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About This File
Short description:
A while ago, a collection of Italian-style lots – the so-called Italian Collection, by simcity4ever88 – has been restored by the moderators of Simtropolis Exchange because the files had been stored on an off-site host which is not available anymore. After downloading this collection, I realized that it contains a huge collection (more than 1,000 lots!) of partially really beautiful buildings. Unfortunately, however, some of them are really poorly modded, up to the point that they may freeze SimCity 4 upon scrolling over them in the in-game menu, and, occasionally, the lotting isn’t much better. Therefore, I’ve improved both lotting and modding of some of these buildings. Real life doesn’t allow me to do this on a regular pace, but I’ve had a little time to work on some of the lots.
This is a collection of more than 100 old town houses, most of them being wall-to-wall buildings. In accordance with their prop names (in most cases, at least), I’ve split them into 6 groups. All of these buildings are available as ploppable landmarks with commercial service jobs. A selection of them (mostly straight orthogonal buildings and corner buildings) are also available as growable buildings with residents on them. While admittedly nothing basically prevents you from using the default content coming with the Italian Collection itself and the lotting isn’t that much different, I took the liberty of turning all buildings into ploppables, which makes more sense with some buildings with odd shapes, and improved the modding a bit. Also, I tried to make sure that all houses themselves are aligned properly, to allow you to create seamless wall-to-wall environments (although this hasn’t always been possible, some of the graphics haven’t been designed very well in this regard; especially the Case con Portici set gave me much trouble when trying to align the houses.)
Available languages: The item names are mostly in Italian, however, all other in-game descriptions, as well as the Readmes, are available in English and German.
Submenu compatibility:
Starting with Version 1a, this plugin has been made compatible with memo’s Submenus DLL mod, and has been split up into 6 submenus, each labeled with the name of the set. Users using it will find the menus either in the CS-$, CS-$$, or CS-$$$ submenus of the Commercial menu, or packed into another IC submenu in the Landmarks menu (see installation instructions below). Please refer to the Readme to see how the submenu icons look like.
Dependencies:
The Italian Collection: This plugin contains all building graphics.
https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28443-the-italian-collection/
Important note: Recently, some graphical glitches have been discovered in the Italian Collection. They have been fixed now, thanks to rsc204 (see credits below), but unfortunately this means that all users that have already downloaded the Italian Collection before May 31st, 2020, need to uninstall it and then download and install it again in order for the changes to be reflected in-game.
How to properly install the Italian Collection:
Make sure to think twice before just tossing all files coming with the Italian Collection into your Plugins folder. You may obtain hundreds of lots in your game menu that you cannot (or don’t want to) make use of them; and some of them are growables that you can’t control. Please take yourself time to read these instructions.
Step 1: Download the Italian Collection and unpack all files.
Step 2: Look into all subfolders of the Italian Collection and decide for yourself if you want to keep the buildings/lots you are getting – I’m literally talking about more than 1,000 lots! If not, just remove the corresponding files with the file extension .SC4Lot. You can remove or keep all of these files as it fits you best, this won’t affect the functionality of my plugin. You only need to keep all files with the file extension .dat, .SC4Model, and .SC4Desc.
BSC VIP Girafe Flora Pack: contain some mayor mode ploppable trees. In particular, you need: Chestnuts, Lindens, Norway Maples, Parasol Pines, and Poplars.
https://www.sc4evermore.com/index.php/downloads/download/27-sc4d-LEX-legacy-bsc-vip-girafe-flora
Various prop/texture packages: These just contain props, retaining walls, or textures and no lots. Unfortunately, they are quite a bunch, but there’s a high chance that you may have them already.
- Various Lot Foundations and Retaining Walls: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/31346-various-lot-foundations-and-retaining-walls/
- Aqua Textures 1: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/28675-aqua_textures_01/
- BSC Common Dependencies Pack: https://sc4evermore.com/index.php/downloads/download/3-sc4d-LEX-legacy-bsc-common-dependencies-pack
- PEG MTP Super Pack: http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/20966-peg-mtp-super-pack/
- SFBT Essentials: https://www.sc4evermore.com/index.php/downloads/download/22-dependencies/13-sfbt-essentials
Submenus DLL (optional): https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/36142-submenus-dll/
Installation:
Step 1 (Installation): Please move or copy all existing files (except the Readme files) into the Plugins folder of your edition of SimCity 4.
Step 2 (Submenu Setup): Only keep either the file IC_OldTown_Submenu Commercial.dat (which puts the submenus into the CS-$, CS-$$, and CS-$$$ submenus of the Commercial menu), or the file IC_OldTown_Submenu Landmarks.dat (which puts the submenus into the Landmark menu). Delete the other file.
To uninstall this plugin, please bulldoze all instances of these old town building lots in your cities and then remove all lot files coming with this plugin from your Plugins folder.
How to use the blocker files:
All files with a file name starting with zIC_Blocker will (as long as they load last) override the content in their respective counterpart file starting with IC_Growable, making the growth of the residential buildings impossible. As already mentioned, the purpose of these files is to give you more control over letting them grow or not.
To make sure that these buildings grow, just remove the blocker files from your Plugins folder. To block these buildings, just put them back into a place where you can make sure that they load last (ideally in the same folder where the files with the growables are, while keeping their file names).
Compatibility:
This plugin should be compatible with all versions of SimCity 4. If not, please feel free to tell me.
Credits:
@simcity4ever88 for creating these buildings in the first place,
@rsc204 for providing me with a solution how to fix the already mentioned graphical glitches,
@CorinaMarie and @Cyclone Boom for giving me permission to create an update and for uploading an updated version of the Italian Collection (even several times).
Support:
Please feel free to post issues, bug reports, and suggestions in this thread:
What's New 1a View Changelog
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- Submenu compatibility added
- Menu dividers removed
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