Plain looking houses

[Liszak 48]

Hi everyone.

I'm not sure if I'm putting this into the right thread, so sorry if I am.

 

But. I was forced to delete my plugins folder, because it was full of useless addons and very unorganized, which was causing heavy CTD's. Everything is fine now, but I'm having this issue. Maxis houses have very ugly and "plain" look now. Lots look like ugly, green plot with small grey hut on it. No trees, no props, no acces to house. Everything looks same and ugly. I tried to improve residental area but homes were just replaced by few from Simcoug's set (only small density residental houses I downloaded.)

 

So what could be causing this "bug?" I'd be also glad if you would recommend some bat's 

 

Thanks!

 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

If you deleted your entire plugin folder you probably deleted the default plugins BldgProps_Vol1 and _Vol2.  If that is the case, it is not surprising you've lost some detail.  Never make this kind of move unless you are prepared to rebuild the necessary stuff.  Did you keep all the bug fixes for various problems?  If not, there are threads around that tell you where to recover these.

 

This time, get those plugins organized and keep a parallel structure for your downloads if you don't have it.  I am not going to repeat, yet again, the articles I've written on this.

[Liszak 48]

If you deleted your entire plugin folder you probably deleted the default plugins BldgProps_Vol1 and _Vol2.  If that is the case, it is not surprising you've lost some detail.  Never make this kind of move unless you are prepared to rebuild the necessary stuff.  Did you keep all the bug fixes for various problems?  If not, there are threads around that tell you where to recover these.

 

This time, get those plugins organized and keep a parallel structure for your downloads if you don't have it.  I am not going to repeat, yet again, the articles I've written on this.

 

I backed up whole "old" plugins folder. Is there any chance to recover those files from here?

And that was one of the main reasons of (what I now found out as stupid move) deleting plugins folder. I wanted organized plugins folder, but it was just too chaotic to reorganize. 

[Cyclone Boom 16,909]

Without a screenshot, it sounds like your "City Detail" graphics setting might be set to low. This prevents Maxis props from being displayed on lots.
Try setting it to high, as shown below:
 

 
The BldgProp files Nonny described are needed for custom lots that use Maxis buildings as props. They won't affect the default game, without any plugins installed. But when you re-organise things, I suggest you pick them up from here.

 

 

I backed up whole "old" plugins folder. Is there any chance to recover those files from here?

I don't quite understand. If you made a backup of the old plugins, can't they just be copied back?

[Liszak 48]

Without a screenshot, it sounds like your "City Detail" graphics setting might be set to low. This prevents Maxis props from being displayed on lots.

Try setting it to high, as shown below:

 

 

The BldgProp files Nonny described are needed for custom lots that use Maxis buildings as props. They won't affect the default game, without any plugins installed. But when you re-organise things, I suggest you pick them up from here.

 

 

I backed up whole "old" plugins folder. Is there any chance to recover those files from here?

I don't quite understand. If you made a backup of the old plugins, can't they just be copied back?

 

Thanks! Your solution helped me, everything is OK now.

Well, they could be, but I hadn't found those files A Nonny Moose mentioned there. And as I said, I no longer wanted all those plugins, that folder was too chaotic and...just bad.   Now everything is working so, thank you one more time.