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Dead Dependency Guide

By PhilsCafe, February 21, 2008
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- Lab Rat
- January 26
Looking for mods
By asmernoclito, January 25
- seaweed
- marine rocks
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  seaweed
  
  marine rocks
  
  water texture
- 3 Replies
- 109 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 26
Bulldozed custom lot with apparent immortal lot syndrome
By fsbuccio, January 22
- immortal lot
- 14 Replies
- 206 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 24
Auto Save Does Not Load Properly in SC4pac
By Taz the Mystic, January 7
- sc4pac
- loads
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  loads
  
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  in two different files
- 5 Replies
- 152 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 8
Oppie's rounded canals where to find?
By utora2, January 7
- oppie
- canal set
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  canal set
  
  canal expansion set
  
  simcity central
  
  recover
  
  download
- 6 Replies
- 184 Views
- Lab Rat
- January 8
Kings Cross Station Question
By deanva, December 28, 2025
- station
- transit enabled
- 5 Replies
- 126 Views
- deanva
- December 29, 2025
Brown Boxes Instead of Plugin Building
By Taz the Mystic, November 26, 2025
- brown
- boxes
- 12 Replies
- 338 Views
- Taz the Mystic
- December 23, 2025
Issue with BAT textures at zoom levels Z1-Z3
By ncamferdam, December 8, 2025
- bat
- fsh
- (and 1 more)
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  fsh
  
  glitch
- 10 Replies
- 228 Views
- Tyberius06
- December 10, 2025
Census Repository Facility v4.0
By Kel9509, January 12, 2025
- simcity 4
- demand
- (and 2 more)
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  simcity 4
  
  demand
  
  rci
  
  dll
- 25 Replies
- 2,445 Views
- Null 45
- December 3, 2025
Help with custom train stations strange use pattern
By rose, November 21, 2025
- train
- rail
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  rail
  
  station
  
  problem
  
  help
  
  question
  
  custom
  
  content
- 6 Replies
- 274 Views
- rose
- November 28, 2025
Does CAM 3.0 - CAM Controller Fix Agriculture
By TheGreatDoge, November 14, 2025
- simcity 4
- 2 Replies
- 231 Views
- TheGreatDoge
- November 16, 2025
Question about school capacity
By SamAvery, November 7, 2025
- simcity 4
- civic
- (and 2 more)
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  simcity 4
  
  civic
  
  lot
  
  problem
- 14 Replies
- 360 Views
- CorinaMarie
- November 12, 2025
What are these files?
By trar, November 6, 2025
- help
- identification
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  identification
  
  bsc ships
  
  mattb325
  
  dependencies
- 5 Replies
- 253 Views
- trar
- November 8, 2025
Name of railway plugin to remove it
By The Edge, October 23, 2025
- railway plugin
- 11 Replies
- 296 Views
- The Edge
- October 25, 2025
State Signs for FL and NV and Miami Beach.
By StardustCorporation, October 21, 2025
- flordia
- nevada
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  flordia
  
  nevada
  
  miami beach
  
  signs
  
  city signs
  
  state signs
  
  landmarks
- 0 Replies
- 80 Views
- StardustCorporation
- October 21, 2025
Black Sedan $$$ & Mayor Limo in game
By StardustCorporation, September 28, 2025
- vehicles
- mayor limo
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  vehicles
  
  mayor limo
  
  limo
  
  limousine
  
  luxury sedan
- 0 Replies
- 111 Views
- StardustCorporation
- September 28, 2025
Missing Textures (?)
By Jinou, September 10, 2025
- bat
- texture
- 0 Replies
- 94 Views
- Jinou
- September 10, 2025
Where to download Japanese BAT?
By Jinou, September 10, 2025
- model
- bat
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  model
  
  bat
  
  download
- 2 Replies
- 230 Views
- Jinou
- September 10, 2025
Customising JS Seawalls
By Lazarou Monkey Terror, August 4, 2025
- customising =
- lotting
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  customising =
  
  lotting
  
  zoomlevels
- 9 Replies
- 304 Views
- Lazarou Monkey Terror
- September 6, 2025
hkabat-forum-threads
A Guide to Japanese BAT Hunting
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By pnorrell, February 3, 2006
- 101 Replies
- 108,921 Views
- pikachu_SQ
- August 28, 2025
JENX runway issue
By stefsls, April 9, 2025
- jenx
- airport
- (and 2 more)
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  jenx
  
  airport
  
  runway
  
  generator
- 6 Replies
- 419 Views
- Terraner
- August 25, 2025
Requesting to Hire a Model Maker? [BIG PICTURES]
By Crossroads Inc., August 1, 2025
- custom
- art-deco
- 4 Replies
- 314 Views
- CorinaMarie
- August 20, 2025
Old Tools [Found]
By nic49548, August 8, 2025
- simtropolis tools
- 12 Replies
- 373 Views
- nic49548
- August 14, 2025
Red green blue squares on lots
By MstrFox1982, April 10, 2025
- bug
- squares
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  missing
  
  dependencies
- 4 Replies
- 348 Views
- rsc204
- August 5, 2025
Ordinances mod are not working
By EdwinLand, August 4, 2025
- ordinance
- 3 Replies
- 213 Views
- Null 45
- August 4, 2025
Free Flags - Limited Offer (conditions apply)
By rsc204, March 6, 2022
- flags
- mod requests
- 3 Replies
- 679 Views
- Shuna Tempest
- August 2, 2025
List of Duplicate Files
By pikachu_SQ, July 18, 2024
- plugins
- 5 Replies
- 552 Views
- pikachu_SQ
- July 27, 2025
Credit card required for cheat download? [Solved]
By Whisperstealth, July 6, 2025
- cheat
- 6 Replies
- 326 Views
- CorinaMarie
- July 7, 2025
TSS Lorina? [Solved]
By timoftomorrow, July 3, 2025
- tsslorina
- lots
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  tsslorina
  
  lots
  
  graphicalmods
  
  ship
  
  plop
  
  loteditor
- 2 Replies
- 189 Views
- timoftomorrow
- July 4, 2025
Help with NBVC modular parts
By vetram, August 13, 2020
- marina
- nbvc
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  marina
  
  nbvc
  
  modular
- 11 Replies
- 899 Views
- simmering
- June 16, 2025

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- Submenus DLL
  
  By Andreas Roth · Posted: 38 minutes ago
  
  NTUser.dat is a Windows system file that shouldn't be touched, an it certainly wasn't created by the SC4 CLI tool. I'll try to write down a short walk-through how to create a new submenu and then add a lot (or several lots) to it: 1. Start SC4 CLI Tool and select "Create a new submenu" with the arrow keys, enter a name an a description (just type and then press enter to go through the next step). 2. Select the parent menu for the new submenu, i. e. "Civics" and then "Parks", if you want to create a new submenu for a set of park lots. Pick "[root]" once you entered the desired sub(sub-sub)menu. Just accept the randomly generated button ID. 3. In the next step, a browser window will open, and you're supposed to select a PNG file for an icon. Ideally, you have some screenshot of a lot ready, but you can also pick any other image. If you keep the checkmark, it will use the default icon template and add the four icon states, along with the standard icon borders. Click "Use as icon" to import the selected image. Finally, enter an Item Order, which defines the placement of the icon in the menu (the default would be 0 or 1). 4. Now open your Plugins folder, you'll find a new file called "submenu_[the name you entered before].dat" in the Plugins root. If you like, you can open this file with the Reader. It will contain an Exemplar file with the necessary properties, two LTEXT files with the name and description of your new submenu and a PNG icon. 5. For adding lots to the new submenu, the easiest way is close the CLI tool first, and then open the folder where the tool's executable file (sc4.exe) is located. Open another Explorer window with the folder where the lot(s) that you want to add to the submenu are located. Now drag this folder onto the sc4.exe. It will open again with the proper folder path applied. Now select "Add lots to a submenu" and press enter. 6. Use the arrow keys again to navigate to the submenu that you just created (i. e. "Civic"/"Park"/[the name that you entered before]). The tool will ask where you want to save the submenu patch, simply select the pre-defined folder (which should be the folder where your lots are). It will save a new file called "submenu_patch.dat". If you open this file with the Reader, you'll find a single Cohort file, this contains a property named "Exemplar Patch Targets". This is basically a list of all lot IDs that were added to the submenu (by default, all the lots that were in the folder that you selected before). 7. Personally, I like to remove clutter, hence I copy the Cohort file over to the "submenu_[the name that you entered before].dat", then delete the patch file, and move the other DAT from the Plugin's root into the subfolder where the lots that have been added to the submenu are located. In this file, you can also edit the LTEXT files with name and description again, if desired.
- SC4PIM-X 2026 & New Properties Update Out Now!
  
  By Andreas Roth · Posted: 2 hours ago
  
  Wow, the new preview background looks really spiffy, reminds me of that early 2000's clean pixel art that was popular on websites and such back then! Minor suggestion for the layer/preview style menu buttons in the Lot Editor: Add a small triangle in the lower right, so you can see that this is a menu, and not just a button. Apparently, you missed my updated language file above, so a lot of stuff was not translated. FWIW, I've updated the file again and added all the new text strings, and reworked a handful of your own German additions, avoiding the "Sie" in favor of the more personal "Du" (see attachment below). I've noticed that the category tree on the left side contains some misleading entries for growable residential lots. Everything else is labeled CS$, CO$$ and such, but the R category just has $ signs. I fixed that in the German language file already. de.toml_v4.zip Everything else looks really great, and with the new building/lot converter SC4-PIMX gets even more powerful! I wonder what the next step could be, maybe a wizard for new submenus, similar to the SC4 CLI Tool? EDIT: I just found one untranslated text string in the Lot Editor's lower right corner: "Family variations" (German: "Familien-Variationen"). EDIT2: I found one other misleading label in the lower left corner with the model preview. The "viewerModel" text string should be simply "Day" (German: "Tag") instead of "Model state".
- SC4 Mod Migration Assistant
  
  By Ulisse Wolf · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  These are those edge cases where the program flags duplicates because they use the same filename and have the same TGI, since MGB - RRW ReSkin Type A overwrites Real RailWay (RRW) Reskin 3rd Party Lot Support because it is a reskin.
- Tropical Weather Expansion
  
  By TropicalWeatherEP · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  Tropical Cyclone Disaster (Developing) The goal is to allow a single cyclone object to evolve naturally over time instead of spawning a new disaster for each development stage. I am currently researching disaster-related functions, including LUA scripts and DLL plugins responsible for disaster management. I am also investigating how EffectDir resources are loaded and how the update loop handles active disasters. Based on everything I have described for the upcoming update, this project is becoming more than just a disaster mod — it is evolving into a game engine extension. If I can identify the disaster manager and understand the EffectDir update logic, I will be much closer to creating a tropical cyclone system that can realistically develop from a tropical wave into a major hurricane instead of appearing at full strength immediately. A natural lifecycle system is needed because a cyclone cannot realistically grow from a tropical wave into a Category 5 hurricane if each stage is controlled by hardcoded disaster spawning.
- TMC's 'SimCity 3000 ordinances for SC4' - support topic
  
  By TheMurderousCricket · Posted: 4 hours ago
  
  Good morning Everyone, As many of you may know, I am the author of the 'SimCity 3000 ordinances for SC4' mod series. The goal of this series is to revive old ordinances in SimCity 4 as many of them did not make it into the SC3000 successor. I recently received a complaint that one of the ordinances I uploaded into STEX did not work as intended and, alas, after more detailed investigation it turned out to be true... This is why I decided to create this thread which shall act as a support topic for my mod series. This is your place to discuss my "ported" ordinances and report any problems or unintended effects that you discover while playing. Coming back to the problem just discovered, it was caused by my incorrect understanding of the format that "Boost" effects use. This resulted in creating effects that are either ridiculously weak, or totally opposite from the ones intended. I intentionally omit links to my resources for now, because all ordinances are under review to identify those which contain incorrect values. As soon as the situation is tackled, new files will be provided and links added to this topic. Thank you for your attention and I'm terribly sorry for any inconvenience and disappointment caused!
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  Started July 10
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  BAT4Blender
  
  By memo
  Started July 30, 2024
- 59
  
  STEX Custodian General Support Topic
  
  By STEX Custodian
  Started September 26, 2019
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