This SC4 Devotion LEX Legacy Pack features the contents by the legendary BSC BATer Cerulean, which had been available on the Lot Exchange (LEX) at SC4 Devotion. It includes the contents of 11 previously separate downloads from LEX. The used to be LEX versions of these contents were created in mind of using them with the Colossus Addon Mod (CAM).
During the SC4Devotion Restoration efforts, many of the very old original ploppable lots (previously available on STEX, but not really available since 2007) got also updated and resurrected in this compilation. While the growable LOTs are now using the more modern CARCH and BSC/CAM custom queries from the BSC Essentials, the resurrected and updated ploppables are using the original custom queries created by Cerulean.
All the lots have been updated using the SC4PIM-X (X-tool). There are two parent folders, you may install/extract both of them, if you have the Colossus Addon Mod installed; you may only install the BSC parent folder if you don't use CAM.

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.

ChangeLog:

• As part of the restoration efforts, this upload now will include Cerulean's related dependency packs (aka. BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol02-Vol08), which will be later REMOVED from the BSC Common Dependencies pack (from Version 9e).
  Bear in mind that the BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol01 v3 dependency pack will remain in the BSC Common Dependencies and will NOT be removed.
• general clean-up
• all the lot have been updated with SC4PIM-X (X-Tool) again
• many of the very old original ploppable lots (previously available on STEX, but not really available since 2007) got also updated and resurrected in this compilation

Installation:

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 files you wish to install (making no changes here will install everything). To expand options, click the small "+" next to the name of the section.

Bear in mind this Lot Collection contains lots which will only grow/work if CAM (Colossus Addon Mod) is installed.
In this installer the CAM folder (which contains the CAM lots) is NOT selected by default, if you play with the Colossus Addon Mod and wish to use these CAMelots you need to select the folder manually when you run the installer.

Then, click to the Location tab to set up an installation location (this should be the root of your My Documents/SimCity 4/Plugins 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.

To avoid conflicts, please, it is highly recommended to use any of the third party cleanitol tools and remove any previous versions of the files from your plugins.
In the ~Documents folder in the main ZIP in the Prop-Texture Catalogue Index and Cleanitol folder you will find the Cleanitol_SC4D LEX Legacy - Cerulean RCI and CAM Compilation V1.txt and by using either the newer nos.17's SC4 Cleanitol or the older BSC Cleanitol tool you can search and remove the old and outdated versions of these files. Again to avoid possible conflicts and glitches it is highly recommended to run either of these tools.

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_SC4D LEX Legacy - Cerulean RCI and CAM Compilation V1.txt) and they have Prop Catalogue index images as a help for lotters.

Dependencies:

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 section for the names, then you will find the semi-updated old readme files for each contents in the ~Documents/BSC_Readmes/Cerulean folder within the ZIP:

• SC4D LEX Legacy - Cerulean RCI and CAM Compilation V1 - These are INCLUDED with this upload!
  The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation.
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol02
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol03
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol04
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol05
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol06
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol07
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol08
• SC4D LEX Legacy - BSC Common Dependencies Pack v9d (and above)
  The below listed dependencies are all can be found in the hereby linked dependency pack compilation.
• BSC Essentials v2025b
• BSC MEGA Props CARCH Vol01 v3
• BSC MEGA Props SG Vol01 v4
• BSC MEGA Props CP Vol01
• BSC MEGA Props D66 Vol01 v3
• BSC MEGA Props D66 Vol02 v2
• BSC MEGA Props MJB Vol01 v3
• BSC MEGA Props SWI21 Vol01 v4
• BSC MEGA Props MISC Vol01 v2
• CSX MEGA Props Vol01 v3
• CSX MEGA Props Vol06 v3
  
  
• BSC Textures Vol01
• BSC Textures Vol02
• BSC Textures Vol03 v6
• BSC TexturePack CycleDogg V01

• Colossus Addon Mod
• NDEX N747 Palm Props Vol01 
• torresprei - Sims Geographic Museum II - only required for the Dolphin Lanscaping lots
• Maxis Buildings As Props and DLC Props

Credits:

The following custom content creators contributed models, textures, and modding support to this collection:

• Cerulean (CARCH)

This package was assembled by Tyberius06.

Special Thanks

Webmaster & administration staff at SC4Evermore and SC4 Devotion.

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. ;-)

Contents:

Various pieces of original documentation can be found in the "~Documents" folder within the ZIP. Some of the readme files got updated to list the actual dependencies for each contents.