Going inside buildings

[Bay Area Railfan 0]

Why can't you go inside buildings in SimCity 4?

[Indiana Joe 1,750]

Because no one made any insides.  Just the outsides are modeled.

[Bay Area Railfan 0]

Oh.

[CapTon 592]

And plus, the game won't let you zoom in that far

[Bay Area Railfan 0]

True dat.

[mrbisonm 1,620]

True dat.

 

Why would anyone go inside those SC4 buildings? Maybe you got the wrong game? Try The Sims 2 or 3.

[Linoa06 1,374]

You know a game's still popular when people still ask these innocent questions  

[Xyloxadoria 1,099]

Because no one made any insides.  Just the outsides are modeled.

 

Some buildings that are BATed do have insides, you just only ever see them from the outside.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

True.  I put a tessellated mosaic floot in the Moose Factory BAT as I recall.  Visible through the windows, at least on the model.

[APSMS 1,892]

I think that it would be cool to be able to go into buildings. Unfortunately that's outside the scope of this game and probably outside the scope of even a modern city builder (were you to try to design one that could do so). 

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Actually, if you could import a 3D city from SC 2013 you might be able to create a game that could walk inside.  3D models are required, but without the simulation guts.  A static city could, perhaps have inner textures added to provide floors, then the code could be written to allow walking a sprite inside.  About a 10 year effort for one person, I think.

[jmsepe 2,038]

This question really caught my attention. Hahaha