Building buildings outside city borders

[Carborundum 2]

According to this thread on Reddit (http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1c4af5/hulk_smash_glassbox/), a user has found a way to plop buildings outside city borders.

 

In his own words:

 

Atm its kind of a ghetto application of outside the box building and I'm not sure if its really release quality, had to put my work on this on hold 'cause I had some other stuff to take care of but will be trying to sort that out later tonight.

 

And here's a screenshot: https://i.imgur.com/KAk5TU9.jpg

 

Well, I guess that's a start.

[parenzo 4]

screen looks promesing....

[The_City_Builder 299]

One of the toughies is going to be getting zoning to work outside the borders though, and the restricted camera. But it's a good start.

 

Then again, if Maxis releases bigger maps for free...

[Turge 4]

Looks interesting. I hope he releases this soon.

[BLANKBLANK 4,414]

Good old modders; where there's a way there's a modder!

[nataniels3 61]

If that works it will save so much space inside the cities for the actual city. Not the services but the zones.

[BorisS1990 27]

Yep, just like I thought larger cities were going to be done. Mod the buildings to ignore the borders.

I think the camera won't be a huge issue. Camera mods for 3D games have never seemed to be particularly hard to do.

 

What is it about zones that makes them not work outside the border though? Or makes it harder to make it work atleast?

[parenzo 4]

not sure about  outside city borders,like Highway mod,you can build it outside and connect to other cities and cars actually moving between cities but the game not recognizing that you are connected when you go to region view or to G. work site....

[warrior 169]

Sadly the camera limit doesn't seem to be controlled directly by the javascript. It seems to be handled by the game itself which isn't mode able. Id say there's about 30-40% chance well be able to expand the camera limit

[oppie 488]

While I figured that something like this might be possible at some point, I wouldn't get too excited about being able to build things outside the city border. Even if the camera limit is removed, this still won't mean that the entire region is suddenly open for building - it's not as if Maxis only fenced off an arbitrary square of land where you're allowed to build a city; everything outside the city borders does not contain the 'map' information for terrain height, water table, pollution etc. Most noticeably, this means that nothing you build outside the city borders will conform to the underlying terrain - roads will not dig into the terrain and buildings will not flatten the ground under them.

So while I'm happy that it's possible to place objects in the region, we're still far away from larger city sizes.

[Turge 4]

Here's the mod if you guys were wondering:

 

http://www.reddit.com/r/SimCity/comments/1cbmjw/mod_pack_plop_outside_city_box_all_my_others/

[MOWS 4 U 169]

Unfortunately city services do not work outside the map.  Power/water doesn't flow under the roads placed outside the map :-(

[ProcsKalone 294]

Unfortunately city services do not work outside the map.  Power/water doesn't flow under the roads placed outside the map :-(

 

They appear to not visibly show the power outline but in a couple of my cities I have hospitals/police/etc placed in spots where the power appears to cut off but they pull the power through the street anyways as it shows through the connection at the building (pic in op: https://i.imgur.com/chggAcQ.jpg shows the prostadium and such powered and active)

. They are iffy with how far from the road they will pull power though. I really need to make a guide clearing some of the ranges up

[ibrahimsammyabf 0]

wie aktiewire ich denn diese mode ???????