Diego Del Llano Growables - 2017 Pack One 1.00

Damn...too bad I already went through them myself...could've saved myself quite a bit of work. I'm sure it will be useful for many other users though.

So I'm not the only one that did this.  I will have to look through the list as there are a couple of buildings for which I didn't want to even try to estimate a level of fill.  Plus it will be useful to bounce the stats you've come up with against what I came up with for those buildings I did convert, to see if I'm in the same ballpark.

So glad someone released growable lots.

@nos.17...and when will you release your version of these beautiful bats? 

I was planning to make growable versions as well, but I just started to learn making growable lots, and started JENX's and Porkissimo's paris/french sets to fill my city...

Man! I also made growable versions for several of Diego's buildings... at least I won't have to worry about the ones I hadn't touched.

Great job!

@Tyberius06 ... I must admit that many of the lots are solely the building, but I did create some unique lots for the buildings. I can dig those up for you if you want. STEX uploads for them are not on the radar for now as I really am not sure exactly what dependencies I used on each lot - whatever happened to be in my plugins folder on the moment. I'll look into it though...

Hey all,

A user messaged me today mentioning that they get brown boxes for these buildings while possessing all of the dependencies. I think I know what is wrong at the moment  but hopefully those of you that created your own growables can help me confirm it as well.

@twalsh102, @Edvarz, @nos.17: Does your growable lots turn up as brown boxes if you swap the DN and MN models or vice versa?

I only ever download DN versions when I have an option, so couldn't help immediately.  Had some time so I downloaded the MN versions of a half dozen of the buildings included in your package..

I didn't actually try to plop in game, but merely scanned with DataNode, which showed missing models when only the MN models were present.  I'm guessing that your suspicions are that the DN and MN models have different TGIs.  I can confirm this is the case on all the MN models I downloaded. 

Example:

Your Building exemplar for Commerzbank Tower shows RKT1 value of 5AD0E817-28654DD6-00030000

TGI for DN model:  5AD0E817-28654DD6-00030000

TGI for MN model:  5AD0E817-D60100C4-00650000

Hope this helps,

Tim

15 hours ago, twalsh102 said:

TGI for DN model:  5AD0E817-28654DD6-00030000

TGI for MN model:  5AD0E817-D60100C4-00650000

There's the problem (obvious of course). If a user makes MN/DN or SD/HD buildings and uniquely exports them, it's easy for them to have different IDs. What you could do is just include two switchable Buildings Exemplars or Prop Exemplars which are linked to the different versions.

Ideally though, modellers can do a day export, make a duplicate of the file thereafter. Then export the MN/DN renders to the copies of the day model, this will ensure the ID are the same, so they are more easily interchangeable.

It's a bit harder with SD/HD render choices, since those need unique LODs and can't use the same model. But it's pretty quick to alter the ID manually, which can be done using Reader.

 

@twalsh102: Thanks a lot for the confirmation. Looks like I'll be making some changes to accommodate the MN versions.

Great Work!! when should we expect pack 2??

Is the MN update in the April 15, 2017 upload, or is that not done yet? I can't use DN due to an unrelated conflict.

 

Wow! they look amazing. 

I want to build some lots too, how do I do this? since Ilive in Houston, I'm thinking NASA and the medical center which is the largest in the country. 

Thx for this..love it..

I'm totally confused here because I keep getting brown boxes, and I have only a limited understanding of how software actually works. Why do you say if I quote "don't have a particular building" to delete the corresponding sub-folder? Is there something here that I do not understand? Please help me out as I really enjoy playing sc4.

Hi @Calvegrift

This particular download consists of growable re-lots of Diego del Llano’s downloads. Therefore, if you don’t have any of those, it wouldn’t do any good to use this. You are probably getting the brown boxes because you didn’t first get any of Diego’s buildings. If you do get any of Diego de Llano’s lots (use the links above), then you can use the folders with the same name in this download, and remove any that you don’t have for Diego.

Did this ever get updated with the Maxisnight buildings? These look beautiful and I'd love to have them as growables, but I don't currently use Darknite.