Mayor University_T1 1.0

Always good to see more lotters around! We have an abundance of superb buildings and props by now, but I always feel that these are not used to their full potential and that there is always room for more lots that either add something entirely new or offer more choices for stuff that exists, as is the case with this upload of yours. Yes, a university is in game already, but it's not like we have millions of choices there. Between the vanilla lot and extensive packages such as the BSC Clayhurst set, there is massive room for other solutions.

As for the lotting on this one, I'd say you did as good a job as you possibly could with the assets you used, and that all limitations are due to the limited prop resources. (For example, the swimming pools have a bit too much of a resort hotel vibe for my taste, but a less playful variant is sadly not included in the Maxis props, so there's not much you can do.)

One general approach that I'm a bit skeptical about is the inclusion of complete facilities such as sports pitches on a lot. On the upside, you get it all with one plop. The downside IMO is that you could always keep your lot smaller and plop a separate Maxis ports pitch right next to it anywhere you want, which offers more flexibility and modularity. The baseball pitch in the Southwest corner is one such example. Of course, this is a matter of taste and preference, and I'm merely mentioning it here for your consideration; it is not intended as criticism.

One question: That football field... that's not included in the vanilla assets for sure. Did you make that yourself and include it in the upload? Otherwise there may be a missing dependency. If you took that field from another upload, that's totally fine, of course, but you'll have to mention that upload (and preferably provide a link to it) so people know what else they need to download in order to see everything.

Last but not least, thank you for contributing to the STEX and helping to keep this site alive and kicking!

no i did not make the football field it was used in another version of the university that some had uploaded .. i just re-lot what was there

The re-lotting part is obviously fine - if anything, I'd be happy if we had more people lotting the *** out of the assets we have.

The problem is that anyone who downloads this will probably not see the football field because the model file for that field is not included in the game by default. Therefore, downloaders will have to get it separately, but where?

ah i see ill find out and update it ... still learning the lot thing .. better luck at making them then loting .. lol 

 

@T Wrecks, @Fletch_BC, what I found when plopping this lot is that the "stadium" is apparently made out of pieces-parts, and the field is missing, but no brown boxes.  When run through DataNode, there are seven props missing, which can be resolved with bldgprop_vol1.dat and bldgprop_vol2.dat.  There are also twenty-three Textures missing, some of which are presumably the field.

10 hours ago, twalsh102 said:

@T Wrecks, @Fletch_BC, what I found when plopping this lot is that the "stadium" is apparently made out of pieces-parts, and the field is missing, but no brown boxes.  When run through DataNode, there are seven props missing, which can be resolved with bldgprop_vol1.dat and bldgprop_vol2.dat.  There are also twenty-three Textures missing, some of which are presumably the field.

thank you for the info ..

ill pay more attention .. lol rookie mistake 

 

 

18 hours ago, twalsh102 said:

There are also twenty-three Textures missing, some of which are presumably the field.

Ah, thank you for investigating this! Yeah, it's totally possible that the actual field is not a model at all, but made up of a bunch of textures, much like Maxis's sports pitches are.

In any case, that should be easy to fix by linking to the download that originally contained those textures, which would probably cause this lot to have one dependency - not a big deal.

@Fletch_BC: No sweat, little mistakes like these happen quickly and can be fixed. What I always recommend is to make lots in an empty plugins folder and add any dependencies one by one to keep track of them. A pretty reliable method to double-check is to fire up the game with a pluins folder that is empty except for your lot and all dependencies that you think it requires - if you can see everything fine in game, you know you got it right. If anything seems to be missing, you know that one or more dependencies slipped under your radar.

Le 29/04/2019 à 10:49, T Wrecks a déclaré:

bonjour, j'adore vos lot, mais un soucie, il y a un ou deux lots qui manque comme le stade football Amercain et le chemin sur les immeubles. j'essaye à trouver mais je n'ai pas reussi. vous pouvez m'aider. Merci

 

FOUND THIS ONE with missing FOOTBALL FIELD..... 😭😭😭😭😭

On 25-1-2021 at 2:04 AM, AsimPika3172 said:

FOUND THIS ONE with missing FOOTBALL FIELD..... 😭😭😭😭😭

Hi, wich football field ? It´s not ITC ALN props !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt