Campatibles

[Stewey]

I have been spending the best part of a year sifting through my downloaded plugins from various SC4 sites and at this stage I am onto sorting through my CAM downloads.

I hope you would not mind if I ask if the following are CAMpatible?



Industrial Buildings

Gascooker's:

Great Universal Organ Factory BSC
Jet Flush Sanitaryware Plant BSC
Porkies Pie Factory BSC

Jestarr's:

ACME Toxic Industries
Boyles Warehouses
Brewster's Machine & Tool
Brick Warehouse
Goniff Chemical Works
Industrial Lots Vol 01
Industrial Lots Vol 02
Manure Shed
Quality Investment Casting Inc
Small Brick Factory
Snivel & Grumble Manufacturing
The Acme Boiler Factory
The Cajun Sausage Factory
The Saginaw Silk Garment Company
Welding Shop Mech

Simgoober's:

Alka Seltzer Factory
Canada Dry Bottling Plant SG
Coca Cola Bottling Plant
Fukitol Ultra
GoobeRum Sugar Mill
Industry Pack 01
Industry Pack 02
Industry Pack 03
Ollies Oil
Pepsi Bottling Comp
Rachael Leigh Stables
Tractor Supply Distribution Center

Tag_One's:

GasTag Galvanization AG
Halma Automation
IMPEX Clothing Company
Industrial Furnace
LedPro Leds
Pluimers Insulation
Skerwin Paint Products
Small I-ht storage buildings
Small I-m Industrials
The Milk Production Factory
Vacuum Distillation Unit

CSX:

TM Propellant

SFBT:

Cooling Tower
Donutor Inc
Factory Building
Gusslov Foundry
H2O Chemics
Klemmt & Sons
Oil Storage Tanks
Warehouse
Wind Tunnel

Zero7's:

Z7 K2 Distribution Centre


Residentials

Simgoober's:

Apartment Blocks, Set 1
SG Susan B Anthony House BSC



The reason I ask is because neither the included readme's or the descriptions on the download pages are clear about their CAMpatibility.

I really appreciate any help you can give me.

[vortext]

As a very general rule of thumb I'd reckon Gascooker's, Jestarr's and Tag_One's lots are campatible, the others are not.

However, and you're not going to like this, the only way to be sure is to run all these lots through the SC4PIM and check if the building descriptor contains a filling degree property. If not, you'll have to add it, opt to recompute the properties and set a new, likely higher growth stage.

It may sound intimidating but the SC4PIM handles most of this process, you'll just have to click 'ok' a few times.

[Stewey]

Thank you for the reply Vortext.

I have just recently given lot making a go so I am becoming more and more familiar with the SC4PIM so armed with your info I will try that. It will be good practice as I am aiming to make the lots I have from the STEX campatible.

[Stewey]

I have one more question and I am sorry for asking if it has been asked somewhere else:

I have been looking at some lots that have been determined as CAMpatible by looking at the readme's and/or the descriptions from the download page and I have found that they have no filling degree when looking at them in the PIMX.

However I do have some of these files in my plugins folder and they have grown in my region. Will I need to demolish the lots in my cities before modding them?

[HappyDays]

Ideally. If the capacity of a building is set LOWER than what it is in game, occupants above the new amount will seem to be removed. However, they will still exist in the simulation and it is impossible to get rid of them short of demolishing the city (If you save the city, of course). This is exceptionally detrimental when it comes to residents, as the "ghost" citizens will continue to affect the health and education scores of the city (Often negatively) while not offering any tax revenue.

[Stewey]

Thanks HappyDays

I'm going to restart my current region as it could do with a little bit of terraforming (I made my own) tweaking. This is going to be an interesting project.

[vortext]

I have been looking at some lots that have been determined as CAMpatible by looking at the readme's and/or the descriptions from the download page and I have found that they have no filling degree when looking at them in the PIMX.

The filling degree isn't a hard requirement. It serves as an indication the lot has been created in the SC4PIM and thus guaranteed CAMpatible. However if the ReadMe says the lot is CAMpatible, the creator may have re-adjusted statistics in the Reader instead. A fun little experiment would be to run those lots through the SC4PIM anyway and see if it gives roughly the same number of occupants.

Will I need to demolish the lots in my cities before modding them?

In general it's safe practice to demolish all occurrences of a lot before modifying them. So yes, take the bulldozer out for a spin.