to 640 stops a possible crash in NAM when you hover a piece over a roadway ?

And no i don't remember off hand where I seen it sorry.

4 minutes ago, SherylinRM said:

Ok then so why do others say in others forums that patching to 640 stops a possible crash in NAM when you hover a piece over a roadway ?

That would refer to @simmaster07's SC4Fix, which is a specially crafted DLL file resolving this issue:

 

@cyclone

 

aha well thank you very much. I use to use nam years ago on my XP system but now that I have 8GB's of ram I wanted to try the updated version and now I can.  Thanks for this:)

Great, glad I could help!

Let us know if you'd like anything else explaining.

@Cyclone

I have been at this site off anf on for over a decade now.

I find looking helps lol.

I ask very few questions [check my files].

You guys do excellent work. I just wish you were in Vancouver. I would meet you for coffee

 

Thanks again for the help. 

On 12/4/2016 at 0:20 AM, tfinvold said:

I installed this version hoping it would just add to what was already there. No it just forces a new learning curve to use "flex ramps" which I have no idea how to use.

The old puzzle pieces are actually still there, albeit the puzzle-based height transitions have been under a separate option (unchecked by default) since NAM 33 (Additional Features and Customizations > Real Highway Options (click the "+" to expand) > Legacy Deprecated Height Transitions).  There will always be some way to access them for those who absolutely have to have them, but we are focusing on draggable and FLEX items from here on out, and there are no plans to add any new features in conventional puzzle piece form.  The reason we started making the old puzzle pieces harder to reach is because ready access to both the old and new systems created substantial user confusion in the NAM 31/32 era.

The main reason we no longer see conventional puzzle pieces as viable for future development is because we began to get a lot of combination complaint/requests awhile back.  People thought there were too many puzzle pieces to navigate, but at the same time, they had a pretty substantial wishlist of things they wanted to see added to the NAM.  Unless we found an alternate solution, that meant even more puzzle pieces, which was the exact opposite of what was desired. 

FLEX pieces--which are plopped like puzzle pieces, but can be overridden by multiple networks (similar to the FLEXFly system, first added to NAM 28/RHW 4.0 in 2010)--ended up being the solution that allowed us to add features while reducing puzzle proliferation.  Each FLEX item has a "base" configuration, but plugging another override network into one of the ends of a FLEX item can transform it to match that override network (see my early demo on the height transitions here). 

The result of that with the height transitions is that we've been able to use just 4 FLEX pieces to cover the same functionality that would require somewhere around 60 conventional puzzle pieces.  In the near future, it's also going to allow us to finally offer full plop interchanges for the RHW.

-Tarkus

i can't install.says: you have original version of the game installed in order to run the NAM, you must have the rush hour expansion pack or else... please help me.

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  Edited June 7, 2017 by Cyclone Boom  

12 hours ago, sushiking90 said:

i can't install.says: you have original version of the game installed in order to run the NAM, you must have the rush hour expansion pack or else... please help me.

It's as the message says. You need to have either the Deluxe version of SC4 or the Rush Hour addon (the same thing packaged differently).

Assuming you do, then you need to install at least the EP1 patch. Without this you will encounter many problems, hence the installer will not proceed. If you have the disk version of the game, download and install the EP1 patch. If you have a digital version, it should come pre-patched. Sadly Origin are distributing an unpatched version that can not be patched either. If you have that version, you won't be able to install the NAM. Blame Origin for this embarrassing oversight which they just keep returning to.

If Origin doesn't work - let's write this in big letters on Simtrololis site. ..

We have problems with stupid MAXIS SC4 every day. 50% of questions come from illegal peoples, 50% comes from normal people. This stupid game requires incredible!!! But I like this forever !  

how do you get the rails to look brown?

 

 

On 7/2/2017 at 5:55 PM, 155guy said:

how do you get the rails to look brown?

That's the RealRailway (RRW) option.

Where is 90 degree curve for maxis Highway ? It was removed ?