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  1. What order are the "plugins/custom landmarks" arranged in the menu?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Joe_Winko_From_YouTube's topic in SimCity 4 General Discussion

    @CorinaMarie I honestly can not thank you enough! But just wondering, how do i check the item order? and what file to do i open up with what program? is it done with the plugin manager?
  2. I just exported a building in BAT that i wanted to put in SimCity 4, but it's not showing up in SC4 Plug in Manager at all. Is there a limit on how much stuff I can add to the game? what's causing this? if you have any other questions just ask. Please help ♥

  3. SOLVED Export from BAT is not showing up in SC4 Plug in Manager? Help?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Joe_Winko_From_YouTube's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    I figured it out. The reason why it wasn't showing up is because i had an "&" character in the title of the project.

  4. BAT - Getting Started Guide / FAQ / Resources / Help

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    thank you so much! ♥

  5. BAT - Getting Started Guide / FAQ / Resources / Help

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    I'm having trouble rendering this one building in BAT. here's some pictures of what's doing: first, it's rendering space really far from the actual object, as seen here: Then it crashes and says "Error Code 6" Does anyone know what is causing this? and is there anyway I can get it to work? Also, is there a limit to how many Polygons the building can have? this one has 1,649.. is that what's causing it? is there anyway i can reduce the poly count to get it to work without having the texture look to weird? Please help ♥ if you need to know more information just ask.

  6. Africa

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube reviewed IHA's file in Maps

    Awesome job! it's beautiful! <3

  7. BAT - Troubleshooting & General Discussion

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    That fixed it! <3 thank you!

  8. BAT - Troubleshooting & General Discussion

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    but the texture is already the way i want it to be arranged on the object. it's the lighting and shadows on it that i'm having problems with. i did the UV mapping already when i made the object in milkshape.

  9. BAT - Troubleshooting & General Discussion

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    UV map? i applied the texture in BAT, it is showing up. it's just the lighting and shadows on it are very weird when i render it and it's not looking right.

  10. BAT - Troubleshooting & General Discussion

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Jasoncw's topic in SC4 BAT & Lot Workshop

    I'm having a problem with the lighting/shadows for a model i'm trying to import into SimCity 4... I made it in milkshape, and when i render it in BAT, the shadows on it are all weird (like in the left picture). it doesn't just look like that when i import it in BAT though, it looks like that as i render it to in the rendering window. But i really just want it to show up flat and smooth without any of the shadows. Does anyone know how i can fix this? please help ♥

  11. Making custom pedestrians for sims in 'My Sim Mode'?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Joe_Winko_From_YouTube's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion

    im surprised there isnt a tutorial or anything on how to make the custom pedestrian models. but i'll try finding out something. If anyone knows how to make custom pedestrian models, let me know making the images/sprites wont be a problem for me, but it's just the importing them in the game part really.

  12. Making custom pedestrians for sims in 'My Sim Mode'?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Joe_Winko_From_YouTube's topic in SC4 Modding - Open Discussion

    oh i can only do it as an over-ride? well, i guess that's ok. But if you or anyone else figures out how to do it without replacing any of the in game ones let me know and I'll definitely check out the sim faces tutorial too thank you ♥

  13. Maximum safe config map size? (Not region)

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Cool Story Hansel's topic in Mapping Community Room

    ^oh, well that makes sense. ^yeah, that'd be better. ^you'll be very shocked with how much time i have on my hands... :S

  14. Maximum safe config map size? (Not region)

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Cool Story Hansel's topic in Mapping Community Room

    it's against the rules to hack and modify the game so that the large region would work? how come? it's not like stealing it or anything. and yeah, i got the big region to work but i couldn't scroll to the east because the 'scroll limit'. doesn't seem like there's a way around that either but if anyone ever discovers one, please post it here.

  15. Does your parents argue?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to MisterBlueStar4's topic in General Off-Topic

    My adoptive parents? yeah, they do. Back when I was a little kid, I always thought it was funny, but now i just always think it's very annoying.
  16. how do i fix this?
  17. my god... you think they could've made that easier to follow... ok, i'll try to figure it out. thank you..
  18. i make A LOT of buildings in SimCity 4 with BAT, and i've been having this problem for quite a while. the buildings are getting 'mixed up' with each other. and it's getting annoying here's a video of an example of whats going on: does anyone know how to fix this? please help! ♥

  19. My custom made landmark-buildings for SimCity 4 keep getting 'mixed up' help?

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Joe_Winko_From_YouTube's topic in SC4 - Custom Content

    Yes it did work just have to make sure to go to FILE and NEW whenever you're making a new project in BAT and yeah i've been doing it since April the first mod i made was a statue of myself for this region i was ruling. lol : I do have plans on uploading stuff to STEX one day its just that 99% of the stuff ive been using was for my SimCity 4 gaming series, 'The United States of Joe Winko' and I just didn't want to release it yet. But most of them are just buildings from 3dwarehouse (im not sure if im allowed to post those) BUT i do have quite some experience with 3d modeling so im able to create some original stuff as well I use milkshape 3d and then import them into BAT. there's still quite a bit i have to learn in terms of 3d modeling however. im far from an expert, But as to getting models into BAT and importing them into SimCity 4, i memorize by heart it's just like riding a bike once you learn you never forget hahaha. ALSO just for the record, i DID NOT make that statue of me from scratch! i exported a body mesh out of the sims 2, and downloaded a cape mesh to go over it. and a seagull model for me to hold (I LOVE seagulls because they make me think of the beach and my home back in the time i lived in the Dominican republic ) the only thing i made in that picture was the box/platform i'm standing on, and my signature pointy bandanna lol
  20. im having a problem with this one region i downloaded (and modified) for SimCity 4. I downloaded this region: ^it's the 48 contiguous states of the USA. I truely love this region because it's very beautiful, However, i wanted more 'space' with it. as in make the whole map bigger. So what i did was, i doubled the size of the config, which would make the entire region twice the size as it is. and followed the readme steps included with it, i did nothing to the gray-scale image though. However, whenever i try to load the region in my SimCity 4 game, it crashes before it can load the region. the game crashes, not my computer. My computer is a MSI gaming laptop, so it should be able to handle the region, i guess, despite it's massive size, but the game crashes when i try to load it. I even turned down all the graphic settings to their lowest settings and it still crashes when i try to load it. I'm just wondering, does anyone here know if there's anyway to get the increased-sized region to work? please help ♥ and if u have any questions, just ask.
  21. good point i honestly just wanted to double the size of the region because it makes the rivers smoother. i know i could edit all of that my self, but i prefered to just use a large region. but oh well just gotta work with what i got but thanks for trying to help ♥
  22. ^that didnt really tell me of how to get around the scrolling issue :/ and heres a video of everything going on: its a long video but it shows the comparison of the original map and the resized/modified one i made.
  23. oh there's no hack or no way to get around that?
  24. the way the region mod i downloaded works is that it came with the grayscale image and the bmp, and the instructions told me to import it into SimCity 4 mapper. I changed the config size first, then imported it, i didnt do anything to the grayscale image though. was i supposed to resize it? i didnt think i needed to because when i imported it into SimCity 4 mapper it said they didnt match and gave me an option for the program to match them instead. it imported into SimCity 4 mapper fine though. the config image's original size was 104px by 64px, BUT i doubled the size of it, making it 208px by 128px. i didnt do anything to the greyscale image. Oddly enough, i tested it on my other windows 7 laptop computer (which is not a gaming computer at all. it's just average.) And the game didnt crash at all, BUT when i tried scrolling and seeing the whole region on that computer, it would not let me go to the farthest edge, as in when i clicked and dragged to see the side end of the map, it would stop part way.

  25. Maximum safe config map size? (Not region)

    Joe_Winko_From_YouTube replied to Cool Story Hansel's topic in Mapping Community Room

    is there any way to hack the games limitations? just curious. i have massive region i wanted to play as that's 208px x 120px and it crashes whenever i try to load it.
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