Auto-terraforming cities

[Grneyes]

Remember how the older SimCities created a land mass? You picked if you wanted it to be coastline or river or flat or whatever, and the game created a unique landscape? Is there a way to mod the game so it can do that? I think I asked this question before, but I can't find it if I did. I don't like always having to self-terraform a blank piece of flat land or having to download maps...

MaryBeth

[Tilarium]

Just a happy bump to say that I agree with you.  I don't know why they didn't include an option to auto-generate a single city or a whole region.  Not everyone has the patiance to sit there and terraform.

[nerdly_dood]

Neither does everyone have the patience to wait the several hours it would take to generate such a region. It would probably take slightly more time to generate the region than to install one you downloaded from one of the SC exchanges, when you consider that the game must randomize the terrain as well as create it. (But of course that additional time would be taken up when you generate the preview; after that it's simply loading a pre-generated (several seconds ago) region)

[Grneyes]

So are you saying the previous SimCities didn't "randomly" generate a city tile? Or was it just that it was easier to do a single city tile instead of an entire region?

MaryBeth

[BourneID]

though Maxis/Eh games didnt see fit to add a region or city generator ...and the render region tools In game are...slooooooow.

But wait..... dont lose faith just yet....  you see the SC4 community has a provided the great Masha....      wouanagaine has blessed us with the miracle of healing the crippled (region render tool)


I give you proof of these miracles..   the sc4mappertool. ...  http://www.fileden.com/files/2006/7/28/145206/SC4MapperV2.zip


(to the sound of singing choir of angels)




here is the link to the topic discussing this tool   http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=85.0

[Grneyes]

Well, I guess "mapping" and "terraforming" could be used interchangably in this case...so what I'm really asking about is mapping, not terraforming, correct? And SC4Mapper "auto-terraforms" a region?

[BourneID]

yes... you can use any image.... or create a grayscale map using an image editing program....(I use photoshop) and import it into sc4mapperby clicking the create region......  then create a config file or use the pre-defind config... then click the "Save region". it will create the new region folder and saved cities right there with your other regions. just fire up sc4 and open region.... takes no time at all.

I swear that you will fall in love with this tool.

[wouanagaine]

Randomly created region can be done in no time if I have the willing and time to do it again

if you look at those maps in http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3518.0 http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3520.0 and http://sc4devotion.com/forums/index.php?topic=3519.0 most of them were created randomly by I program I made but lost

As you see, you could choose to create land/coastal or island shape

If more than 2 peoples are interesting in it then I may consider redoing it

[Grneyes]

I like those maps! Are they still availabe?

MaryBeth

[wouanagaine]

yes the packs are here
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1497
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1498
http://sc4devotion.com/csxlex/lex_filedesc.php?lotGET=1499

[XiahouDun]

Wow, those look fantastic. I know I'd definately be interested if you redid it I really like they all turned out. This would probably be my new favorite toy if you were to recreate it