Modding Buildings' Names?

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So, I'm looking at my built-up city, quite satisfied with what I've created, and I quit to go design some of my fictional business' logos. When suddenly, I think "I know, I should use my fictional business names with the buildings in my city, then I'll have my dream city!" But, after renaming about 10 commercial services, I start to think, "Okay, this is taking too long. There has to be a way I can mod it."

 

And now, here I am, asking the forums if there's a mod out there that allows me to change the names of buildings so, for example, I can change every Tsurkinov Electronics building in my city to Schyie Electronics, and to keep the names that way so it's still Schyie Electronics when I build a new city.

 

Is there a mod like that, or similar to that?

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It's easy to do this if you know how to use Ilive's Reader.  You just change either the Item Name or the LTEXT pointed to by the User Visible Name Key in the Buildings Exemplar, and all new buildings will have that new name. 

 

And even if you don't know how to use the Reader, if you happen to edit the name of a building that uses the Item Name property, then all instances of this building have their name changed.  None of the Maxis buildings use this property, though, as it restricts the building name to a single language.

 

As for a mod, I don't know of one.  Generally, people start learning how to use the Reader when they want to do interesting stuff.  Then, of course, you can make your own mods.

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Well, I have no idea how to use Ilive's Reader, and I have no idea what you said in the second paragraph. And I don't know how to mod. I'm a newbie :\