shadow the hedgehog

cool this will be handy (Disclaimer: Simtropolis is not resposible for accidentily turning average normal people into complete geeked-out 'roof junk' dorks.)quote> but ski will be

nice! up for it here... just like to say ive got a preview of a bat similar to the Transamerica Pyramid Tower on the way as seen in mightygooses pic

sounds interesting... i make BATs (although i havent released any ive got a BAT thread) and though i havent had much time now doin bats cos of exams etc during the summer and next year i should have more time to help out i consider my bat skills ok (not excellent but decent) so ill be more than helpful to get this thing on its toes

i know i dont comment a lot in forums but THIS!!!! YOUVE GOTTA FINISH THIS!!!! IT WILL BE SO DAMN COOL!!!!!! yea ill be interested

i dont have a tutuorial but i do have some advice for UDI (U Drive It) which some may find useful Basics you drive a certain vehicle round your city for free drives or missions and there is some panels (depending on what you are doing) to help you around Vehicles... a bit of info there are 3 types of vehicles: land sea and air, you are able to drive these once you have the necessary buildings, you can drives these in the My Sims-U Drive It option (reward/building based) or when you move a sim into your city (My Sim based) for cars you drive on any road formations, you can drive on the terrain but its really slow.... unless if youre driving the tank then thats different, for boats you drive on the water and on the water only, and for planes you can fly anywhere including off the map some require certain wealth residentials (cars in the "My Sim" option) and some for ploppable buildings and rewards (train requires train station, mayor limo requires mayors house etc) if a UDI icon is grey you will need to a certain building, highlight the icon to see which building is required, some buildings are easily ploppable (with a chunk out of your budget as well :X) and some are rewards, which you have to have a certain building or level in your city (or simply use the "you don't deserve it" cheat) UDI Panels youll see these when youre driving your vehicle the basic one youll see is the one at the bottom middle of the screen, it shows speed and a map with all the roads in a UDI mission, there is a panel top right of screen with mission objectives and controls, and theres also a little red & white arrow thing, this shows you where to go Driving basics done... now heres the driving tips! Vehicles (again)... while Driving each vehicle explodes at certain points and can sometimes disappear as well land and sea vehicles explode if there is harsh contact with another vehicle or multiple crashes, follow the general rule that fast vehicles are small and weak and slow vehicles are big and strong, so a fast vehicle would explode after many hits with fast vehicles and only one hit from trucks buses etc, and slow vehicles would take some damage from all types (i think) before exploding, the same applies for boats planes (crop harvester, skywriter, parachute, helicopters etc) are different, they cant hit other planes (as far as im aware) and would bump off many buildings before crashing, but ive never done it so i dunno vehicles except planes will disappear if you go at the edge of the map via terrain or road, there may be some bugs that cause you to disappear as well like funny shaped roads Vehicle Health as indicated by The Sims diamond mood indicator, green means youre healthy, brown youre becoming wrecked and red youre destroyed, keep an eye out on this crashing into vehicles causes it to go red, slow vehicles makes fast vehicles go red straight away so watch out! Road Layout road layout is extremely important when driving especially depending on who takes what route, if youve got skyscrapes expec more traffic on the road, if theres bus stops expect buses, if theres industry expect freight trucks, if youre on the highway/motorway cars can go fast etc try to go on the quiet bits where theres fast cars that way if you crash youll recieve minimal damage and avoid routes with slow vehicles (buses freight etc) there are some road layouts where you could hit other vehicles, take note which parts do this and be careful when approaching them while its busy Road Stick and No Road Stick this applies to land vehicles only, in the map/speed panel there should be a tire, if the tire is circular you are in stick mode where you can stay on roads and are dictated by a certain path, if the tire is like a 4WD with dirt, you are in no road stick mode and can control the car in any direction on roads or on terrain it is worth noting that with no road stick you can swerve round traffic and avoid crashes, you can drive on the other side of the road or on paths, i tend to drive on paths in UDI missions as theres no traffic and u cant run over people and get the cops on yer unlike GTA Speed there is no real application to speed except it gets ya from A to B faster and you can go very fast along the streets and theres nothing the cops cant do about it the trains the only one to look out for, if you press the up (acceleration) button for a long while itll go to fast and derail, you can go up to the red but dont press anything then on, just relax and enjoy the ride Checkpoint Missions you need to get from A to B in the allowed time get to the checkpoint then youll probably have to wait a bit (0.5-1 second) before your next checkpoint/mission successful window is shown, simple in the commerical strike mission for mayor limo, hold down the space bar till its ready before you can go to the next chckpoint (mind this one costs you... literally!!!) Hover Missions basically you need to cover some areas shown as yellow squares in the allowed time the first type is going over them, such as the mayor limo one with the casino or the sky writing plane message, you need to cover them by going over them in your vehicle (note you need to activate the sky writing in the skywriting plane missions and the pesticide for the farm spray planes missions) the second type is using the right mouse button such as the shine the light helicopter mission and the soak the cats fire engine mission, hold the right mouse button till you covered the yellow squares/lot till the next checkpoint/mission success window appears, what i do for these is i some out to max level then i can complete the mission faster (youre highlighting after all and can reach further distances... imagine a fire hose shootng water over 20 houses... haha!) Chase Missions theres 2 types: chase and be chased! a chase is where you have to catch someone (like cat and mouse), the target is moving so you have to be quick, if youre near it ram them! it ends the mission (id only do that if youre in good health though) being chased missions is where you have cops onto yer, stay too long in their sight and the mission is failed so watch out, give them a little nudge and you should be okay Sirens sirens can cause more harm then good, theyll get cars out of the way for yer but some can crash straight into yer at some intersections, use them wisely Mission Types there are 2 types of missions: good (advisors) and evil (Vu) good missions rarely give you extra §§§ but more mayor rating, fail and youll lose mayor rating and some money bad missions give you lots of §§§ but the mayor rating decreases and the cops are usually after yer, fail and lose a bit of §§§ both can lead to new reward buildings, for some you have to do mulitple missions for a reward like how you have to do all police missions to get the deluxe police station... or you could just get the necessary stats Misc crash the school bus and youll here the kids you can aduct people with the UFO the tank army helicpoter and fighter jet have limited ammo, but gizmos fighter jet is unlimited give away the citys money by pressing the space bar with the mayors limo make people run to you by putting on the ice cream trucks sirens make people run away from you by pressing the space bar on the toxic waste truck other updates shall be updated here Shadow the Hedgehog

the work all NAM modders have done is great but ive got a little problem, ive installed the diagonal streets and im not able to use them in the game, if anyones got any instructions what to do to help solve this ill be greatful (its starting to bug me not having diagonal streets :X)

i know that this thread seems finished with and all but after seeing this thread id like to know how to create custom farm fileds, itd be cool to make my own things but i dunno how, help would be greatly appriciated