I am trying to run this program but I can't get it to start. Once I extract the files into a folder I get a popup that say CLR ERROR and it adopts.

Can anyone help?

That error may indicate a problem with your .NET 2.0 installation.

Just one question; does it compatible with "Apartment Life" expansion pack?

Yes, the LotAdjuster is compatible with all EPs and SPs, including Apartment Life.

I have a problem with the LotAdjuster. I've tried several times to shrink 13 Dead End Lane in Strangetown (where the Specter's live). The area I want to shrink (-10 tiles from the right side) is completely empty, yet the Adjuster says "Area Not Empty. Invalid VERT: Vertex is in an invalid location
Remove everything from the area to be trimmed, plus one additional tile at the edge of the new lot. Then rerun the LotAdjuster."

And I've done what it says and double checked, but it still doesn't want to shrink the lot.

EDIT: Also, I tried shrinking the backyard of the Smith house, and the backyard + right side of the Grunt house. The Grunt house got the same error that the Specter house did. But the Smith house got this error: "Unknown error. The lot adjustment was aborted! An error occurred during modification of your lot. The current version of the LotAdjuster is unable to continue.
Please report this error at: http://www.modthesims.info/showthread.php?t=282409 and attach a copy of your lot to the posting."

Be sure that you are using the latest version. Your problem with the Smith house is very likely to be a known problem with version 3.3 only, that was solved with the latest version.

Do you know how to use SimPE? If so, your best bet is to use SimPE to delete the VERT record, which is obviously corrupt and can be safely deleted. This should resolve 13 Dead End Lane and the Grunt house. Be sure to backup first and keep your backup until you are sure that things are working correctly.

I have just thought of a solution to the corrupt VERT issue that I can implement in the LotAdjuster. I'll start working on it now and will hopefully have a new version available within a few days for you to try. If you would prefer not to use SimPE, then I should have a solution for you shortly.

I was so sure that I was using the newest version of LotAdjuster, but I wasn't. The Smith house was shrinked succesfully.

I know how to use SimPe, but I don't know how to delete the VERT record. How do I do that?

In SimPE, open the lot package.

In the left pane, select Vertex (VERT).

There should only be one vertex record in the right pane. Right click on it and select Delete. Save and exit from SimPE.

Perhaps I'm not looking in the right place. I open up Strangetown, and I find the lot I need, but I can't see Vertex (VERT) anywhere.

Maybe you can you walk me through it?

Resolves a problem where a corrupt Vertex record may cause problems when attempting to shrink a lot.

Please see the Release History for more information.

I have a better idea: why don't you try my new version and see whether it resolves your problems?

Sorry that my instructions were not more clear. I'll adjust them above, for future reference.

Wow, thanks for updating it so quickly.

It went very smoothly. The fix was easy to implement, I had no problems creating a test lot, and my code worked first time. If only all fixes were so easy.

Okay I am new to this, once I do whatever adjusting I need to do...then what? Just play? I am trying to get rid of the road on my lot. So I can use neighborhood deco to make it a long dirt road, but that paved part is killing me. I did the advanced and unchecked all roads, but nothing happened in game. I am all the EP and stuff packs up to mansion and garden, on windows vista. Tried with both 2.8 and 3.5.

Do I need to move a folder into my EA games area? Do I need to unzip this into my sims folder?

Did you try removing the existing road tiles? If you've unchecked all roads, then the portion of the lot which had the road before should now be available for use. However, the LotAdjuster does not typically remove the existing road tiles for you.

If you want the LotAdjuster to remove the road tiles for you, try checking the advanced option "Regenerate roads". This option should remove all existing road tiles, then add new road tiles for all roads. In your case, it won't add new road tiles, since there are no roads.

Thanks so much!!! I'm hoping to use this tonight to expand my lot.

Okay I am still kinda new to this. When you say, remove road tiles, are you talking about playing the lot and using moveobjects on and deleting the road in front of my house? Or are you speaking of getting rid of all of the roads in the neighborhood (road tiles) I will mess around with it though and see.

But just to clarify, no files need to be moved or anything right? As far as moving the data files, or xml files or whatever from the lot adjuster folder to my sims 2 game folder.

Correct. That area should now be available for building.

Assuming that you selected the neighborhood and lot from the standard selection screen, the LotAdjuster will adjust the files in your Sims 2 game folder, so there is no need to move anything.

Ok, new question. Sorry for all these, lol. But is there anyway, to take my house, on my lot, and move it farther up, down, or relocate on the lot, without moving the lot itself? I ask this because now that I deleted the road, (awesome btw) I have a huge chunk of usable space, and want to move all my house and such forward a little, (I am OCD with the whole symmetry of things)

I could just take it all apart and rebuild, but is there a more simple way?

I apologize if I am overlooking something and missed it.

Yes, just expand at the back and shrink by the same amount at the front.

I just want to say thanks, as I was able to move a couple of stubborn lots that would not go back into the place they used to be after I moved them, but with LotAdjuster I was able to move them back where they belong by choosing the move lot option.

Quick, possibly stupid question: Can the lot adjuster be used while the game is running? For example, if I alt+tab out of the game and then open the lot adjuster. Might speed things up for me since I have a lot of CC and my load time is 5 or 10 minutes. Thanks! This is an awesome program, by the way. I love it.

No. The game locks the files while it's running, making sure that no one else can get access, including SimPE and the LotAdjuster.

Okay, I thought not but thought I'd ask. Thanks!

To be honest I really didn't expect this program to work so flawlessly. Being able to expand or shrink lots is great but to me that isn't the best feature of your program. I've always wished I could create my own corner lots and be able to place street lamps on all road edges. Now I can! My neighborhoods will look much more complete now. Thank you.

Thanks for the program, It result me very very useful.
I dont have mistakes using your program.