Placing buildings in water

[pvarcoe]

Is it possible to take an existing building (say a gas station or small shop) and plop it in water?

I would like to create an effect of a flooded area with buildings half covered with water (the bottom half

While I'm at it, is it possible to place a road or street under water?

Thanks

[jeronij]

You can make a lot plopable inside water using the water tab in the Lot Editor. Simply place one water tile, and the whole lot will be placeable in the water.

However you can not place networks underwater. Game limitations  . I suggest you to use the rain tool to create this flooded area effect.

[jplumbley]

Since this area would be abandoned anyways you would also be able to make the roads into ploppable lots as well!!

Just so you know that here are other ways around using the rain tool

[wouanagaine]

Another solution is to raise the waterlevel in the Terran examplar which depends on the terran mod you're using

[pvarcoe]

Brilliance!
I'm such a slow thinker some times.

I will lower the water level (sea level) in the snowcapped file.
Build the townsite in the lower land.
Then raise the water back up to original level and have a flooded town.
It should work?? (I hope)

I like Jeronij first idea too though.
I have to get into the editor and learn how to use it.

Thanks guys, I will let you know how it works.

[pvarcoe]

Well, it worked as advertised.

I altered the snowcapped file by lowering the sea level.
Then built a small subdivision on the newly dry land.
Saved the new work and closed the game.

Changed the sea level back, fired up the game,
and the new subdivision was under water.

A few notes though....
Because I had built streets and roads,
traffic now runs under water (kinda spooky).
Lights are on, there is power in the subdivision.
I could cut the power, but then have to deal with zots.

So I would call it a partial success.
Ultimately, creating custom lots with an abandoned look about them,
that could be plopped in water, would be the best way to go.

Thanks for your help everyone!

[bwatterud]

You could use the "tastyzots" cheat to remove the no power zots.  That would be good too, because the buildings would dilapidate. 

[dedgren]

Phil-

You could also create a couple of quick and dirty lots in the LE using road and street textures.  It would look just like a road or street but not act like one (i.e., no cars).  You'd create a new problem, though, because all of your zones would complain about the absence of a transport network.

Like bwatterud said- tastyzots.


David

[jplumbley]

Im just wondering.... Does the city still actually work like normal after the water level is raised?  This could be a little breakthrough for some really cool CJs if it did!!

[pvarcoe]

Aquatica....coming to a mayor's diary near you!!

heh, I should trademark that name, fast.

As far as I can tell, the town functions normally, including people walking around.
I don't know if depth of water affects things, my test was in about 1 - 4 meters of water.
Also, I'm not sure if the lenth of time affects things, I only ran the test for a couple of game-months.

Could be interesting though.