can i play the sims2 in computer?

Could you be more descriptive?

Hi, Just found your tutorial on making custom neighborhoods.

I SWEAR I had on my little pc, a program that must have come with the sims2, that let me make neighborhoods! It was a small window with 2 boxed sections below. I could make mountains and valleys. It looked like a 3D molding thingee all in black and white.

When I got the Sims2 there was a long lag to actually play the game because I needed a new Video Card to do anything! So I put it aside and maybe even reinstalled it. Can't remember. So where is this thingee? I can't find it in any of the sims folders and you are talking about something else. I am 99.99% sure I have never had SC4. Was I dreaming???? :confused: http://www.modthesims2.com/misc.php...=0&forumid=126#
Confused

I have a little problem, though. I've created, edited, added roads, etc to my city, copied it and pasted it into the SC4Terrains Folder, but in TS2, the roads don't show up. Am I doing something wrong? How do I fix this?

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Thanks so much for this tutorial. I just got my copy of Sim City 4 from ebay and am making neighborhoods.

One thing that really helped me was to take neighborhoods from Sims 2 and put them in Sim City 4. That helped me get an idea of the scale.

ThanX for tute.
Very adequate.
"Tuts" on Maxis' TS2 site were absolutely unhelpful.
Your's is fully helpful for my needs.

I have 2 questions:

1. Is there any reason why the roads have to be connected? I'm trying to do some LOTR type hoods and would like to have isolated areas, rather than stretches of road. Am I right in assuming that the roads only matter as places to put lots?

2. Is there an ideal number of houses for a neighborhood? I thought I hadn't given enough room, but turns out there was room for about 100. Is that too many?

1. It shouldn't matter.
2. Good question. Base it on performance.

2 jmtmom:
1)Never met with game rejection of unconnected roads.I have two hoods with isolated areas and nothing seems to crash.
2)Ideal number should base on your purposes,what do you exactly wanna build - Rivendell,Minas Tirith or maybe Moria.Different houses ammount and scattering,different styles of building,etc.

I have one hood with about hundred of lots - nothing goes slow (P4,512RAM,GeForce2 - my PC is oldie )

Small steel arch bridges (sc4 rush hour) are transfered but only ONE type of bridge is alowed.

To draw from an image or a plan, edit it then rotate image horizontaly (the good old paintbrush can do it)... the Sims transfer will return it into original !

Be carefull with terraforming in Mayor mode... it costs ! There is nothing worse than be out of §§§ after hours of labor ! I dont know if is it possible to "motherload" SimCity ! Prefer "Ctrl-Alt-Shift click God mode", its free, "shift-1" pencil is smaller thant the mayor one, there is much more tolls!

The SC4 money cheat is "weaknesspays". It add 1000 to the treasury.

Itis a mod to have flat bridges YOU CAN IMPORT THEM !!!
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its the Bridge Height Mode by joerg (thanks to him) in simtropolis.com site
Link to simtropolis.com

Its easy to have a complete SC4 region : with the good old paintbrush edit the config.bmp file, zoom 800%, copy a red pic and full the image in this red (its not the default one), save and exit. That's all.

Have fun

i wish you put screen shots it would of helped alot but good still!

for the .JPG you can download the sc4 named Elk Rapids, there is one.
see the thread

i downloaded snappledude's camera mod but it does not work

I already knew how to create custom neighborhoods, but it improved my knowledge, great tutorial.

Would I be able to use SimCity3000?

I dont think so Wil, you can use SimCity 4 (or SC4 rushhours). SC3000 maps dont fit with TS2 requirement as i know.

Sweet!!! U ROCK 4 making this tutorial!

This is very useful information to know! - I've just started to really take an interest in creating my own custom neighbourhoods etc from the terrain up and had some minor problems, with judging lot sizes mainly. Thanks for taking the time to create & upload this! - fantastic work!...

Yes! I've been looking for this, thank you very much. Before I knew how to create neighborhoods, but not how to add pictures to them. Thanks again. :>

is it possible to make a "New City_Snow" neighborhood? I would love to have a mountain with snow and pine trees for my collection of log houses.... :P

How do create a custom neighbourhood in the sims2?