Boxes instead of trees

[renovare 2]

I have had to reinstall SC4 Deluxe due to a computer issue. After installing and beginning to play all of my lots have the dreaded box instead of trees. No matter what the lot I have all boxes and no trees. I cannot figure out which dependency or texture I am missing. I have played for years and never seen this before now.

[rsc204 21,808]

Brown Boxes = Missing Plugins, there is literally no other explanation for this behaviour.

It's not possible to tell you what you are missing from a vague description such as "trees". But you should start by finding an affected lot and then looking at it's dependency list and go from there. It might be a bit tedious, but simply installing every tree you can find is about the only alternative, which is not a great solution for many reasons.

When you re-installed the game, did you keep a copy of your plugins folder? Perhaps go back to that and check you copied everything over correctly. If it was working before, those items must have previously existed in your plugins folder. So the question becomes, what happened to them?

[renovare 2]

Yes, thank you. I am at a loss for what is causing this. I am sorry for being vague with the subject line. I have attempted to follow your course of deduction and have not been successful yet. However, I will continue to along that line because it really is the only option. Thanks again!

[matias93 7,535]

There isn't even a single tree? In that case, a maxis tree replacer is installed but lacks dependencies. Alternatively, you are missing dependencies for certain custom trees: try to identify a lot with affected trees and check the lot dependencies to fix it.

[renovare 2]

Thanks for the suggestions.  I walked through many of the BATS and finally installed a dependency that was missing-and it worked. Thanks again!