Missing some files and need some help

[charm]

First off, without making this long and drawn out. Thanks to everyone of you who make this custom content. It's the only reason I play sc4.

Now onto some files I can't find...

I'm trying to fix up the final few installs I've made over the past 3 weeks after reinstalling and I'm a few short. I have searched stex for these without luck, I can't remember where I got them in the first place but if I could just find the files again I could make sure I have the right dependencies.

The 3 I'm looking for are as follows.

- The Hoof and Mouth Glue Factory
- The Phillips Umberly
- Viaduct Station (both straight and orth)

Any help would be appreciated and I'll be checking back in a few hours to say thanks to anyone who has helped me.

[RebaLynnTS]

Since Stragiht, and orthoginal mean the same thing, i am guessing you mean diagonal. Do you know who made them?

[Andreas]

The first two were made by jestarr, so they will show if you do a "power search" at the LEX for this name. The Viaduct Rail Station is a modified elevated rail station that was originally created by morifari and was modded for the Rail Viaducts from the NAM by ArkenbergeJoe as an SFBT release. You can find the station by searching for my name at the LEX. The original station is a dependency, you'll find the link in the readme file.

[charm]

To both you guys/gals, thank you and I'm sorry it took a few days to responded but real life and the Easter weekend bite me in the buttocks and hindered me in quite a few ways. Even now I only have a few mins then I'm back to the whirl wind I call life lately. Next week will be a lot more calm for me and I'll have my usual time to spend cleaning up my sc4 install.

I got all of those files up top working now and took the time last night to go through my landmark and other menus and write down the ones that still had rainbow flags and found quite a few more. 5 to be exact. One of them from my transportation menu still!!

Should I start a new thread for them or keep it in here? Also, once I get the rest of them working I'm going to look into the .dat packer and cleanitol as those are both new to me so I thought it would be best to get a working install then figure it out. Is that the right line of thinking?

Also, is it best to have the 2 separate plugin folders? 1 in My Docs and 1 in the Install folder? Mine are 1.44gis and 687megs respectfully.

[BarbyW]

Continue to post any missing files in here and we'll try to help.
Regarding where to keep files, I keep things that I don't pack like my terrain mod, NAM and Maxis landmarks in the main program plugin folder. Everything else goes as installed into the MyDocs\plugins.

[charm]

OK well that kind of confused me a little bit so I'll just start with getting the rest of these files working then work on cleaning up the mess I've created getting to this point.  The files are as follows:

• Blam Village Elementary
• Ministry of Garbage
• Statisches Bundesamt
• The Mirage
• Sault Ste Marie Ontario Parking

The last one (the parking lot) seems to be different every time I load the game. Sometimes it's all black or sometimes it's just got light poles sticking out of the ground.

And to make things worse, I think I somehow messed up my SAM install. All I get now is an empty square that won't plop or tab into anything different.        

[BarbyW]

The models are as follows:
Statisches Bundesamt
The Mirage
Ministry of Garbage

I cannot help with Blam Elementary or the parking but maybe someone from BLaM can help with those.

[Anthony]

...And to make things worse, I think I somehow messed up my SAM install. All I get now is an empty square that won't plop or tab into anything different.

i have this problem also.
i hope somebody could help...

[wouanagaine]

i have this problem also.
i hope somebody could help...

remove your NAM folder and reinstall NAM&SAM in order

[Anthony]

^^ did as suggested & it worked! 

thanks @wou 

[charm]

I'm afraid this fix did not work for me. Is it possible a street mod (ie:trees) has messed with my install? The game just isn't as pretty without the SAM.

Also, I've had time over the past few days to try this twice without luck. Maybe I'm doing something wrong?

[Pat]

   Hi Charm I think I might know your problem on the BLaM Village Elementary School, If you haven't re-downloaded the file you will need to do so as there was an error with the first upload that caused the building not to work... Here [linkie] also make sure you have the dependencies as well...

• BSC MEGA Props D66 Vol01
• BSC MEGA Props CP Vol01
• BLaM Town Hall

I hope that helps solve the problem on the BLaM Village Elementary School... 


   On this next one even though its not a BLaM release I will try and help you on the Sault Ste Marie Ontario Parking,  Here [linkie] It seems that it used Shopping Center Parking Pack 4 And More by SC4Jeeks here [linkie] and there was errors with the textures that would cause problems with the game but there is a fix here on the LEX and is now under walking snake Here [linkie]...

  I would suggest to update the parking lot with the new textures as there is no more errors with them and the only thing that changes is the IID's to avoid conflicts... If you don't know how to use LE, I will be more then Happier to update the lot for you but then you would have to remove the old lot from your plugins folder for the change to take effect....

Lemme know and I will get it done for you Charm and I hope this helps out - pat


NB:  Charm attached is the file with the fix with the New SC4Jeeks Parking lot textures....

you will need to remove the old lot file from your plugins folder, for the changes to take effect...

[charm]

BLAMOH!  It works, everything finally works! (except the SAM still doesn't)

I never thought I'd see the day where I would be able to use every file at my own digression. It's funny how seeing just 1 more file can inspire someone to build a new excellent area in their city/region.

Thank you all so much and thanks to you dude (pat) for going above what you had to do to help me out. Best support on the web!

Now... On to my dreaded SAM problem. Is there another forum location for me to use to try to get it fixed? Like I said, I deleted and reinstalled in order the NAM, RH then SAM and I still have the same issue.

[Pat]

Hey Charm its no problem at all, it was my pleasure in helping out...  Well hopefully the SAM thread here [linkie] will help you further your problem on SAM...  That is an excelent support thread btw...