Merging regions

[socomseal45]

Is there a way to merge regions using something like the SC4 Terraformer? (I don't know if this is in the right section, so please move to the correct section)

[dedgren]

I've thought that one through myself.  SC4TF would not appear to offer any direct way to do it.  One could load each region into the TerraFormer, export a .bmp, combine them in a graphics program, then reimport the new .bmp through Terraformer to create the new region.  Sounds steppish to me, but if the motivation was there...

The alternative I came up with was to create an empty SC4 region (the config.bmp and region.ini files in a folder named for the new region), then start the game and import each city from the two old regions into it.  Thus, two 4x4 quad regions could become a single 4x8 quad region.  Reconciling the boundary would be handled by a pass through TerraFormer.

Anyone have any other thoughts on this?


David

[socomseal45]

So I could start a city on each of them, then start a new region and import each city into the new one?

[flame1396]

Hard to do without a lot of close-up detail work if cities are already there. Unless it's flat.

Splicing bitmaps and going over them in Photoshop or Terraformer is your best bet.