250K Tree limit, is it hard coded? Can it be increased?

[fear.seamonkeys]

Have noticed with the tree brush mod, I am hitting this 250K wall often, anyone had a chance to look and see if it can be increased. I have no skills in the modding realm, was hoping one of you folks could take a look.

Thanks for your time.

 

[Stage]

Yeah I also fear the day I hit that limit. End of the town for me!

 

[redjericho3]

As far as I am aware, it cannot be increased. It seems to be a restriction within the Unity engine itself, nothing that CO has any say in really. It might be able to be removed, but you would risk crashing your city permanently every time you bypass the Unity object limit.

 

[Mithkabob]

Actually, the limit is 262139 in game mode and 250k in the map editor. And, that is a really weird looking number, so I'm guessing it's literally as high as they can go.

 

[Brazilian Joe]

It's approximately a power of two. 2^18 .
2^18 = 262144, subtracting 5 you get 262139.

It either has 5 reserved positions or 4 reserved positions with the 262139 being a zero-based enumeration, allowing for 262140 instances actually.

Or something.

As for whether this number can be modified, it's a question for the ages (or the reverse decompilers).

 

[Mithkabob]

Or it may just be the leftover number out of the total number of game objects that can exist at one time. Perhaps there is a maximum total number, and then you subtract possible number of buildings, number of props, number of people, number of cars, various other objects, and then the left over number is the trees?

And yes, someone could create a mod that replaced the tree manager and let you go past that limit, it's not that hard to remove... but I'm not sure what the consequences would be of such a thing.

 

[Quadro]

Out of curiosity, why would you need that many trees? Are you making huge forests or something? If you stick to the 9 tiles that gives you over 25,000 trees per tile. I think in my current city I have put down maybe 100 trees in 6 tiles and 50k pop.

 

[Stage]

Quadro, some of us do lots and lots of landscaping, for instance:

 

[Quadro]

Ok thanks. That does look very cool. Reminds me of some of the Russian maps in ETS2. I might have to install that tree brush mod

 

[fear.seamonkeys]

Thanks for all the replies.

If removed what would happen to the game?-- If it is involved in the physics or computations of the Cim count of the city, maybe remove the motion from trees, make them a purely decorative asset without impact to the game. Have to use parks or some other device to mange pollution/sound/happiness, that would be fine by me, as in that case I could plan the use of my 250k assets better.

I hope some solution can be found, beautification is one of the reasons I play this game.

 

[taylorb]

Do parks with trees go towards this count? I remember downloading the tree brush mod and hit the limit almost instantly. But I am able to place parks that have trees. Just wondering what the difference is.

 

[Dale]

I have hit this limit every time I make a map. It is just not possible to make heavily forested areas (like national parks) with this tree limit for the map.

Is there a way to increase it? I'd really like to double it.