Moving tiles around.

[JoeST]

So, I have a new map that is 50 by 50 medium tiles of a blank variety. And I have 1 tile that I have filled with the basic grid that I want to fill the rest of the tiles with, but I definitely don't want to fill each tile individually, so would it be possible to copy that one tile, and edit it in some way (the reader I can use) to fill the map?

Thankyou for any suggestions.

Joe

[cogeo]

I doubt if this can be done in some "automated" way. The region.ini file does not contain some sort of an "index", determining which city tile goes were. Apparently, this information is contained in each city file. So this is probably not possible. Unless wouanagaine knows were this information is kept, and then you go and edit each one with a hex editor. But still, you will have to edit 50x50 = 2500 city files! I'm curious how you will fill all these!

[JoeST]

oh, its 25x25 (50x50 config.bmp), but thats just a relatively low number. will probably reduce it. and I dont mind about hex editing it. There is no info on the Sims2Wiki [linky] and after looking quickly, found no obvious places it would be

Thanks for your warnings

Joe

[Jonathan]

When you click on a city once on the bubble that appears there is an import button a computer with an arrow pointing down on it. Click on it and then you can select the city that you created the grid on I think it will copy the city to the tile rather than move it but I'm not sure.

You'd have to do it for each tile but I'm pretty sure you don't go out of region view and it will be fast than drawing the grid on each tile.
Jonathan

[JoeST]

Thank you very much Jon, I forgot about that useless feature

Edit: Just tried this. It just moves the tile, rather than copying it. Maybe if I copied it x times out of the game and then imported

Edit2: The copying seems to work ...and I reduced it to 20x20 pix (10x10 medium tiles).

Joe

[Jonathan]

Well it is useless feature, i just tried it in game and it moves the city instead of copying it.

I guess though you could copy the savegame out of the region folder, import it to another tile then restart and repeat, but it would take a while.

You can draw networks using the cheatbox and the grid coordinates, in which case a macro could be created that would draw the grid in each tile, but this would also take a while. And I'm not sure what the actaul "cheat" is.

Jonathan

[JoeST]

Could you tell me how to do the cheatbox drawing?

Thanks Jon

Joe

EDIT: I guess this:

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PlaceNetwork [type] [x1 y1] [x2 y2] - Draws network of specified type (type is an integer) from tile x1, y1 to tile x2, y2
is what is necessary