CAMpatibility of growable lots on LEX

[teddyrised]

Hi all,

Thank you so much for sparing a few minutes of your time. I really didn't want to inconvenience everyone, and I tried reading through all the sticky topics listed in the CAM forum. I think I read somewhere that majority of the lots on LEX are CAMpatible. However, may I know how could I tell the lots apart from the non-CAMpatible ones? Of course I'm making a gross assumption that the uploader might not have indicated in the description of the LEX file.

For example, I have been a huge fan of Gascooker's UK Suburbia Pack 1-5 and has been playing them on my cities for quite some time. After getting CAM, I purged the plugin folder (but kept them separate on another place in the computer), and I am thinking of importing his lots back into the plugins folder. I have downloaded his packs from LEX previously, but he didn't indicate whether they are CAMpatible or not.

I don't mind using PIM-X to recompute the growth stage for his lots, but I'm just wondering (lazy bum here, sorry heh) if his files are CAMpatible then I don't have to use the PIM-X to make changes - which brings me to the question of the CAMpatibility of growable lots on LEX.

p/s: In addition, I realize that his diagonal lots occupy less of the LOD box than the parallel ones. When I enter their occupancy, PIM-X gives me different growth stages for them. Is it okay that I make them the same growth stage, despite the discrepancy in the calculated value, so that I can get them to grow at the same stage?

Cheers,
Terry

[xxdita]

Gascooker's packs have been updated with PIMX aka SC4PIM aka the XTool. So these are perfectly suitable for CAM.

If you're uncertain about a lot, or a set of lots, try opening it up in PIMX and see if there is a Filling Degree property. If so, then it has already been updated, and is ready for CAM.

On the LEX, you can read through the descriptions. Nealy all (99%) of the lots that have been updated will say so, be it "CAMified" or "updated with PIMX/XTool/SC4PIM"... And it is now required that all lots uploaded to the LEX be modded using SC4PIM.

[teddyrised]

Thank you for the information. I have some of his older Suburbia packs (packs 3 to 5) which I don't see on LEX, so I'm thinking of modding them myself.

Anyway, thanks for the useful information about the CAMpatibility of LEX files. I guess I can download with a peace of mind thanks again!