No Nightlights on Buildings

[Xander Dax 310]

Hi i was wondering if anyone could help me, the nightlights are not showing up for my building at night.

My game is a legitimate copy (bought on CD), i have the latest game update 1.1.638.0 also installed the light fix and simfox's

Day N Night Mod installed As well but still my cities are plunged into darkness at night, can anyone help?.

[jason leo 485]

Sir, your game's version should be 1,1,640. 1,1,640 is the fully patched version, 1,1,638 is the version with only one patch, the EP1-Update1. I suggest you to download the BAT update as well, because if you don't have this one, all nightlights will not showing up.

The link for the BAT Update : https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?page=14

[Xander Dax 310]

Sir, your game's version should be 1,1,640. 1,1,640 is the fully patched version, 1,1,638 is the version with only one patch, the EP1-Update1. I suggest you to download the BAT update as well, because if you don't have this one, all nightlights will not showing up.

The link for the BAT Update : http://sc4devotion.c...dex.php?page=14

I have installed everything you suggested will check night lighting, but out of curiosity tried opening the BAT tool and got the error saying....

"GMAXLOC Environment Variable Not Found" not sure what this means, will this affect the nightlighting?.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

1. You do not need the BAT tool.

2. The patch on that page for 1,1,640 must be installed to get night lights. You'll know it is installed when your version becomes 1,1,640.

3. You cannot run the BAT tool without gmax pre-installed and activated. gmax is available from TurboSquid.

4. If you install gmax, you must then re-install the BAT tool.

[Xander Dax 310]

1. You do not need the BAT tool.

2. The patch on that page for 1,1,640 must be installed to get night lights. You'll know it is installed when your version becomes 1,1,640.

3. You cannot run the BAT tool without gmax pre-installed and activated. gmax is available from TurboSquid.

4. If you install gmax, you must then re-install the BAT tool.

mmm looks like i'm buggerd guys tryed to register gmax, had to create an account to do so and no matter what i put in for my username (even my own name)

keeps saying "Please enter English characters only." and wont let me create an account. grrrrrr.

[jason leo 485]

I have installed everything you suggested will check night lighting, but out of curiosity tried opening the BAT tool and got the error saying....

"GMAXLOC Environment Variable Not Found" not sure what this means, will this affect the nightlighting?.

As Nonny said, you don't really need the BAT. Scroll down, the link to the BAT Update is below the link to the BAT program. Btw, if you also interested in making BATs for the game, maybe you can install BAT as well (gmax must be installed first, though).

[Xander Dax 310]

I have installed everything you suggested will check night lighting, but out of curiosity tried opening the BAT tool and got the error saying....

"GMAXLOC Environment Variable Not Found" not sure what this means, will this affect the nightlighting?.

As Nonny said, you don't really need the BAT. Scroll down, the link to the BAT Update is below the link to the BAT program. Btw, if you also interested in making BATs for the game, maybe you can install BAT as well (gmax must be installed first, though).

I have thought about trying my hand at bating, but as i said in my earlier post in order to use it i need to register it, to do that i need to create an account

however when i try to do that it keeps saying "Please enter English characters only." and wont let me create an account on the gmax site.

[jason leo 485]

I have thought about trying my hand at bating, but as i said in my earlier post in order to use it i need to register it, to do that i need to create an account

however when i try to do that it keeps saying "Please enter English characters only." and wont let me create an account on the gmax site.

So, which one is your problem now ? The BAT Update or the gmax ?

If gmax is your problem, I can't say anything else than saying I think it is strange if turbosquid won't let you to create an account, and because of a nonsensical reason. Btw, actually, you don''t really need an account to just download the file, are you sure if you already click the marked button ?

[Xander Dax 310]

I have thought about trying my hand at bating, but as i said in my earlier post in order to use it i need to register it, to do that i need to create an account

however when i try to do that it keeps saying "Please enter English characters only." and wont let me create an account on the gmax site.

So, which one is your problem now ? The BAT Update or the gmax ?

If gmax is your problem, I can't say anything else than saying I think it is strange if turbosquid won't let you to create an account, and because of a nonsensical reason. Btw, actually, you don''t really need an account to just download the file, are you sure if you already click the marked button ?

Bit of bot now lol both programs have been downloaded and installed correctly, but when i try to activate the BAT it always displays the error

"GMAXLOC Environment Variable Not Found and the BAT won't work.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Bit of bot now lol both programs have been downloaded and installed correctly, but when i try to activate the BAT it always displays the error

"GMAXLOC Environment Variable Not Found and the BAT won't work.

That variable is installed when you actually run gmax. Just registering it doesn't do the job. Open gmax, make a simple figure, save it, quit, and then try the BAT. Failing that, try putting the full path of gmax in that variable manually.

[Xander Dax 310]

Ok gmax is up and running now, the problem was had to use admin settings to get through the security. Thank you so much for your help guys.

Now still having a problem getting the nightlights to show though, they do show up for some of the buildings however they wont show up for others.

game is up to date version 1,1,640 everything is also installed correctly, so not sure what the problem is this time.

But again guys thank you for all your help jason and moose you guys are legends.

[jason leo 485]

Ok gmax is up and running now, the problem was had to use admin settings to get through the security. Thank you so much for your help guys.

Now still having a problem getting the nightlights to show though, they do show up for some of the buildings however they wont show up for others.

game is up to date version 1,1,640 everything is also installed correctly, so not sure what the problem is this time.

But again guys thank you for all your help jason and moose you guys are legends.

I suggest you to take some time, usually it takes a game month to make the game recognize a new building. But, if that is not the case, I only able to suggest you to make sure that all buildings are powered. Otherwise, I think the only answer for this one is the creator didn't make the nightlight for the building. As I know, there is no way out for this one, except if you are mastering ilive's reader