Lot does not show in game

[RickD]

So I have made a Lot. I used an existing Lot from the rail menu and modified it because I wanted it to show up in the rail menu. Then I used "Save as.." and gave it a new name. It worked well. I can plop it from the rail menu.

But...

I wanted to have a second variation. I opened my previous lot, modified it and used "Save as.." to give it a new name. However, I can not find it in game. It is not in the rail menu and doesn't seem to be listed in the buildingplop cheat list. Only the first version is there. The lot file is in the plugins folder and I have restarted the game several times.

What is wrong?  Any help is appreciated.

[FrankU]

Strange....

Maybe, just maybe, the second one overwrote the first one? Try again after you have removed the first lot out of your plugins folder... Who knows?

[RickD]

Hmm, no, when I remove the first Lot from Plugins then it is just gone and the other one still missing.

I forgot one detail: I opened the lot in SC4Tool and added a transit switch after Lot Editor. But I did that with the first lot, too.

[FrankU]

Yeah, I though that already. Sorry. I have no ideas left.

[Simcitler]

can you give us a sreenshot of the plugin folder? (showing both files!)

Could it be possible, that you changed the Occupant Group in Reader/SC4Tool/LeProp?
Have you checked other Menues as well? (like misc transit for example?)

[cogeo]

A conflict maybe? Delete the SC4Tool-generated .sav file. SC4Tool sets the rep count of the Transit Switch and Cost properties to 1 (a bug); remember to set them back to 0 using the reader. Also compare the lot and building to another properly-working lot in the rail menu.

I could take a look, if you send me the lot.

[j-dub]

This type of thing is not too uncommon though, I have had it happen, can't really explain it, but I had some screwy stuff happen when I was working on a house or two.

I don't recall the buggi extra cheats thing being mentioned, but the one way you will be able to tell if the other lot will show up in game at all is with either the building plop command or lot plop commands that bring up the hovering text only menu windows, from the ctrl-x command line. (provided the buggi extra cheats.dll file is enabled) Those are some long menus you have to go thru, but I have had occasionally found stuff in there that I could not access before. There are plenty of custom lots others did that I could only access thru that way.

The only other idea I can think of is rename the lot saved as something else, and set it that it appears in a different menu.

[RickD]

Ok, I found the lot. It is in the harbor menu and its name is "JRJ Cargo Dock Small 3x3 01". I have no idea how that could have happened. 

Anyway, thanks for your help.