I have a "minor" problem with the Plugin Manager, please help.

[SC4 meister 7]

OK, here's my problem, the other day when I went in to the Plugin Manager to try and mod some models, I had the following problem:

As you an see, there are no little plus signs next to descriptors, which means I can't really do anything at all, can anybody help?  Any ideas?  I have reinstalled the Plugin Manager several times, as well as the updates for it and SC4.  SC4 works, the BAT works, and I think the LE works, but the PM doesn't, please help.

[DuskTrooper 314]

I have no idea how to fix it. I hope someone can help you. Have you tried reinstalling BAT? You will have to move your camrigs/scrips, and maps, though.

[tungston 19]

Date: 11/9/2005 7:01:03 PM Author:SC4 meister

OK, here's my problem, the other day when I went in to the Plugin Manager to try and mod some models, I had the following problem:As you an see, there are no little plus signs next to descriptors, which means I can't really do anything at all, can anybody help?  Any ideas?  I have reinstalled the Plugin Manager several times, as well as the updates for it and SC4.  SC4 works, the BAT works, and I think the LE works, but the PM doesn't, please help.

The Plugin Manager is installed with the Gamepack BAT for gMax, are you sure the shortcut is pathed to the right exe, in the SimCity4\Apps folder in the  programs directory?

 

EDIT:  What you show is what would open if you double clicked the Unicode Run-time error fix file. [also named SC4Pluginman.exe]

[SC4 meister 7]

Date: 11/9/2005 7:23:50 PM Author: tungston

EDIT: What you show is what would open if you double clicked the 'Unicode Run-time error fix' file. [also named SC4Pluginman.exe]

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YESYESYESYESYESYES!  THAAAAAAAAANK YOOOOOU!  That was my problem I had uninstalled the plugin manager, and then gone to EA.com to donwload and reinstall, but the file labled as Plugin Manager with unicode fix was ONLY the fix, not the program itself.  So I had to reinstall the BAT, and then the actual program was installed.  so now it works!  Because I hadn't been dealing with the actual program, just something that looked like it, and according to EA, WAS the Plugin Manager.  Anyway, thank you, that little EDIT fixed my problem!

[tungston 19]

SC4 Meister:  your welcome of course.  I would not have known that if I had not done the same thing. 

[rataplan 0]

ok, so I seem to be having the same problem. my question is what did you do with the unicode fix file, what do you do with it? because things still are not working at all down here and i have a ton of models that i made which are totally useless at the moment.

[tungston 19]

Date: 11/13/2005 12:41:43 PM Author: rataplan ok, so I seem to be having the same problem. my question is what did you do with the unicode fix file, what do you do with it? because things still are not working at all down here and i have a ton of models that i made which are totally useless at the moment.

You copy [and overwrite] it into the C:\Program Files\Gmax\gamepacks\BAT\scripts folder.  Depending on how you saved it, it should have the name ModelNames.ms, if it is named ModelNames.ms.htm then delete the .htm.

 

EDIT:  If you installed the gMax with the SC4 BAT installer, then the SC4PluginMan.exe will be in the C:\Program Files\Maxis\SimCity 4 Deluxe\Apps folder.  That is where you want the shortcut to path to.

[rataplan 0]

wow, it works thanx alot for the sollution to my problem, and delivered faster than ups would do!

[shpangler 19]

Thank you so much for a solution to this problem! Now I can finally put my BAT files into the game!