Texture Problems!

[TG24 355]

Help me!

Well, it all started a few days ago, and cuz i moved a few files i edited in the Lot Editor and they just corrupted the game textures, if you want i leave to you those textures that corrupted in some way my game textures.

(Also i gonna attach some pics)

[TG24 355]

[TG24 355]

And here's the link to download the textures:

Corrupt Files.zip

  Edited August 8, 2022 by Cyclone Boom  
Reduced size making the included pic in JPG format, and attached zip directly.

[TG24 355]

I tried to delete the file but it aint worked, and many parts of my cities are dissapearing when i enter a city tile.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,046]

Moving the files about has to be done carefully. Is it possible that you have edited a lot that existed in your city and then renamed it?

In such a case the game will not show the lot / BAT correctly as the name no longer refers the actual object. All you will get will be either some orphaned props or generic textures. 

Think renaming a document, then, trying to run a search in Explorer for the old filename.

[Tyberius06 12,184]

4 hours ago, TG24 said:

I tried to delete the file but it aint worked, and many parts of my cities are dissapearing when i enter a city tile.

On 2022. 08. 08. at 4:28 AM, TG24 said:

Well, it all started a few days ago, and cuz i moved a few files i edited in the Lot Editor and they just corrupted the game textures, if you want i leave to you those textures that corrupted in some way my game textures.

I don't know what you have edited, but the disappearing city parts sounds like some kind of "city save file" corruption and/or Prop Pox. Do you have the SC4 3rd party Fixes in your game install plugin folder (not the Documents\Sim city4\Plugins)? It doesn't seem to do anything with textures. Probably, if you edited files while they were plopped/grown in the city that can cause nasty things. I vaguely remember I messed up at least one of my cities around 9 years ago, when I was messing around with Lot Editor on existing lots in my city. 

I don't know, what you could do. For sure install the linked SC4 FIX, bulldoze those affected spots and all of the edited lots what you can possible find in your city, then remove the edited files from the plugins. If you do file editing, it's the best if you test them in a test city before you start plopping/growing them in your actual city.

[TG24 355]

13 hours ago, Tyberius06 said:

I don't know what you have edited, but the disappearing city parts sounds like some kind of "city save file" corruption and/or Prop Pox. Do you have the SC4 3rd party Fixes in your game install plugin folder (not the Documents\Sim city4\Plugins)? It doesn't seem to do anything with textures. Probably, if you edited files while they were plopped/grown in the city that can cause nasty things. I vaguely remember I messed up at least one of my cities around 9 years ago, when I was messing around with Lot Editor on existing lots in my city. 

I don't know, what you could do. For sure install the linked SC4 FIX, bulldoze those affected spots and all of the edited lots what you can possible find in your city, then remove the edited files from the plugins. If you do file editing, it's the best if you test them in a test city before you start plopping/growing them in your actual city.

 

14 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Moving the files about has to be done carefully. Is it possible that you have edited a lot that existed in your city and then renamed it?

In such a case the game will not show the lot / BAT correctly as the name no longer refers the actual object. All you will get will be either some orphaned props or generic textures. 

Think renaming a document, then, trying to run a search in Explorer for the old filename.

Yes i made that mistake, it was the glenni's gashou zukuri houses that appeared with brown boxes that i installed and i edited them in the LE and well this happened, does erasing all plugins works?

in this case?

[TG24 355]

Just now, TG24 said:

Yes i made that mistake, it was the glenni's gashou zukuri houses that appeared with brown boxes that i installed and i edited them in the LE and well this  happened, does erasing all plugins works? 

in this case?

Also it was some houses that i installed in Dec.2021

[TG24 355]

I think i gona upload all my plugins folder in the STEX.

[Tyberius06 12,184]

5 minutes ago, TG24 said:

I think i gona upload all my plugins folder in the STEX.

You will NOT do that for sure. If it showed brown boxes, then there was a missing model. Probably some dummy one. 

20 minutes ago, TG24 said:

does erasing all plugins works? 

Sure, but completely unnecessary. Remove the edited ones, bulldoze the ruined spots, and carry on playing (after you installed the SC4 Fix)

[TG24 355]

Its hard to explain but it all started like this...

Well i installed the Glenni's Gasshou Zukuri houses but i aint plopped 'em, they haved a lost dependency or more and then i edited them, and i downloaded some houses that haved lost dependecies that i dunno and i forget where or in which page i downloaded 'em ( i think it was a japanese site like simcityedit) and then i edited 'em again, but a week ago i moved those files into the plugins folder and when i entered a random city tile from a expansion of my city of my CJ ( that was a city tile from a past version of my city region of my CJ) and well it dissapeared many buildings and i messed up everything by moving another edited files and i destroyed my game.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,046]

10 hours ago, TG24 said:

i moved those files into the plugins folder and when i entered a random city tile from a expansion of my city of my CJ ( that was a city tile from a past version of my city region of my CJ) and well it dissapeared many buildings and i messed up everything by moving another edited files and i destroyed my game

Yep, it looks like you have your answer then. 

I usually never install any content which has lost dependencies and don't attempt to fix things myself. I'm willing to sacrifice some BATs for the sake of stability.

Moving the existing files in your dependency folder is safe most of the time. Renaming them is possible as well but slightly more risky and should be done with care. Editing the files to repair a poorly made content is very difficult and bound to cause problems, unless you really know what you're doing.

I've learned the hard way that removing the offending building from your city improves the game's stability and reduces the chance of CTDs. This might probably be the way forward for you. 

On 10.08.2022 at 12:14 PM, Tyberius06 said:

I don't know what you have edited, but the disappearing city parts sounds like some kind of "city save file" corruption and/or Prop Pox. 

Just for the record, prop pox (as the name suggests) is a problem with props which gradually disappear from the city entirely and does not affect textures.

[TG24 355]

12 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Yep, it looks like you have your answer then. 

I usually never install any content which has lost dependencies and don't attempt to fix things myself. I'm willing to sacrifice some BATs for the sake of stability.

Moving the existing files in your dependency folder is safe most of the time. Renaming them is possible as well but slightly more risky and should be done with care. Editing the files to repair a poorly made content is very difficult and bound to cause problems, unless you really know what you're doing.

I've learned the hard way that removing the offending building from your city improves the game's stability and reduces the chance of CTDs. This might probably be the way forward for you. 

Thank you!

12 hours ago, TheMurderousCricket said:

Just for the record, prop pox (as the name suggests) is a problem with props which gradually disappear from the city entirely and does not affect textures.

I know what it is.

[TG24 355]

I wanna be sure if redownloading all the texture packs and the plugins i have the problem will be solve

[TG24 355]

On 9/9/2022 at 10:59 PM, TG24 said:

I wanna be sure if redownloading all the texture packs and the plugins i have the problem will be solve

It will take a while but, i want to make a new entry to my CJ and also i need to redownload everything back again.

[TG24 355]

I think i gonna recreate the Region and make everything from zero.

[TheMurderousCricket 5,046]

Oh... too bad to hear it going down this way.

Did redownloading textures not help at all?

And what about removing these LE-edited buildings?

[TG24 355]

On 8/10/2022 at 12:43 AM, TheMurderousCricket said:

Oh... too bad to hear it going down this way.

Did redownloading textures not help at all?

And what about removing these LE-edited buildings?

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