Big Ben Bells

[sheep 18]

Hi. I was just wondering - I'm sure that most of you already heard that Big Ben's Bells sometimes ring after plopping, for example when its lights turn on. Where is it described that it has to ring? In the building or in the lot? I wanted to make a cathedral and it would be nice if it was ringing too. I assume that replacing Big Ben with my cathedral on its own lot is not enough? Do I have to use Ilive Reader or SC4Tool? (the second application seems to not work on my PC)

[Andreas Roth 604]

What you describe is called "Ambient Sound", and it's controlled by the building exemplar file (for ploppables, this is usually located in the lot file). There are several properties called "SFX: AlarmSoundID", "SFX:Ambient Good Sound", "SFX:AlarmTime" etc. which control what sound is played and when that happens. You can add/change those properties with the modding tools that are availabe. I suggest to open the exemplar file of Big Ben (Type, Group, Instance ID: 6534284A, CA386E22, 04CD0000) and copy those properties to your lot. You can find that exemplar file either in the SimCity_1.dat or (more easy to locate) in the sc4Ref.dat file that comes with SC4Tool.

[sheep 18]

Ok, thank you very much Andreas, I'll try it.