No Cars in Parking Lot [Walmart]

[Ep1ctetus 46]

Greetings.

I wonder if anyone can help with this problem. I downloaded Heblem's Walmart plus the five listed dependencies in his readme file. But there are no cars in the Walmart parking lot. I found two threads on "no cars in parking lots" on the Forum. I've done what was recommended in those threads:

1] make sure lot is powered

2] make sure detail is set on high

3] make sure cars in the lot are appropriate for time of day

4] tried waiting for them to appear

Nothing seems to work. On the medium setting for automata, sim cars drive onto the lot and sim people are seen walking in front of the store. Any advice? Thanks everyone!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Greetings.

I wonder if anyone can help with this problem. I downloaded Heblem's Walmart plus the five listed dependencies in his readme file. But there are no cars in the Walmart parking lot. I found two threads on "no cars in parking lots" on the Forum. I've done what was recommended in those threads:

1] make sure lot is powered

2] make sure detail is set on high

3] make sure cars in the lot are appropriate for time of day

4] tried waiting for them to appear

Nothing seems to work. On the medium setting for automata, sim cars drive onto the lot and sim people are seen walking in front of the store. Any advice? Thanks everyone!

As I said in my PM to you, the parking lots clearly do not contain the approriate animated tiles. The solution is to use the lot editor and change the tiles.

[Ep1ctetus 46]

It isn't really the lack of animations that bother me. It is the fact that the picture of the Walmart posted by Heblem shows a lot full of cars [as befits a Walmart] and my lot is empty.... I mean , completely empty. I don't need animated cars, just stationary ones would be nice. Thanks for answering me twice tho.

[Ep1ctetus 46]

Problem solved. I bulldozed the Walmart and then replopped it. After replopping it ... voila, the lot appeared with cars in the parking lot. Hurray. I noticed that the parking lot lighting did not work at night and following the advice given in a previous thread, I plopped a powerplant [i was running the city with the cheat 'fightthepower.'] After the powerplant was in place, the parking lot lights went on. So... happy ending. I don't know why bulldozing and replopping did the trick, but it worked. If you have a similar problem, you might try this... Thanks everyone.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Problem solved. I bulldozed the Walmart and then replopped it. After replopping it ... voila, the lot appeared with cars in the parking lot. Hurray. I noticed that the parking lot lighting did not work at night and following the advice given in a previous thread, I plopped a powerplant [i was running the city with the cheat 'fightthepower.'] After the powerplant was in place, the parking lot lights went on. So... happy ending. I don't know why bulldozing and replopping did the trick, but it worked. If you have a similar problem, you might try this... Thanks everyone.

Heh! Cheaters never prosper, eh? I thought you were a teacher. Practice what you've preached.