Idiots Guide ?

[Aliktren]

You know that scene in the simpsons where Homer decides to do some marketing, so starts with a bunch of books on advanced marketing and statistics, and then a few scenes later is binning an idiots guide to maketing and still clueless, thats how I feel

I have been playing for precisely three weeks, on my third reinstall of custom content and I think ready to get down to brass tacks. The one thing that I amn struggling with though is all the options, possibilities, and then the actual nuts and bolts laying out of roads, rail, etc , NAM stuff, like really simple stuff "this is how you create a road stuff" "these are the best optiosn to have installed" - I realise this is old ground for most from "back in the day" - but is their a goldmine of interesting basic stuff somewhere I can read to get started ?

Cheers!

Alik.

[catty]

The SC4 Encyclopaedia wiki hosted here at SC4 Devotion is always a good place to start, the NAM tutorials are here;

http://www.wiki.sc4devotion.com/index.php?title=Category:Tutorials#NAM_Tutorials

also here is the NAM How-Tos and Tutorials topics;

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?board=235.0

hope that helps   

[Aliktren]

Thanks Catty

I did take a look and got FLUPS (understood) and working which was cool from the tutorials

I played around with PED Mall tiles a bit, I can get commercial properties to build on them and grow, but they all show Zero workers and no traffic, is this normal, I did try muliple bus stops in different places but that didnt seem to help, anyone tell me what I am doing wrong (or is this a "feature" ) - same thing with pedestrian overpasses (which I didnt even know where there till tonight, yay!) - I see no traffic but I do see animations of sims walking on them (which may just be scenery of course)

Tried out the tram pieces as well but got kinda confused about tram stops, do I just go look on the LEX and find some or should I still be able to use the elevated station but am missing something like a ramp puzzle piece or something ??

I see there are other addons to the NAM that I could use but I want to get the basics down before installing more - but if there is some killer addons that I should/must have to make life easier advice from peeps would be great

Thanks

Alik

[io_bg]

Yes, you have to download special stations for the trams. And there are transitions from tram to el-rail and to flups included in the NAM

[Aliktren]

aha! - didnt press tab enough times! - thanks!

[Aliktren]

woohoo, I have working trams!! - ty!

[catty]

I see there are other addons to the NAM that I could use but I want to get the basics down before installing more - but if there is some killer addons that I should/must have to make life easier advice from peeps would be great ...

I'd recommend the RTMT   

Install the base file

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=17670  or  http://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1057

then the update

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=22713  or  http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2247

if you want GLR transitions

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=22714  or  http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=2248

and finally T-RAM in road or Avenue stations

http://www.simtropolis.com/stex/details.cfm?id=21158  or  http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1986


and you can find our support topic here

http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=5651.msg358784#new

there are quite a few dependencies, but worth it I think

   

[Aliktren]

Thanks Catty, busy downloading everything I can find, It's a tramfest!