PIM-X problems

[Edvarz 1,984]

Hi! First of all, sorry if this has been asked before, with SC4D unavaliable I can't search the support forums properly.

I'm having a couple of problems with PIM-X, namely that I can't drag models to the Ploppable/Education/Opera category. When I try to do it I get this error message

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[(u'Students', u'(max(SCCSOpera,50*int(1+Volume/40000.)))'), (u'CivicJobs', u'(int(ceil(Students/30.)))'), (u'Jobs1', u'(5+int(CivicJobs*1./8.))'), (u'Jobs2', u'(2+int(CivicJobs*5./8.))'), (u'Jobs3', u'(0+int(CivicJobs*2./8.))'), (u'Radius', u'(40*int(135+0.75*Students**0.4))'), (u'MCost', u'(10*int(13+0.035*Students**0.9))'), (u'PCost', u'(1000*int(20+0.020*Students**1.1))'), (u'BCost', u'(20*int(15+0.025*Students**1.1))'), (u'BaseCapacity', u'(round(3+Volume/(3*15)))'), (u'BiasedBC', u'(int(round(min(500.,BaseCapacity)*max(1.,sqrt(BaseCapacity/500.)))))'), (u'AirPollutionFactor', u'(0.006)'), (u'WaterPollutionFactor', u'(0.004)'), (u'GarbagePollutionFactor', u'(0.003)'), (u'PowerConsumedFactor', u'(0.01)'), (u'WaterConsumedFactor', u'(0.04)'), (u'CalculatedElevation', u'(max(Height,Volume/(Width*Depth)))'), (u'BiasedVol', u'(Volume*min(1,0.51+(Volume/26000.0)**2))')]
ItemOrderForOpera
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "treeDnD.pyo", line 93, in OnData
  File "SC4PIMApp.pyo", line 2918, in OnDrop
  File "SC4PIMApp.pyo", line 2988, in CreateAnExamplar
  File "<string>", line 0, in ?
NameError: name 'ItemOrderForOpera' is not defined

The other problem is that I can't elevate props in the Lot Editor, I remember having no trouble with this in my old win7 computer. When I try to do it this error message appears:

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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SC4LotPreview.pyo", line 2515, in OnMouseMotion
  File "SC4LotPreview.pyo", line 1464, in OnDraw
  File "SC4LotPreview.pyo", line 1711, in Draw2D
  File "SC4LotPreview.pyo", line 1486, in DrawQuad
OpenGL.GL.GLerror: (1283, '')

Thanks for any help you may be able to give me!!

[mattb325 28,878]

I'm not sure about the LE one, but the Opera house issue would affect others too. I suspect it was missed in our testing all those years ago. (Myself and a few others in the BSC helped ripplejet with the PimX).

When I have made functional opera houses, I just created the file in the reader or you could use the PIM-X Major Art Museum (the closest building type to an Opera House available)  and then add the Opera, Taxi Maker, VIP, Park OGs via the reader.

You should remove the Museum OG. Make sure to increase the capacity to something high (at least 30K - 40K or else you'll get the opera house bug) and change the EQ Boost to 2.4 with values in the following age vs effectiveness categories 20|0, 30|0, 40|0.3, 50|0.3, 60|0.6, 70|1.5, 80|5 to approximate the ingame version. I tend to beef these up a little as these values are scarcely worth the costs. 

[rsc204 21,804]

6 hours ago, Edvarz said:

I can't drag models to the Ploppable/Education/Opera category. When I try to do it I get this error message

This happens with certain categories, where the Item Order and/or Query have not been defined inside "settings.ini", found in the install location of SC4PIM. If you open that file using Notepad or similar, you can add this information manually, then it should work. These are the values used by the Maxis Opera House:

ItemOrderForOpera         = 300
QueryForOpera          = 0xCA8B9845

 

6 hours ago, Edvarz said:

The other problem is that I can't elevate props in the Lot Editor, I remember having no trouble with this in my old win7 computer. When I try to do it this error message appears:

So far as I can tell, the error message suggests some incompatibility between the drivers of your GPU and the OpenGL implementation used in PIM-X. There is unlikely to be anything in terms of tweaks to PIM-X that will resolve this. Updating your GPU drivers or possibly even using an older one, may change this behaviour. But for a function most won't use that much, I would consider using the Maxis LE as a work-around, when you need to adjust the height of props. Assuming that is a different driver didn't exist that resolved the issue.

[Edvarz 1,984]

Took me a while to try these solutions, I was away from my computer for a few days.

I modified the settings.ini as shown by @rsc204 and indeed managed to get an exemplar. However the building didn't show up in any of my menus so I ended up modifying the OG's in the Reader anyway, as @mattb325 suggested; I changed the "Building:Civic" property to "Building:Reward" aaand it now shows up in the rewards menu, yay!!

One little question though. What would the "Building:Park" property do? Would it just put the building in the Parks menu or does it do something else? I'm guessing the Park effect and CAP relief can be added to any building irrespective of the OG's, but I'm asking just to cover all bases.

Oh and also, since I'm messing around in the Reader, I'm thinking I can maybe change the query reference to take advantage of the "Opera House fix" mod

[mattb325 28,878]

It does indeed place it in the parks menu as well, just like the ingame version. Note,  you don't actually need to add this OG if you've added the cap reliefs.

[Edvarz 1,984]

Thank you both for your help! I haven't tried updating the graphics driver to solve the raising issue but the Maxis LE will do just fine in the meantime, or if the issue can't be resolved