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this is the city scape I have sought after for my own cities. beautiful

Yes how did u manage to create a rectangular city? or is it a stretched pic?

in the 11th pic your ground hwy has some exceptional smooth curves...is that the NAM at work?

Has there been any resolution to the problem associated with the SUM not hiding the appropriate files but loading the entire plugin folder when starting the game. This is a new problem with my windows 7.

Awsome right down to the custom cloud starscape background...is this a creation of yours?

I definitely saved some of these pics for inspiration in my own region....are the courts in Shaw Park your own creation? I like how they are fenced in

can I ask how the streets in your village have no sidewalks? Gives it truly authentic look

Another masterpiece, excellent work

Blunder this is fantastic. I haven't finished reading this portion yet but had to comment. Your part of the journal here has been exactly what I need to make such detailed scenes. I have all these files you have mentioned and more but never could combine them realisticlly. I am using your guidance here for my own scenes. Thank you.

My query is working but the image i added is missing and instead there is a window in the query where i can see thru to the game behind. Any ideas?

I am using Windows 7 now as well and just like Nicholasville the SUM works fine till it tries to intiate and then it freezes. Any solutions?

Welcome to my first tutorial. I was messing around with bumping up the numbers on the total number of fire trucks per station and decided the fire landing strip (FLS) could use some updating. For this tutorial you only need the Lot Editor (LE) and Reader programs. First I opened the original FLS file in LE and as you can see below I did some personal modifications but the most important is to duplicate the prop "0x2c5a0000 Tag 1x1x3 Fireplane Gnome" which will put a second plane prop on the FLS. You can find it easily by hovering the mouse over the original prop on the tarmac. Once the lot is set up to how you like (with the extra plane prop of course) save the file and exit the LE program. From this point you will need the Reader program. Open your SimCity Deluxe file in the Maxis folder and open the SimCity_1 dat file. Make sure you are looking in the C: Program Files/SimCity 4 folder. Depending on your computer speed it may take a few moments for Reader to open the dat file, but when it does it will look ver similiar to this. (Keep in mind this dat file is critical to proper operation of the game, if you are going to proceed then make a copy at this point. This way, if you make any serious mistakes to the file you will not have to reinstall the game.) From the top bar click Analyser which will open a new window. In this new window click Search located in the top left. When the program is done loading click the Tree button, if you have done it correctly your screen will look like this. Scroll down to Civic buildings and click on it, then click on the building drop down menu. From this list you will find the "Fire Department Landing Strip" like below, I like to maximize this window for ease of use. On the right side of the screen click on the "Fire Station Total Plane Dispatches" this will open the property screen for this function of the lot. At the bottom of the screen under "Values as text" change the value 0x00000001 to 0x00000002. Click "apply" to the right THEN click "Apply" at the bottom. Like so Close the property window and then close the analyser window. At this point you must click "Save" at the top left of the window. You may then close Reader. As you can see below the modification in LE and Reader worked. In the event of a fire during the game you can go ahead and click the fire plane dispatch paddle and see you have 2 available. Sometimes dispatching both at the same time will work but not always. In the event u dispatch both but only one takes off, when the first plane is in the air the UDI Mission Indicator will pop up over the second plane on the ground, click it and accept and now you have control over the second plane and the first will respond to where ever you have placed the dispatch paddle. Or open the UDI menu for fixed wing aircraft and accept the mission and you will have control of the plane still on the ground. There are times when the second plane will not respond at all and that is just a tweek of the game being modified I suppose. But for the most part as you see below, it works. Enjoy! Please PM STomnibus if you have any questions about this article.

The city of Inner Harbor outside of Boston has grown by leaps and trips. Recently the local populace took to the streets in an effort to vent their displeasure at the local mayor (who shall remain nameless...the putz!). Rolling numerous vehicles and igniting several fires, the mayor had to put down his ice tea and put in a collect call from CapeCod to the deputy mayor in Boston and grant approval for riot police. The crowd was dispersed and the incident recorded for the next show of Worlds Wildest Police Videos so Steve Burnell can crack more bad commentary.....