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Problems Loading Custom Regions

By Mogwai1313, April 30, 2006
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- A Nonny Moose
- May 13, 2006
Game crash ONLY upon loading city

By MidwestSimGeek, April 25, 2006
- 5 Replies
- 457 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 13, 2006
Consistant crashing

By beebs, May 13, 2006
- 4 Replies
- 272 Views
- beebs
- May 13, 2006
Need help on Simcity downloads

By brodequin666, May 13, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 275 Views
- Skyfire2275
- May 13, 2006
SC4 Deluxe Problem-very weird

By kaploosh, May 11, 2006
- 4 Replies
- 456 Views
- kaploosh
- May 13, 2006
B.A.T. / Plug In MAnager / LE Question

By Olddirtydog, May 8, 2006
- 4 Replies
- 355 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 10, 2006
Problems with CO-$$$

By vkiningham, May 6, 2006
- 9 Replies
- 349 Views
- vkiningham
- May 10, 2006
Trouble with NAM again

By TiggerEyes, May 7, 2006
- 9 Replies
- 357 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 9, 2006
Installing SC4 Deluxe on External Hard Drive

By artdutra04, May 9, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 266 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 9, 2006
Caution to Download of "Elevated rail above road"

By Schmicky, April 13, 2005
- 10 Replies
- 864 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 9, 2006
Major Lag Problem with high spec system

By toxicpiano, April 29, 2006
- 7 Replies
- 481 Views
- kevinb7852
- May 9, 2006
how to make it play more than3 musics?

By jumesyn, April 27, 2006
- 7 Replies
- 334 Views
- newyorkrunaway1
- May 8, 2006
Not Shutting Down when Exiting

By LReyome254, March 29, 2006
- 13 Replies
- 368 Views
- hamsterTK
- May 8, 2006
BOOM! No more trade.

By Ephphatha, May 7, 2006
- 7 Replies
- 366 Views
- Ephphatha
- May 8, 2006
Texture problem with low density $ and $$ res lots

By Spoonman, April 27, 2006
- 12 Replies
- 399 Views
- greyveil
- May 8, 2006
Close SC4 RH

By Chaitin, May 7, 2006
- 3 Replies
- 226 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 7, 2006
Roads

By RaccoonFox, May 6, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 255 Views
- RaccoonFox
- May 7, 2006
HELP

By shane52sk, May 6, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 163 Views
- greyveil
- May 6, 2006
HELP NEEDED!! DISAPPEARING STUFF!

By CitySim123, May 6, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 242 Views
- simzebu
- May 6, 2006
GLR MOD Installation

By mayorron, May 6, 2006
- 6 Replies
- 1,307 Views
- vester_DK
- May 6, 2006
Help! Too much trash!

By noble_scribe, April 30, 2006
- 5 Replies
- 458 Views
- jackel.22
- May 6, 2006
Error running Rush Hour Installer

By MilwaukeeMan, May 5, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 275 Views
- greyveil
- May 5, 2006
Editing City Journal discription

By rewright, May 5, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 227 Views
- rewright
- May 5, 2006
Mayor Rating plummetting....

By panthersimcity4, October 28, 2005
- 9 Replies
- 427 Views
- A Nonny Moose
- May 5, 2006
Weird prop thing

By DOXXP29, May 3, 2006
- 5 Replies
- 278 Views
- DOXXP29
- May 4, 2006
Custom Resolution Issue

By Wamphyri, May 4, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 355 Views
- greyveil
- May 4, 2006
Random Crashing to desktop

By Andalious, April 14, 2006
- 8 Replies
- 545 Views
- tacomax4
- May 2, 2006
Exporting a city/region

By Orpheo, April 26, 2006
- 2 Replies
- 216 Views
- Orpheo
- May 1, 2006
How to move the plugins/region folder??

By NightlinerSGS, May 1, 2006
- 1 Reply
- 239 Views
- Constantina
- May 1, 2006
Bug: "Interactive 3D Renderer Initialization Failed" Help Please?

By benvoliothefirst, April 30, 2006
- 3 Replies
- 942 Views
- greyveil
- May 1, 2006

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- Waste-to-energy plants and their capacities
  
  By Null 45 · Posted: 2 hours ago
  
  I put those files on GitHub specifically to allow its Lua syntax highlighting and code search features to be used (the code search requires being logged into GitHub), but of course you can also download the repository for offline searching. Not sure if there is a better place to publicize that repository. Those values are actually defined in 0xFFBF9CCF (adv_game_data.lua). I think that would be game.g_garbage_produced, that variable is only referenced in an unused utility advisor trigger condition.
- Two WinTextEdits for one Query
  
  By Null 45 · Posted: 3 hours ago
  
  While Maxis likely had a list specifying what all those ids are, modders have to reverse engineer that info based on the usage in the UI files and the partial debug symbols in the 32-bit Mac builds. Maxis reserved the 0x1xxx control ids for values that the game automatically fills in with the appropriate data when showing a query dialog, and in the case of some values it will also read the user's changes after closing the dialog. The meaning of the ids varies based on the type of query dialog, e.g. 0x100c represents different values for the standard query and neighbor query dialogs. For standard query dialogs, the Maxis values are: All other controls in a UI file should use unique values for the control id.
- Waste-to-energy plants and their capacities
  
  By CorinaMarie · Posted: 4 hours ago
  
  You most certainly can. The game.g and other variables are defined in entry 0xFF048A3E (adv_const.lua). There are several for Garbage. And if you want to see some slightly more sophisticated garbage calculations, find the Lua in here. There's also some useful info in 0xFFAEC42B (Advisor Scripts.lua). Also, I seem to recall @Null 45 extracted all the Maxis Lua into text files so if you grab those you can use N++ to search in all files to find examples. I have my own extraction from years ago and I get 8 hits for G_GARBAGE_PRODUCED which is one of the game_trends variables.
- Waste-to-energy plants and their capacities
  
  By Tommy Vercetti · Posted: 4 hours ago
  
  An update: I've got some really sexy AI slop models for my new plants. I've already outsourced the implementation to the artists (yep, I've hired more than one). I will need to test a lot (no pun intended) on the way; the .3DS is not a very friendly format; and gmax may not play well with transparent textures and stuff. What a journey!
  
  At the same time, I am learning about the rewards conditions in LUA scripts. Found this funny one so far (look at the highlighter line). But the reason I am looking through these is that I am curious to know whether I can have a condition based on the total amount of garbage in a city. If not, then I'll just use the population and mayor rating. Currently searching for the definition of the constants for the "game" object (such as "game.g_police_station_count") that I am planning to use for the "trigger" property.
  
  Overall fun and at the same time a really tiring proces.
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