Mod Menus

[Fahad Farooq 0]

Hello Guyz!
As the title says, I need a separate menu for all my installed mods and plugins. It's very difficult to find things  and other thing is that the mods that are not related to hospital come in hospital menu the ones that are not related to parks come in parks so I don't love this thing. Please tell me a mod that combines all mods under one menu or tell me a way that I can make all mods come in correct menu like Amusement Park mod should come in Parks instead of Hospitals. The problem is not only Park but I want them all to be situated in one menu! I have error uploading pictures for better explanation it says intermit error 200
Thanks
Regards
Fahad Farooq

[twalsh102 1,601]

@Fahad Farooq, I understand your frustration.  The root of the problem is that when custom content is created, the creator of that content can pick and choose what menu they want it to appear under.  That choice is part of the Building Exemplar for the lot.  The OccupantGroups property determines which menu a lot is listed under.   Depending on the choices made by the creator of the content, a particular lot may show up under multiple menus.  So your Amusement Park might potentially show up under both the Park menu (because it is a park), and the Health menu (because the lot maybe provides a health benefit).  I also think that sometimes content creators choose to place things in what might be otherwise a relatively empty menu so their creation won't get otherwise lost in a very busy menu, where it might more properly belong.  There are no rules that govern that type of thing.

There is no existing mod that "fixes" this automatically.  You pretty much only have two choices.

You can manually change the OccupantGroups property for whichever lots don't list in the menus you think they should, or you can use an alternative to the game menu.  The only alternative I'm aware of is Daeley's Advanced Menu Navigator (DAMN) available at https://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1775.  DAMN creates an alternative menu structure based on the folder structure of your Plugins folder.  Because of this, you would need to ensure your Plugins folder is organized in whatever way you want your menus to be, before implementing DAMN.

I'm not an expert on DAMN as I don't use it, so I can't give you the pros and cons of using it.  But I'm sure someone who does use it will be along to give advice on using it.

I'm pretty sure combining everything under one menu would be a bad thing to do unless you look forward to scrolling through potentially thousands of entries to find one particular lot.  My current Plugins folder contains more than 1500 individual .sc4lot files.  To this would need to be added numerous other lots contained in collections where multiple exemplars are included in .dat files.

[Fahad Farooq 0]

Thanks for the reply now I don't give a damn about in which menu these things appear I just wanna play and will play!