Create Building Style Exemplar Tool

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A utility that creates building style exemplars for use with the extended building style control UI. The application is available in two versions, a Windows GUI application and a cross-platform console application.

Download: https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/37239-create-building-style-exemplar-tool/

Source Code: https://github.com/0xC0000054/sc4-create-building-style-exemplar

Windows GUI

This is a Windows application with a graphical user interface.

System Requirements

• Windows 10 or later.
• .NET 10.0 Desktop Runtime

Console

This is a cross-platform command line application.

System Requirements

.NET 10.0 Runtime (Windows and Linux)

Usage

CreateBuildingStyleExemplarConsole OPTIONS <output file>

Options:

Long form	Short form	Description
--building-style	-s	The hexadecimal building style id.
--style-name	-n	The name of the building style UI check box.
--style-name-is-bold	-b	When present, the style name will be displayed with a bold font.
--style-tool-tip	-t	The tool tip shown when the user hovers over the style check box.

Example:

AssignBuildingStylesConsole --building-style 0x20A0 --style-name "Mediterranean" file.dat

The above command will add a style exemplar to file.dat for the Mediterranean style.

If you would like to make voluntary contributions to support me in continuing to create more content for SimCity 4, I accept donations via PayPal: https://paypal.me/0xC0000054
Thanks to the few people who have donated to me.

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