sc3ku SimCity 3000 Unlimited Rendering Kit rendering problem?

[RichNagel 0]

Hiya folks,

 

I hadn't played SimCity 3000 Unlimited in quite some time, so I figured that I'd give it a whirl again

 

I was twiddling around with the SimCity 3000 Unlimited Rendering Kit (SC3URK), and ran across a strange problem when rendering imported BMP images to landmark buildings (or regular buildings) within the utility.

 

After doing the above and then entering the game, the graphics are totally messed up for any of the buildings that I rendered in SC3URK (?).

 

To save me some typing, here is a message thread over at the old and outdated SC3000.com message forums (complete with screenshots of the problem, posted several years ago by another user of those forums):

 

http://www.weburg.com/forum/messages.php?threadID=3e17ab9b7f634a25847beeb71f929626&directoryID=20&startRow=1&openItemID=item.20,item.3,item.10,item.21

 

Anyone have any idea what could cause this problem, and any idea of a possible solution/fix?

[RichNagel 0]

P.S. Attached is a screenshot of the problem. The (landmark) building on the left is one that I rendered back in 2006, and the one on the right is the same building rendered just now  (with the building's exact same BMP image that I used back in 2006).

 

BTW, that one is a 3X3. The ONLY difference was running SC3URK under Windows 98SE back in 2006, and Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 3 just now.

[catty-cb 4,393]

You might want to take a look at this post and picture

 

http://www.citybuilders.co.nz/index.php/forum/custom-content/137-simcity-3000-unlimited-building-architect?limitstart=0#460

 

it looks very similar to your problem, and I don't know if they ever got a fix for it

[RichNagel 0]

Thanks for the info, Catty-CB

Although the problem mentioned in that thread looks similar, I think that the original poster was using SC3KU's BAP+. I have no problems with BAP+ (short of the long-standing rendering bugs that the utility has), my (new) problem is with the Rendering Kit.

[catty-cb 4,393]

I've always sort of thought of the Rendering Kit as being part of the BAP+

 

http://www.citybuilders.co.nz/index.php/cbex/viewdownload/7-sc3-and-sc3k-official-downloads/123-building-architect-plus-rendering-kit-sc3urk

 

The only other thing I can suggest is did you taken a look at the tutorials over here

 

http://www.citybuilders.co.nz/index.php/forum/tutorials-and-technical-information

 

They include all the old official tutorials that used to be available on the SC3 site.

 

There are a couple on graphics for the BAP+, but something in them might be relevant to you and your problem.

 

-catty

[RichNagel 0]

Will do, and thanks