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april 1st 3D Camera Mod for SimCity 4  1.0

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CorinaMarie

(This is an April Fool's Joke)

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matias93

There is now an actual mod that allows to change the pitch and yaw of the game's viewpoint, even if the rendering is still an axonometric 2.5D projection. You can find the new DLL-based mod here: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36188-3d-camera-dll-for-SimCity-4/

 

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Version 1.0 Finally Released!!!! Scroll down to see change log for Version 1.0

 

This is the real, legit SimCity 4 3D Camera Mod; It allows you to finally run SimCity 4 in Full 3D.(the other one is a fools joke, this one's real!) I found that in the DAT file editor, after hours there was a way to make the game full 3D, and I was able to write a code for a special engine to actually render this game in 3D! Obviously, this game wasn't designed to run in full 3D, so there are a few limitations.

 

So first, there are a few minor Bugs/Limits, nothing too bad (Most of these are fixed in the first version!)

 

- Sims appear over 9 feet tall; I don't know how to fix that.

- Zones tend to clip into the ground sometimes

- No 3D Region view

- Large maps run extremely slow, even in my system (GTX 980 SLI) around 2-3 fps

- There is no sky above (obviously since it's not meant for 3D), and there's no way of adding a skybox. This mod is best for screen shots for SC4 journals, and that's it.

- Crashes every 2-3 minutes

- Is not playable after around 1000 Sims

- May cause permanent map corruption (BACK UP YOUR REGION BEFORE INSTALLING THIS MOD!)

- Clouds don't work

- Shadows only work in Software mode

- U-Drive it mode is unplayable 9/10 times

- Night Lights don't work

- Back of building models missing

- Crashes during start-up about 90% of the time

- God mode doesn't work

- Saving crashes the game

- Exiting to region crashes the game

- Exiting game crashes the game

- Taking screenshots crashes the game

- Taking Print-Screen screenshots crashes the game (It took me hours just to get the screenshot you see above)

- Taking a pic of the monitor with your iPhone/camera crashes the camera and game.

- NAM/RHW/NWM crashes the game, but does work sometimes

- All tree mods crash the game

- Some buildings are missing textures and may appear as perfect 3D brown boxes. If you see one, back slowly away and don't make any sudden movements.

- Animals in God mode crashes the game

- Mayor mode doesn't work (Crashes if you click on anything)

- Some LODs look like Nintendo and PS1 graphics in a blender and thrown up

- Mountains don't work

- Hills and valley have several glitches

- Water may not be wet enough

- Grids crash the game

- Opening an existing city crashes the game

- Boats look like they're floating in the air

- Airplanes don't work

- Particles don't work

- Bull dozer crashes the game and doesn't work

- May cause minor frustration

- Sim-Mode crashes at selection screen, if it does work, it'll crash at the panel

- Region-view crashes even in 2D for no reason

- The introduction still work

- Disasters work but game crashes when clicking the disaster button about 99% of the time

- Obliterate City Crashes the game

- Reconcile button crashes the game (Even staring at it will crash the game)

- Mayor panel and taxes may crash the game

- Music doesn't work, turning it on crashes the game

- Sound does work but may sound like in a blender, and causes CTD

- Street signs labels doesn't work

- May do nothing a few times

- Uses only one-core of a CPU

- If you crash a plane into a building like 9/11 in the 3D U-Drive it (Which doesn't even work) your PC may explode

- May cause depression

 

Warning!

May cause thousands of tiny sims to colonize and build cities in your living room or bedroom. Keep an eye out for little zones around your house every hour or so. This is a side effect of the hyper-simulation of the game to allow it to run in full 3D. It is currently unknown why this is happening, but I am working on a solution.

 

This mod is a work in progress so I'll try to get past some of those little bugs. Some of these unfortunately are hard-coded into the .exe file, I'll try to make less bugs next time.

 

If you can get past these limitations, you'll find it's a very good mod! No dependencies

 

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To install:

Unzip the .dat file and install into Plugins. It's that easy! Make sure to remove every other mod you have first and backup your region!

To adjust settings, right click on the .dat file, click on open with- choose notepad and there you'll see some settings to change.

 

If you have any problems or questions, please comment below!

 

 


What's New 1.0   View Changelog


Released

  • Fixed most of the bugs from the previous version
  • Fixed a the U-Drive it Crash bug
  • Fixed the iPhone-screen shot crash bug
  • Fixed the region crash bug
  • Added in new skybox
  • Increased loading speed by 0.05%

Still has a few bugs in this update, but nothing too serious or game-breaking:

  • Taking an in-game screenshot will still crash the game
  • Taking a pic of the screen with anything but an iPhone (e.g. Android) Will crash the computer, and may cause a TEMPORARY power outage in your local neighborhood
  • This mod WILL crash the game at start up if loaded while sustaining a frown face in real life
  • May cause an infinite loop bug that crashes your computer, network, and may permanently disable any devices connected wired/wirelessly to the network, Bluetooth or even 4g 
  • Do not load mod if you are pregnant, or wearing a pacemaker due the above bug...
  • Important Notes: May cause minor frustration   
  • Like 4
  • Confused 1
  • Haha 5



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I loled pretty hard there.

 

What's that image made with? Some models textured to look like SC4 roads and put in CXL or something?

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This is amazing allmost to good to be true.

Has the releasedate anything to do with this?

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any dependencies? lol

Laughed my head off on the "bugs and minor issues"...lol

Now this is why I love this site.

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Holy moley! Thanks for this amazing mod! Playing Sim City just got so much more exciting and fun, love it! Sure, it crashes every 4 minutes on my PC and I lost the savegame of 12 cities, but that's totally worth it!

5/5, keep it up

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Seems a lot of work still- add a shut off button so you can go back and forth on it. Lost track of the bugs list. Seems theres more issues to make it fully functional- however I gve you 5/5 stars just for making a possable way of doing ground level.

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hahaha, great that you're all keeping the tradition :P 

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Great work!...but what's the point if everything is broken. Having said that even if it was turned into a working 3d I still wouldn't play it because while it may look 3d it is still an isometric map. Plus the maps are only 4x4 km in size.

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I see a texture conflict with that intersection there... I don't suppose NAM will offer much support for this mod though...

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Not bad. I can only get it to work--even for a few seconds--on small maps, but this is a promising start!

 

And I never realized how dirty-minded the guys at Maxis were back then. Check out the prostitutes that spawn in the CS$ areas!

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I got God mode working!

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The trees need some work but they look 2d-ish still.

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Don't we usual have 1 of these,now 4 april fools files nice one though :lol:

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I thought I'd check out what you included in the download, but for some reason it doesn't even open in reader. Where the heck did you get it and why does it screw with the reader tool?

 

Awesome images, btw. I'm not sure how you made them, but knowing you that wouldn't be enough for me to attempt a recreation of them.

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