Brody Jones

Glad to see Simtropolis is back online! I highly agree that the previous host is really really terrible at handling this situation (I mean, why would you delete a client's data instantly, lest not back it up to a separate place first?), but nevertheless, that's pretty much the past now. Let's hope this website goes on even smoother than before, I give my regards to Cori, Dirk, and all the staff that poured the effort to recovery.

I've read up on some forum posts earlier and figured that 3DS MAX would be a much better option than GMAX, but of course the issue would be availability, as many have said, the old versions are no longer obtainable through legal means anymore. Though i did find another forum post made by AP about gmax, supposedly you can create much better renders by replacing a file in gmax's install and doing some post processing with external programs. The renders look much better and less pixelated, though im not sure if it's up to 3DS MAX standards, i have no way of doing side-by-side comparisons.

I've a quick question regarding the models, are there limits to how detailed they could be? I can only use gmax as earlier versions of 3DS MAX are of course not available, i've got a few models that are quite detailed. I'm assuming it won't matter much past the rendering stage since these buildings seem to only be boxes with the rendered buildings glued onto it as textures, but i really want to make sure.

Will do, I'm the type of person who screenshots constantly, it will be a huge help. As for the scrolling issue, i've heard of it for very large regions, but it seems my region barely teeters at the edge of not being scrollable (at the top left and bottom left), so it should be fine for all purposes.

Appreicate the welcome, mate. I've also been setting up a ludicrously large region for my project, amazing how this game can still handle 24 by 18 large tiles (with the appropriate 4gb patch of course).

Hello Simtropolis, I finally garnered to courage to join this community after lurking around as a guest and i will now introduce myself. My name is Brody Jones, I've been a big fan of city building games since my childhood days, though i haven't been fully into it again until i found SimCity 4 through a youtuber i've forgotten the name of since, but no matter, that video gave me the knowledge about this game (which should have been years ago, really). I've found SimCity 4 to be quite enjoyable and incredibly addicting, especially with supplemental mods like NAM and the like, too long to list them here. I've used forums like Simtropolis in the past, but im sure my skills at foruming are quite rusty nowadays. Talking further about mods, I'm very much interested in modding this game by myself, particularly by making my own BATs. I've yet to master gmax, it's quite a handful compared to the programs i regularly use. With that out of the way, I'm hoping i can make a good impression here in the future, and just generally have a good time around these forums.