Can't find it?... Ask here!

[jacko2110 144]

10 minutes ago, Tyberius06 said:

As far as I know @Simmer2 made a few rail track props which can be found here: SM2 Mega Prop Pack Vol1. 
And was used for this upload mainly: SM2 Old Coal Tower Spur. Try those props, than show them to us!

- Tyberius

Thanks @Tyberius06 i'll give them a try

[paddy0174 58]

Tbh I don't know of any for the Maxis rail, only for RRW.

I'd check the other four packs from @Simmer2, for RRW it is exactly what you're looking for, this one:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3357

And these three could be interesting as well:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3329

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3311

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3310

Oh, and I forgot: Ask @rsc204 for everything regarding textures, if one knows about these, he does!

EDIT: Links are to LEX, because STEX is currentlyoffline

[rsc204 21,836]

On 21/09/2018 at 12:54 AM, jacko2110 said:

Does anyone know if anyone as created such a thing as a train track prop? (Normal rail and not the rrw texture) The reason I ask, i'm looking to create my own rail sidings without the use of a base texture.. I've discovered that if I use the overlay without a base I get that awful graphics glitch, so i'm assuming using a prop is the only way around this to simulate the overlay texture? It's a little detail that's getting on my nerves as i've built a fairly decent amount of rail items without a base texture.. I've looked and I cannot find...any help would be appreciated

There is a prop included in my Underbridge set - Link to SC4D LEX, since STEX is currently offline - you could use for this purpose, but it's only the basic Ortho DTR tracks (file: zMGB S3D Network Props_Non-RRW.dat).

 

[jacko2110 144]

7 hours ago, paddy0174 said:

Tbh I don't know of any for the Maxis rail, only for RRW.

I'd check the other four packs from @Simmer2, for RRW it is exactly what you're looking for, this one:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3357

And these three could be interesting as well:

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3329

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3311

https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=3310

Oh, and I forgot: Ask @rsc204 for everything regarding textures, if one knows about these, he does!

EDIT: Links are to LEX, because STEX is currentlyoffline

 

7 hours ago, rsc204 said:

There is a prop included in my Underbridge set - Link to SC4D LEX, since STEX is currently offline - you could use for this purpose, but it's only the basic Ortho DTR tracks (file: zMGB S3D Network Props_Non-RRW.dat).

 

Thanks Guys, I found exactly what I was looking for in @Tyberius06 suggestion... 

 

I've made the signals and the bridge into the 1 transited lot, instead of creating a lot at the side of the track.. The only thing I get is the slightly shadowed base texture which I can live with

I like to use the wide radius curves as i've made the freight train sizes slightly more realistic.. I coundn't find a good mod for the base texture of those without changing the full terrain texture, so decided to go without a base texture for the full network.. Still got a few lots in the pipeline for the network but it gives you an idea of what I was after...

Thanks all for your help

[rsc204 21,836]

16 minutes ago, jacko2110 said:

I've made the signals and the bridge into the 1 transited lot, instead of creating a lot at the side of the track.. The only thing I get is the slightly shadowed base texture which I can live with

That could be corrected, since the usage here was not the intended one for that prop. It just requires switching off the Diffuse layer (causing it) and using a dedicated rail texture which has been colour corrected, not linking to the Maxis one.

[satria sandman 36]

hai im satria

can someone help me find this building for SimCity 4 im looking at google n got it in nyc.blogspot

but when i click download button in that blog im directed in simtropolis n i got message "We could not locate the item you trying to view"

[korver 27,685]

@satria sandman Unfortunately 345 Park Avenue hasn't been available on the STEX for years. Your best bet would be to contact PBGV103 and see if he still has a copy he could send you.

[satria sandman 36]

5 hours ago, korver said:

@satria sandman Unfortunately 345 Park Avenue hasn't been available on the STEX for years. Your best bet would be to contact PBGV103 and see if he still has a copy he could send you.

oh thanks man
i already contact him / her hope get that building soon hehe
btw thanks again to show me creator for that BAT

[Cyclone Boom 17,016]

On 26/09/2018 at 3:45 AM, satria sandman said:

can someone help me find this building for SimCity 4 im looking at google n got it in nyc.blogspot

I bring good news.

After confirming the ID is no longer on record from the database side, I've managed to track down the missing file referenced on the blog page.

It seems like with some other files, this has seemingly long since disappeared from the STEX. Fortunately though the "NYBT 345 Park Avenue" is one created by @PBGV103 which is included on Volume 4 of the STEX Collections. I've upload this at the following link:

345 Park - LD Error Fixed.zip  (6 MB)

(This resolves a problem with the LD File present in the original, which can be downloaded here. See the posts below for more info.)
 

Spoiler

Description:

Another building from Midtown Manhattan.

Plop-able Commercial
$38000 plop cost
5897 high wealth jobs

 

Once all the current ongoing server issues are resolved, this and other missing files can prospectively be restored to the STEX. We'd then make these display under the author's account, and each ID can be switched over so original URLs would direct to every newly added file entry (e.g. in this case containing the ID of 23308).

Thanks to @markussaage for reporting the error with the LD File and @CorinaMarie for fixing it up using Reader.

By the way, Cori tells me she did receive your email from the Contact Us form, but due to the current troubles has suggested I reply here having located the file.

  Edited October 13, 2018 by Cyclone Boom  
Re-updated after my edit was lost due to the site downtime.

[paddy0174 58]

OK, kind of a weird search: I'm looking for some rock or slope stabilisation nets....

Someone an idea, if such things have ever been made?

To give a better idea, what I'm looking for: https://www.rud.com/en/products/barriertech/rock-and-slope-stabilisation.html

[markussaage 762]

On 26.9.2018 at 7:59 AM, Cyclone Boom said:

I bring good news.

After confirming the ID is no longer on record from the database side, I've managed to track down the missing file referenced on the blog page.

It seems like with some other files, this has seemingly long since disappeared from the STEX. Fortunately though the "NYBT 345 Park Avenue" is one created by @PBGV103 which is included on Volume 4 of the STEX Collections. I've copied this off and uploaded it here as originally named:

345 Park.zip  (6 MB)
 

  Main preview pic & Description (Reveal hidden contents)

Description:

Another building from Midtown Manhattan.

Plop-able Commercial
$38000 plop cost
5897 high wealth jobs

 

Once all the current ongoing server issues are resolved, this and other missing files can prospectively be restored to the STEX. We'd then make these display under the author's account, and each ID can be switched over so original URLs would direct to every newly added file entry (e.g. in this case containing the ID of 23308).

By the way, @CorinaMarie tells me she did receive your email from the Contact Us form, but due to the current troubles has suggested I reply here having located the file.

Be aware: the SC4.Lot file has an error, when you open it in iLive's Reader: (Internal error: DecodeLD (size > 255))

I already checked it with the original file I've found in an old backup. It has the same error. Maybe that should be fixed, before it's released to the public again?!
Loading it lot in LotEditor and save it again should do the trick to fix it here.

Kind regards!

[matias93 7,535]

On 26-09-2018 at 1:02 PM, paddy0174 said:

OK, kind of a weird search: I'm looking for some rock or slope stabilisation nets....

Someone an idea, if such things have ever been made?

To give a better idea, what I'm looking for: https://www.rud.com/en/products/barriertech/rock-and-slope-stabilisation.html

I've never seen that, but it wouldn't be that hard to create if done texture-based; the downside would be that the textures are always flat. Otherwise, a batter would be needed to model the slopes.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

Maybe a net/mesh overlay texture without a base texture (transparent base) could do the trick? Then you could plop the transparent lot over any existing cliff, which you'd create simply by terraforming accordingly.

[tariely 4,496]

Did you check JRJ walls & embankments stuff  ? (MegaPropPack JRJ vol.06)

[rsc204 21,836]

On 26/09/2018 at 6:02 PM, paddy0174 said:

OK, kind of a weird search: I'm looking for some rock or slope stabilisation nets....

1 hour ago, matias93 said:

I've never seen that, but it wouldn't be that hard to create if done texture-based; the downside would be that the textures are always flat. Otherwise, a batter would be needed to model the slopes.

1 hour ago, T Wrecks said:

Maybe a net/mesh overlay texture without a base texture (transparent base) could do the trick? Then you could plop the transparent lot over any existing cliff, which you'd create simply by terraforming accordingly.

Indeed a texture-based approach is the only practical solution, because it's the only way to adapt to the terrain. That means you'd have to use a 2D rock texture which gives a 3D effect, with either a separate or combined netting texture.

Whilst you could model such a thing and it would in all fairness look a lot better, models can't conform well to slopes. So such a model made for one incline, may look horrible on a different one and in short would be horribly inflexible to use.

[11241036 5,105]

@paddy0174 My suggestion: This plugin contains a few sets of slope retaining walls. One of them looks like a grassy slope reinforced by concrete beams. Since it is texture-based, it won't make much sense to use them for cliffsides (you can place them but they will still look like grass and concrete beams).

 

[seaman 8]

Hi! Does somebody know the name and/or source of this building (the big one)?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

As a matter of fact, I do. It's Ympyratalo, originally modeled by prepo. Here's a download link to a version modded and lotted by Bongoswimp.

[paddy0174 58]

Finally, I could post my answer to this thread Sorry, it took me so long, but these errors in the last week...

Thanks you all for your answers!

@matias93, @T Wrecks, @rsc204

Seems to be the best way to do it texture based. I will try, but I haven't used GIMP a lot lately... You will see my progress in a seperate thread....

@tariely, @11241036

Thanks, I know these packs, in fact I'm using them, but it's not what I'm looking for here.

 

[seaman 8]

5 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

As a matter of fact, I do. It's Ympyratalo, originally modeled by prepo. Here's a download link to a version modded and lotted by Bongoswimp.

Thank you so much for your answer and even providing the link, T Wrecks. Very kind of you

[Flann 1,709]

Does anyone know where to find these awesome rowhouse / apartments in the center of this shot?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

 

4 hours ago, Flann II said:

Does anyone know where to find these awesome rowhouse / apartments in the center of this shot?

Oooooh, good that you remind me! I'm currently piecing together a new plugins folder and had totally forgotten about these beauties. Here they are.

[Flann 1,709]

45 minutes ago, T Wrecks said:

Ooooh, you remind

Oooooh, good that you remind me! I'm currently piecing together a new plugins folder and had totally forgotten about these beauties. Here they are.

Thank you very much!   I am also on this journey of rebuilding a plugins folder and have found IndianaJoe's thread and your input there to be extremely helpful!

[Duco 546]

32 minutes ago, Flann II said:

rebuilding a plugins folder

Maybe ( if you don't know them already) is this, this and this also an option. 

[Flann 1,709]

10 hours ago, Duco said:

Maybe ( if you don't know them already) is this, this and this also an option. 

THANKS!  Especially that last one.  I'm really trying to get all the rowhouses.

[T Wrecks 10,209]

5 minutes ago, Flann II said:

THANKS!  Especially that last one.  I'm really trying to get all the rowhouses.

*suppresses urge to post corny "get ALL THE ROWHOUSES" meme*

Ahem... anyway, I'm already done with the single-tile wide rowhouse department for my plugins - only North American stuff for the Chicago 1890 and NY 1940 tilesets. I settled with the following 16 options, in case you are interested:

• Scuttlebutt Row, by SimGoober
• Sardina Row, by SimGoober
• Greek Revival Tenements, by C.P. (SC4Devotion) [slope-friendly]
• Ghetto Pack Vol.1, by Tag_One
• Hamilton House, by Tag_One [slope-friendly]
• Low Rent Walkups, by Don Miguel
• Rowhouse Set, by Ceafus_88
• Apartment Blocks, by SimGoober
• Church Street Apartment, by spa
• Castiron Lofts, by Don Miguel
• Halifax Boxes, by spa
• BSP Hamilton Arms, by nofunk (corner lot)
• NYBT 32-48 30th Street, by Aaron_Graham
• NYBT Tapscott Houses, by Aaron_Graham
• Rowhouses, by nofunk
• Townhouse, by Don Miguel

These are all top notch IMO. The authors featured in that list all have more interesting stuff, too - you may want to scour the STEX and LEX for their uploads. It's past midnight and I'm too tired to dig out the links right now, but if you have trouble finding any of these, just let me know and I'll look.

[Psiman 177]

Can you recommend any generic park, plaza or beautification filler mod lots that fit in well with the vanilla graphics of the game and use a minimum of dependencies (other mods on which they depend)?

[T Wrecks 10,209]

For parks and fillers that are generic and light on dependencies, I'd recommend the SFBT Park sets. They come in three variations for low, medium, and high wealth, and they only require the SFBT Essentials and nothing else. They are modular, and especially the medium and high wealth sets can be used to complement in-game lots because they use the same driveway textures. Placement indicators show what you are about to plop when you have the lot on your mouse cursor so you won't have to wonder which way a path curve will turn (the indicators vanish after a short while and never appear again).

The trees can optionally be overridden by a tree mod if you decide to use one. [shameless self-plug] For example, should you decide to use my Maxis HD Tree Replacement Mod at a later point, all trees on those park lots will turn into HD trees.[/shameless self-plug] Of course this will also work with any other mod that replaces Maxis trees, for example the Sayonara! Maxis Trees mod.

Plazas are more difficult - for me, at least. There are many sets, but I'm not entirely sold on any of them myself. Maybe soldyne's stuff would be a start? I'd wait for input from other members, though.

[Flann 1,709]

18 hours ago, T Wrecks said:

*suppresses urge to post corny "get ALL THE ROWHOUSES" meme*

Ahem... anyway, I'm already done with the single-tile wide rowhouse department for my plugins - only North American stuff for the Chicago 1890 and NY 1940 tilesets. I settled with the following 16 options, in case you are interested:

• Scuttlebutt Row, by SimGoober
• Sardina Row, by SimGoober
• Greek Revival Tenements, by C.P. (SC4Devotion) [slope-friendly]
• Ghetto Pack Vol.1, by Tag_One
• Hamilton House, by Tag_One [slope-friendly]
• Low Rent Walkups, by Don Miguel
• Rowhouse Set, by Ceafus_88
• Apartment Blocks, by SimGoober
• Church Street Apartment, by spa
• Castiron Lofts, by Don Miguel
• Halifax Boxes, by spa
• BSP Hamilton Arms, by nofunk (corner lot)
• NYBT 32-48 30th Street, by Aaron_Graham
• NYBT Tapscott Houses, by Aaron_Graham
• Rowhouses, by nofunk
• Townhouse, by Don Miguel

These are all top notch IMO. The authors featured in that list all have more interesting stuff, too - you may want to scour the STEX and LEX for their uploads. It's past midnight and I'm too tired to dig out the links right now, but if you have trouble finding any of these, just let me know and I'll look.

Thank you again!  I have seen most of these but there were a few I had forgotten.  

[edwardjeria 503]

Hellp?