Unwanted weirdo retaining walls in park menu

[evarburg]

In this, our glorious era of Moar Stuff, we are trying, my companion mayor and I, to clean up our (un)damned menus. There are a few annoying items in the park menus that I can't trace back to their source and thus cannot eliminate.



They are named "retaining walls" in the L.E.



And they are quite thoroughly screwed up except two :







Those two do show up when plopped in game (one 1x1 tile)

The others plop nothing -- more accurately, they plop an invisible 1x1, since I must bulldoze it -- and for a good reason, since they all look like this in the L.E. : 



I naively tried to give them a corresponding texture, but it's not that they don't have a texture -- I think they have one, but it just ins't in anything I've got. Although I MUST have something since they show in the L.E., right ?

So I put this here, in the hope that someone will recognize either the textures themselves or their ID, and tell me what they might be so I can look for the source and  zap them out...

[matias93]

They are this ones
https://community.simtropolis.com/files/file/31346-various-lot-foundations-and-retaining-walls/
And most surely you are lacking dependencies for a few of them. Check on the original file

[evarburg]

Yes, it's absolutely those, thank you !!!

But now my mind is blown, because I DLed the original, looked at the content, saw that there is a TestLot.dat whose lots "show up at the end of the park menu", yes ! "you can delete that file", yeeees ! and.... a search in my plugins folder show no such lots, or either of the two other dats.??



EDIT : they are a dependency -- the readme doesn't say of what bu I could infer that it is for MAS71 JPN walls. Which are not currently in my Work Plugins. Or my Game Plugins for that matter. Hence, I guess, The Bug. But that doesn't explain why, the files not being in my folder they still show up both in the L.E. and in-game. The only MAS71 stuff I have is Mas71PropPack Vol03.

again.

Anyhoo. I've contacted the creator to ask for help in getting rid of the stuff. Wish me luck.

And a big THANK YOU to you, Matias93 -- once again !

[art128]

You can have lot files inside the .dat files.

I've found it to be often the case when i was myself cleaning every plugin to only keep what i used. I went inside dat files and deleted all i would not use. Sometime going from a 20mb .dat to a 1mb file.

[vortext]

Took a quick peek inside the files matias93 linked and none of the icons, nor descriptions match those shown in the picture. That'd go a long way explaining why the lots still are ingame as you were looking for the wrong thing. Guess it's back to square one. 

[evarburg]

Lots in dats.

Gh.

guess I have still a long way to go.

Thank you, sirs, much obliged !

EDIT : er, Vortext, when I put the original in my plugins and check my park menu, some of the icons DO correspond. When I open the .dats, none of the names or PNG correspond, indeed (except perhaps one. Or two.)

Quietly going bonkers, here. Especially as I don't seem to be able to find those damned files in my plugins Nothing correspond to the original names. I'm copy-pasting the names and the search comes up empty each time.

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to go hallfsies on that plugins folder...

[evarburg]

 (doing halfsies on an almost empty plugins is not so bad...) Well, it had nothing to do with those Retaining walls. It was Villavivencio Textures - a dep for something I don't recall but that I will find, hopefully. I ceremoniously zapped it, and my companion just sprang up from the chair beside me (he was doing moral support during the halfsies process) growling : "I'm gonna kill it immediately."

Aaaah. There is something deeply satisfying in this. Thanks for your support, guys.