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With the release of SimCity 3000 now comes the Building Architect Tool (BAT for short). BAT will allow you to literally "choose and place" items on your building. This is a major time saver as you don't have to paint your entire building. For example:

If you wanted to add more trees to the park tile using SCURK, you had to select the colors you wanted and manually paint every pixel of the tree onto the tile. One mistake, and you had to start all over again.

But, if you had used BAT, you could have just selected the type of tree from the list of trees, and placed it on the tile. If you don't like the area where you placed the tree, you just have to hit "undo" and place the tree somewhere else.

The new buildings in BAT have also become "modular." That is, if you want to create a new building, you have the option of either painting your building from scratch, or using the many "modular" pieces of buildings that come with BAT. You can also paint a building from scratch and add modules to it.

Modules allow buildings to be created in a shorter time span, while painting your own building allows for more creativity. Modular or scratch painted buildings, it's your choice what to do.