No Night Lighting For BATS

[Avanine-Commuter 0]

I've followed the tutorial on how to get Night Lighting. I installed sim city upgrade 1, installed bat editor, gmax, sim city upgrade 2, then I ran the game. But none of my buildings light up. Why?

[SC4Noobie 5]

Follow, exactly step by step Greyvilles Getting up and running guide in the New members info section. It'll surely work.

[Avanine-Commuter 0]

I followed the tutorial in the Omnibus and it didn't work. I have all the required things setup, in the right order (like on greyveil's guide), but I still get gloomy cities with sparse lightning.

[greyveil 37]

in your program files/maxis/simcity 4/apps directory is a file called (yourmachinename)-config-log.txt , please post the contents of that file here so we can see where the patch might have failed

[tungston 19]

You didn't say if you have Rush Hour/Deluxe version of the game. If not you will not get the benefits from the BAT Nitelighting.

[Avanine-Commuter 0]

No, I do have rush hour.

Okay here are the copied contents of that file in Apps directory.

Log generated on 3/27/2006, 17:11

Flags

-----

hardwareDriver = true

DXT = true

fullscreen = true

MMX = true

FPU = true

backingStore = true

forcedFSAA = false

Strings

-------

userName = Bryan

appName = SimCity 4

version = 1.1.638.0

osVersion = Windows NT 5.1

computerName = BRYAN

CPU = GenuineIntel

sglDriverName = DirectX

sglDriverVersion = 2.0

driverName = ati2dvag.dll

driverVersion = 6.14.10.6525, GUID: D7B71EE2-1820-11CF-B273-0226AFC2CD35

cardName = RADEON X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory

cardVersion = Vendor: 1002, Device: 5b60, Board: 6021002, Chipset: 0000

cardIdentity = RADEON X300 SE 128MB HyperMemory

soundDriverName = sthda.sys

soundCardName = SigmaTel Audio

buildType = Release

Numbers

-------

cpuSpeed = 2992

memory = 512

freeMemory = 176

screenWidth = 1024

screenHeight = 768

screenBPP = 16

videoMemory = 245

textureMemory = 245

textureStages = 8

bogoFPS = 0

bogoMPPS = 0

Rules

-----

applying Sound

applying high sound detail

applying City Detail and Day/Night Settings

applying City Detail and Day/Night Settings>

applying low computer power

option 9 = 1

option 13 = 0

option 15 = 1

applying Texture Quality and Building Variety Settings

applying Texture Quality and Building Variety Settings>

applying high memory

option 3 = 3

option 14 = 3

applying Variable Speed Automata

applying default

option 10 = 1

applying Standard hardware

option 0 = 1

option 1 = 1

option 2 = 1

option 4 = 0

option 5 = 1

option 8 = 1

option 7 = 1

option 6 = 1

option 11 = 0

option 12 = 0

applying Standard hardware>

option 1 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>

option 0 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>>

option 2 = 2

applying Standard hardware>>>>

option 4 = 1

applying Standard hardware>>>>>

option 11 = 1

applying Two stages

applying Lotsa vidmem

applying Radeon

applying Not Slow GeForce

Options

-------

Visual Effects current: 1 recommended: 2

Cars/Sims current: 1 recommended: 2

Shadows current: 2 recommended: 2

Atmospheric effects current: 1 recommended: 1

Water effects current: 1 recommended: 1

Software/Hardware current: 1 recommended: 1

Cursor current: 1 recommended: 1

VariableSpeedAutomata current: 1 recommended: 1

Translucent UI current: 1 recommended: 1

Graphic Detail current: 3 recommended: 1

Building Load Speed current: 3 recommended: 1

Texture Quality current: 3 recommended: 3

Properties

-------

forcesoftwaredriver = false

renderdynamicview = true

renderstaticview = true

renderwatereffects = true

rendercloudsandfog = true

forcepointsampling = false

forcebilinear = false

forcenoalphablend = false

forcenoalphatest = false

rendershadows = true

renderdecals = true

usesecondstage = true

forcedebugtexture = false

renderparticleeffects = true

renderflorashadows = true

renderterrain = true

showupdateregions = false

usecursoreffects = true

drawlottextures = true

drawlotfoundations = true

drawlotwalls = true

forcetexturerepeat = false

usescreenshake = true

renderui = true

useupdaterectclipping = true

usevertexbuffers = true

showboundingboxes = false

useoverlayculling = true

rendersnapshot = false

noaddsigned = false

nopartialbackingstorecopies = false

usescreenflash = true

renderautomata = true

preferopaque = false

displayalertborders = true

drawlotopaquetextures = true

useviewcleanup = false

doautozoomandrotationchanges = true

viewoffsety = 0

viewoffsetx = 0

texturebits = 32

lodoffset = 0

shadowdebug = 0

maxparticlestarget = 10000

particlelodoffset = 0

effectprioritylevel = 5

backingstoremaxzoomall = 5

backingstoremaxzoombuildingsprops = 5

backingstoremaxzoomterrain = 5

backingstoremaxzoomflora = 5

shadowquality = 2

minvehiclezoom = 3

minpedzoom = 4

cursortype = 1

depthoffset = 2

debugtexture = 0

dirtyrectmergeframes = 4

sounddetail = 2

buildingvariety = 2

buildingloaderspeed = 1

modellodoffset = 0

stringtexturecachesize = 1024

particleeffectslod = 5

splattexturescale = 50

texbindmaxfree = 8

particledensity = 1

particledamping = 0

particlescale = 1

lightingupdatedelta = 0.0001

shadowmodelthreshold = 12

demolishmodelthreshold = 12

rendermodelthreshold = 6

rendermodelthresholdscroll = 40

particlesizethreshold = 300

maxvehiclepct = 1

maxpedpct = 1

opaqueuialphavalue = 0.55

Thanks for any help, I hope this info can help solve the problem.

[tungston 19]

If you missed my comment, if you don't have RH/Deluxe version, you can't use the BAT nitelighting, or most of the custom lots, and BATs from the STEX. They only work with RH/Deluxe versions.

[Murakumon 1]

I am having the exact same problem, And I have done this a dozen times before. I downloaded all the updates from simcity.com and no BAT lights work.

[A Nonny Moose 8,263]

I suspect your post crossed with Tungston's.  If you don't have RH/Deluxe you can't have any nightlights and most BATs won't work.

[Avanine-Commuter 0]

I posted already that I DO have rush hour. I've had it since it came out.

[tungston 19]

I took the "no" to mean no.

Try setting the graphics to medium or high, and software rendering.

My version reads:  1.1.640.0 

I have the Deluxe version.

[coolotter88 2]

you have to download and apply this patch again.

http://simcity.ea.com/downloads/getfile_pri.php?filename=SC4Update4BAT.exe

Maybe you got a corrupt file along the way or something. Its supposed to fix the lighting effects.

[greyveil 37]

your log is reporting you have version = 1.1.638.0 , this should read 640, so 1 of 2 things is going on either the patch did not install correctly, if not I recommend following my "up and running" tutorial in my sig and do a complete reinstall, or 2, you are using a "no-cd patch" if this is the case, we cannot help you.

hope this helps...

[Avanine-Commuter 0]

Thanks for the help, I reinstalled the game +rush hour+the patches and it works now. Godawful problems thanks.

[luigiguy 1]

i had the same exact problem

[outriderdriver 4]

Yeah this whole lighting thing has blown me sky high in anger against any and all programmers for simple lighting effects.

[Ghostkiller108 0]

lol. It was simple for me. Someone told me were to find it and I just downloaded it and now everything works. Honestly I did not know about it until just recently for 3 years I just played the game with no lights and wondered how do I get them on.