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Sim City 4 Devotion Tools => Tools - General Discussion => Ilives Reader => Topic started by: Egi on February 20, 2014, 09:54:06 AM

Title: Missing some Exemplar Properties
Post by: Egi on February 20, 2014, 09:54:06 AM
Hello together,

I played around a little bit with the ILive Reader 1.4 (and also 0.93).
Great tool!

I tried to mod something and walked through that list here:
http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Exemplar_properties

Now I miss some properties in the reader for example in the Building_Development_Simulator Exemplar.
Stuff like "Cost Multiplier vs lot slope" is there but not "kShouldAttemptLotLevellingProperty".

Why has the list in the wiki more properties then I can see in the ILive Reader?
I pointed the reader to the SC4Exemplar.xml that came with the maxis plugin manager installation.
I also made sure that this .xml file also contains the mentioned exemplar "kShouldAttemptLotLevellingProperty".

Any idea what the problem is?

Best regards

Title: Re: Missing some Exemplar Properties
Post by: vortext on February 20, 2014, 11:40:10 AM
Quote from: Egi on February 20, 2014, 09:54:06 AM
I pointed the reader to the SC4Exemplar.xml that came with the maxis plugin manager installation.

Point it to tropod_Properties.xml which came with Reader instead.
Title: Re: Missing some Exemplar Properties
Post by: Tropod on March 08, 2014, 09:18:27 PM
Quote from: Egi on February 20, 2014, 09:54:06 AM
I played around a little bit with the ILive Reader 1.4 (and also 0.93).
Great tool!
...
Now I miss some properties in the reader for example in the Building_Development_Simulator Exemplar.
Stuff like "Cost Multiplier vs lot slope" is there but not "kShouldAttemptLotLevellingProperty"......

I don't use 1.4 anymore so I'm not sure if ilive fixed it, but 0.93 has a bug in that it doesn't parse properties of type Uint16 if I recall, which coincidently 0x6534284A/0xE7E2C2DB/0xE8DA7677 has one of. As such if you're reading the original Exemplar ilives reader won't show anything past 0x47E2C383 & subsequently truncates the rest of the properties in this exemplar if you modify it at all. 2 options to get around this; 1: (back up files first) hex edit the original, save a copy. Option 2: (shameless plug  ;D) use my SC4Reader Tool ;D.

On a side note; I've recently updated tropod_Properties.xml due to some typos in it that causes ilives reader not to parse some "Data Type" types properly. Copy of this comes with my SC4Reader tool.
Title: Re: Missing some Exemplar Properties
Post by: Egi on March 18, 2014, 11:48:48 AM
so the properties were not there no matter what .xml I used.
I switched to the sc4reader.
thanks for the answer!