smf_16

I really like the concept of @pclark06's Regional Distribution Centers, but unfortunately they come as landmarks without jobs. This is a bit annoying, because they take up a lot of space in your industrial districts and hence you lose valuable land with no jobs. To solve this, I created this mod which gives all of the regional distribution centers 320 I-M jobs. I did not modify the original lots, but instead created an entirely new set, so if you have already used the original landmark versions in your city, they will remain unaltered. Dependencies Obviously this mod needs the original distribution centers as dependency: pclark06:regional-distribution-centers-a-j pclark06:regional-distribution-centers-k-z pclark06:regional-distribution-centers-retail-1 You also need all dependencies of the original files, so do yourself a favor and install this mod with sc4pac, which handles all of the dependencies for you. If you don't plan to use the landmark versions and you haven't already used them in your cities, you can get rid of the /Lots folders in the original distribution centers, but YOU MUST keep the /Buildings and /Props folders, otherwise you will get brown boxes. Submenu support The new lots will, just like the original ones, appear in the landmarks menu, but again, do yourself a favor and use this with memo's Submenus DLL, after which both the I-M lots and the original ones will appear in the I-M submenu. Acknowledgements Many thanks go to @pclark06 for making the fantastic original lots.

Seasonal flora looks great, but they come with a few drawbacks. For example, most flora needs to be planted on a specific date (often September 1st). If you don't do this, you will get a mix of various seasons. Also, even though a lot of content is available with seasonal flora, as are seasonal tree controllers, you often still end up with a mix of both, which can look a bit awkward. This mod takes a different approach, inspired by @T Wrecks' Non-Seasonal Cycledogg Trees and the Central European Tree Controller. Instead of seasonally changing flora, it ensures that all of the supported flora - both seasonal and evergreen - becomes static and matches the season you picked during installation. As @11241036 said: "After all, we do only need seasonally changing trees for good looks and screenshots." I've decided to call this approach *everseasonal flora*. With this mod you can change seasons independently of the game date. For example, if you're making a fall-themed CJ entry, use the fall version and then change back to summer later on. You could also follow real-life seasons if you want: just change the fall version in September, winter version in December and so on. That way your game matches the true seasons, which can really give a new dynamic to playing the game! Currently, this mod supports the flora & props from the following packages. If there are any other packages that have seasonal flora or props, you can send me a message to make me aware of it. All of Girafe's flora mgb204:mmp-pack-vol2, which makes some of Girafe's trees that were only available as props also available as flora. t-wrecks:maxis-tree-hd-replacement-mod orange:fagus orange:aesculus bsc:mega-props-cp-vol01 bsc:mega-props-cp-vol02 vip:rural-pack 11241036:vip-trees-as-props 11241036:central-european-tree-controller Note that these packages are no hard dependencies, except for t-wrecks:maxis-tree-hd-replacement-mod (see below). "Compatible" means that this mod will affect the appearance of the trees in those packages, but you're free to leave out the ones you don't want or need. Also note that the Central European Tree Controller already has its own way of changing seasons. However, you usually want to change seasons in one pass, so it's undesirable to have to change both the season for this mod and the CETC. Therefore, since v2 of this mod, all you have to do is change seasons with this mod, and then the CETC is automatically affected too. Remember though, if you use the seasonal variant of the CETC, then your trees are under the hood still seasonal, even though they appear static, so as for the other packages, you will still need to plant your trees at September 1st if you intend to disable this mod again! Below is a screenshot of the mod in action on @RRetail Roadside Rest Area, which uses evergreen trees: Installation I strongly recommend installing this mod with the sc4pac Mod Manager. Not only does sc4pac make installation easy, it also makes it easy to switch season by resetting the smf16:everseasonal-flora:season variant. You can do this by going to "Dashboard" > "Variants" If you choose to install this mod manually, then you have to pick ONLY ONE of the five folders. Choose the one labeled for the season of your liking. If you want to change seasons, remove the old folder again, and replace it with the season of your liking. Due to the exemplar patching, there is no requirement to have the mod load after all other mods, so you can put it anywhere you want in your plugins folder. Dependencies This mod uses exemplar patching, which is why it needs null-45:sc4-resource-loading-hooks to work. This is the only hard dependency: you don't need to have all of the flora listed above, the mod will only change what you have installed. However, if you happen to not have t-wrecks:maxis-tree-hd-replacement-mod, then you need to remove the t-wrecks.maxis-tree-hd-replacement-mod.dat file from your chosen season, as otherwise you might have brown boxes. IMPORTANT Please note that this mod DOES NOT convert evergreen props into functioning seasonal props. It will change the appearance of evergreen props, but they will still remain static and stay the same throughout the year. This is because of how seasonal props work: a seasonal prop is just a timed prop, so if you need a seasonal prop for all seasons, you actually have to add 4 timed props to the lot. It also means that, under the hood, seasonal flora is still seasonal, even though it doesn't look like it. This means that if you intend to ever disable this mod again, then you still need to make sure to plant seasonal flora at the required start date! Acknowledgements Many thanks go to @Girafe and @VIP Team for creating the gorgeous trees in the first place, @11241036 for inspiring me to make this mod, and @memo for making exemplar patching possible, which avoids hard dependencies on the flora.

Sea level mods have been around for a long time (for example here). However, the downside is that they typically don't work with terrain mods because either the terrain mod will override the sea level mod file, or the sea level mod will override the terrain mod file, depending on the load order of the files. The solution is to manually edit your terrain mod in the Reader, but this is cumbersome, especially if you just need to temporarily lower the sea level to shape your coastline. There is also the SetSeaLevel cheat, but this one does not allow you to set the sea level above 250, and it will destroy stuff like power lines or bridges, so I'd stay away from it. This mod solves this by leveraging exemplar patching. This allows the mod to override only a single property from your terrain mod file, without needing to override all other properties in it. This means that this sea level mod is (or at least should be) compatible with all terrain mods, as well as Maxis vanilla terrain. I included 7 different heights: 0m, 250m (the default game water level, useful if you're using a terrain mod that alters the sea level and you don't want this), 500m, 750m, 1000m, 1500m and 2000m. Choose only one of them, obviously. If you have a good reason to have another height, you can send me a request to add it, or you can just open the .dat file in the Reader and update the "Sea Level" property. Do yourself a favor and install this with sc4pac. This allows you to quickly switch heights by resetting the smf-16:universal-sea-level-mod:height variant. Within less than a minute you can be back in the game with the modified sea level. It also adds a specific "off" variant to disable the mod, but keep it in your sc4pac configuration. I recommend this instead of uninstalling it because it makes it easier to reset the sea level to 0 temporarily. Dependencies: null-45:sc4-resource-loading-hooks (this is needed for the exemplar functionality to work).

This upload contains my sc4 cli tool. While already available on GitHub, I decided to upload it on the STEX as well to give it a bit more visibility. I initially developed the tool for a proof of concept that savegames could be modified, but in the meantime it has grown into a general purpose modding tool that can be used for various modding tasks. Documentation can be found on GitHub. The most important thing is that the tool can be used in two modes: By default, when opening the binary, it will launch in interactive mode. It will prompt you what you want to do, such as growifying a city, creating a new submenu, ... You can also drag & drop files - such as an .sc4 savegame for savegame operations - on the binary to perform operations on that file. You can also use it as a cli tool, meaning you interact with it using commands. There are various commands available for modding tasks, such as tracking dependencies with sc4 plugins track plopping all lots in a folder with sc4 city plop or extracting the contents of a dbpf file with sc4 dbpf extract Run sc4 --help to get an overview of all available commands. I plan to update the STEX upload only when there are significant changes. If you want all the latest features, I advice you to download it from GitHub instead. IMPORTANT INFORMATION As specified in the license, the tool is provided "as is", meaning that it is your own responsibility to have sufficient backups of any files you want to modify, especially when modifying savegames. I am not liable for any of the consequences if your files become corrupted due to a bug in the tool.