Problems with plugin lots.

[Bondi St. Blues 0]

Hey, I've just installed some new Lots onto my game, and I'm having trouble viewing them - specifically, some parts of the building are not there or are transparent when in-game. I downloaded a city-wide Police headquarters lot and the whole building fails to show.

Secondly, some .dat files in my plugins cause the whole game to crash when a city is loaded, so if anyone knows what that's about, please let me know also.

For your information, I am using a late 2006 Mac with the Steam version of SC4.

 

Anyone know how to fix this? Tia!

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Welcome to Simtropolis.

 

There can be several reasons for your problem but the most likely is missing dependencies.  If you don't have all the pieces of each lot, some strange things happen, usually 'brown paper packages tied up with string' but it is possible that you are having texture problems.

 

Can we have the URLs of the lots you are having troubles with, please?

 

Since you are on a MAC are you running the Aspyr version or the Windows version with wine or an emulator?

[DavidB_ 83]

Since you are on a MAC are you running the Aspyr version or the Windows version with wine or an emulator?

 

They're using the 2014 Aspyr rerelease which was purchased through Steam:

 

For your information, I am using a late 2006 Mac with the Steam version of SC4.

 

And yes, please provide for us the URLs for the content you have downloaded.

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

I believe Aspyr missed the necessary upgrades for some of the EP1 fixes and the BAT nightlights in that version.  There have been some remarks previously on this issue.