SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Parks Collection This SC4 Devotion LEX Legacy Pack features the BSC Team and SC4D LEX Restoration Team-assembled Park and Recreation uploads called BSC Parks of multiple popular BSC BATers and their associates like: SimGoober (SG), Deadwoods (DAE/DEDWD), BarbyW (BLS), RipTide (RT, or BRT in collaboration with BarbyW), D66, Swi21, Debussyman, Yoder7652 (YDR), CasperVG, Geoffhaw, SPA and many others which had been available on the Lot Exchange (LEX) at SC4 Devotion (and in some cases on Simtropolis STEX too). It includes the contents of 40+ previously separate downloads (including some contents that were only available on the SC4D LEX DVD or haven't been officially released previously).
After battling a number of technical issues, software incompatibility ultimately shuttered the LEX (at least in its familiar form from 2007 onward) in June 2023, and this package is designed to collect these dependencies in an easy-to-use form, allowing users to install them all in one go, or carefully select exactly which packs they wish to install.
Please note that this pack may receive updates in the near future. Do not redistribute without asking first, mostly as doing so would complicate efforts to properly maintain, update, and provide technical support for the pack.
- Dedicated Submenu support for the included parks sets - these parks are taking place in the BSC Parks Main submenu near to the top of the game's regular Park menu.
- Fixed some minor bugs
- All the Transit Enabled lots have been brought up to today's NAM/MTA standards.
Contents:
(listed only the main topics):
- BSC Parks DEDWD Base Set and addon Sets
- BSC Parks DEDWD Raised Parks and its addons
- BSC Parks BLS (Feature parks, 2x2 and 3x3, D66, SWI21 Parks)
- BSC Parks BRT WFK Parks
- BSC Parks SNM MAAM
- BSC Parks SG Parks
- BSC Parks DBSSYMN Parks
- BSC Parks YDR Parks
- BSC Parks CAS
- BSC Parks Geoffhaw
- BSC Parks SPA
This package utilizes a Java-based installer (similar to the one used with the Network Addon Mod), and can also be opened and installed manually using 7-Zip or Keka.
To install it, you'll either need the Java Runtime Environment to run the installer--Adoptium's open-source edition is recommended--or a zip tool capable of opening the installer to allow manual installation. For Windows/Linux, use 7-zip, and for macOS, use Keka.
Once into the installer, after agreeing to the terms for the package, click to the Files tab to select which dependencies you wish to install (making no changes here will install everything). Then, click to the Location tab to set up an installation location (this should be the root of your My DocumentsSimCity 4Plugins folder). After this, click over to the Install tab, and click "Start installation" to begin the installation procedure. When installation is complete, the tab pop up a message indicating it, after which you are safe to close the installer.
It is highly recommended to run the cleanitol with the installer and remove any previous versions from your plugins.
Optionally in the ~Documents folder in the main ZIP you can find a collective/master and separately all the individual cleanitol files and by using either the newer nos.17's SC4 Cleanitol or the older BSC Cleanitol tool you can search and remove old and outdated versions of these files.
Bear in mind that this Collection contains Prop packs only available with this upload. Those prop packs can be used and referenced by other contents may not part of this collection as dependencies. If a 3rd party upload references one of the prop packs available in this Collection, you don't need to install everything, you can select and install only the referenced prop pack. All prop packs (and the lot packs as well) have individual cleanitol files (besides the Cleanitol_MASTER REMOVE LIST_BSC Parks Collection.txt) and they have Prop Catalogue index images as a help for lotters.
Special Notes:
- When you run the installer in the content selector (Files menu) you will see the "BSC Parks" folder twice, and within the second BSC Parks folder you will also find the "Feature Parks" folder twice. This duplication was necessary due to how the installer functions are working regarding folder and file hierarchy. You will find selectable contents in all of these folders, but in your Plugins folder only ONE copy of each will show up with the selected contents.
- There are three files which are NOT selected by-defalut and will NOT get installed if you were not selected them manually upon installation:
- BLS TM Park 3x3 (BSC_Park_3x3_TM_Park.dat)
- the infamous Typing Monkey park with a long list of dependencies. Its dependencies won't be listed here and in the main Dependency section in the readme, but will be listed separately at the bottom of the "Contents" section of the Readme. It is located in the second BSC Parks and the first Feature Parks selection in the installer.
- It is located in the second BSC Parks and the first Feature Parks selection in the installer. - SimGoober Le Renard Rose (BSC_Park_3x3_RenardRose_11e3c7d2.SC4Lot)
- this is an adult themed park. Its dependencies won't be listed here and in the main Dependency section in the readme, but will be listed separately at the bottom of the "Contents" section of the Readme. It is located in the second BSC Parks and the second Feature Parks selection in the installer. You need to open down the BLS Feature Parks and BLS 3x3 Parks sections. - BSC Xmas Present 2x1 (BSC Wish You a Merry Xmas.dat)
- BSC SPA Halifax Explosion Memorial Bell Tower - it comes with two lots one is a BSC Park version the other a regular plaza version. The Regular Plaza Lot folder contains the non-BSC Parks compliant version and it is NOT pre-selected.
In order for the contents of this package to display correctly by taking advantage of the new DLL Mods requires the complete installation of the following dependencies (the below listed dependencies are covering a full install):
- Submenus DLL - You need it to get the package submenu working.
Compatible only with the digital version (1.1.641) of SimCity 4 (Microsoft Windows and Linux only).
The following files are required in order for the contents of this package to appear correctly (i.e., no "brown boxes" or missing textures) (the below listed dependencies are covering a full install; for dependencies for individual collections see the list of contents secion):
- SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Parks Compilation v1 (and above) - INCLUDED
The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation. - BSC BATProps BSC Parks
- BSC BATProps DEDWD BSC Raised Parks
- BSC Park Textures**
- BSC DAE Road Textures
- SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Common Dependencies Pack v9b (and above)
The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation.
- BSC Essentials 2024b
- BSC MEGA Props - SG Vol01 v4
- BSC MEGA Props - CP Vol01
- BSC MEGA Props - DAE Vol01 v4
- BSC MEGA Props - SWI21 Vol01 v4
- BSC MEGA Props - SWI21 Vol02 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - MJB Vol01 v3
- BSC MEGA Props - MJB Vol02 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - D66 Vol01 v3
- BSC MEGA Props - D66 Vol02 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - D66 Vol03
- BSC MEGA Props - DBSSYMN Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - DBSSYMN Vol02 v3
- BSC MEGA Props - MBEAR Vol01 v3
- BSC MEGA Props - GasCooker Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - JES Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - JES Vol04 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - RT Vol01 v4
- BSC MEGA Props - RT Vol02 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - RT WFK Vol01
- BSC MEGA Props - CAL Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - JRJ Vol02 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - JRJ Vol03 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - CARCH Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - Caliban Vol01
- BSC MEGA Props - YDR Vol01
- BSC MEGA Props - SNM Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - MISC Vol01 v2
- BSC MEGA Props - MISC Vol02 v4
- BSC BATProps VDK Vol01 v2
- BSC Prop Pack - JENX Tree Props Vol01
- BSC Prop Pack - Geoffhaw Flag Pack Compilation
- SG Models Agriculture v2
- CSX MEGA Props - Vol01 v3
- CSX MEGA Props - Vol03 v3
- BSC Textures Vol01
- BSC Textures Vol02
- BSC Textures Vol03 v5
- BSC TexturePack Cycledogg V01b
- SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Canals and Waterway Collection V2
The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation. - BSC MEGA Props - Canals SimGoober Brick Style
- BSC MEGA Props - Canals Newman Inc Rivers and Ponds
- BSC BATProps SG Urban Canal
- SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Diggis Complete Ponds and Streams V2
The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation. - BSC MEGA Props - Canals Diggis Streams and Ponds
- JENX-Porkie Expanded Porkie Props
- PEG MTP SUPER PACK v1.5
- PEG Christmas Development Kit
- PEG_ Offset-Peeps_PROP
** You can CHOOSE ONLY ONE texture style at a time, as the textures use the same ID's, the game will only use the last one loaded (i.e. last one alphabetically), so you should delete the texture files you don't want. Note that the base set also includes a file BSC_Park_Textures_zDefault.dat that should also be removed as it will override all the other files. You can read more about how the variable textures and how they look like in the BSC_Parksv2_TextureSet_readme.
The following BSC members contributed models, textures, and modding support to this collection:
- SimGoober (SG)
- Deadwoods (DAE/DEDWD)
- BarbyW (BLS)
- RipTide (RT, or BRT in collaboration with BarbyW)
- D66
- Swi21
- Debussyman
- Yoder7652 (YDR)
- CasperVG (CAS)
- Geoffhaw
- Cerulean (CARCH)
- Caliban
- GasCooker (GC)
This package was updated and assembled by Tyberius06.
Special Thanks
Webmaster & administration staff at SC4Evermore and SC4 Devotion.
For memo for subsequent updates on the NAM/Java installer.
And possibly others who may not have been mentioned. If your name has been forgotten or you're not on the list, then drop us a line, as it has been difficult to keep track of anyone/everyone that may of helped somewhere along the lines.
And to the community itself, we would also like to thank you for your support, making mods such as this possible too. We're still at it after 20 years thanks to you!
And last but not least, a thanks for the Maxis individuals too, for the [paid] work that they did. ;-)
