Modding tools for Mac?

[1131989 223]

Now that the App Store version has been out for almost a year, is anyone working on creating workable modding tools (BAT, Reader, Lot Editor) for Mac? The only ones that have been created so far are SC4Mapper, NAM controller, and jdatpacker.

[Tropod 144]

Lot Editor & BAT are Maxis programs. For ilives reader (or my SC4 Reader) you'd have to check out my sig & try them out, under wine or other alternative.

[1131989 223]

Thanks. I'm guessing that as proprietary Maxis programs LOT/BAT can't be converted??

[alicenychto 41]

Hi, I'm playing Simcity 4 with a bundle of plugins over wineskin and I can confirm that nearly all modding tools, including LE, ilives, PluginMan and BAT could be running smoothly on Mac OS X with wineskin (and of course a bit of configuration, I used winetricks and some custom commands).

However some features are not available, mostly due to the graphic rendering, and some due to the locale. It's impossible to read S3D entities over ilives, and the textures in gmax looks a bit bizarre.

Still looking for some solutions over it but I don't have many confidence ... anyway if you only want to build up custom lots and modify some entities these could be enough. BTW SC4Mapper and NAM Controller can be also installed and used as a wineskin wrapper. In wine it might be a bit different but I think its feasible.

[bortjonsen 0]

@alicenychto

I am kind of new to wine and Mac, can you please explain how you got ilives reader running? Somehow I got the LE working, but no other tools I have tried.