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- Readme for The SimCity 3000 Building Architect
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- Table of Contents
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- General
- Performance Tips
- Custom Features
- Troubleshooting
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- General
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- The SimCity 3000 Building Architect gives SimCity 3000 players the opportunity to
- create new and personalized buildings and place them in SimCity. The buildings
- can also be shared with others via our website.
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- The Building Architect download is comprised of three different components:
- * The SimCity 3000 Building Architect - This comes as a self-extracting executable
- file that automatically installs the Building Architect to your system.
- *The SimCity 3000 1.1 Patch - This patch allows you to use the buildings that
- you create with the Building Architect within SimCity 3000.
- * The SimCity 3000 Building Architect User's Guide - This is an rtf (rich-text
- format) document that provides a tutorial and reference guide for all of the
- Building Architect features.
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- Each of these components is available for the 14 languages supported by
- SimCity 3000. It is important that you obtain the correct files for your language,
- especially the Patch, which is language-specific and will not install with a
- different language version of SimCity 3000.
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- For the latest up-to-date information on SimCity 3000 visit http://www.simcity.com.
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- Performance Tips
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- Since the Building Architect is a 3D modeling tool, system speed will affect
- performance. On slower machines, we recommend the following:
- * Work with smaller, shorter buildings - The larger the base (buildings come in
- 1x1, 2x2, 3x3, and 4x4) and the taller the building, the more blocks that must be
- rendered on screen. Working with smaller bases and shorter buildings speeds up
- performance.
- * Zoom In - If you work on smaller areas of the building by zooming in, fewer blocks
- will need to be rendered on the screen at one time.
- * Turn the Block Grid Off [F9]- An outline grid has been applied to make it easier to
- distinguish individual blocks. Like the blocks, this grid also has to be rendered
- to the screen. On slower machines, turning this grid off will also speed
- performance. F9 will turn the grid on/off.
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- Custom Features
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- Users of the Building Architect can design their own decals and textures for use on
- their buildings. Two folders, Details and Paints, are provided for this purpose in
- the Building Architect directory. Images placed in these folders can then be
- selected from the Custom folders of the Paint and Detail palettes. In order for
- these images to be used by the Building Architect, they must be square images 256x256
- pixels or less, and must be either .bmp or .tga format.
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- Troubleshooting
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- * DirectX 6.0 or higher is required to run the SimCity 3000 Building Architect.
- It is not provided with the download, but is provided on the SimCity 3000 CD.
- Ensure that DirectX 6.0 is installed before launching the Building Architect.
- DirectX is also available for download from Microsoft:
- http://www.microsoft.com/directx/homeuser/downloads/
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- For Technical Support:
- Electronic Arts Product Support offers online support at:
- http://www.ea.com/techsupp
- If you need to talk to someone immediately, call (650)628-4311 Monday through
- Friday between 8:30-11:45 AM or 1:00-4:30 PM, Pacific Time.
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- For the latest up-to-date information on SimCity 3000 and the SimCity 3000
- Building Architect, visit http://www.simcity.com.
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