that is a fairly easy and hard thing.
CUSTOM NEIGHBORHOODS USING SIMCITY 4 TERRAIN
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New custom neighborhoods for the Sims 2 can be created using SimCity 4
terraforming tools. First, only small cities can be imported into The Sims 2, so
be sure not to start with a medium or large city. Make sure the city you use
contains roads; otherwise you will not be able to place lots in your new
neighborhood. Take the .sc4 file you wish to use, and place it in your My
Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\SC4Terrains folder. When you go to the
neighborhood creation screen in the game, your terrain will be available to use
to create a new neighborhood.
Please note the following:
Most of the terrain features created with the God mode tools can be imported,
including foliage (except for palm trees); however, fauna (animals) are not
imported. Also note that terrains are imported mirrored from the original
SimCity layout.
Switching to Mayor Mode, only original SimCity 4 road bridges or SC4 Deluxe
small steel arch bridges, manually laid roads/street that are straight, right
angle bend, cul-de-sacs, and T & 4 way intersections are imported as streets
into Sims 2 neighborhoods. Diagonal roads and railroads are ignored and not
imported. Practically all other placeable features are ignored upon import:
zones, elevated roads/highways/freeways, buildings or other facilities,
airports, landmarks, etc.
Once loaded into the game a neighborhood's default terrain type can still be
modified via the following cheat:
1. With the neighborhood you wish to change loaded, open the cheat dialog by
pressing Ctrl-Shift-C.
2. Type:
terrainType Desert (Changes current neighborhood terrain type
to Desert. Note that the cheat is case sensitive.)
terrainType Temperate (Changes current neighborhood terrain type to
grassy terrain. Note that the cheat is case sensitive.)
CUSTOM NEIGHBORHOOD PICTURE
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In order to create a custom picture to represent your neighborhood on the main
menu, first save the picture you wish to use as a .png file (a 4x3 size ratio
works best, but pictures with other proportions will be stretched to fit). The
file must be named N0XX_Neighborhood.png (where XX is the neighborhood number).
Then place the file in the neighborhood's directory
(e.g., My Documents\EA Games\The Sims 2\Neighborhoods\N004).
You use the neighbourhood selector and create a new map, choose one of
the SimCity 4 maps (there are several shipped with the game), name it,
select terrain type, and start placing things.
The game will automatically start churning up NPCs for the neighbourhood,
but you will not have many interactions until you build the community.
Nota Bene: Other terrain types become available with some of the EPs.
