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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

Back on the island-

[Krisman 4,652]

A little bit of rural progress ...

 

 

 

[Ulisse Wolf 4,459]

Continued construction from the international airport. If you are curious about how to build an international airport on SimCity4 here is the streaming link

https://www.youtube.com/live/xftoh1LC8OU?si=J7InXsNgktY0mFLE

 

[justforfun 7,926]

Post office # 5 comes from East Grinstead, in the Northern part of West Sussex, South England (confusing enough? XD) :

[justforfun 7,926]

On 11/25/2023 at 2:36 PM, kschmidt said:

Italian Bus stop crashed gameplay !

Today I experienced a set back of this bus stop crash my game !

Some more research revealed this and other files are part of the Italian Collection.

Update ;

 

This morning probably found the file as Walkingsnake SC4jeeks Parkng Textures at SC4ever. Hope the issue of crashing game be resolved  with this last, to conclude the issue !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

 

 

 

Is the issue solved then? I checked the files you had attached and they were just models and descriptors, surely not the cause of the crashes. 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

The west village on the island...

[kschmidt 6,223]

3 hours ago, justforfun said:

 

Is the issue solved then? I checked the files you had attached and they were just models and descriptors, surely not the cause of the crashes. 

Hi, I saw they where in the Lot props directory...What I don´t understand why these props are displayed in the transport menu ?

Thank you for your reply I hope there´s a sollution !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[justforfun 7,926]

1 hour ago, kschmidt said:

What I don´t understand why these props are displayed in the transport menu ?

They look like bus stops to me. The source of the problem must be the building featured in the lots. Props don't cause crashes, as far as I know. 

[Dreadnought 8,231]

5 hours ago, SIM-ple Jack said:

The west village on the island...

VERY nice layout -- quite Mediterranean -- 

[Null 45 3,114]

This custom ordinance cost calculation bug just keeps getting stranger, even Cousin Vinnie and Dr. Vu don't have this kind of cash.

I am mystified by this bug. My code is handing the game the correct monthly expense value ($-247), and it shows up correctly in the City Ordinance section of monthly expenses. So I have no clue where the game is getting those other numbers (141 trillion?) from.

The only thing I can think of is SC4 has a bug in its ordinance cost calculations code that the built-in ordinances don't hit for some reason, or it is a more obscure issue in my code.

[art128 4,622]

New upload!

 

 

 

[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

20 hours ago, Dreadnought said:

VERY nice layout -- quite Mediterranean -- 

All those Cary Grant movies paid off.

Casino ship anchored off the island. Gaming is the primary industry on the island...

[kschmidt 6,223]

23 hours ago, justforfun said:

They look like bus stops to me. The source of the problem must be the building featured in the lots. Props don't cause crashes, as far as I know. 

This might be somethingb Tyberius have a look at, strange that Lotprop names displayed. There's no lot file or do you need the original archive files. Will tomorrow have a look at this and make a screenshot of the menu items !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

[Null 45 3,114]

I fixed the custom ordinance cost calculation bug.

It was caused by a bug in my header API signatures, which were using int32_t instead of int64_t. This caused the game to read garbage for half the data it was expecting.

[justforfun 7,926]

10 hours ago, kschmidt said:

This might be somethingb Tyberius have a look at, strange that Lotprop names displayed. There's no lot file or do you need the original archive files. Will tomorrow have a look at this and make a screenshot of the menu items !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

Well, if I get it right there need to be some lots featuring those props or they wouldn''t appear in the transport menu. Let me know!

[justforfun 7,926]

The sixth post office is very similar to the one in Arundel. It will be a 3x2 corner lot:

[kschmidt 6,223]

11 hours ago, justforfun said:

Well, if I get it right there need to be some lots featuring those props or they wouldn''t appear in the transport menu. Let me know!

Hi, I examined the transportmenu and i am afther a extensive review of the transportmenu items have to conclude this has nothing to do with the Italian Collection. The menu item work fine they produce these bats !

Narrow down the menu items  I find one without a name or anything wich freezes the game !

There are some items above wich are Ok and below are Ok wich have littte resembles with the mystery, the are below Portacittadina of wich theirs a different relot, this migh be the problem and Tore Civica of wich I haven´t found any file !

This list might include the relot file and might actualy aswell there be one of the lot files above of these bats may be the one wich is the culprit of the crashing menu item as they are very similair to the one that is shown in the menu as the crashing lot item inthe game not shur !

Everyone examine the menu item with CRASH at the right who recognize this Bat !

Hope I can eliminate this bug from my game, see your reaction with intrest coming !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

  Edited November 29, 2023 by kschmidt  
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[justforfun 7,926]

2 hours ago, kschmidt said:

This list might include the relot file not shur !

OK, if you send me the folder or attach it here I'll have a look at the files. Thanks.

[kschmidt 6,223]

20 hours ago, justforfun said:

OK, if you send me the folder or attach it here I'll have a look at the files. Thanks.

Hi, I wait for more reactions. Excel  sheet ? I'm not very in to ms office  use open office basic only one transvered a sheet to pdf but nothing ,more. Someone should recognize or have this bat working. Let see what's coming, hapy this didn't have anything to do with the Italian Collection wich reduce the search field in this direction. Hope to see !

Update;

Discovered today above files are part of the Italien Collection. First assumed they where related so tried to see or most logical SC4Lot file might remove it. Examin, the menu remained unchanged so this wasn´t the file, I returned it. With this confermation I conclude that this odd crash producing menu item isn´t related to the Italian collection. So search continues, will aware of this I need to avoid this whenver I acces the transportmenu, only way for now  !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

  Edited November 30, 2023 by kschmidt  
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[pclark06 12,072]

A 1980s-1990s era Shell gas station.

[Dreadnought 8,231]

YO, GUYS ---

We’ve got another Chapter of IMPERIAL DOCKYARDS: CUXHAVEN for you…

 

GOOD NEWS -- !!

We have TWO prop packs for you this time...

 

 

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[SIM-ple Jack 17,450]

The East Canal...

[justforfun 7,926]

Ever heard of Bo'ness? A small town in Scotland where the 7th post office comes from:

[Ct1999 4,200]

December snack:

 

[Null 45 3,114]

My custom ordinance DLL can now persist the ordinance state to the city save file, the game will call my DLL code to handle the required processing when loading and saving a city.

So in summary, the custom ordinance DLL can now:

• Add a new ordinance into the game that does not replace any of the built-in ones.
• Allow the ordinance to have a custom monthly cost calculation or availability conditions (e.g. starting year or specific buildings that must be in the city).
• Have the game persist the ordinance's state to the city save file.

[hugues aroux 3,867]

3 hours ago, Null 45 said:

the custom ordinance DLL can now

waaaa.. too strong!!!

[kschmidt 6,223]

Italian Collection Crash Lot !

Update;

Hi, I have found the files wich are shown bellow these are located in the Mura directory of the Italalian Collection. Resemblence with the lot in the transportation menu this set might related. This might be a lot wich is still broken some way `? I am happy I issolated hopefully the lot file so Tyberius might have a look at it, haven´t seen him around for sometime ?

So I hope this can be fixed soon so I don´t have watch out when accesing the transportation menu !

Sincerely yours,

Kschmidt

  Edited December 3, 2023 by kschmidt  
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[nos.17 5,255]

I don't post in this thread too often but I did want to announce that the IRM Expansions and Addons (CAM Edition) is now live!

It has been a huge undertaking, and it wouldn't be possible without the help of the new SC4Cleanitol program I developed basically specifically for this mod to make installation and dependency finding a reasonable task. The new Cleantiol program allows the creation of "smart" Cleanitol scripts, which can adapt to the options you choose. In a big mod like this with lots of choices, you may only want certain lots. Remove the lots you do not want from plugins and the program will not recommend any dependencies from the removed files - only the ones you want.

In total, there are 521 different lots (multiplied by for for quadrupled and A|B versions from Shadowstrike's CAM mod), across 108 of T Wreck's IRM uploads.

 

[Girafarig 1,414]

I've never been quite fond of the Bahía Medusa Station area. I conceived the double roundabout entrance back when this was all cornfields and small streets, and even then it seemed like an awkward transition. Now that this is the middle of a 300,000-sized city (or suburb, whatever), it's wholly inadequate. It's time to upgrade it to a proper elevated highway with offramps.

Drawing the elevated highway is the most expensive part, but the easiest. The highway was already elevated some 200 meters away, so I just needed to delete the height transition, redraw an off/on ramp (not shown here) and extend.

Wanting to get an off-ramp in here, I need to redraw the eastern avenue (top). But that's relatively easy, as is extending the pedestrian street (middle) under the highway,

The really difficult thing is going to be the ramps heading west. Right after the avenue, there's a road extending to the roundabout (which, with it gone, can now lead to the avenue curve), a second road that tunnels under the highway (redundant, since the avenue now handles the crossing) and an Elevated Rail section.

God, I love the super-elevated rail pieces.

All that's left now is filling in the space.

There's strong commercial demand around the area. Residential areas are a bit harder to fill in (this city has always had some issues with commute times, which I suspect is actually unemployment), but it'll be eventually filled in, too.

[Null 45 3,114]

14 hours ago, hugues aroux said:

waaaa.. too strong!!!

It does have some limits when compared to what Maxis could have done, e.g. I cannot add new ordinance effects beyond the 36 that Maxis added as the those are hard-coded into the various game systems. I also don't have access to the game's property/exemplar parsing code, so the ordinance name, description and effects are hard-coded into the DLL.

I have not been able to come up with a file format that would allow users to write their own ordinances to insert into the game, one of the main difficulties is all the different data types that the ordinance effects use.

I think the game may allow DLLs to access the system that it uses to get data from the DAT files, but I am not sure if that system is available when SC4 loads DLLs (which is when the game requires the ordinance IDs to be registered in-game). But that may be useful for other possible DLL mods. As I mentioned above, the DLL would have to do its own parsing of any data it requests.

For reference, here are the 36 built-in ordinance effects. I originally compiled this list as part of my ordinance property system debugging code.

Spoiler

ID - Name (Data Type)

0x28ed0380 - Crime Effect (float32[1])
0xaa5b8407 - Mayor Rating (int32[1])
0x08f79b8e - Air Effect (float32[1])
0x28f42aa0 - Flammability Effect (float32[1])
0xe8f79c8b - Water Effect (float32[1])
0xe8f79c90 - Garbage Effect (float32[1])
0xa8f4eb0c - Water Use Reduction (float32[1])
0x0911e117 - Power Reduction Effect (float32[1])
0x2a633000 - Commercial Demand Effect (float32[1])
0x2a653110 - Demand Effect:Cs$ (float32[1])
0x2a653120 - Demand Effect:Cs$$ (float32[1])
0x2a653130 - Demand Effect:Cs$$$ (float32[1])
0x2a653320 - Demand Effect:Co$$ (float32[1])
0x2a653330 - Demand Effect:Co$$$ (float32[1])
0x2a634000 - Industrial Demand Effect (float32[1])
0x2a654100 - Demand Effect:IR (float32[1])
0x2a654200 - Demand Effect:ID (float32[1])
0x2a654300 - Demand Effect:IM (float32[1])
0x2a654400 - Demand Effect:IHT (float32[1])
0x491b3ad5 - Health Coverage Radius % Effect (float32[1])
0x891b3ae6 - Health Effectiveness vs. Distance Effect (float32, general response curve)
0xe91b3aee - Health Quotient Boost Effect (float32[1])
0xc92d9c7a - Health Quotient Decay Effect (float32[1])
0x092d909b - Health Capacity Effect (float32[1])
0xe92d9db4 - Health Effectiveness vs. Average Age Effect (float32, general response curve)
0xa91b3af4 - School Coverage Radius % Effect (float32[1])
0xa91b3afa - School Effectiveness vs. Distance Effect (float32, general response curve)
0xa92d9d7a - School EQ Boost Effect (float32[1])
0x692ef65a - School EQ Decay Effect (float32[1])
0x892d9d02 - School Capacity Effect (float32[1])
0xc91b3b02 - School Effectiveness vs. Average Age Effect (float32, general response curve)
0x8a612fee - Travel Strategy Modifier (int32[9])
0x8a67e373 - Air Effect by zone type (float32[16])
0x8a67e374 - Water Effect by zone type (float32[16])
0x8a67e376 - Garbage Effect by zone type (float32[16])
0x8a67e378 - Traffic Air Pollution Effect (float32[1])

 

I have not posted a binary release for this change because it would just add a useless ordinance to the save game, and may have other unintended effects that I missed. I am not sure what more I can do with this DLL experiment, other than trying to design the custom ordinance file format I mentioned above. Ideas would be welcome.