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SimCity 4 General Discussion and Tutorials => SimCity 4 General Discussion => General Custom Content Discussion => Topic started by: projectadam on March 20, 2008, 10:47:53 PM

Title: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: projectadam on March 20, 2008, 10:47:53 PM
I have a region that is 12 x 12 large city tiles and was wondering is there any easy way to take a picture of the entire region? The only thing I can think of is taking several pictures of the region and then tiling them together (like a mosaic type picture) to create the full region. That seems like a ton of work and I was wondering is there any other way to accomplish this.
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: wouanagaine on March 21, 2008, 12:33:54 AM
Use Sawtooth's Region Census (http://www.sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=913), it is very handy
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: projectadam on March 21, 2008, 06:41:44 AM
That appears to be a really big help, only problem is when I try to extract it I get an error message after about fourth of the way: "File skipped unknown compression method." Do you know anything about this wouanagaine or should I send a message to Sawtooth?
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: wouanagaine on March 21, 2008, 06:53:38 AM
you shuold redownload it, it's  maybe a corrupted download . I've just redownloaded it and everything is ok

Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: projectadam on March 21, 2008, 08:15:48 AM
Thanks for the help wouanagaine but still no luck. I tried downloading it three times with IE and then I thought maybe the problem was with the browser so I tried using Firefox but the same result happens when I try to extract all from the zipped folder.
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: Toichus Maximus on March 23, 2008, 07:06:20 PM
Are you using winzip or WinRAR? It seems if the compression type is the problem, the program you're using to extract must be unable to handle it.
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: Anthony on March 23, 2008, 08:00:47 PM
^^ i have winzip and i received an error message initially when i tried to extract the file so i just left the zip uninstalled in a file folder. then when i opened the folder just now, the set up exe is there and i was able to install the file...  &mmm

i dunno if this helps  :-[
Title: Re: Taking Regional Pictures
Post by: projectadam on March 23, 2008, 08:15:44 PM
Thanks for the comments Toichus Maximus and Anthony. I think I have winzip and I get the zip error after about three to four status bars have passed. After about four unsuccessful tries I did notice that I had an installer on my computer and gave it a go. I have the program and I have been able to take regional shots and some other options but the other two files were not unzipped. I do not know if that is going to cause problems or not but seems to be working fine.