Removing/Changing Props

[exodus 10]

I downloaded a house without noticing some neon green palms. If I fire up the lot editor and change the trees and then save what happen?

 

Do I need to make sure there aren't any in my city? Will the neon trees just become brown boxes if there are? Will the props just change?

 

Thanks

[SimCoug 5,972]

The lots currently built in your city (before the change) will not automatically have the new trees - you will need to bulldoze them first and regrow to see the new lot.

[exodus 10]

Awesome. Is it the same behavior if you change a building's stats (say coverage radius) with the reader?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Careful with civic buildings. SInce the coverage radius (and other values such as monthly cost) may vary for some buildings, I'd advise to proceed as follows:

1. Bulldoze all instances of that building (can be in pause mode), save, and exit. (repeat for all affected cities)
2. Change the stats as you wish.
3. Start the game and rebuild the buildings.

If you don't observe this order, you may run into the "phantom slider" bug, where budget sliders for buildings seem to jump to random positions and become uncontrollable. This is because the coverage radius no longer corresponds to the slider position, and SimCity also calculates the initial position of funding sliders based on the slider positions of existing buildings.

 

 

Pro tip for BATs that you want to change this way: Remove the model file (but not the lot) before you start. This will cause a brown box to appear wherever the building is in your city. This can make it easier to locate all instances of that building. This procedure is often unnecessary, but it can be helpful for repetitive and easily missed buildings.