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Ah, thank you CaptCity for the link. Something I can work with. only fix i ever found was to read the support notes for each plugin i had downloaded and made doubly sure that i had snagged any and all listed dependencies Exactly what I'm doing, although I did try to track all the dependencies down during the download phase. I think what may be causing problems is the locking and merging of prop packs. I have found loads locked and although I have the Mega version, I still have problems with things. The answer? Delete the add-on. Oh well, they are after all 'only' add-ons, the game won't suffer without them. I mean no disrespect to everyone that spents hours sweating over a hot PC modeling these add-ons - something I wouldn't even know where to start, and I thank them for the effort - but if it don't work, then no matter how pretty it looks, and maybe even make game-play better, I can't be doing with it. And to make matters worse, it probably isn't their fault. After all, the dependency was available when they built the thing, some of these add-ons have been around for years, although I've only just found my way to this game - which isn't a game at all. It's a life-filling hobby for most of the people here I think .

If it was that easy, I wouldn't be asking here. That was the first thing I did, however, when it covers a whole lot it's hard to tell where I'm supposed to be pointing. It even covers roads. I have spent most of today trying to find out what things are, then finding out what dependencies are missing, then trying to run the dependencies down. I think I'll just bin the whole idea of add-ons if I spend more time trying to get things to run/look/act right than I do enjoying the game. FWIW, I have learnt at least something today - the internet slang for a forum newcomer is a swear word. Why else would it be starred out of my post.

Hello all. I'm hardly a ***** to forums, and I know how to use a search function, however, I am desperately trying to use the search on this forum. My problem is thus: I give in my search keyword(s) and hit 'Search!'. What I get back is: Your search contained ignored words, ignored words are words like a,and,to,between.Please re-construct your search without these ignored words. Which is fine if I had been using those types of words, but I'm not, I'm using 'brown box' or 'brown package' or 'packaging' or 'newcomer' or 'new member'.... I think you get my drift. No matter what I type, I get the same result. What I am looking for is help about these brown boxes that appear instead of buildings when an add-on is used and a dependency is missing. I can't work out what building is causing it, because the box covers the whole lot. Any help - apart from 'delete all your add-ons and start again' - would be appreciated. I can live with the boxes - just - because it reminds me of the time christi or christo or whatever his name was, wrapped the German Reichstag in Berlin in some silverish material a few (lot) of years ago. And I apologise for a whine thread as a first thread on the board.