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KOSC presents: Maxis Mansion Overhaul
Introduction
Ah, Maxis mansions. In the early days, it was one of the first signs of a flourishing city. If you had a few of these large plots sprout up in your neighborhoods it often meant that your city was growing well! However, the fact remains that throughout the years, improvement with custom content and detail in general have left the original Maxis lots in the dust.
One of the biggest problems with the vanilla lots is they often contained vast amounts of well...nothing! There's some occasional shrubbery and a pool here and there, but for the most part, the lots are grossly under-detailed. Furthermore, the tendency for these larger lots to sprout up in the midst of your nice R$$ neighborhoods meant that your detail level takes a pretty significant hit! Pretty odd considering the richest of Sims could easily take advantage of the vast property spaces that they have.
Taking inspiration @T Wrecks' fantastic Industrial Revolution Mod and more recently @Manuel-ito's Maxis Renewal, I present to you Maxis Mansion Overhaul: A full set of override lots that replaces all default Maxis mansion lots. This is also including some of their larger medium-density counterparts.
Package Overview
This set contains a grand total of 60 lots. These are all broken down according to the categories that Maxis determined: 18 "A Class", 18 "B Class", 18 "C Class", 3 "D Class" and 3 "E Class" mansions. These re-lots fundamentally change the original mansions in the following ways.
- better realism and detail: gated homes, larger driveways, and much more flora (fully seasonal).
- all lawns are not made equal: You may find patches of wildflowers, dirt, or even poorly watered grass in these lots. No one has time to maintain perfect grass in those corners!
- better slope support: many of the original lots had that ugly full lot foundation at certain slopes. These are more friendly overall but some discretion is still required as the tennis courts are model-based.
- the rich get richer: the largest lots boast private tennis courts (all kinds of angles), massive driveways, huge pools and gardens.
- asymmetric lot design: not every yard has to come in a square. Some lots are enclosed with angled hedges and have open space for a better blend between the lot and the wild.
- all kinds of pavement: gone are the days of every lot having bright and pearly tiling. Now you can have everything from dark brick to different colored stones.
There are a few things to keep in mind when using this set. Read the following section carefully.
There are two different packages included with this lot, the OVERRIDE version and the STANDALONE version. The standalone is for those who prefer to not disrupt lots in their developed cities. This is also suitable for people that use Maxis blockers and only want to see the mansions (and nothing else).
The override set is recommended if you don't care about bulldozing acres of existing Maxis mansions or if you're starting a fresh region or city. If you're using other mods like CAM or Maxis blockers that modify the original mansion exemplars as well, make sure to load this override set last.
Alternatively, you can look tweak those files with Reader. Make sure to find exemplars starting with instance ID: 30000710 and ending at 300008f1. Simply deleting those will remove any potential block on these lots.
For those of you that downloaded my Maxis Mansion Facelift lot for the Facelift challenge, that lot is now obsolete.
General Stats
All lots boast the same dimensions, growth stage, and road orientation as their original counterparts.
Install Instructions
Drop the files in your My Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins folder.
Dependencies
Due to the larger amount of content here, the dependency list is a little heavier than usual. However, most of them should be pretty commonplace if you've downloaded any of my lots beforehand.
Textures
SuperSHK MEGA Parking Textures
BSC Textures Vol 1
BSC Textures Vol 2
BSC Textures Vol 3
BSC Texture Pack Cycledogg V01
Props
SHK Parking Pack
AnyOne for Tennis
LBT MEGA Prop Pack Vol. 1
BSC MEGA Props SG Vol. 1
BSC MEGA Props CP Vol. 1
BSC MEGA Props CP Vol. 2
Huge thanks to @rsc204 for coming up with these amazing model-based tennis courts!
Enjoy!
CB Edit: Fixed dependency links. Thanks again to @Garlicked for reporting!
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