NAM feature issues on Mac

[dqjohson485 1]

I have NAM v.48 installed on my MacBook Air. I play SC4 through steam. I have issues with some NAM features not functioning properly, for example, some draggable features not working and only plopping on one square at a time. Other issues are with pieces not quit fitting together properly like with the highway pieces. Is it supposed to be this way or am I not using the features correctly? Or perhaps I don't have the mod installed correctly? I need help with this because I'd very much like to utilize all the tools to build the best cities. 

[Tarkus 6,932]

First off, welcome to Simtropolis!

With the NAM's draggables that originate from "starter pieces", the starter piece itself is not draggable.  Instead, place the starter, then drag one of the game's base networks through the square produced by the starter--the tool tip text on the starter should tell you which base network to use.  The base network should convert to match the starter.

One other thing to note using the NAM on a Mac is that, for whatever bizarre reason, when Aspyr updated the port to be 64-bit and work on newer versions of macOS, they significantly altered the function of the TAB Ring functionality that the NAM utilizes extensively to store items under the menu buttons.  Since the update, the TAB key will typically skip over every other item in the TAB Ring, and you'll actually need to use (I believe) Ctrl-TAB and Ctrl-Shift-TAB in order to cycle through every option.

The NAM is an extremely expansive mod, and one that's changed quite a bit over its 20 years of development.  The one piece of advice we usually give is to experiment in a testbed city, to try out things and see how they work.  I'd recommend stopping by the NAM's official site, sc4nam.com, which has quite a bit of documentation to peruse.

Hope you enjoy the mod!

-Tarkus