How to add jobs to a building

[pagenotfound 53]

So many times i have downloaded good buildings but they have a problem... they dont provide jobs for my sims!

How do get a building to provide jobs?

[Sam 163]

You can't do it with the Lot Editor or Plugin Manager. You will need to use the Reader and follow Simgoober's tutorial in the omnibus: Making A Functional Landmark Lot

A word of advice though. You need to follow it very, very carefully.

[Interstellar Covenant 0]

I just came out of no where: Thanks.

[Jumpthefence 74]

I have tried to make a functional landmark lot with one of my BATs, but I don't know enough about the ilive reader to do it, and every time I get to the Lot Editor step, I run into this problem:

The tutorial says:

Open the lot editor, and choose any Landmark lot, which will begin with the letters "LM". The Sphinx lot is a good one to use, as it has very few things on it to remove. Under the lot tab, increase the lot size to accommodate the building you have created. If in doubt, or you building doesn't show up later, make it bigger. You can always make it smaller once you building is on it. Under the building tab, click replace building, and navigate to the one you want.

But this is what I'm seeing:

Obviously, I'm under the Building Tab, but there's no "Replace Building" button. I assume I need some Lot Editor update, right? I had buildingpropvol1 and vol2 updates, but I removed them because they didn't seem to be my solution. If you know the update I need, please tell me and post a link if you can.

PS I'm certain the lot was big enough for my model. I made it 30x46 meters (a little less than 2 by 3 squares) and it was the correct size on a commercial growable lot, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for a landmark lot.

I can provide any more information needed to solve my problem.

Please help! I'm getting pretty frustrated.

[Andreas Roth 604]

You need the Lot Editor that comes with the BAT. Unfortunately, the BAT requires a pre-installed gmax, but if you don't need that, you can uninstall it again after installing the BAT.

[Jumpthefence 74]

I probably should have mentioned it earlier, but I have the Lot Editor for BAT. The problem is, I could never get it to work. I went under C:>Program Files>Maxis>Simcity 4 Deluxe>Apps and this is what it looks like:

Nothing strange, a couple of generic files, including one labeled LotEditor for BAT. Of course, I thought this would work, considering the name. Inside the folder there are two files, the program itself and a notepad configuration file. I didn't do anything to the configuration file, I simply started up the program to see if it would work. No luck:

Upon startup, it displays the dreaded Error Report. The regular Lot Editor works just fine, so I don't know why the Lot Editor for the BAT won't work.

-The black boxes were put in by me for privacy reasons; they're not related to the probem.

Hopefully that's enough information to help solve this. Are you saying I need to uninstall gmax? It wasn't very clear what you were trying to tell me.

Thanks for your correspondence, it's people like you that make Simtropolis run smoothly.

[tungston 19]

I have not been able to get the Lot Editor for BAT to work either, but I have not had a problem with the one I downloaded from the Simcity site.

Have you tried making the lot one tile wider?  Even though you made the building small enough, the LOD might be larger, and keeping the building from showing up.

[Jumpthefence 74]

I'm certain the lot was big enough for my model. I made it 30x46 meters (a little less than 2 by 3 squares) and it was the correct size on a commercial growable lot, so I don't see why it wouldn't work for a landmark lot.

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See? It fits fine on a 2x3 Commercial lot. So it's not the LODs. I don't think.

The problem is that in the Functional Landmark Tutorial, they talk about a button that says "Replace Building", but all I'm seeing is a button that says "Add Family". Refer to the first post by me; it says buildingpropvol1 and vol2 do not solve the problem, and at the moment I'm trying to figure out what will.

Do you know what update or version of the Lot Editor I need to make it so it displays the "Replace Building" button?

If I have to, I can send a Private Message to STomnibus but hopefully, only as a last resort.

PS. I think I got my Lot Editor at Simcity Devotion, if it makes a difference.

Again, thanks for your correspondence.

[tungston 19]

The only reasons I can think of is that you don't have a landmark SC4desc file in the plugins, or they are to large for the lot.

Check to make sure there is a landmark SC4desc file to match the model file in the Plugins folder.

[Jumpthefence 74]

I just reinstalled the Lot Editor from Simcity Devotion and now it works fine. Maybe I needed an update that was in the new download? Anyways, the problem is resolved.

Figures it was my own stupidity. Thanks for corresponding at the very least.

While I'm trying to salvage some dignity, did you like the picture? Does it look like a pretty decent BAT? I'm trying to make it a functional commercial lot. I'll be able to upload it to the STEX in just a few days.

Again, thanks for your help. Sorry about wasting your time.

[dcritic 0]

It says access denied when i try to reach that page...?

[mr.v 40]

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=121&threadid=109222&enterthread=y

my post contain lot with job (park with job but not annoy job demand)

if you have ilive reader or sc4 tool

add demand created -> add job$ to job$$$

add or edit demand satisfied -> add r$ to r$$$ demand, c or i demand