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drunken Rendering, Do It Fast.!  1.0

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G'Day Simtropians,

 

Today I am releasing my rendering mod, since the inception of Wouanagaine's mapper and terra re-rendering city tiles has become a not so welcome part and parcel of SC4. With faster puters rendering times have sort of been kept in check. Now with the capability to produce maps as large as SC4 can produce rendering times have been blown out of the water.

 

This is where the Speedy Rendering Mod comes into it's own. With this mod installed rendering city tiles is reduced to a simple triple click affair. That's right: click, click, click! No more racing the mouse around to invoke dialogues then racing back clicking buttons. Just triple click a city tile and wait for the region to reappear and triple click another city tile.

 

One will need an external prop, a ball bearing or other such heavyish object to hold the F8 key down while in SC4.

 

There are three dat files one for each of the three lower standard resolutions, use only the one(1) that corresponds with the resolution one uses to render regions.

Paste the dat into the root of the plugins directory, except if using a modified UI like SimMars then it needs to go in a z folder in the plugins directory. It must load after the UI to work.

 

Fire up SC4 and once the region loads place the weight or ball bearing on F8 to hold it down.

Now triple click a city tile and that's it until the region pops back into view.

 

A darkened screen will open with white writing and an hourglass. If it is green writing and an arrow cursor one did not triple click, click again anywhere on the screen but that is wasting time.

 

Remove the dat and keep in a safe place until your next masterpiece.

 

See some big pics.

 

 

That's it I think.

 

 

Cheers




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Raaaaahh !

Wonderfull ! I can die now... ...no wait... ...still some maps to render and upload here...!

Thank you !

Izi
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[font="Open Sans, Tahoma, Geneva, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#58534b"]finally, my 10x9 large map :O[/color][/size][/font]

[font="Open Sans, Tahoma, Geneva, helvetica, arial, sans-serif"][size="2"][color="#58534b"]thank you ![/color][/size][/font]
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Wonderful! Question: I run my game in 1680x1050. How easy is it to mod this to fit that?
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Update: I just tried it on 1680x1050 windowed. It does work exactly as described, except the black shade does not cover the entire screen like it does in screenshots. Well done again! 6 stars!
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I would like to find a tutorial so that I can have region maps other than the default. Anyone know where to find them? I have the Stokholm SC4M map you made and I would like to use it and some of the ones that have been uploaded lately.
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Slick! This will come in handy as my computer isn't that fast. Finally, downloading a new region isn't something I hesitate about. This is one of those products that makes me give infomercial monologues. I'm telling you, if you haven't got on this train yet you're missing out *large smile and voice-over narration*

I'm curious too, whats the deal with that custom UI?
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Amazing! Insane Mods like this that fix huge problems keep coming out of nowhere. Great work! If only I had this back when i still played xD
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Thanks a lot, this is a fantastic tool as i like only to view maps others created. Have a solid part on my harddrive only for rendered original maps. Now i can fill it easier. =)
Greetz, Carl

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