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[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Horden Terraced Houses

Yep, this sort of thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDiaAmRA-o

 

[Propfam 2,295]

On 3/7/2024 at 4:22 AM, Quelquechosedautre said:

Horden Terraced Houses

Yep, this sort of thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQDiaAmRA-o

 

Nice house!

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

What the originals look like...

 

 

 

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Furniture repair workshop

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Bio-Horticulture Meristeme Garden Centre - An organic garden centre

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

1751 Eardley Road

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Herb's Truck Plaza of Van Kleek Hill

 

 

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Kabak, an Amish garden shed manufacturer.

 

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Ye Old Reindeer is a 17th Century coaching in run by my great grandfather in about 1912.

[asasnat 216]

Plazaville Moth Lake Airport, named after the nearby Moth Lake. CJ coming soon[tm]

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Oxford and Cambridge Pub, Hammersmith Bridge Road (Demolished in 2008)

This was an Edwardian pub that my great grandfather ran in about 1903.

OK, this is not one of my best - I had a true trugge with this.  The real one had a very tall, narrow roof which was hard to reproduce in Building Architect, so it ended up a bit big an rather squat.

Even so I do note the lack of choice in 2x2 Commercial given be other users, and feel that this does help add to the selection.

 

 

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

English Country Garden with folly, pond and orchard - Available as both residential and other for use as a public park

[asasnat 216]

PlazaLandia 

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[Quelquechosedautre 337]

asasnat

 

Please forgive me, but I request, as a indness, that you delete your last post.  I suffer from chronic ad rampant orthniscelidophbia.  I am sure that it is a superb piece of art and, indeed, I would to have access to your tile set, but the above image is extremely distressing for me.  

[asasnat 216]

@Quelquechosedautre I'm sorry but what is orthniscelidophobia? I can't even find a mention of that on Google - closest I can find is ornithophobia (fear of birds), which considering the complete lack of birds I highly doubt that image would trigger.

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

It is absolute ta and deady outright terror of any and all creatures tat died out 65milion years ago.

[catty-cb 4,412]

Hi All

@Quelquechosedautre I think @asasnat was trying to avoid mentioning what this was a fear of....

@asasnat thank you for your quick response in hiding the image and your response to the post.

Currently at work, but will be back this evening

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Dear Assanat, my greatest thanks for your kind response.  Unfortunately, it is a problem that I have had since a little child and it remains ultra-intense. 

I also accept that this is deeply embarrassing to me, for I have clearly dominated this particular thread for over 6 months and when someone else puts up a beautiful piece of work, I have to ask for it to be taken down.  This is terrible, so I keenly encourage you to put up more of you beautifully detailed work in future - I genuinely would delight in seeing it.  Again, my deepest thanks again for you swift and kind response.  It is genuinely appreciated.  Robert

[Null 45 3,086]

I am not working on anything in-game, but I have been examining the data files. I wrote a tool for dumping the PAK file data, and another for dumping the DAT/IXF data. I know that both of those have been done before, but I find it to be a lot easier to learn about the formats by trying to decode them than just looking at the data in a hex editor. Both of those tools can write out all of the data in the files, including decompressing the QFS/RefPack compressed entries in the DAT/IXF files. Of course, there may be things that I missed in the DAT/IXF file handling, but it doesn't crash on any of the files I have tested.

Here is a list of all the type ID values I have found in of the old PowerPC Mac install. Sadly whichever studio made that version removed most of the debug info from the shipping binary, I had been hoping that they would have made the same mistake Aspyr made with SC4 and left it in. Fortunately the Linux version has a lot if the C++ type info intact, but converting it into a format that would be usable by DLLs would be a lot of work.

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0x00000000 -- SC3\res\sprites\00000002_residential.dat
0x00000001 -- SC3\res\sprites\00000002_residential.dat
0x00000FA1 -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0x00006300 -- SC3\res\sprites\csattrib.ixf
0x00006301 -- SC3\res\sprites\csattrib.ixf
0x035AD1CB -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0x035F62A4 -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0x2026960B -- SC3\res\text\english\Sc3StringsAdvisorHeading.IXF
0x207EDC0E -- SC3\res\occupant\occupantattribs.ixf
0x21FD6EEF -- SC3\res\ssimdata\pplprod.ixf
0x220055E1 -- SC3\res\occupant\occupantattribs.ixf
0x222B7EE4 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\anspratt.ixf
0x22CEFD99 -- SC3\res\trnprod.ixf
0x430E2EE6 -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0x620EDFCE -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0x625C6226 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\english\trblkatt.ixf
0x625C6CC7 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\vclprod.ixf
0x62B9DA24 -- SC3\res\ui\shared\000005e5_maps.ixf
0x62DFCCEC -- SC3\res\airtrmgr.ixf
0x81F53D09 -- SC3\res\buildfam.ixf
0x822B51AA -- SC3\res\simscrpt.ixf
0xA1634F05 -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0xA20BF670 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\ppathatt.ixf
0xA2E3D533 -- SC3\res\hotkeys\english.ixf
0xC22B54FA -- SC3\res\ssimdata\pattrib.ixf
0xC25C2BF7 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\vattrib.ixf
0xC25C74F2 -- SC3\res\ssimdata\english\vpathatt.ixf
0xC359837E -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0xE223741F -- SC3\res\occupant\occupantattribs.ixf
0xE2F42628 -- Cities\Big Mountain City.sc3
0xFFD30C03 -- SC3\res\occupant\occupantattribs.ixf

 

Most of the type values inside the city file are probably the CLSID of a serialized class, but I only know a few of the values in the DAT/IXF files. The values I have decoded so far are:

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    internal enum ResourceType : uint
    {
        SpriteAttributes = 0x6300,
        SpriteAnimationAttributes = 0x6301,
        String = 0x2026960b,
        TextFile = 0x81F53D09, // TXT!
    }

 

 

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Depanneur Du Pontiac <--- click to find on the STEX.

  Edited July 31, 2024 by CorinaMarie  
Made the name a linky to the STEX file.

[CorinaMarie 29,856]

@Quelquechosedautre Nice looking building.

Btw, I made the name of it a clickable linky in your post so peeps can easily find it on the STEX. (Should you not want that, feel free to edit your post and I won't mess with it again. )

[JiuLing 242]

The City of Zhangzhou (I named it "张州", don't confuse it with the real city in Fujian that is called 漳州).

With some self-made buildings.

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

The Alpaca House

[CorinaMarie 29,856]

@Quelquechosedautre Looks good.

And it's ok to also add a linky to your STEX file like this: The Alpaca House

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Little Smoky Gas Bar

  Edited October 19, 2024 by CorinaMarie  
Made the name a linky to the STEX file.

[The Thinker 479]

When the cash flow figure is just perfect... 

[CorinaMarie 29,856]

2 minutes ago, The Thinker said:

When the cash flow figure is just perfect... 

It's like learning to count.

[The Thinker 479]

A couple of snapshots taken whilst I was roaming about town...

"Uh, how are we going to get in and out of the property?!"  "S'pose we could always climb over the fence..."

 

Can't remember if I or anyone else has anyone noticed the text on the side of the "Factory Barn" lot?

Reads to me like "A Productive Sim is a Happy Sim".

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

113 Rue St Joseph North

  Edited December 6, 2024 by CorinaMarie  
Made the name a linky to the STEX file.

[Quelquechosedautre 337]

Alexander's, a real estate dealer in Melton Mowbray

  Edited December 13, 2024 by CorinaMarie  
Made the name a linky to the STEX file.