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- Queen songs playing in SC4 (or how to locate and remove sound objects in mods)
  
  By redbaron097 · Posted: 24 minutes ago
  
  It is the hotel de ville...it is supposed to be queen playing on a stage or something...for some reason it isn't even in my build menu to even plop so not sure...the "sim" for freddy mercury spawns on several different bats through out the city, I'm thinking the creator copied over a sprite or whatever they are called and it spawns in other areas.
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  By mitsos · Posted: 5 hours ago
  
  Your flora is just amazing!!!! The lavender is mind-blowing. I begin to image several uses and landscapes. Well done and thank you.
- Raymond's Newbie Thoughts
  
  By Raymond7cn · Posted: 7 hours ago
  
  Learning Note about Effdir: It's not very hard (but tedious) to hex edit Effdir, We can get most of the definition as below: I used to try to modify it before, But I made a big mistake about "DWORD", Get confused with "Word", (8 bits=1 Byte, Double Word=32 bit=4 Bytes=8 hex bits, eg. 10 00 00 00), Then If we'd like to write an Effdir with a blank Section 1, We should write " 04 00 02 00 00 00 00 00 01 00 ", 04 00 = Major Version EFDIR 4 02 00 = Minor Version EFDIR 2 00 00 00 00 = DWORD (Number of Entries) -- Since we want no record in this section 01 00 = 0x0001 - End of Section -- I have no idea how to say it more precisely (In English) , But In my experience, the Long HEX value in binary is always reverse, eg. In Hex editing, a resource key "4a8b8ec5" should be written as "C5 8E 8B 4A".
- BAT - Getting Started Guide / FAQ / Resources / Help
  
  By AP · Posted: 9 hours ago
  
  Thank you SO much! I am really excited to try this! I will report back later with the result!
- Sharing Plugins Folders - Discussion
  
  By chfzdn · Posted: 10 hours ago
  
  This is what I'm appreciated about. With civil discussion, we can fix the problems we have smoothly. Another question, is the Member Recommendation like user-generated playlists on something like Spotify?
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  By Bobelboy · Posted: 54 minutes ago
  
  Look at this and you can see how beautiful formalism can be ... I absolutely love this rather strict but somehow fragile facade - so simple and so good. And the reflections of the nightlights on the facade are a wonderful detail. Very well done!
- City Center Shopping Plaza
  By Tyberius06 · Posted: 8 hours ago
  
  Great work on this one! Thanks for sharing! - Tyberius
- SM2 62 Glendale St
  By Tyberius06 · Posted: 8 hours ago
  
  Pretty nice building, lovely mural. Great addition, thanks for making and sharing it! - Tyberius
- 277 275 Water Street
  By sejr99999 · Posted: yesterday at 02:19 PM
  
  thank you for these beautiful New York buildings they are much needed and appreciated in creating a New York style city
- SM2 62 Glendale St
  By nightbird615 · Posted: yesterday at 02:01 PM
  
  That is beautifully done. Love the mural, the night lighting, etc. Thank you!
- The Twin Towers of the WTC
  
  By Ryan Fitz · Posted: 14 hours ago
  
  Any possibility of these being redeveloped as part of the entire complex bat released long ago? These towers appear to look more realistic than those originally used. Or any chance that each part of the complex (mariott and wtc 4, 5, 6 and plaza) can be available to download individually? Thanks in advance!
- SM2 62 Glendale St
  
  By SIM-ple Jack · Posted: 21 hours ago
  
  Many places in Wisconsin I can put this gem!
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- Linbrook Bowling Center
  
  By Max4k · Posted: yesterday at 03:32 AM
  
  Too good to pass up, love the retro Neon
- The Cobb Central Park West
  
  By Max4k · Posted: yesterday at 01:49 AM
  
  This is weird, I'm going though Landmarks and wanted to get rid of this Ploppable, but when I go to folder, I just have 2 plop files and that is it. Somehow at some point a Cleanitol removed 10 of your files that are Growable and decided to leave the Ploppable as they were ??
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- RRetail
  
  Thank you to all who who participated in Round 1 of the truckstop brand straw poll. To my surprise, it would seem that my original idea of having Godfather's Pizza & Chester's is something the majority of you want.
  Anyways, it's time for Round 2. This round will determine the brand that will partner with Love's for a second option- though I will not be making a lot for it. Whatever gets decided for this building will be added into prop pack update 2.3.
  Feel free to change your vote from Round 1 if you wish.
  This new poll will be active until Friday morning. (August 6th)
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- RRetail
  
  This is the one time that I plan to do overlap with @pclark06. I had to make a Wendy's design to use with Pilot anyways, so I decided to go ahead and make a prop building for a standalone location since it wasn't that much more work to do. Mine is smaller and not in HD, but I'm happy with it. If you prefer pclark's, that's perfectly understandable. At the moment, I do not plan to use this for anything specific.
  
  Monday at 01:41 PM · 3 Replies
  1. sejr99999
    
    thank you a lot of fast food franchises have been upgrading their look the last couple years McDonalds has built some very attractive buildings that would be a welcome addition to SC4 too
    
    Monday at 07:59 PM
  2. pclark06
    
    Haven't been on here much lately but nice job!
    
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  3. dubaidude303
    
    Looks great! Its always good to have different looking ones so everything doesn't look repetitive.
    
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