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About This File
Hello simtropolians. I present to you my third upload, a map of the martian region Solis Planum, or Solis Plana. Solis Planum is a plain in Mars, at the south of Valles Marineris and at the southeast of Arsia Mons, it is part of the Tharsis region, a complex of plains, mountains and faults, where Valles Marineris and Olympus Mons are located. This map was made from a grayscale map extracted from a site of the USGS, Map-a-planet, with a topographic map made by MOLA, Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter.
About the region.
It has 32 cities, all of them big cities, in a rectangle of 8x4 big cities. The zip, 10.7 MB, files contains two folders:
>Solis Planum (root):
Solis Planum.png, a look with the Mars terrain, with Terraformer 1000 Mod in Sand Desert Terrain.
Solis Planum with city boundaries.png, a look from the SC4 Terraformer.
>>Grayscale:
config.bmp, the cities configuration for the grayscale.
solpnum.png, the grayscale map of the region.
>>Terraformer:
config.bmp, the cities configuration for the SC4 Terraformer.
solisplanum.sc4m, the file with the map for SC4 Terraformer.
TemplateCopyright.html, an html file for the SC4 Terraformer.
Installing the region
There are two ways to install the region, using SimCity4 or SC4Terraformer:
Classic way, using SimCity4: Create a folder in Regions with the name Solis Planum, or another name. Copy the config.bmp and the grayscale map, solpnum.png, located in the folder Grayscale. Then run SC4, open the region and then load the grayscale with ctrl+alt+shift+r. This is the suitable way if you want it for SimMars.
Using SC4Terraformer: create a folder in Regions with the name Solis Planum, or another name. Copy the config.bmp, solisplanum.sc4m and about.html. Then run SC4Terraformer and load the region folder, go to Global Tools and select Import image, select the file solisplanum.sc4m in the folder region and load it. Modify it as you want and save it.
Notes
Maybe you will note that there are some water bodies in the region, principally at the south and the east, an arc of mountains at the center and a plain at the north. The level 0 of the map probably is is a datum based in the triple point of the water, at 610,5 Pa of presion and 273.16 K. SC4 terraformer can raise the terrain to got a more mountainous looking or reduce the terrain level to got a more marshy looking. Just go to Global Tools > Raise/Lower Terran and write a value between 0 to 50.
Also, for Linux users using SC4 with Wine on Gnome Shell or Cinnamon is recomended to disable screencast of the desktop, that is activated with the combination ctrl+alt+shift+r and interferes with the game, that doesn't allow to load the grayscale map. You can disable screencast with the keyboard settings under System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts.
Enjoy!
