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[kent_allard]

I was thinking of doing a 'theme' neighborhood, but I don't know what the limits are.
For example: In a "Western" themed neighborhood I know how to find and/or make custom walls and floors to simulate wood, dirt, etc.
The kind of changes I was wondering about are:
Can I change the music that plays for an individual neighborhood before the select a house?
Can I change the color of the streets?
Can you change the names of the lots (the name that pulls up when you go to select a house)?
Can you change the color of the 'dead' space between and around the lots?

Thanks for the help,

KA.

[dharden]

You should be able to change the street names in residential areas by editing StreetNames.iff in IFF Pencil, Script Station or Strings Scavenger. Lot names are contained in the various (something)Desc.iff files that are in the Houses subfolder. Custom/downloaded lots might have their own names, but I never used downloaded community lots, so I'm not sure how that's handled.

I don't /think/ you can change the music on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis. At least, I don't recall hearing anyone talk about how to do it - I never had any interest in doing it myself.

[frisbud]

Can I change the music that plays for an individual neighborhood before the select a house?

The music you hear in the neighborhood screen is not tied to a particular neighborhood. Instead there are a few songs that the game uses in rotation. So as far as I'm aware, you are not able to select a particular song to play in a particular neighborhood.

Can I change the color of the streets?

Are you referring to the streets as you see them in the neighborhood view or as you see them on the lot? If you are wishing to change the look of the streets in the neighborhood view, you'll have to edit the neighborhood screen as a whole. You can find the neighborhood view in the UIGraphics.far file. There are instructions somewhere in these forums about where to place the edited neighborhood screen. I'll have to do some looking around to scrounge up the link for you.

If you are wanting to change the road in the lot view, bring up the cheat box and type in map_edit on. That will grid your entire lot and you can change previously "out of bounds" items. When you are done, don't forget to bring up the cheat box again and type in map_edit off to turn the cheat off.

Can you change the names of the lots (the name that pulls up when you go to select a house)?

Dharden already gave you info if you are changing the street names/house addresses. If you just want to change the description of the house/lot (for example, if you want to change (The Somerset Home...An impressive starter home for the family that has big dreams but a small budget.") , all you have to do is go into that house/lot and choose to Save. The description box will come up so you can change it to whatever you want.

Can you change the color of the 'dead' space between and around the lots?

As far as I know, you are not able to change the color of the dead space.