
- Installing simcity 4 mods on origen how to#
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How do you know you are missing props or buildings? Well if you are missing certain things on the lot, whether it is trees, cars, or a whole building, it is usually when props or buildings are missing. Some last quick things to know: The default location for the maps if you can not get the region to work in the My Documents/Simcity4/Regions location, try using the C: Documents and Settings"UserName"My DocumentsSim City 4Regions location for all of the steps above. This will take any amount of time, resulting from your computer speed or the region size. Now, click on the jpg file, it should show an hour glass, this is normal, and then it will begin rendering the map, you will see it loading, small city, medium city, and large city tiles for the whole process of rendering. Navigate to find your region which should be in the My Documents/Simcity4/Regions/Long Beach (i.e.). Hold Shift+Alt+Ctrl+R to open up a window of your folders. Now, go to the open region icon, then find your region folder you have named, once the region has loaded you should see a whole region of plains, this is normal. Next you are ready to render your map to your SimCity 4 game.
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Install this also to your My Documents/Simcity4/Regions/Long Beach (i.e.), make sure to rename it "config.bmp" once it is in your folder.

You need this for the region in-game to be configured correctly. jpg to the folder you have created, My Documents/Simcity4/Regions/Long Beach (i.e.). First off create a new folder in the My Documents/Simcity4/Regions and name it whatever you would like the region to be named (I will name it Long Beach). Once again installing STEX maps is quite a simple task that is very likely to be mistaken in the Simtropolis community for a hard task to do. It does so by interpreting 256 shades of grey into a "height map", with shades closer to white being higher and shades closer to black being lower. SimCity 4 can create new regions from grey scale jpeg files.
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It is also very important to read the READ ME file that might come with the BAT and or lot you download to the plugins folder, because it might have different instructions to install it otherwise. Every BAT and lot you see must be unzipped and installed to the My Documents/Simcity4/Plugins folder, or a sub folder in the plugins folder.
Installing simcity 4 mods on origen how to#
You didn't want a guide explaining how to use the Lot Editor, and the Building Architect program now did you? Now that you know what BATs and a lots are, you are ready to install these two different types of custom content. If you would like to use the BAT to make your own custom content you might want to check here, and a great tutorial here*, and you remember hearing the term "lot", what is that you ask?Ī lot is the entire structure of something in Simcity, including the building, fauna, decor, and ground tiles, and you may create your own lot using the Lot Editor program, which is defined as an official Maxis release that allows for customization of lots in SC4, using this program you may move props, buildings, trees, etc. A BAT is commonly known to the members of Simtropolis as a 3-D model that is made using what the BAT stands for, Building Arcitect Tool. Installing SimTropolisEXchange BATs and lots is a very simple task, first off you will need to know what a BAT is. Post a question if an issue is not covered here. Additional help is always available online, so if a problem exists that is not covered here, please visit us and find the answers you need! We are here to help! Thanks to Simtropolis moderator, DragonAnime for helping with this guide!įor additional help and information, please visit this forum.

This guide will help you install all the custom content found on the STEX CD. Please PM Dirk or STomnibus if you have any questions about this article.
