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It does. Maybe the lights aren't powerful enough. I do need to learn omni lights, because I always have trouble with them... it could light up more than it does now. I'll probably re-light the building as it gets closer to Christmas. Bic Camera. There is a version of this building as the Sofmap. I am doing an accurate one with just billboards and the McD's and a fictionalized one with urban clothing brands on the sides (which I use for my own gameplay). Pictured is the latter. EDIT: time to learn i guess

The main issue is that you use the boardwalk pieces in the wrong way. Your enbankement is too high. I don't know the exact terrain behaviour and parameters, but to place these near water/partially water pieces, the edge of the embankment needs be very close to the actual water surface. PEG created these CDK terraforming lots, which do specificaly that, flatten the terrain near to the water on the right height. You need to use those, then use the road tool around them tile-by-tile to flatten the terrain, and then you can demolish these leveler lots, then you can start plopping the actual waterfront lots (like these marina/boardwalk lots). Based on your image, you need to bring down the whole section (probably including those plazas too) to the water/beach level.

This is very impressive. Thank you for putting this together - I have no doubt it will be useful!

Thanks for the bug report. It should be fixed now. Also, don't hesitate to create a new post if already some time has passed since your last post or you have significant new information. Otherwise, it's easy to miss the edit. Edits are for minor corrections like typos or clarifications.

Wonderful... i can't wait for this...

Attention: This is a security update. Version 1.4.0 of the application is now available. My advice is to upgrade to the latest version of sc4pac directly – as a precaution, without opening any older version of the GUI. Older versions cannot be used anymore. If you do open an older version, it will tell you to upgrade to the latest version. Affected versions: 1.3.1 and all earlier versions of the GUI (Windows/Linux/web-app). (The CLI is not affected.) Fixed versions: 1.4.0 and later. The resolved issue: If there had been a malicious website specifically targeting sc4pac users, and you opened the website while the sc4pac GUI was running, it would have been possible for the website to install arbitrary files on your system without user interaction. Impact: I have no indication that such a malicious website exists, so realistically I think there's no need to be overly concerned about this issue, at this point. Such a website would have to be designed for sc4pac specifically which, given the size of the community, seems unlikely. There's no problem if you visit any random shady website that's not related to the community in some way. There's no problem when the GUI isn't running. There's also no problem if you use Safari or Brave as web browser. So, to summarize, I have no indication that the issue has been abused, so far. But, as precaution, be sure to upgrade to the latest version. Other changes included in this release: Most of the new features focus on functionality to help you resolve abnormal situations, that wouldn't usually occur under normal circumstances. For example: If you've accidentally deleted a file from the Plugins folder, use the "Reinstall" button for the corresponding package. If a downloaded file is corrupted and fails to extract or doesn't contain the expected files, use the "Reinstall & Redownload" button. If you've accidentally removed an .sc4pac folder from your Plugins, use the "Scan & Repair Plugins" button to re-sync the Plugins folder with sc4pac. If you've created two Profiles with conflicting Plugins folder locations, sc4pac will warn you about it. Additionally, you can now rename and delete Profiles.

So I ended up lowering the shore and ploping the waterfront one tile backwards surrounded by road stubs. It worked Thank you for all the tips , and also @Tyberius06

I actually confirmed it lights up in a later post. Though the nightlights really aren't all that bright (and I have no clue how to BAT, much less do nightlighting so I kind of get what you're saying). Lammtarra in particular should have its signage glowing bright yellow and AOKI's roof should be illuminated by downward facing lights surrounding it, though that one's not as much of an issue. Still wonderful job nontheless.

Finally, coming back to this: The channel hasn't been updated in a long time, so without maintenance its contents are basically available "as is". You may find some unique things there, but others might conflict with the other channels which have grown a lot since then.

...and I wasn't satisfied. Just one more lane, right? E-W route widened to RHW 6S - North ramp terminal - West ramp terminal - East ramp terminal - South ramp terminal - Zoom out - Compare to- OG build

That is a bunch of extra work for every exemplar the game loads, and it would just be duplicating something a DLL can do by itself. The process of fetching the file path from an exemplar (or any other DBPF resource) is somewhat convoluted. I implemented something similar in the query UI hooks DLL to optionally log the file path of a queried building. The steps are as follows: Get the TGI (cGZPersistResourceKey) of the object of interest. The code I linked to above demonstrates this process for cISC4BuildingOccupant. For property holders and most other resource types, this can be done by requesting a cIGZPersistResource pointer through QueryInterface and calling its GetKey method. Use the TGI to request the matching cIGZPersistDBSegment from the resource manager. Grab the file path using cIGZPersistDBSegment::GetPath. Note that user plugins are often bundled into a class derived from cIGZPersitDBSegmentMultiPackedFile, which adds a layer of indirection. My GetResourceFilePath method (called by the code I linked to above) handles both steps 2 and 3. Here is an example that gets the path of a property holder:

I found an example. I bulldozed a couple of buildings and plopped road stubs: Zoomiered:

Carrying on with semis...

Hello...! Yep... I'm very slow at making BAT... I'm so sorry about that. But I've been very busy in reality lately. Here is the current status of my BAT. I'll make the back of the building someday.

Beginning to definitively establish the walled city...

Hey everyone, my first post in a long time I've been working on a new DLL mod that makes finding and plopping lots a lot easier. Here's what it does: Features: In-game UI window with searchable lot browser Filter by zone type (R/C/I/Ag/Plopped/Other), wealth level, lot size and if necessary Occupant Group as well Search by building name or description Shows building icons and details before you plop (if they exist) Should works with all custom content and growable buildings Hotkey to toggle the window (customizable, currently uses O which is not mapped to anything else in the base game) Why: Instead of scrolling through endless menus (though the Submenu DLL has already improved this a lot, thanks memo :D) or trying to navigate the awful builtin LotPlop or BuildingPlop dialogs, you can just search "police" or filter for "2x3 commercial $$" and see everything that matches. The tool interfaces directly with the game's placement system, so plopping works exactly like using the normal (sub)menus to plop something. Video of the advanced lot plop tool in action here (on Streamable) Note: The mod uses Dear ImGui for the interface and hooks into the game's DirectX renderer. It does need DirectX11, which means it will only work for people running SC4 in DX11 mode via dgVoodoo (or potentially other DirectX wrappers). First release: A first release is now available on GitHub: https://github.com/caspervg/sc4-imgui-advanced-lotplop/releases/tag/v0.1.1 This is very much a "works on my machine" kind of release. My machine in this case means Windows 11 25H2, SimCity 4 Deluxe Edition (Digital from GOG) and dgVoodoo3 set to DX11 mode. But you might be lucky with some other configurations too, definitely let me know! Some screenshots are attached Suggestions and comments appreciated!

I've never used any of these programs and haven't tested, but a search through google and some old forum posts indicate programs like TurboTop or OnTopReplica might help you out.

For the standard menus, I prefer to stick to just 1 level of nesting, i.e. just top-level submenus, to avoid unnecessarily deep menus. Especially the noise barriers or streetlights, I imagine, would usually come in sets with their own sub-submenus which could go directly into the Signage submenu. So you'd have 2 levels of nesting instead of 3.

Working on this building some more and an update from my last post: 1. Lowest funding/grades are now fixed with appropriate LUA coding based on the DOT code. 2. Number of Educational buildings is fixed by adding the # of schools + libraries + museums. 3. Funding numbers for buildings were, after extensive testing, determined to be percentage amount of funding represented by the slider and not actual $ amounts, consistent with the overall education funding percentage noted above. With these fixes, I'm very close to a final version of the query. Just need to test it a bit more. As far as buildings/lots go, that's another issue. I was again thinking of using @Diego Del Llano's Aldred Building for an urban version. Not sure about a rural version yet.

When you find the torture chamber of that one psychopath neighbor who was always "oh, so peaceful and kind-hearted".

Make sure that you have also moved all the dll-files that dgvoodoo2 comes with to the directory where SimCity4.exe is located, and that you have applied the 4GB patch to your SC4 executable. Not easily I'm afraid. The game retrieves all the .dat/.SC4Model/.SC4Desc/.SC4Lot files from the Plugins directory at load time and I query the game's methods that allow me to look for exemplars, but that data no longer contains any information on the original files or directory that they came from. Maybe this would be possible if the sc4-resource-loading-hooks DLL patched a new property into each exemplar with the path it was loaded from, @Null 45? I think that could be possible, at least for favorited lots that are actually ploppable. Will take a look into it

was going to release this Saturday but the site was down. better late than never!

Agreed with ACE re: the glass noise. I think the reflectivity is fine, it's just the bump strength. Lately I've been working on a few buildings that have that dark mirrored glass, and it's a pain to get right. Also really nice to see Accenture in the mix. I have a fun memory of getting lost in there a few years ago and eating a falafel that tasted suspiciously like it was cooked in one of the fryers at the Popeyes next door. Nice work!

Further progress on 1 S Wacker, featuring interior blinds and support columns

Today I did a technical test (for now, a preview rendering) with a model that I can't export from Blender to 3DSMax 2012, so I decided to do a technical test with the new updated version and @ACEfanatic02 lighting. In the preview, it seems that the rendering with the current settings works, especially the differences between Maxis Nite and Dark Nite (With Post processing and Super Sampling enabled) DAY Maxis Nite Dark nite Since I come from 3DSMax, I have to say that Maxis Nite is acceptable in that a lot of blue has been reduced and it strikes a good balance between blue and black. The lighting system is not very intuitive at the moment, and there are definitely improvements that need to be made. I wonder if it would be possible to apply the settings automatically without having to merge two Blender files. For now, these are my first impressions, especially when switching from 3DSMax to Blender, which is not very user-friendly. Tomorrow I will definitely test the model in the game to see if there are any possible improvements, but I think the tool is already ready for an official release.

uphill

National Library, Penthesili, Dimland

The problem of corruption in Exemplar (let's put it this way) is linked to the fact that Maxis coded the beach based on specific properties, but when recalculating using PIM-X, some properties disappeared or were modified. In fact, the beach is considered a park (because it needs water), but for some reason PIM-X considers it a park with a statue, causing a kind of corruption. (This is why CTD occurred). There are further investigations, but so far this is the most reasonable explanation we have. This is most likely related to the fact that PIM-X used too many conditional variables to distinguish between different types of parks instead of using a specific OG as a building selector. Using OG as a selector allows you to radically eliminate this confusion, but has the sole disadvantage that lots prior to this change will be ignored by PIM-X if they do not have a specific OG. (This should not be a problem for existing lots, but if there are problems with a lot, simply use the specific OG for Parks and PIM-X will read it immediately) Therefore, all mods that copied Maxis Beach exemplar have this problem, while mods created with PIM-X should not have these issues. From a gameplay perspective, nothing happens until you use PIM-X to modify the lots that use the Maxis Beach Exemplar template Fixed eventual bugs means that any anomalies that were found have been corrected. In most cases, no problems were found since many downloads came from LEX but did not involve these corruptions. They are more related to problems such as ILS (Immortal Lot Syndrome) etc... These are mostly operations involving the restoration of LEX content. It is not applied immediately but after some time, when the algorithms have recalculated the new values. If you want to rebuild the connectors of the neighbor, that's fine, but it's excessive, as you just need to give the game time to calculate the new values.

It has been a long time since CAM 3.0 was released, but now let's talk about some developments that are underway in CAM 4.0. CAM CORE Experimental As you have seen, we have finally decided to create an experimental download where you can find content currently under development. Although this download allows you to preview the new CAM features, there are still some drawbacks, namely bugs, Crash to Desktop (CTD), and possible corruption of cities. For this reason, downloading this package will be exclusive to SC4Pac, as it allows you to implement a controlled environment in which to perform tests. (Manual download is possible but strongly discouraged) Installing this package via SC4Pac allows you to overwrite the stable CAM Core files and use the experimental version. Uninstalling the experimental version is possible, but we cannot guarantee that the process will be quick if radical changes have been implemented in the RCI simulation. For this reason, a special thread has been created where you can view the changelogs for the various experimental versions and report bugs in the experimental version. Here is the support thread, which also includes a link to the download page with only the SC4Pac button. OVERHAULED PARKS The first change implemented in CAM 4.0 is a complete overhaul of the parks, and this also affects PIM-X. The new management simplifies the process of creating park lots and prevents corruption of exemplars if they are poorly coded. This change also adds new categories such as Beaches, Canals, and Ponds & Streams, which allows you to simplify the creation of those mods. The new park creation menu Many of these changes are not visible, but the properties of the parks have been recalculated, so an update of the algorithms may be required if anomalies occur. UNIVERSAL CAP After almost 24 years, a new universal patch is coming that will finally fix the thorny issue of Commercial CAPs. For many years, those who used RHW without CAM had a commercial CAP increase of 1000 in commercial demand for each connection with neighbors, but those who used CAM had the correct value of 50000, which is the value of Maxis Highway. Furthermore, in order to reduce the car-centric view, the CAPs relating to public transport have been enhanced and negative CAPs have been introduced for connections to power lines and water pipes. Below you can see the changes that have been implemented. Railways and monorails have a CAP of 40000. RHW have a CAP of 50000 Subways and EL rails have a CAP of 30000. Streets and OWR have a CAP of 10000. Power lines and pipes have a negative CAP of -5000. The implementation of these changes involves a change in the RCI simulation with regard to demand, which requires a readjustment period to obtain the new demand. This universal patch was implemented using Exemplar Patch, which finally eliminates potential conflicts between CAM, SPAM, and Maxis. However, this means that users who do not use the digital Windows version of SC4 will not be able to use this universal patch. MULTILINGUAL AND CLEANING In the experimental version, dependency cleanup and file deletion have already been implemented, while multilingual support is still being implemented. There is still no news on CAM's multilingual support, but it will definitely be implemented in the final stages of CAM 4.0 development. FUTURE PLANNING As for expansions and new content, there are currently no definite plans as new priorities have arisen, but once these priorities have been addressed, we can start thinking about selecting and developing CAM expansions. The list includes AMPS, expanding utilities, a government expansion, and many others, but these have not yet been finalized or planned, so we will definitely be able to talk about the new features in the next development diary. For today we conclude this report/development journal of CAM 3.0 and see you at the next CAM 4.0 development journal

Hi! The last version has this arrow as a tip, just like you suggested:

I love where you are going with this. (I added the Featured Star to draw more attention to it.)

Hello, I'm back... maybe...? 😂 I'm trying rendering my building on BAT4Blender now. I set the sky/sun lighting and now it looks similar to a screenshot of a Gmax rendering that I made before. I wanted to add the nitelite lightings on the building but BAT4Blender doesn't seem to support extra lighting yet. So maybe I'll try a building that doesn't require extra night lights. Here is the recent render pic of my latest BAT.

Well, this is awkward...

I'm a fucking genius when it comes to city building. Nobody does it better than me. Deal with it.