Asian Building Styles?

[cavelltodd 0]

I just downloaded the Hong Kong region and would like to try building some Asian style cities. I saw that there were some cool Chinese character signs but I couldn't find an Asian building style. Are there more building styles I can download somewhere? I'm probably just looking in the wrong spot. Thanks for your help!

[Yarahi 1,816]

Hey!

Have a look around the HKABT-threads of the forums.. They are dedicated to asian BAT's

[dogma555 187]

Bixel makes some of, if not the best.. here's a link to his work:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=search&do=user_activity&search_app=downloads&mid=32777

.. and if that's not enough for you, check out the guide to Japanese BAT hunting:

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/topic/8381-a-guide-to-japanese-bat-hunting/

And when all you get is japanese or blank characters, just use google translate and copy and paste the entire link into google translate and it will automatically translate it into english.

[cavelltodd 0]

Thanks everybody! So do I just download all these single buildings to create the effect I want. Will my zones develop into these buildings? Will I choose them in the building style menu? I guess I don't understand how these BAT files work and how they will end up appearing in my city. Thanks again

[dogma555 187]

Thanks everybody! So do I just download all these single buildings to create the effect I want. Will my zones develop into these buildings? Will I choose them in the building style menu? I guess I don't understand how these BAT files work and how they will end up appearing in my city. Thanks again

Yes, but you will also have to download any "dependencies" which are additional downloads that you will need to make the new buildings appear. Otherwise, you will get brown boxes in their place to indicate you are missing the files. Everything goes in My Documents/Sim City 4/Plugin Folder.. and the downloads will come with readme instructions that will explain everything.

When you zone, the new buildings will basically be added to the list of default Maxis buildings and appear along side them.. They will not be added to a new, custom building style menu option though, so keep that option set to build them all. Some of the commercial buildings you download will also be added to the landmark menu so that you can plop them too.