Assistance in modding, Trees are Skyscrapers.

[bluedragon012 22]

Hey all, I'm modding SimCity 4 after years of letting it sit for a while. My goal is to make the best modded version on I can.

I've been following this guide very closely and so far I'm in visuals and nature. 

 

And for the life of me I cant get trees on roads working correctly. see the screen shots of what i mean. 
I'm testing periodically though the list to make everything works right. and for what ever reason the trees on streets with the hd recommendations just are a nightmare to figure out. 

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Trees - in recent years there have been a few amazing HD tree mods that include fully seasonal functions. (See: AERDEN and the ones by Blunder).  The real question is whether to use the seasonal or summer version?  There is enough content that it is almost possible to make the entire game have seasonal flora, but not quite.  The downside is there will be a few remaining lots and pieces of flora that do not change seasonally.  I'm interested in outside opinions on this.

2020: I have found the Standalone Flora Brush mod to be immensely useful, it greatly increases the speed of using the God Mode flora brush to forest your cities.

Also 2020: Get your green thumb on with the SFBT Street Tree Mod and WRC T21 Mod, and then slap an upgrade on those with T Wrecks' Tree HD Replacement.  What a combo!  Your cities are now stuffed full of HD tree props.

 

I followed this carefully, making sure I install only the seasonal trees. Being careful of dependences. I deiced to use AERDEN and ALL its dependencies. I even made sure I got the basics of maxis's buildings as props. set as well. I went out and got Cleanitol standalone but says things are fine. See attachment. After spending about 3 or 4 hours reading readmes and retrying, Still no luck. 
I'm thinking its calling for a certain hex value that also matches that building for some reason. 
If there are tools and guides that I can go though to help figure this out I'm not afraid to read it and try it. Its just not clear where and what I should do next at this point short of just getting rid of trees on streets. but that begs the question if other trees I plop, will they have the same issue? 

[bluedragon012 22]

Update after fiddling, I got the Skyscapers gone and now I have brown boxes, which from understanding means I'm missing a model/ texture. 

Now the trouble is, I don't know WHICH its missing. I've installed so many dependences that Its hard to know which are the ones it needs. 

Is there a tool out there that can help adress that? Cleanitol is still saying nothing is missing directly? 

[bluedragon012 22]

Update re installing a crap tone of random dependencies fixed it. for now its resolved. I'd like to leave this up for a requests for how to find out what I'm missing in the future so this doesn't happen. 

[twalsh102 1,601]

Cleanitol's primary use is not to search for missing dependencies. So I don't know what its definition of "needed dependencies is.

I would use SC4DataNode by @rivit. Since you are using a Tree Controller, and the problem appears to be trees, that would be the first file I would scan searching for missing dependencies.

NOTE: using an empty Plugins folder, I installed the Arden Tree Controller and all the dependencies listed in the Dependency Tracker for this download on the LEX, and came up with no missing dependencies according the DataNode. So if you do the same thing, and get the same result as I did, the problem is other than the Tree Controller and its dependencies.

[bluedragon012 22]

2 hours ago, twalsh102 said:

Since you are using a Tree Controller, and the problem appears to be trees, that would be the first file I would scan searching for missing dependencies.

Thanks for your ideas. You were right, I some how managed to remove some dependencies by accident first time round. got it working now.