Changing the tilesets

[Fabian93]

Well,
all of you know, that there are 4 tilesets in the game (Euro, Chicago, Houston, New York, if I remember right)...
Now I thought, that it would be good to control the growth of your buildings. Sometimes you just want to have W2W-blocks and sometimes you want to build some nice and little suburbs .
Now here are my questions:
1. How can I get an overview of ALL growable buildings that are currently in my plugins-folder?
2. How can I change the tileset of a certain building?

I know that I have to change the OccupantGroup with the Reader?!
Moreover I know, that this has probably been asked before, but I really don't know where to start...

Any help would be really appreciated  ,
Fabian

[RippleJet]

2. How can I change the tileset of a certain building?

I know that I have to change the OccupantGroup with the Reader?!

Just make sure your residential and commercial buildings have the values as quoted below.
Note however, that each buildling can have one, or several, of these building styles.
You can add more values (reps) to the OccupantGroup property in the Reader as well.

E.g., unless changed by the creator, new custom buildings by default would have all four styles set.
You can simply delete those values, corresponding to building styles you do not want the building to be.
Just make sure you do not delete any other OccupantGroup values than those four listed below.

Occupant Groups for Building Exemplars

The table below lists all OccupantGroup values (in hexadecimals) that Maxis has defined for building exemplars.

[tabular type=1]
[row] [head]

Occupant Group[/head] [head]

Description[/head] [head]

Additional information[/head] [/row]
[row] [data colspan=3]

[/data] [/row]
[row] [head colspan=3]

Building Styles[/head] [/row]
[row] [data]

0x2000[/data] [data]Chicago[/data] [data]

Only for Growable R and C[/data] [/row]
[row] [data]

0x2001[/data] [data]New York[/data] [data]

Only for Growable R and C[/data] [/row]
[row] [data]

0x2002[/data] [data]Houston[/data] [data]

Only for Growable R and C[/data] [/row]
[row] [data]

0x2003[/data] [data]Euro[/data] [data]

Only for Growable R and C[/data] [/row]
[/tabular]

[Infixo]

Is it possible to add new styles to the game? Rush Hour did add an Euro-style. I looked through posts, and got an impression that it's rather not possible?
G.

[Andreas]

So far, nobody succeeded in that, therefore, it's most likely controlled by the EXE, which is off-hands for us.