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[bhmantan 2,045]

Is there any way to disable/mute the cow's sound from the 0xaa739fa6 effect lots?

[Nick Kasazaki 132]

Another quick question here. Have someone ever experienced an issue with gmax where a portion of the viewport seems to freeze on the screen like in the pics? I've been using Gmax for months now and never experienced this problem, until last week. The area also persist over other programs as you can see. I've tried to switch beetween different drivers also, but with no results. The only workaround i was able to find is changing the screen resolution and then going back to the previous one. This seems to "erase" the glitchy areas, but they just come back in a few minutes and it's getting a bit annoying. Any idea of what the problem is?

[carlosmarcelo 975]

Hi guys!  I have a new quick doubt. What means and how works this parameters of clinics and hospital? 

• Hospital Effectiveness vs. Average Age (normaly 0,8,100,0)
• Hospital HQ boost (normaly 11,5200046)

Thanks! 

[Propfam 2,288]

5 hours ago, carlosmarcelo said:

Hi guys!  I have a new quick doubt. What means and how works this parameters of clinics and hospital? 

• Hospital Effectiveness vs. Average Age (normaly 0,8,100,0)
• Hospital HQ boost (normaly 11,5200046)

Thanks! 

What I'm remember from SC4D Wiki and the reader, the first property means how much the impact of a health facility to the local residents according to their age. I guess it's in the grouping of 0-15, 16-45, 46-80, 81-100 (edit: nope, it's a curve duh). Correct me if I'm wrong. So that kind of hospital is more effective to seniors than to children, roughly speaking. (Again edit: the hospital is more effective at babies and less effective when you're 100)

The second property means how much the health facility contribute to the health point in the covered area. I think it's correlated to life expectancy since HQ isn't shown in the game, except in a vague description in My Sims when you get the info of your Sims and obviously the data view. And yes, 11.5 is the value used by all Maxis health facilities.

[memo 1,444]

4 hours ago, carlosmarcelo said:

• Hospital Effectiveness vs. Average Age (normaly 0,8,100,0)
• Hospital HQ boost (normaly 11,5200046)

My guess is the first property defines a curve that linearly interpolates between the points (x1,y1)=(0 years, 8%) and (x2,y2)=(100 years, 0%).

[Null 45 3,041]

2 minutes ago, memo said:

My guess is the first property defines a curve that linearly interpolates between the points (x1,y1)=(0 years, 8%) and (x2,y2)=(100 years, 0%).

I think you are correct, Ingred,.ini documents that property as using the GeneralResponseCurveEditor and GeneralResponseCurveFormatter. This appears to correspond to the cSC4ResponseCurve class in the Mac binaries.

[Propfam 2,288]

1 minute ago, Null 45 said:

I think you are correct, Ingred,.ini documents that property as using the GeneralResponseCurveEditor and GeneralResponseCurveFormatter. This appears to correspond to the cSC4ResponseCurve class in the Mac binaries.

Speaking of GeneralResponsiveCurve, I also saw in the ingred that it's originally called HappinessCurveFormatter in the Aliases section. Maybe, the sole purpose was to correlate with happiness (mayor rating, I guess?) instead of everything that we have now.

[Null 45 3,041]

14 minutes ago, Jidan said:

I also saw in the ingred that it's originally called HappinessCurveFormatter in the Aliases section.

The description of HappinessCurveFormatter appears to imply that it a SC3K leftover, which was replaced by the GeneralResponseCurve in SC4.

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This is deprecated in SimCity 4. Use GeneralResponseCurve instead.

[carlosmarcelo 975]

Wow! I will do some tests and adjusts with more knowledgement now, thanks you! 

 

 

[transhockjock 0]

Im a returning player after what must be the better part of 10-15 years and was wondering if there's a recently updated and relatively easy to understand modding guide? Im not sure if Im just being a bit dumb so thats stopping me finding a good one but I haven't yet found one with mostly updated links etc. Thank you in advance

[albireo38 340]

Hello everyone,

I am looking for the the following file :

Yodder - BSC SportsCanteen

I need it to use some lot of "the thing" catalog. Unfortunately it has disappeared with SC4devotion and is not reuploaded on SC4evermore.

Thank you so much !

[Tyberius06 12,189]

36 minutes ago, albireo38 said:

Hello everyone,

I am looking for the the following file :

Yodder - BSC SportsCanteen

I need it to use some lot of "the thing" catalog. Unfortunately it has disappeared with SC4devotion and is not reuploaded on SC4evermore.

Thank you so much !

The model file (which you need for any kind of third party custom contents) can be found the BSC Common Dependencies Version 9B (that's the latest version) in the BSC MEGA Props YDR Vol01 prop pack. This was added to this Version 9B, so previous versions don't contain this prop pack. See Change Log on the download page. The full upload will come in the following months, probably sooner than later, but that will only contain the LOT file(s) as the model file now is stored in the Common Dependencies.

[albireo38 340]

@Tyberius06

All the team, you are over the top !

next time I will have a look on the different BSC packs...

[canadiansim 99]

Hi all, 

Does anyone know if there is a way (/trick) to save a city to change the way it looks in the region view?

In the picture of my test region some city tiles look softer and others look sharper. I prefer the cities looking "softer" (ex. the main city). This has been driving me crazy for years.

[Ulisse Wolf 4,412]

8 hours ago, transhockjock said:

Im a returning player after what must be the better part of 10-15 years and was wondering if there's a recently updated and relatively easy to understand modding guide? Im not sure if Im just being a bit dumb so thats stopping me finding a good one but I haven't yet found one with mostly updated links etc. Thank you in advance

If you are referring to a guide on mods to install there is this one

 

[matias93 7,535]

2 hours ago, canadiansim said:

Hi all, 

Does anyone know if there is a way (/trick) to save a city to change the way it looks in the region view?

In the picture of my test region some city tiles look softer and others look sharper. I prefer the cities looking "softer" (ex. the main city). This has been driving me crazy for years.

I'm not sure, but have you tried to save the cities from different zoom levels? The game renders each level separately, so it might have something to do with that...

[rsc204 21,808]

On 19/09/2024 at 1:14 PM, Nick Kasazaki said:

Have someone ever experienced an issue with gmax where a portion of the viewport seems to freeze on the screen like in the pics?

Rendering issues are generally down to compatibility issues, bear in mind this is an ancient program. Normally you should not use Hardware Renderer for gMax, rather switch to the HEIDI Software renderer, that should help.

[Nick Kasazaki 132]

5 hours ago, rsc204 said:

Rendering issues are generally down to compatibility issues, bear in mind this is an ancient program. Normally you should not use Hardware Renderer for gMax, rather switch to the HEIDI Software renderer, that should help.

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, i already tried to switch to HEIDI Software, but this seems to not work for me as the problem persist. 

[jestarr 3,410]

12 minutes ago, Nick Kasazaki said:

Thank you for the reply. Unfortunately, i already tried to switch to HEIDI Software, but this seems to not work for me as the problem persist. 

I had a similar problem. You might check that it's in compatibility mode with XP Service pack 2.

[Nick Kasazaki 132]

2 hours ago, jestarr said:

I had a similar problem. You might check that it's in compatibility mode with XP Service pack 2.

Also tried this, but nothing changed...

[rsc204 21,808]

The whole idea behind software rendering is to use your CPU to handle the work, rather than your GPU. Since it shouldn’t require any special compatibility to work this way. But that’s not 100% guaranteed, there could be some problem with your system in this regard.

But it could be that there is a simpler option, since I believe the DirectX renderer used by gMax is version 9. That probably won’t work by itself, but if you setup a DX Wrapper with gMax, it should be able to provide compatibility to make it work on a modern system. 

[canadiansim 99]

Hi All, 

After 12 years () I recently removed PEG's SPAM mod from my plugins folder. A great mod, but I was missing the IMO wonderful Maxis vanilla farm fields.

Since then, farm fields only grow very rarely when zoning. Several farm lots will grow without the field (see picture below), eating up all the agricultural demand. I've created some custom agricultural lots, but they worked with SPAM. 

Has anyone encountered this before? I'm deleting so many of these lots waiting for a field to grow! 

[Daeris 1,116]

Hey, does anyone know why messing with terrain in mountainous areas seems to make it so you can't use god mode seed forests to actually plant trees? Seems like it just plops down little bushes in the mountainous terrain. Does anyone know a workaround? I mean I can of course plot trees from MMP section, but I worry this is going to impact my fps in this city tile.

Example:

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

22 minutes ago, Daeris said:

Does anyone know a workaround?

What specifically will plant is based on both elevation and moisture and a part of the moisture is based on the slope iirc.

There's a really cool article about how that all works with info about making changes. I even understood it long ago and made several modifications for exactly what you are experiencing. What I don't recall is if I attached any to some posts. I'm thinking I prolly did so we'll have to holler for CB and ask if he'll dive into the dank dark deep depths of the database and poke around looking for them.

[matias93 7,535]

4 hours ago, canadiansim said:

Hi All, 

After 12 years () I recently removed PEG's SPAM mod from my plugins folder. A great mod, but I was missing the IMO wonderful Maxis vanilla farm fields.

Since then, farm fields only grow very rarely when zoning. Several farm lots will grow without the field (see picture below), eating up all the agricultural demand. I've created some custom agricultural lots, but they worked with SPAM. 

Has anyone encountered this before? I'm deleting so many of these lots waiting for a field to grow! 

Are you trying to make new farms grow on an already developed city? You might be experiencing a hard growth cap, specifically, the one that causes cities with more than 40,000 sims to have no farm desirability whatsoever.

[Cyclone Boom 16,875]

/me returns from the dank dark deep depths of the database...

 

 

@Daeris

I believe found it!

This one might look familiar.

[Daeris 1,116]

Lol thank you CB! Appreciate you and Cori.

[canadiansim 99]

On 9/29/2024 at 9:43 PM, matias93 said:

Are you trying to make new farms grow on an already developed city? You might be experiencing a hard growth cap, specifically, the one that causes cities with more than 40,000 sims to have no farm desirability whatsoever.

Unfortunately I'm experiencing this every time I zone agricultural - even in a new city tile in a fresh new region  it's helpful to know that agricultural lots being built without fields is likely a growth cap issue. Could removing SPAM (but having CAM) be messing with the growth cap?

[Propfam 2,288]

2 hours ago, canadiansim said:

Unfortunately I'm experiencing this every time I zone agricultural - even in a new city tile in a fresh new region  it's helpful to know that agricultural lots being built without fields is likely a growth cap issue. Could removing SPAM (but having CAM) be messing with the growth cap?

Or try my mod, Cap Lifter. Sorry to interject my sponsor in my comment.

Hope it helps. Another culprit could be the tax on I-R tho if you experience it even in the start, it's indeed a bigger problem.

[CorinaMarie 29,605]

7 hours ago, Jidan said:

Or try my mod, Cap Lifter.

I was also going to suggest this as I use it all the time. (I use only the I-R one for Agricultural as it fixes broken Maxis code IMO.)