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DMD Public Works Center

DarkMatter posted a file in Commercial

Version 1.5

9,000 Downloads

Welcome to the first lot release from DarkMatter Designs: The DMD Public Works Center. Every city has a public works division which manges and maintains city utility and maintenance infrastructure. The DMD Public Works Center will bring improved city works efficiency to your utilities and transit maintenance. This Public Works Center offers many city-enhancing facilities that will improve demand and desirability in your city for a mear $560 a month. This center includes a water purification and aquifer pumping system to provide clean, crystal clear water to your sims. This center also provides 56 CS$ and 12 CS$$ jobs for your sims. Improve your city public works now and give your sims the quality city management they deserve. UPDATE v1.5 (12/28/2003) -------------------------------- This update adds several new props, including garbage trucks, courtesy of Gizmo28's vehicle props package (included in the .zip, just extract to the same folder as the lot). This version also updates one of the warehouses to look a bit better. Update #1 works properly as a water filtration system (doesn't always generate water yet, but it does most of the time....just make sure you connect it to your piping system), and shows up under the gouvernment menu in your budget screen. REMEMBER TO CONNECT IT TO YOUR PIPING SYSTEM!

Road Top Mass Transit, v2.1

DarkMatter posted a file in Gameplay Mods

Version 1.0

107,133 Downloads

The RoadTop Mass Transit Plugin, v2.1 ===================================== Author ------ DarkMatter Teirusu About ----- Welcome to the roadtop mass transit mod, version 2.0. This mod adds new, functional mass transit stops to your Rush Hour game. The stops include the following: Bus Stop, Road Bus Stop, One-Way Bus Stip, Street Subway Stop, Road Subway Stop, Avenue Bus/Subway Stop, Road Bus/Subway Stop, Avenue These stops plop directly down on your roads and avenues, and don't take up space along the side!! Note that there are a few known issues with these mods, that were working towards a fix for. 1) If plopped in front of a 1xY residential zone, an NRZ (No Road Zot) will appear, and the lot will abandon. 2) You can't plop two stops right next to each other. There may be ways to get around these propblems, and may not be. These mods will be updated regularly as new discoveries are made. Future version should work seamlessly over the top of old ones. Just overwrite the old file. Notes ----- This mod only works with the Rush Hour expansion pack installed. It makes use of new features added with Rush Hour that are not available in the original game. There are several NEW types of mass transit stops in this mod. Road top bus stops, avenue top bus stops, and combination bus/subway stops. Just plop one of these down on top of an existing road, street, one-way, or avenue, and your good to go. The combo bus/sub stop will connect to subway tracks layed underground. Installation and Removal ------------------------ This is a self-contained plugin, so just drop the RoadTopMT.dat file in your SimCity plugins directory, and away you go. To remove the plugin, just remove the .dat. Note that removing the .dat will most likely break any cities that make use of the new bus stop. Special Notations ------- Teirusu, Buggi, QBert, and Pkmnrulz240, for their help, ideas, and information

Lot Information Generator

DarkMatter posted a file in Tools

Version 1.0

11,434 Downloads

I present to you the Lot Information Generator. This is a very small, stand-alone tool that allows you to load up a .sc4lot file, fill in a few fields, and generate a .html file (including a folder of images, if required) that includes the following: Author of lot Team author is a member of Name of lot Version of lot dependencies (required prerequisit .dat files listed in the lots .LTD file) Readme, typeable within the programs enterface Statistical information, gathered from the lot building's exemplar. This program makes use of XML technologies, including XML itself, and XSLT. As such, the output of this program is HIGHLY customizable. The program generates XML internally, and passes that through a .xslt file, which transforms the XML into HTML. You can edit the .xslt file and define your own style of html output. You can use images, and reorganize the layout of the resulting .html file as much as you like, without restrictions (as long as you stay within the HTML standard). The resulting .html file can be included in your lots .zip as a complete readme that is largely automatically generated. Since you can completely customize the output, each lot editor/bat builder can have their own unique style of readme with their own images, etc.

Building Log: World Trade Center (Pre-9/11)

DarkMatter posted a topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

With this upcomming lot editor, it might be best to create a landmark with just one tower, and leave the creation of the plaza to the users. Will make your job easier, and will let people have control over how the lot looks. Not to mention the fact that we won't have to worry about creating the largest lot ever in the game (twin towers and a plaza...I'm thinking something like a 24x24 lot or around there for all three). The model looks great, too. I hope we can figure out how to keep the wires holding the antenna up in the final 3DM. I don't know exactly how to go about it...maybe just a vertical plane, and a separate texture just for that plane that has the wires on it?

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