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Discussion, questions and requests regarding Lots, BATs, Maps, plugins and other custom content for SimCity 4.

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Bitmaps for you to use

By SuzyAngel, June 20, 2006
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- mrbisonm
- June 22, 2006
Farm props question

By moganite, June 21, 2006
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- 310 Views
- moganite
- June 22, 2006
problems with pegasus csk docks

By ten1902, June 15, 2006
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- 558 Views
- Pixelrage
- June 19, 2006
How to bust I-HT caps

By I hate caps!, June 17, 2006
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- 449 Views
- Tolomar
- June 17, 2006
Question about duplicates and system performance

By SamFlash, March 21, 2006
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- Andreas Roth
- June 15, 2006
Vinnie's Wine Bar (BLS)

By Tuesday, June 11, 2006
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- 422 Views
- Tuesday
- June 12, 2006
can't think of a good headline...a question...

By Johny-Walker, June 10, 2006
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- 217 Views
- Johny-Walker
- June 10, 2006
Req: Those particular walls...

By detour_h, June 6, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 332 Views
- Swamper77
- June 9, 2006
making content on STEX more accessible

By astronic, May 31, 2006
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- 551 Views
- hamsterTK
- June 8, 2006
How do I make night lights stay on longer?

By JohnMK, June 5, 2006
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- 268 Views
- JohnMK
- June 5, 2006
Large Plugin Folder isthis OK?

By Andreas Roth, June 2, 2006
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- 379 Views
- MrCinatit
- June 2, 2006
SPQR Roman buildings

By psycholu, February 22, 2006
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- 1,470 Views
- freedo50
- June 1, 2006
Ploppable Mod conflicts?

By deckone, May 30, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 269 Views
- IGGYMAN 101
- May 31, 2006
City/Region Hall?

By -Spader-, May 26, 2006
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- 462 Views
- hamsterTK
- May 30, 2006
Maps by Hammo

By hammo, August 4, 2005
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- 361 Views
- hamsterTK
- May 28, 2006
What dependancy am I missing?

By coultharda, May 28, 2006
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- 287 Views
- coultharda
- May 28, 2006
Combined Rail/El Rail Station

By ben_sb_vex, May 27, 2006
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- 708 Views
- vester_DK
- May 28, 2006
STEX My Downloads

By kochstar, May 26, 2006
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- 329 Views
- kochstar
- May 26, 2006
Can't Figure out the BLS Prop

By mrbisonm, May 24, 2006
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- 458 Views
- mrbisonm
- May 25, 2006
Shorter tunnels?

By castun, May 24, 2006
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- 389 Views
- castun
- May 24, 2006
Looking for a specific MOD

By hsc7772006, May 23, 2006
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- 289 Views
- hsc7772006
- May 24, 2006
About the new BRT SG Canal Ave Bridges

By serpe, May 1, 2006
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- serpe
- May 22, 2006
Improved Suburbs Project (ISP)
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By RiverCocytus, May 8, 2006
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- tankmank
- May 21, 2006
POST APOCALYPSE BATS

By Norfrit, May 19, 2006
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- 458 Views
- Norfrit
- May 20, 2006
NEED HELP!!!!!! PLEASE

By simboy99907, May 19, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 206 Views
- sim1234
- May 19, 2006
Help me get this STEX file working...

By Homeless_Hobo, May 12, 2006
- 4 Replies
- 783 Views
- deadwoods
- May 19, 2006
Moderator reviews of STEX posts

By suaviscor, May 13, 2006
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- 627 Views
- moganite
- May 15, 2006
Marrast EyeCandy Underpasses: Lets Raise the dead

By Thut, November 19, 2005
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- 871 Views
- Andreas Roth
- May 13, 2006
i need some help

By jackel.22, May 12, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 269 Views
- mrbisonm
- May 13, 2006
Can't find some files

By dolu31, May 12, 2006
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- dolu31
- May 12, 2006

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- I'm so confused
  
  By doady · Posted: 19 minutes ago
  
  Low occupancy is a reflection of low desirability rather than low population. For any building, residential or commercial, if you increase desirability it will increase the amount of occupants. You don't need 120k jobs for 120k population. It's more like 1:2. My current city has 190k people, 110k jobs, no problem. But even so, the amount of employment land will be disproportionately high compared to residential land. Job demand can be fulfilled easily enough even with the low max occupancy of industrial buildings, so mods that increase double or quadruple industrial occupants may have unintended effects, and completely unnecessary anyways from a pure gameplay perspective. Ultimately, the game is in an unfinished state, and only so much we can do about the bugs and unbalanced gameplay. The issue with high density is even one new building can fulfill demand too fast, and thus create negative demand. Looking at your city, I don't see any obvious corridors for commercial zones. This is also one of the central tenets of Transit-Oriented Development: minimizing the distances of residents and jobs to major corridors. Establishing strong corridors means carefully zoning and laying out streets and major roads. One important thing to note is intersections increase travel times, so assuming you have any pathfinding fix installed (such as NAM), commuters will naturally gravitate to major corridors that have fewer intersections. Likewise, you can find ways to make it less convenient to travel on side streets.
- Can't find it?... Ask here!
  
  By fightingcock · Posted: 38 minutes ago
  
  I am currently building a pre WWII midwestern city. I NEED pre WWII commercial passenger aircraft, and I also need a river paddlewheel steamboat or steamboats, any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
- Advanced Lot Plop - new GUIs with DLLs
  
  By 11241036 · Posted: 1 hour ago
  
  @CasperVg I've been trying out the newest Plop&Paint mod. Great new additions to this mod, especially the terrain decal function, it allows to fill a lot of gaps left by NAM networks. However, there seem to be a few issues. Also, I'd like to make some suggestions on how to improve it: As already mentioned, the mod cannot paint textures ending with 5 or A. That would be great if you could add that to the game. The mod only reads lot textures - it would be great if it could also read traffic textures, such as those from the NAM. BTW, lot textures have a GID of 0x0986135e, and traffic textures a GID of 0x1abe787d. With the installation of version 0.9.1, I seem to be unable to raise props I'm about to paint. Is it just me, or is this feature suddenly missing? Also, is it just me, or does version 0.9.1 interfere with the Season Jumper DLL? After installing version 0.9.1, the Season Jumper DLL suddenly stopped working. Also, a few questions: Does the terrain decal function allow for more than one texture to be painted? This is important if you want to place a base and an overlay texture. BTW, as far as I know, both of these textures use the same GID, the only difference is: The game considers textures with transparent or semi-transparent parts alsways to be overlay textures and fully opaque textures to be base textures. Does it distinguish between base and overlay textures, like the LE?
- Submenus DLL
  
  By Andreas Roth · Posted: 2 hours 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: 3 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".
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