simmars-forum-threads BETA 1 - Thread

[xmodgeek 0]

Im with wolfeater92

"Im also having some trouble with sim mars. i get several buildings that say custom plopable and the ground is red but otherwise it is the same. Is this the way its supposed to be? becuase its pretty disapointing"

[Slye_Fox 1]

ditto

[AndisArt 2,066]

As the download description says, BETA 1 is only a chance to get a first look on some SimMars buildings and the red ground + User Interface. Not more not less. BETA 2 will feature more. Stay tuned, this is a longtime project.

[Nenitosoyyo 19]

a really long time...

[Firebird 40]

Patience is the key to getting what you want!

[mjig_dudy 11]

i downloaded the BETA then used the lot editor to get my favorite buildings as land marks then i could plop myself a nice sci-fi city. also i purposefully removed the red ground texture:

This way i don't have to wait for mars stuff to grow between all the old fashioned maxis housing

[edwardolardo 2]

kk...i tried to find it in the forums, but i can't find teh answer

a million ppl ask the question arleady, but no answer...so i'm trying again. I downloaded the mod, but it's just red and no new buildings.....the new buildings are all ploppables...growables are still "Earth-like"...so.....is there another link to donwloading it? or it's just that BETA 1...?...or is there a BETA 2 now?....i dunno......

[Constantina 5]

Many are still earth-like. I have, myself not seen any new SimMars development.

[edwardolardo 2]

but i saw some screenshots on some other topics with space - like buildings . so, i'm guessing those are just individual BATs and not part of the download?

[AndisArt 2,066]

As of now there is only BETA 1 for download available, which gives only a first look on some buildings (only ploppable). BETA 2 is on the workbench an will feature growables (with Maxis content turned off). So what you see on the screenshots will come with that release.

[cmschulz13 0]

Hi, I am fairly new to this site. I love it, it is really Cool! It was even cooler when i found out about the Simmars project! It is what I have dreamed of this ever since I got SC4. Anyway since I just found out about This site and simmars. I found out you could domnload a BETA virsion of Simmars. I downloaded it into my plugins folder, started the game and I saw no difference that before. There was an 0% change! I do not know what I did wrong. Can someone help me, give me suggestions, or tell me what to do please?? If you can help that would be great!!

[G4ce 0]

Well, First of all, Welcome to the site.

About your problem, i can't guarentee I'll be great help, haven't worked with this stuff in a while, but one tidbit of info I can offer is make sure your plugins folder (the C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4\Plugins one) is empty of all other mods when your trying to play Sim Mars,put them back in and remove Sim Mars when you want to play normal Sim City. Um, that's about all I can really think of, if it still doesn't work, post here again or email/pm me and I'll try to help you out.

 

 

[G4ce 0]

Blasted Double post, yea...sorry bout that

[cmschulz13 0]

Ok, Thakns for responding  , I will try to do what you said sometime this week, when I have time, ya know, (school), anyway thanks again. I'll get back to ya later!

[mummyjohn 0]

Ok I guess this is the help thread? Well, here's my question: I installed SimMars, and then later wanted to go back and just play the original, so I uninstalled SimMars. Since then, the music has not been working for me in SimCity automatically - I have to go to the audio options and hit 'Preview' on a song to get anything to play, either in region or mayor. Also, I later reinstalled SimMars and the music worked perfectly again. Then, after I've uninstalled it again, the music doesn't work. Do you know anything about this?

[Mary Maurine Mayo 984]

I do believe this is covered in another thread. I will see if I can track the message down and give you a link to the thread.

Lynks

 

[World Class Denver 0]

I installed SIMMARS and ran SIM City 4. My region came up that I have been working on. So I clicked on upload new region and Mars was not one of them. So how do a Play SIMMARS?

[AndisArt 2,066]

A Mars region is not featured in the BETA 1 release of SimMars.

The mod only makes grafical changes to your existing regions. Basically BETA 1 is only a first look on the project. You get to see the Mars terrain, the opening screens, some ploppable SimMars buildings along with SimMars music (custom music needs to be activated in Sound menu). BETA 2 will be available in the near future and feature a much more functionable mod witout MAXIS content.

[World Class Denver 0]

It didn't look like Mars. Everything was still green and there was still blue water.

[SimLord the Great 0]

My computer can't handle the entire Sim Mars download at once, is there a way to get the download in two parts?

[S_C_mbody 0]

I don't think there is.

[SimLord the Great 0]

That meens I won't be able to download it until I get high speed internet, and I can't do that until a internet company builds a high speed internet transfer hub.

[Matt-Matt Junior 0]

I know you're pain. I live in the countryside, and the internet speed is only 28.8 kbps. My father won't get high speed, so I'm stuck with this. To top it all off, every once in a while the SimMars download resets! I guess you just have to go on the Internet, download as much as you can in a day, click 'Cancel', and the next day do the same thing. That's what I do.

[krao 4]

After I uninstalled the beta of SimMars, my music stopped playing. It works fine if I go to the audio properties and play the song, but after the song ends, it refuses to play another song by itself. Help please!

[orishavit 1]

In the audio settings dialog, are the songs checked (have an 'x' near them)?

[ZeHoS 0]

I had the same problem. Fortunately I had another copy of the game installed from my last Windows installation, untouched by any game mod.

Anyway, go to your SC4 installation folder, and then to \Radio\Stations.

In the \Mayor subfolder, create a new empty text file, and rename it to kmay.id

In the \Region subfolder, do the same but call the file krgn.id

That should do it.

You've probably reinstalled the game by now, but for future reference, this will be ussefull.

 

 

ZS

[edwardolardo 2]

it still didn't work...........it's just an empty folder right?....that i create.......still no work...btw i have custom tunes....should i just reintall it?

[ZeHoS 0]

The \Radio\Stations\Mayor and \Radio\Stations\Region folders must not be empty. The first folder has that empty text file called kmay.id and the other also has an empty text file called krgn.id and both folders should each have a subfolder called Music, which are also not empty, as that's where all the default in-game music is kept.

ZS

[jasonzukowski 0]

when i try to open the Simmars_beta.zip in WinRAR it says that the 'archive is damaged'... and when i try to open it in WinZip it says that it is not a 'Valid Archive'... please help.. i would really like to try it out...

[crazykid4simcity 1]

Try redownloading it. It could have been a bad data download.