A couple of years ago I got a new computer and somehow or another managed to not get my SC4 back-ups (aside from my plugins folder and game saves) transferred during the move. I've been trying the last few days to get all this stuff rounded up again but I seem to be missing something that for the life of me can't find. I don't remember what it was called, just what it did. In a very simplistic manner it allowed the editing of certain properties on lots, like zones and population numbers on growables. I used this quite a bit for editing residential lots I downloaded that had been tweaked beyond balanced game play. While I was playing the other day I discovered huge traffic congestion in an area that shouldn't have had congestion at all and got to checking and a couple of custom houses that should be low-res were actually housing 48 citizens each. I know I can use iLive Reader to fix that but I'm just not brainy enough to go messing with hex codes and the like so if anyone recalls what this is and if it's still available anywhere and point me in that direction I would be very grateful.
Do you mean SC4Tool (http://kurier.simcityplaza.de/details.php?file=315)?
Cheers
Willy
Could also be iLive's LEProp (http://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/21350-leprop-1-62/)
And may be DatGen help You ...
Thank you both! I've downloaded both and am trying to look at them. SC4Tool just keeps crashing on me as soon as I open it and the interface doesn't look familiar at all. It's probably Windows 7 causing the trouble--I'll see if I can get that sorted.
My fuzzy brain is thinking it was LeProp, as in I opened the .lot file and changed settings. I definitely remember using it to make my little tree parks and the like. However, I think I'm missing something because in digging around I'm not seeing anywhere the number of residents and the like can be changed.
I really shouldn't even be trying this today, too many nights with not enough sleep. &mmm
ETA: Sorry, Silur, I didn't see your post before I posted. I'll find DatGen and take a look at it as well. :)
No problems - DatGen and SC4 Tool works for me with WinXP SP2 every day ...
Okay, follow-up! I got SC4 Tool to run and managed to figure out how to edit said lots so it's all good! Thanks so much for your help!
Silur, I changed compatibility settings for SC4 Tool to WinXP SP3 and aside from taking forever to bring up the window for loading a file and another forever to save it worked perfectly. I would not be surprised if it does those things faster on an older OS. The same kind of thing happened to me with my older version of Paint Shop Pro. It was slower on 7 than it was on XP.
SC4Tool can run on win7 with this patch ...
"$Deal"$ - SC4Tool W7 Compatibility Patch (http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=13511.0)
Thanks so much, NCGAIO! Although compatibility mode worked for what I was doing, the patch will be great to have if I ever delve into doing anything serious. I changed out the executable just in case.
BTW, does anyone know why it takes so long for the load window to actually come up in order to open a file? I'm a pretty patient person and can wait if necessary but twenty seconds is a long time for something like that to load, then there's another twenty or so seconds for it to save. That just seems odd.