Brown boxes with trees

[Bumdark 3]

Hey y'all...

I download content at a supersonic rate all the time, resulting in that I don't always remember what exactly I download...

The thing is, I've downloaded some mods and new trees from the STEX (where else?) and since I've been getting brown boxes. Curiously, these only appear when I plop the City Hall reward building.

I've done some digging, and I've found a few of their names:

- JRJ_TC_PinusPinea V2

- JRJ Fantasy Big Tree

- JRJ_TC_Megaplatanoids

- Spruce Tree

Now:

1 - Who is "JRJ"? Jeronij? Jirnsum? Plenty of names that come to mind, but I'm just not sure. Second, anyone happen to know which file(s) contain these trees, so I can either get the blasted dependencies, of tell me what the file name is, so I can flush it away simply?

Any help would be pretty appreciated.

PY

[Albatross Domain 2]

You know, I've started having the same problem, with these "Boxes" showing up myself, I download and put them in their respective Plugin subfolders, but more and more, I also have been noticing the list of dependancies get much , much longer as well... My question is "Why can't some of these has universal depencies, instead of eating up HD realestate?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I seem to remember something about the Olympic Stadium mod, but I may be wrong.

[jmelvin 2]

I had the same trouble with the City Hall reward. I traced my trouble to the 1st release of the PEG Mayor Mode Pine Trees mod (file PEG_MMTrees_Pines_205a.dat with a date of 10/22/2005). PEG updated this mod  iand released a later version n October 2005 compatible with the PEG Mountain Theme Pack. I fixed my problem with the brown boxes on the City Hall reward when I deleted the older version of the Mayor Mode Pine Trees mod and installed the updated version. (The updated mod is titled PEG MTP Mayor Mode Pine Tree Mod (I'm sorry, but I don't know how to provide a link as part of this message) and will install a file called PEG_MMTrees_Pines_206.dat dated 10/22/2005 and Requires installation of the PEG Mountain Theme Pack. You will need to delete the PEG_MMTrees_Pines_205a.dat file and a file named BSC_PropPack_Pegasus_Vol01a.dat

While I was researching this issue, I also discovered that I would plop brown boxes whenever I tried to plop the very-large, large, or medium pines in the Mayor Mode. The short pines worked fine.

After deleting the older version and installing the updated version of the PEG MTP Mayor Mode Pine Tree Mod, my plopped City Hall reward looks fine and I can plop all of PEG's pine trees in the MAYOR Mode.

After correcting my problem I did a little follow-up digging using the ilive reader. I found that the flora exemplars in the newer version of the Mayor Mode Pine Trees Mod have a Resource Key Type 1 that contains a TGI where the Type and GroupID and left 4 characters of the InstanceID match S3D files in the Mountain Theme Pack dat file (PEG_MTP_RESOURCE_vol1.dat). In the older version of the Mayor Mode Pine Trees Mod, the GroupIDs of the Resource Key Type 1 entries don't match up with any S3D files. The GroupID mismatch was also there for the "short pine" flora exemplar even though this item seemed to plop with no problems.

I'm providing this last bit of info as a possible help for people researching other problem lots. From what little experience I have with modding, I have noted that the Resource Key Type 1 entries of building, prop, and flora exemplars should have a Type and GroupID and 1st 4 characters of the InstanceID match with the appropriate S3D files for the building, prop, or flora item. I have noticed that there are some lots that seem to function OK even where the GroupID shown in the Resource Key Type 1 does not match up with and S3D files (e.g., the short pine flora exemplar as noted above).

I hope I haven't mangled my use of terminology too badly or provided erroneous information.

[Bumdark 3]

... and you've only posted three times...!??

Didn't think I'd ever get an answer this complete... thanks jmelvin! (Along with everyone else who posted, of course). Heck of a long post, but it definately does work for now! Thanks!

PY