Show us your Oddities!

[airman15 4,111]

 

Can I interest you in a train mod I have on the exchange; which gives me the opportunity to shamelessly promote myself? It's based on the real world Chicago line called Metra, but the logo can be changed or erased if you need.

Your stuff is *plane* amazing, dude!

 

 

I really appreciate the praise! I have a few projects waiting in the wings, one of which will be posted soon! And be sure to drop by my hanger (the link to it is in my signature) if you would like new updates on the stuff I am making.

[Huston 5,798]

Windows 8.1 is king.

 

>>>BATs/LODs spontaneously glitching and disappearing, which varies on zoom, where different bldgs glitch and go.

Roads will occasionally go out the door as well.

(Btw, are there any work arounds for this?)

[KonstantinII 1,106]

I had that problem before. I got rid of it.

[timmie 988]

Short answer: software rendering will probably solve your problem. Your shadows won't look as nice, though

[Huston 5,798]

Short answer: software rendering will probably solve your problem. Your shadows won't look as nice, though

 

I'm not resorting to that since graphically, everything will suck (I rely on graphics when it comes to CJing). Although I remember trying it out, and it still turned out like this

 

 

 

I had that problem before. I got rid of it.

 

I've used that too, but it causes crashing when HD prop files are present. I can't really give that up since I use HD prop content intensively in CJing.

[TPB 562]

KonstantinII's link contains the only solutions, you gotta either have a video card and set up simcity to use it, or use software rendering. It's sad but true. I got the same problem and ended up going the software render route. 

I tried pretty much everything, to no avail. 

 

 

 

Short answer: software rendering will probably solve your problem. Your shadows won't look as nice, though

 
I'm not resorting to that since graphically, everything will suck (I rely on graphics when it comes to CJing). Although I remember trying it out, and it still turned out like this
 
 

 

You  must be remembering wrong, for as far as I know, the only way to fix it without buying a graphics card is setting d:software in shortcut parameters. If that doesnt work for you I don't know what will

 

Also, graphics arent THAT bad with software, although maybe I'm just used to them sucking:P

[Huston 5,798]

Oh joy.

 

[Toby Ferrian 873]

Jesus, Huston!

 

I've seen some questionable shortcuts in my cities, but that's just too much.

[Abrams 1,744]

 

A strange thing that happened to me,Dunno why but its crazy

[timmie 988]

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A strange thing that happened to me,Dunno why but its crazy

 

That used to happen to me too. It's what happens when you minimize the game and switch to another program, for some reason it accumulates clouds.

 

(Also, I moved your post to this thread, and closed your thread, since this thread is identical.)

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

 

 

London, every day of the year

[Compdude787 916]

[pic]

 

 

London, every day of the year

San Francisco, too.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

London, every day of the year

 

Only when it's not raining.

[xonedl 341]

what the..............................??    oh gawd which joke plugin is this... C'mon I need to adjust the trash burning allocation... 

 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

 

A strange thing that happened to me,Dunno why but its crazy

Commonly happens to me when I idle for a while in region view.

[Hotwheeler 409]

xonedl: Now this is something you don`t see every day.

I googled for it and found an old post on the SC4D Board: https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=495.0

But to be honest,i guess if thing thing would have popped up on my screen while playing i guess i would nearly poop my pants

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Tsk, tsk. Always those people who don't read descriptions thoroughly. Good research there, however, hotwheeler.

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

Not sure what's up here, but it seems my traffic advisor unallowingly introduced a zig-zag-on-the-freeway ordinance, which I may have to fire him for. 

 

[TakemeThere 5,833]

The captain of this ship is either drunk as ****, or just trying to one-up Francesco Schettino;

 

[ar2910 8]

^ Did you know 'Schettino' is Italian for rollerskate? The 'Costa Concordia' was capsized by Captain Rollerskate

[monkeywater 910]

The rail merge that turns trains into pedestrians, and the underpass that turns cars into busses.  Something was really weird in this area, bulldozing it caused crashes.  had to delete tile by tile and leave the one grassy tile that when deleted caused crashed.  Even so, replacing the station with a new one broke all transit in the city.  Had to replace every rail and GLR station to make the networks function again.  Stations were still there, but no traffic would go between them.  On every station the entire tile. 

[Thin White Duke 4,072]

I hope it doesn't have to be a glitch in order to be odd. It should be enough with a guy who's just taken enough crap to think this is okay.

  Edited August 23, 2015 by __B  

[airman15 4,111]

I hope it doesn't have to be a glitch in order to be odd. It should be enough with a guy who's just taken enough crap to think this is okay.

Do you think a relative of his maybe the owner of this particular building?

[gviper 922]

I hope it doesn't have to be a glitch in order to be odd. It should be enough with a guy who's just taken enough crap to think this is okay.

what an ideal place to setup shop!

[TakemeThere 5,833]

Residents of Dresden will never forget the day their 25,000 ton supertall smokestack was magically lifted into the air;






Strangely enough the aircraft warning lights were left behind, in mid air no less. Maybe the flashing lights give them seizures?

edit*
Just a little background intel on the glitch here - the stack is a 'building as a prop' on the power plant lot. It's possible to manually raise the prop to that height in the lot editor but that's not what happened here. I was rasing the ground/water level of the shoreline next to the plant using the smallest scale and size and I accidently clicked on the lot. Usually that will either do nothing noticeable, it will raise the ground but with a building/lot covering the zone you won't see it. Or it will completely bulldoze the lot itself. But in this case, the prop was just suddenly jumped up like that. First time I've seen/had that happen.

  Edited September 18, 2015 by takemethere  

[philforhockey51 4,211]

I say it was Aliens

[airman15 4,111]

That be one a' them gov'ment SECRET PROJECTS!

[9gruntsand1hammer 3,195]

Not sure what is going on here. I demolished the road but the textures under it won't go away and I can't demolish them. This is the first time I've seen this happen.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Could it be that you added the IRM to an existing city with industrial areas? If so, the problem will be related to the industrial building in the picture. You'll have to bulldoze/de-zone and let something new grow to get rid of the glitch. If you look closely, you can see that the new IRM lot extends beyond the boundaries of the Maxis lot it replaces. It occupies a 4x3 area in front of the building, overlapping the two little houses and that part of the street.

This is why I explicitly added the corresponding warning to the IRM description and recommended to either add it to new (undeveloped) cities only, or to bulldoze everything before letting IRM lots grow.

The good news is that I am yet to see a case where it was impossible to fix the problem. I've reproduced it several times in my test cities, and a combination of de-zoning and placing single street tiles over all affected squares and bulldozing/de-zoning it all in one go always did the trick and restored the area back to normal.

  Edited September 22, 2015 by T Wrecks  

[philforhockey51 4,211]

I'm not sure if this counts as an oddity but it was the first time I remember seeing it happen. A wall of clouds like a storm front passing through my region.