What makes a parking lot a parking lot?

[schm0 27]

I want to make some parking lots. I've expiremented with making them transit enabled, which is nice, except for the fact that it makes stop signs every single tile. I'm interested in making working parking lots of every size from 1x1 to 4x4 (16 total) with different base textures. But I want to see my Sims park in the parking lot and walk to work from the parking lot itself. How do them to do that?

[RippleJet 36]

Originally posted by: schm0 But I want to see my Sims park in the parking lot and walk to work from the parking lot itself. How do them to do that?quote>

Since sims can drive with their cars all the way to the front door of their work places, they would never park their cars at a parking lot and walk from there.

There are only a couple of ways to get the sims to use a parking lot or a garage.

One way would be to have it adjacent to a mass transit station, so that they could switch from car to MT with not too much walking distance in between (rail stations won't need this as they already function as garages).

The other way would be to place the parking lot between a street/road and a pedestrian mall leading to the work places, making it mandatory for your sims to arrive to work on foot.

In order to mod the parking lot correctly, I would suggest basing it upon the in-game garage. The lot must have a building in order to function correctly. If you know how to, you may replace the building with an invisible one (replace the RKT1 with RKT0=0x0,0x0,0x0).

However, you will never be able to actually see your sims park the car and walk from the car to the ped mall, but the route query would show them.

[prince_of_sims 0]

There is a third way. There are some traffic control lots out there on the STEX. It's possible to block all vehicular traffic on a certain stretch of road and force the sims to use their feet.