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Menaceman44
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#126 Old 21st Jan 2011 at 5:45 PM
The hidden room markers also class a lot as unbuildable. I built an abandoned mine on a community lot and used the hidden room markers to black out areas I didn't want seen before I had finished only to find I couldn't continue building because of it. It notified me of residential building rules.
I didn't know about the rbbb cheat so couldn't remove the marker either. I bulldozed the lot and started again in the end.
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Sciffy Circo
Lab Assistant
#127 Old 24th Jan 2011 at 1:22 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Pyronium3
I can confirm that 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 00 00 00 adds fake taxis and makes the food trucks work! The city icon is also there, and the description remains intact.



Do you mean something other than the ambient sound produced by the shells? The downtown area of my city is full of city noise, which comes from the highrise shells!

I was also curious as to what would happen if I made the resource identical to the Egypt one (apart from the vacation destination option), and the results were quite interesting!

1. A special goods vendor appeared selling Egyptian visa-awards.

2. Household Sims would use a moped to move around opposed to a taxi.

3. Egyptian map music!

Especially #3 intrigues me, as I reaaaally want that in my custom world. The drawback is that nothing of these things appear without changing every byte (apart from the world category). There was also no world description.


Now, for our next trick, can we get say, Chinese visa awards, French map music, and Egyptian NPCs? Actually, could we get our own custom map music? Or would that change every other world we have?
simsample
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#128 Old 24th Jan 2011 at 4:01 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Sciffy Circo
Now, for our next trick, can we get say, Chinese visa awards, French map music, and Egyptian NPCs? Actually, could we get our own custom map music? Or would that change every other world we have?

No- see this post:
http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...03&postcount=92

Byte 06 controls the type of world- city, suburb, vacation etc.
The other bytes determine the locale- in other words, they define which EA world it is. You can either make it China, France or Egypt- not a bit of each.

Quote: Originally posted by Pyronium3
Regretfully, that means this file can't be used to make worlds that are neighborhoods with just no cars, or just location music. They'll always have all the location characteristics or none at all.


It may be possible to create an override for the map music, but to create a new category of map music would seemingly necessitate creating a new locale. If we could create a new locale then we could make Pyronium's Egyptian map music with normal car use, or have a world where everyone cycles with the suburb map music.
Sciffy Circo
Lab Assistant
#129 Old 24th Jan 2011 at 4:25 AM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
No- see this post:
http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...03&postcount=92

Byte 06 controls the type of world- city, suburb, vacation etc.
The other bytes determine the locale- in other words, they define which EA world it is. You can either make it China, France or Egypt- not a bit of each.



It may be possible to create an override for the map music, but to create a new category of map music would seemingly necessitate creating a new locale. If we could create a new locale then we could make Pyronium's Egyptian map music with normal car use, or have a world where everyone cycles with the suburb map music.


That's what I was wondering. If we could replace the map music with say, our own mp3 file, would that also change it for every other world? I don't think I would want to do that on EVERY world, but certainly on my own!
simsample
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#130 Old 24th Jan 2011 at 10:06 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Sciffy Circo
That's what I was wondering. If we could replace the map music with say, our own mp3 file, would that also change it for every other world? I don't think I would want to do that on EVERY world, but certainly on my own!

Let us know when you've discovered how!
fluttereyes
Scholar
#131 Old 30th Jan 2011 at 1:03 PM
Menaceman. The cheat you're looking for is restrictbuildbuyinbuildings false or off, can't remember which. You can then remove those markers.

I need to read through what I've missed on this thread.
Sciffy Circo
Lab Assistant
#132 Old 4th Feb 2011 at 10:03 PM
I feel like an idiot now. I made my town into a city, played with Create A world, changed the water and sky colors, making my new CAW town into France/ city but not vacation town, all that...

How the heck do I use the food truck and parking spot? Seriously, I've avoided all custom content. What program do I use to get it into my game? I've already downloaded it. Do I need to extract it somewhere? I couldn't even see the file till I wondered where it went, and it said I already had it.

Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Fluttereyes, and anyone else who would like to test, try this:
1) backup your files!
2) Install the world you want to test with, if it isn't already installed.
3) Go to Documents\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3\ Installed Worlds and find the world file for the world you want to test. Open it with S3Pe.
4) Download this: LINK
5) In S3pe, click Resource>Import>From File... and browse to the file you just downloaded. Click open, make sure 'replace duplicates' is selected and 'compress' is unselected. Click OK.
6) File> Save so that your modified world is saved.
7) Delete CASPartCache.package, compositorCache.package, scriptCache.package, simCompositorCache.package and the folder WorldCaches (if any of them exist) from Documents\ Electronic Arts\ The Sims 3.
8) Play the world! It's best if you can test without any mods installed (as certain mods like Awesome or Twallan's Overwatch can influence traffic). Also, make sure you have a backup of your valuable savegames, so that you won't lose anything if this explodes.
9) Please keep note of any glitches, broken things, odd things, good things that happen. You could also test some food trucks- download here if you don't already have them:
Truck
Parking Space
Both are in buydebug>Misc; you will probably have to place around 10-15 parking spaces with trucks on to be able to readily notice them driving around in your world.

tilarium, Bridgeport is a city and it has different ambient sounds, a different tooltip/ world type icon, traffic ('fake' taxis) and the food trucks drive around. In a suburb (or town, a non-city) the trucks do not drive around, there is no taxi traffic, the ambient sound is more country-like and the world type is 'suburb'. I haven't managed to figure out if the test above will give us the city ambient sounds yet, though.
simsample
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#133 Old 4th Feb 2011 at 11:46 PM
Quote: Originally posted by Sciffy Circo
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How the heck do I use the food truck and parking spot? Seriously, I've avoided all custom content. What program do I use to get it into my game? I've already downloaded it. Do I need to extract it somewhere? I couldn't even see the file till I wondered where it went, and it said I already had it.

Better instructions and a link to the Wiki article on custom content here:
http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...100&postcount=3

They will be in the buydebug menu- use the following cheats:
testingcheatsenabled true
buydebug

And apparently you need to have at least three in your city for them to begin driving around.
Sciffy Circo
Lab Assistant
#134 Old 5th Feb 2011 at 1:58 AM
I saw that page, but I'm still confused. Do I need to extract the file or something, and what program do I use to do that?

Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Better instructions and a link to the Wiki article on custom content here:
http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...100&postcount=3

They will be in the buydebug menu- use the following cheats:
testingcheatsenabled true
buydebug

And apparently you need to have at least three in your city for them to begin driving around.
Sciffy Circo
Lab Assistant
#135 Old 5th Feb 2011 at 2:51 AM
Re-downloaded the food truck & parking spot, extracted them to the Packages folder, have the Resource.cfg in the Mods folder. But I must have missed a step. Do I need to extract the Resource file, and if so, my message says the file is incomplete or corrupted. When I go to the Game Launcher, the items are not there to install in my game.

Quote: Originally posted by Sciffy Circo
I saw that page, but I'm still confused. Do I need to extract the file or something, and what program do I use to do that?


I do feel like an idiot here. I tweaked my whole world, but I can't figure out custom content.
simsample
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#136 Old 5th Feb 2011 at 3:23 AM
The link in the download thread is what I wanted you to read- there are detailed instructions on installing package files:
http://www.simswiki.info/wiki.php?t...3_Package_Files
Menaceman44
Mad Poster
#137 Old 5th Feb 2011 at 3:23 PM
Custom content like this isn't installed using the Launcher.
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fluttereyes
Scholar
#138 Old 6th Feb 2011 at 8:21 AM
Open the package in workshop, import it in and change it to a sims3.pack. That's what we do, our food truck and parking space is a Sims3.pack, which installs with the launcher, and it's deletable.
watthieu
Test Subject
#139 Old 20th Feb 2011 at 8:47 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
Well, I'm not sure whether that flag is the only thing marking a world as a city. As mentioned, I haven't had any luck making the food trucks work in Sunset or a custom world, it seems that I must be missing some kind of spawner or perhaps another flag/ resource for that. Shame, as the food trucks were what I was trying to fix!

Also, as Jasumi said, the WDDT string doesn't display correctly in a custom world with this resource added. You can see that on my first image above- the 'Jericho' world has a descripton which doesn't display, although it is there in the WDDT:


The WDDT for Sunset does display correctly though, even if I add the 'city' resource. The WDDT however takes a different form to that of a custom world, referencing something in the game files, or perhaps elsewhere in the World file, instead:


Bridgeport is similar to Sunset, having a reference instead of a text string:


All I know at this time is that the resource I isolated adds city traffic (those fake taxis with no driver), adds the city icon in the world selection screen (as well as the 'this is a late night city' tooltip) and breaks a custom world WDDT. More research is needed, as I'm not sure what else is different in a city to a suburb!

So, if any of you would like to add this file to Sunset, Twinbrook or a custom world and see what happens, or if you can get food trucks to work, please do! I could use some help!

(Food truck and parking space available here. )


Where we can change that ? I have download the ressource but it's not okay it'is not a city
watthieu
Test Subject
#140 Old 20th Feb 2011 at 9:12 PM
Can you help me ? I can't change my world into a city ! I have do all it's explain but it's not ok ! could you make the change from the suburbs to the city for me?
simsample
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Original Poster
#141 Old 20th Feb 2011 at 11:59 PM
Menaceman44
Mad Poster
#142 Old 21st Feb 2011 at 12:07 AM
Have you used S3PE before? You will need to know how to use it to do this.
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watthieu
Test Subject
#143 Old 21st Feb 2011 at 4:18 PM
Quote: Originally posted by simsample
watthieu, try again- full instructions here:
http://www.modthesims.info/showpost...92&postcount=80


Very good, thank you I managed
simsample
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#144 Old 21st Feb 2011 at 4:58 PM
Well done, I'm glad you sorted it!
watthieu
Test Subject
#145 Old 4th Mar 2011 at 8:09 AM
Hi now I have a problem when I play with my world ! The action hangs, and I can't do something just quit the game and restart ! Do you have a solution ? Thanks
simsample
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#146 Old 5th Mar 2011 at 3:39 PM
It's most likely to be a routing problem, check your lot designs and make sure any inaccessible lots are marked as 'no visitors'. If you still have problems with that then start another thread with some more detail about the world, as it's outside the scope of this thread.
simsample
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#147 Old 12th Mar 2011 at 2:03 AM
For anyone interested in enabling the traffic (and food trucks) in their world without making the world into a city, Twallan has made a mod to enable the Traffic Manager:
http://www.the-isz.com/nraas/index.php?topic=446.0
This will not flag the world as a city, but you will have the taxis and food trucks driving around.
Megshush
Lab Assistant
#148 Old 14th Mar 2011 at 2:07 AM
Would anyone mind telling me what else cities provide, other than traffic and food trucks? Because I'm debating whether to change my town to a city, or just download Twallan's mod.
simsample
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#149 Old 15th Mar 2011 at 3:11 AM
Megshush, as far as i can tell the only difference between a city and a suburb apart from the traffic is the little symbol you get when selecting a world. If you click to start a new game you'll see that bridgeport has a different symbol to Sunset and custom worlds. The main reason I was looking into this was to get the traffic manager working, which twallan's mod now does. There may be differences I'm not aware of (perhaps with the opportunities), so maybe someone will post with information. But if you just want the traffic, try twallan's mod.
Menaceman44
Mad Poster
#150 Old 15th Mar 2011 at 9:22 PM
I think I'll stick with turning my custom world into a city as I don't want the city traffic in my existing, non-city games.
If the designation as a city does affect opportunities though then that may cause an issue for inventor Sims as I have seen it listed in many places that inventors cannot build Simbots in Bridgeport. Hopefully that is just something bugged with Bridgeport and not the city classification.
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