I used cleanitol to clear out the original Somy houses from my plugins, then installed the new BSC packs, both lots & models. When they grew in my city, it looks like there are models missing.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi124.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp36%2Fowlsinger%2FLithiasomyhouses.jpg&hash=6abed80e81400990e7355690ceeb56fb92aa8c12)
Any help appreciated! I love that you are updating these great houses!
Thanks,
Kendra
I have just checked the lots with just the Vol07 prop pack and the lots in plugins and all are complete. Although it was difficult to see, that one in the picture above seems to be somy-jpn-house1x4-2_b4b2af13.SC4Lot so it may be that either they had already grown in the city in which case you will need to bulldoze them to see the lots with the new prop buildings or you still have the originals lurking somewhere. It can easily happen if you use multiple plugins or SUM as Cleanitol only checks the files in MyDocs\SimCity 4\plugins. Have another check but those are the only two things that I can think could be wrong.
Thanks for replying so quickly, Barby!
Hmmmmmm....... &mmm
I went back to this city & went over it with a fine-toothed comb (with the lights on this time!), and cannot find any other Somy house lots. I bulldozed the lots that grew, and when they grew again, got the same problem, different lot.
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi124.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fp36%2Fowlsinger%2FSimCity4%2FLithia-somylot.jpg&hash=aab1f96c58125d3745d4e9f2f9f159642c1a83c2)
I'm not using SUM, and I also rifled through my plugins looking for any somy files that got past me, but can't find any. Which doesn't me they aren't there, it just means I can't find them.
I also took a look at the lots in the LE, and the ones I've got all have only one house on each lot, even though there are driveways & fences for multiple houses? %confuso
I will keep looking!
Kendra
&ops &ops I am soooo embarrassed. I uploaded the wrong set of houses. I carefully went through and replaced the original prop houses with the new desc ones but forgot to update the set in the folder i had ready for uploading. I do apologise as I had the correct set in my plugins when I tested them. I hope the problem will be resolved with a redownload of the now updated pack.
Barby, I'm still getting the one-house lots, after downloading the update. And in the LE, there appear to be only 6 models available for the lots.
(sorry, I'm being a pain! :( )
Thanks,
Kendra
Quote from: owlsinger on October 11, 2008, 03:45:39 PM
(sorry, I'm being a pain! :( )
You are not! $%Grinno$%
We're grateful for you finding these errors... especially since these houses will be on the SC4D DVD.
And the ultimate deadline for fixing that one is Monday morning... :-[
Unfortunately Barby already fell asleep, so you will have to wait some 8 hours for her return... :)
Barby had indeed gone to sleep but is now wide awake - I won't say bright-eyed and bushy-tailed though.
You are not being a pain at all but now I am completely confused. I emptied out my plugins and only had the SOMY Prop Pack Vol07 Houses plus the lot files and small file with the building exemplars in. Honest I had nothing else in, look -
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi5.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy171%2Fbarbyw%2FSOMYhousesonly.jpg&hash=569fda07ebfdddeb5ca612b18a14e5b8229649de)
At this point I opened LE and scrolled down to the houses, opened one up and - well see for youself -
(https://www.sc4devotion.com/forums/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi5.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fy171%2Fbarbyw%2FinLE-1.jpg&hash=f76bf8d7f0a8795d37657db8637ccb21cc619cd4)
I promise you there is no manipulation of images at all. The prop pack is the one on the LEX and the houses are from the zip I uploaded yesterday. If you look at the time stamp in the bottom left of the plugins window you can see it was done on 8th October at - for that particular one - 13:02. Check the time stamps on your files as they should all show 8th October between 12:00 and 13:30.
There are only 6 building exemplars as for this original set SOMY only made buildings out of 6 of the 30 odd houses. In fact he didn't actually make building exemplars for these lots but used an invisible building with a prop. This set has been uploaded to preserve the integrity of SOMY's lotting whilst modifying the way they were made originally with an invisible building, all having the same occupancy etc and with the prop exemplars having some strange property values. A couple of BSC members have started making some other lots using these houses and there will eventually be a pack of different sized lots with different growth stages available on the LEX.
For this problem, can I ask you to do what I did? Empty your plugins, put back into plugins the files showing in my image above and then go into LE. Also check the time stamps on the lot files.
I will also get some other BSC members to do the same thing and make sure that it is not my imagination.
Kendra,
I ran the same test as Barby, with an empty plugins folder and just the two pieces from the LEX, and it appears to work fine. The image below shows my plugin folder and the house lot I opened in the LE (condensed visually to save space). I'm not sure what would be causing the conflict, but it doesn't seem to be these files.
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I tested them all in-game, using the BuildingPlop and LotPlop cheats.
All 6 building exemplars and all 10 lot exemplars show up the way they should, with a full set of houses all across the lot. :)
BINGO! :sunny: It's working now!
I also fell asleep, after staying up late to watch the Fuji F1 GP! This morning I re-downloaded the pack, moved my plugins out, moved Somy in, and it's now showing all the houses on the lots. And I tested it again after I moved my regular plugins folder back, to be sure there wasn't some other conflict in the plugins I hadn't found. I must've been too anxious, & downloaded the pack before it was switched out.
Thank you all so much for checking this out! I love these houses, and can hardly wait to see what new lots will be done.
Kendra
Glad you have solved the problem.