Lot Request Thread

[phongshader 1]

Does anyone remember the State Capitol building from (I think) SC2000? It was a nice looking very typical state capitol building.

[Cougar73 0]

I would like the University of virginia Rotunda and Scott Stadium pictures are at www.virginia.edu

[Cougar73 0]

How about the Georgia Dome or other Atlanta buildings

[buckbeach 8]

If this thread is exclusive of the BAT requests please see that pinned thread for the request by thirch on 2/28/05 and mine today (3/5/05) for the Lots/Bats we think are needed (I'm sure that others have also had these ideas).

[MC6Ash 4]

hey Fosterk, this thread was in STEX forum. I think it is about Lot Editor, so I moved it... feel free to move it back if I was mistaken

~MI6Ash~

[calm_blue_sea 3]

I have a very simple request: a single tile lot divided diagonally with grass on one side and sidewalk on the other. This could be used to eliminate the staircase effect you get with diagonal roads and avenues. A set of them could be made to use in different situations.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, ririri has already done this for rails:

 

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Lot&Str=diagonal%20rail%20park

 

 

This simple lot should just be cosmetic, it would improve the look of the game immensely!

[Starmanw40 6]

I would like to make a Lot Request. If it's possible to do. I would like to have someone make some various types of Traffic Circles. And more resoivors etc.....

[Thunderman 30]

I recently downloaded Simgoober's newest release of the Canal Pack and while I was using it I noticed that it can't connect to the various other canal or stream kit lots, so this raises a big request upon it!

 

Would it be possible that Simgoober's Canal lots, Peg's Stream lots and Oppie's Canal lots being combined together? So that there a transitions between those lots when using them all?

 

The only main problem of it, is the colour of the water, which is in every lot pack a different colour.

So if this is gonna happen, it must be 1 kind of colour to match those lots perfectly...

 

The reason I ask this is, that I can make  a huge waterway between different kind of zones. From rural to density, industrial or whatever...

 

I know this is a huge request, but this would add more functionality to combine them into nice transitions...

Greetz Thunderm@n

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[liedl 1]

I would not say no to one of the famous, blue-roofed Culver's restaurants. They are a staple of the Midwest and would look great in any city. I also concur that a post office is a must, as well as some good roundabouts.

Just a question though: is anybody actually going to take on these projects?

[TheCrybKeeper 289]

I can agree with Thunderman a bit; if the water all matched, but also change color when in Chicago style or other building styles.

Man!! I want to make my own custom base textures and retaining wall textures? Can't believe this is too difficult, is it? I need my lot retaining walls, to be mosaic stone of many designs, intricate patterning, stone images, etc.

I really hate requesting this of others. I know how difficult this could become. I know nada about game programming stuff, but I am great with graphic modeling and complex texture editors. I just know nothing about, getting the texture into the lot editor.

Help me and I will make it and stake it at the STEX?

[BC_Rich_Warlock 1]

i found someone who has already made a McDonalds 4 u just goto www.simcity.ea.com and go to the lot editor exchange at the bottom the is a keyword search. just type in McDonalds there's atleast 2 there and a mcdonalds distrubution center thing. i don't know if there's a Burger king but u can look while your there.

[SC4BOY 20]

Date: 7/17/2005 9:44:56 AM Author: frndofyaweh

Help me and I will make it and stake it at the STEX?

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Take a look at some of the excellent tutorials on gmax, BAT and other elements of Simcity design capability.. (suggest u have RushHour or Deluxe) There is a good index of tutorials on here and on simcity

 

http://simcity.ea.com/coolstuff/bat/bat_tutorial_jump.php

 

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=46476&forumID=49&search=1&searchstring =

 

You can take the easy route with just bats and mod's to building or u can get into the graphics.. based on what you say, i'd go direct for that.. there is an amazing tutorial that can be dl'd with the gmax package from Descreet.. I think there is a direct link to gmax from simcity.com

 

Good luck .. we'll be seeing ur stuff soon no doubt

 

 

[Soup 0]

I haven't really figured out the difference between bats and lots so I don't know where's better to request this but I was thinking it'd be nice to have some sort of city parks maintenance building. For that matter, a Department of Transportation building would be kinda cool too. Have them provide a few jobs (city employees). Maybe using the mod could have some affect on overall maintenance costs - like costs go down if you include the building. Maybe give them an effected radius as well.

[The Sim Mayor 1]

I've looked in the STEX and I couldn't find a Golf Course similar to the Modular Zoos. Could someone make one?

[MasterPlanMan 1]

Date: 5/11/2005 3:29:26 PM Author: calm_blue_sea

I have a very simple request: a single tile lot divided diagonally with grass on one side and sidewalk on the other. This could be used to eliminate the staircase effect you get with diagonal roads and avenues. A set of them could be made to use in different situations.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, ririri has already done this for rails:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Lot&Str=diagonal%20rail%20park

This simple lot should just be cosmetic, it would improve the look of the game immensely!

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I made quite a few different kinds with prop families and street lights. Ill let you know when I release them to the STEX

[mrbarham 4]

Hi all, and the deadwoods team.

This is a suggestion/request for the raised park series, what I would love to see most in this park series, (which is excellent) is a couple plain grass under rail lots, it can be hard to get the paths to look right when you have a mono rail and a road running parallel through the park, and most of all;

a 3x3 (or even 2x2 if it would work) plain lot that only has a single square base, that can be used to place under a monorail 9 degree turn. I tried to set one of these up in one of my cities and ended up having the paths look like they were designed by a lunatic and it has a square hole in the middle over the road... which I guess is helpfull for the local mob, see pic.

Anyway I love this site and hopfully wont be such a lurker in the future. Now that its Christmas break I hope to debut my own CJ.

[IGGYMAN 101 1]

In lot editor, I can input a data for the lot. For example, for residential building, I input 15,000 people....

 

[CDB 3]

I would like something very simple: a couple of new modular cemetery lots whith some tombs (i don't know how they are called in English, I'm talking about the largest tombs in the middle of the regular SC4 cemetery; the original Cemetery Pack has only two lots with small tombstones) I would have done it myself, but my Lot Editor crashes every time while loading

[mightygoose 92]

cbd mausoleums andi have that crashing porb too, its so annoying, you try and end task and it just freezes, grrr

[CDB 3]

I managed to get the LE working and I made six new cemetery lots  . Tonight I'm going to build my new monumental cemetery and test them. If there's someone interested, I'll relase them on the Stex .

[oneromnitsuj 0]

can anyone built like a six flags or some kinda of amusement park...that would be awesome...and how about some dallas landmarks!

[sim1234 62]

oneromnitsuj: They would be tough to make in the Lot Editor. A team are already making an amusement park, take a look here for more information:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=42&threadid=67776&enterthread=y

 You would have better luck putting this request in the BAT Request Thread as it would be possible to make these in the BAT:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=42&threadid=60406&enterthread=y

[soldyne 111]

I am surprised that this thread is not larger, like the BAT request thread, oh well, here is my request.

I have no experience with the lot editor so I am placing the request here. I have done an exhaustive search of the STEX and found nothing quite like what I am looking for so I hope my request is heard and someone has the time and knowhow to fullfill it.

I would like to have a single 1x1 park lot (low park effect, low maintence cost) with a single seasonal tree on it from either PEGs tree sets or Jeronij's sets. I use their seasonal tree lots everywhere but those lots are too thick for inner city landscaping. I would like to use them as a boulevard filler between two one way roads. Yes there are boulevard fillers out there already but none of them are seasonal. There is a set of lots which claims to be seasonal but they only change once during the year and have some kind of foot path on one side of the lot which makes them more useful for the side of a road and not the middle of a boulevard.

I would like to have many different kinds of trees to choose from but only one tree per lot, fully grown, and centered. (perhpas 4 different lots, 2 PEG style, 2 Jeronij style) I would like the base texture to be something that can match the maxis sidewalk texture so it can blend in to an urban environment and a set of these lots with a grassy texture to match jeronij's trail parks and diagonal fencing. It would be nice if there could be some kind of landscaping base to go with it (low squared hedges, small flowers, or even a circular cement base like those on porkies tree props.) It might also be nice if this filler set came with a non-treed lot which had some concrete flower beds (that's where a new simple BAT might come in to play) using simgoobers flora packs. This way I can alternate -tree-flowers-tree-flowers-etc...

I will post this request now and post my second request later. let me know if any of you read this and if anyone wants to try it. thanks.

[mattb325 28,880]

@ Soldyne I actually made something very similar to what you are talking about for my own use. However I use my own eucalypt trees and cycledoggs seasonal trees and shrubs etc for the grassy areas, and I use porkissimo trees for the paved areas with benches and the like.

I really don't think it's worthy of an STEX upload as I simply modified pegs' existing 1x1 lot and gave it the med wealth grass (so the query is not even remotely professional). The city version is simply the single paver with simgoobers' props as well as porkissimos trees...

Let me know what you think. 

If you need to see pictures, check in my BAT thread or in the 'show us your city's detail' thread and you'll be able to spot them....

[soldyne 111]

actually, I just started messing with the lot editor and I am having good results. the only problem is that if I ever decide to upload them to the STEX, figuring out the dependancy list will be a heck of chore, it is difficult to know exactly which prop pack or texture file a particular prop or texture is from just by the name...

thanks for the response though, I may even post some pics of what I come up with.

[BarbyW 40]

Soldyne: use SC4Tool to generate a Readme with a dependency list. You can then take the dependency list and use it for the STEX description.

[soldyne 111]

ah ha, I was having such a problem figureing out the dependancies. I will play around with SC4Tool this weekend and see what I come up with. so far though, the lots are looking and working very well and I may release them on the STEX as an Urban Beautification Project!

thanks for the replies everyone!

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I am having trouble finding a texture that will match the maxis sidewalk texture.  the one that appears on the roads when you put parks or medium density zoneing next to them.  there are textures that have the same pattern but not the right shade.  I am surprised that maxis did not include this texture as it seems like such a logical extension for different lots.  anyone have any advice on this matter?

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I was lurking through the modds and downloads section for the SC4Tool and found a program by Darkmatter called the Lot Information Generator.  this looks like a very simple tool for creating decent looking readme's.  does this tool actually create the dependacy list or do I have to supply the list myself, and this tool just makes things look pretty?  any information about the program would be most helpful

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[s1977 0]

Detroit landmarks would be nice . . . the city's difficult to re-create because of the street design, but to have landmarks like the GM Renaissance Center (8k jobs), the Joe Louis Fist, Spirit of Detroit, Hart Plaza (electronic music festival), Cobo Arena, Campus Martius Park, well, that would be nice.

As for landmarks and other buildings, especially stadiums . . . I would like to see more buildings of this sort, especially arenas, like basketball and american football arenas. They're best when they're stand-alone . . . stadiums and buildings which replace defaults in the game is not my cup of tea.

[ohio25 0]

I agree, some amusement parks would be great!!!  ; May be too hard, but if anyone could do Disney World or Universal Studios

[ohio25 0]

Can someone please make a Planet Hollywood & Hard Rock Cafe or Hard Rock Cafe & Casino resort