No, this won't help you read Persian! Instead, it will help you improve the looks of Persian-style residences when located on sloped ground. Not any operational improvement in itself, but nevertheless a welcome visual improvement. More specifically:

An outrageous visual harassment ever since the original release in 2003 has been the placement of buildings on anything else than flat terrain. Even on slightly-sloped hillsides, you could get entirely levitating houses, as depicted, by as much as an entire floor height!

Despite the immediate obviousness of this drawback, the programmers did nothing to address it. Given the behaviour of the ground in the virtual 3D-world, the obvious professionally correct remedy would have been to release free-of-charge a linear extension of each building's superstructure(s) downwards, which would become visible and convincing once the earth below for some reason failed to reach the building's relative 0 level. This omission is accounted for as a major consumer disrespect.

Given the attitude of the so-called "intellectual proprietors", the next feasible step for the average user with limited modelling tools and skills would be to place support(s) under parts of the building on negative relative altitudes, that would simulate a credible support of a superelevated structure.

A start was thus made with the Persian architectural style since it is the chosen default style for a fictional 3rd World environment, where a base map for testing industrial production models is being developed. A simple foundation pier was added underneath, a larger one for wide buildings and a smaller one for narrow ones. The aesthetic improvement is satisfactory on all but the most rugged terrain. In some instances, an additional module was necessary to create a smooth visual transition from the main superstructure to the foundation pier, resulting in several extra files.

While examining the visual results of this intervention, it was realized that Persian House No. 4 was deprived of any doors! For this, an extra 3rd module was added, which created the fanciest, most elegant entrance in the whole group and made this house my Persian favourite!

Needless to say, the unzipped 3DP files shall be placed in the ..\Data\UserExtraContent subfolder. To keep the User Extra Content tidy, it is recommended to group this set into its own .PK4 package, as should be done with any other thematic group of addons for that matter. You can individually remove any house's 3DP's you might find unsatisfactory.

Dipl.-Ing. Nikolaus Sbarounis

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