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Hi, thanks for your nice reply, yes indeed I found that Acme Boiler was already covered in that prop volume. The cleaningtool listed the missing ones, still a lot. I understand the reasons, it is a due courtesy to the authors of the model. The big problem is that at least one of those models is positively missing and I cannot find it, that too was in the now defunct sc4devotion site and I could not find it anywhere. I'm not at home now so I cannot check which one but I'm pretty sure there is at least one. If you want I can make a list of the ones that cannot be found, at least for those models, since they cannot be found anywhere, would it be possible for you to set up a temporary download place, since you worked on the mod you surely have a local copy of all of them. I have used the sc4pac, for another nightmare (to install, but great to use) mod: the CAM agricoltural. That one had a lot of stuff in sc4devotion that went missing, but thanks to sc4pac I managed to download everything from all around automatically and it took only the time to merge the missing pieces in the plugin directory.

Oh, I also have to add that there is already one I cannot find the sc4model, the very first one in the list: IRM W2W Acme Boiler Factory By Jestarr I can find it here in simtropolis but the package doesn't have the model, and it seems that could be found only on sc4devotion which is closed and sc4evermore doesn't have it (yet) available... so I cannot get rid of the brown box...

Hello, I just installed the IRM CAM and this expansion. From what I understand, after you download and install this expansion, you have to go pick the missing 100+ .sc4model files and put them in each of the building you want to be available. Is that correct? I tried to add just one for testing (IRM W2W Gaulargaten 15 By Glenni), indeed the cleantool script doesn't complain anymore, according to what you wrote about the script checking only the buldings you want. Ok, fine, but it seems that for all the other buildings for whom you didn't provide the .sc4model, if you don't delete their directory, you get the dreaded "brown box". I did. I got a few NYBT ABBT 609 W 131st Street in my test city and they are all brown boxes. I guess this is normal, since the model is missing, but I have a question now: why wasn't their .sc4 model directly added with each buidling? Why should whoever wants this very nice IRM expansion need to do that and find and put 100+ models there? Please notice that I'm not complaining, I understand this modding is heavy work: it took me 1 full day to install all the mods from NAM, CAM, DLLs, many CAM stuff including the nightmare CAM agricolture and all their respective dependences and I probably did some mistakes and I'm gonna use SC4READER to check the failed dependences and it doesn't look good. I say again, I'm not complaining and modding of any game is funny and heavy work, but I'm genuinely curious why this expansion requires to go hunt for all those .sc4model files, and at least takes the pain to correctly lists them with their link, when with basically the same work of listing those, they could have been included in the expansion zip file directly. The author did such a wonderful job that I cannot believe it is laziness, so there should be another reason, but I can't figure which one. Would you satisfy my curiosity?