Issues With SmallTown USA

Ayaren · June 18, 2007, 08:01:45 PM

So I've downloaded the Smalltown USA collection, but it wasn't showing up. So then
I opened up the .SC4Lot files up in LEProp, but only the ploppable versions would open, and after
that they would work fine (even though I didn't change any properties). Any suggestions on how
to get the growables to work? I'm running a mac.

jeronij · June 19, 2007, 12:55:04 AM

~~If you cant open the tiles in LEProp, probably the game cant open them either~~

See Barby's post below

BarbyW · June 19, 2007, 01:00:22 AM

I hope that Lee will answer here as he also has a Mac and it may be related to the extraction of the files.

callagrafx · June 19, 2007, 01:34:38 AM

You say you ran then through LEPprop....did you do this on the Mac, emulating XP or do you have bootcamp? It could be an extraction error but I very much doubt it, otherwise you'd end up with corruption, which you don't have.

~~I'm pretty sure JBSimio's smalltown USA collection were all ploppable with jobs, and the Collectors edition throws in some rewards.~~

My mistake, there are commercial growables

BarbyW · June 19, 2007, 01:54:59 AM

You can't open growables in LEProp. It is designed to only work with ploppables. I have just tested this out to check and growables will not show up. The growables will grow in their own good time

Andreas · June 19, 2007, 06:41:53 AM

Well, you can open growables in LEProp, but only if the building exemplar file (usually located in the SC4Desc file) has been included into the SC4Lot file.

Ayaren · June 19, 2007, 09:15:11 AM

I have a Windows 98 SE emulator. Maybe I should just be patient,
but I haven't modified the growables and the plobbables weren't showing
up until I opened them up in LEProp. Maybe I should try using a different
browser to download? Right now I'm using Safari version 2.0.4

BarbyW · June 19, 2007, 09:24:14 AM

Yes, Andreas, you can open growables in LEProp but there is little point as you cannot see much. LEProp is intended to do simple lot modding in Ploppables not growables.

Andreas · June 19, 2007, 06:27:27 PM

Quote from: BarbyW on June 19, 2007, 09:24:14 AM
Yes, Andreas, you can open growables in LEProp but there is little point as you cannot see much. LEProp is intended to do simple lot modding in Ploppables not growables.

I know.

But you can edit the bulldoze cost, pollution values, power and water consumption, and the occupant groups (i. e. for the tileset), if you want.

Ayaren · July 01, 2007, 11:16:06 PM

Nevar mind

! The bug only seems to inhibit ploppables, the growables work fine. I just got one, I guess they are a bit stubborn.