Official Mapping Community Requests - Take Two

[kSlank 146]

6 minutes ago, Lucario Boricua said:

Drunkapple was a super prolific mapmaker for SimCity 4, but his maps are a pain to search for because their names arent the actual place name. Make sure to follow his account and go through his published content to find a plethora of top-quality regions based off real locations on Earth!

I hope he comes back some day

[Adamskisc4 20]

Mälardalen. This might be too much to ask, and I'd love to be able to create a map myself, but I'm on a Mac and I haven't seen mapmaking tools for a Mac that would work for SC4 regions. 

The Mälardalen region in Sweden is the most populated area in the country around the lake Mälaren with major cities like Stockholm, Uppsala, Västerås, Eskilstuna, Nyköping and Örebro and smaller towns all over the place. All interconnected by rail and highways. I'ts a beautiful area with islands and woodlands, pretty flat - just some lower hills. This used to be a bay in the baltic sea in the viking days, and Stockholm is situated where the lake meets the sea. There are plenty of map pictures of the area online, I've included here a schematic of the major urban nodes around the lake to give an idea. Hoping someone is willing to take a look at this project.

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

I hope I'm posting this "help needed" request on the right forum topic. If not please forgive me.

Anyway, I just need some assistance in "Blocking out" all of the ocean tiles from this STEX download...

By which what I mean is I just need the bitmap edited to where all of the unusable ocean only city tiles are blacked out. I know that the game interprets a bitmap config file with a red pixel  as a small city, a green 2x2 block of pixels for medium sizes and a blue block of 4x4 pixels for large cities. And if you designate a pixel, a 2x2 and/or a 4x4 block of pixels as black, the game will treat those tiles as non-existent. Unfortunately the author of this upload didn't "block out" all of those ocean areas. You could argue that you COULD build up on those ocean tiles if you wanted, but I don't

Anyway I hope someone can help me out on this.

[CorinaMarie 29,621]

47 minutes ago, CahosRahneVeloza said:

I hope I'm posting this "help needed" request on the right forum topic.

Seems like a logical place to me.

 

47 minutes ago, CahosRahneVeloza said:

I just need the bitmap edited to where all of the unusable ocean only city tiles are blacked out.

So it would look like this?

 

If so: config.bmp

And do note that will cause these city tiles to jump into the Downloads folder under SimCity 4.

City - New City.sc4
City - New City (2).sc4
City - New City (3).sc4
City - New City (4).sc4
City - New City (5).sc4
City - New City (6).sc4
City - New City (7).sc4
City - New City (8).sc4
City - New City (9).sc4
City - New City (10).sc4
City - New City (11).sc4
City - New City (12).sc4
City - New City (13).sc4
City - New City (14).sc4
City - New City (15).sc4
City - New City (16).sc4

[CahosRahneVeloza 385]

7 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Seems like a logical place to me.

 

So it would look like this?

 

If so: config.bmp

And do note that will cause these city tiles to jump into the Downloads folder under SimCity 4.

City - New City.sc4
City - New City (2).sc4
City - New City (3).sc4
City - New City (4).sc4
City - New City (5).sc4
City - New City (6).sc4
City - New City (7).sc4
City - New City (8).sc4
City - New City (9).sc4
City - New City (10).sc4
City - New City (11).sc4
City - New City (12).sc4
City - New City (13).sc4
City - New City (14).sc4
City - New City (15).sc4
City - New City (16).sc4

Wow that was quick~~!

Yeah exactly like that.

Thanks Cori

[aGotka 4]

Im not good at the map making but any chance anyone would be interested in making a area around Vilnius (Lithuania) region (i basically would like to build my hometown)  https://www.google.com/maps/@54.7024013,25.1396739,10.9z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMwNC4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D

 

[CorinaMarie 29,621]

8 minutes ago, aGotka said:

(i basically would like to build my hometown)

I split your post off and moved it here since this is the official request thread.

(You'll want to now follow this thread in case someone replies.)

[Dead_End 1,621]

24 minutes ago, aGotka said:

Im not good at the map making but any chance anyone would be interested in making a area around Vilnius (Lithuania) region (i basically would like to build my hometown)  https://www.google.com/maps/@54.7024013,25.1396739,10.9z?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MDMwNC4wIKXMDSoJLDEwMjExNDUzSAFQAw%3D%3D

 

Not sure if you found this file already:

 

[aGotka 4]

21 hours ago, Dead_End said:

 

 

Thank you. However when i added it to regions it opens simple large tiles without any specific terrain. Am i doing something wrong?  

[CorinaMarie 29,621]

2 hours ago, aGotka said:

Thank you. However when i added it to regions it opens simple large tiles without any specific terrain. Am i doing something wrong?  

It'll need installed using the SC4 Mapper program.

Once you have that installed, here's a guide to walk you thru it. Here's another with pics: Tutorial: Rendering a Grayscale Map using SC4 Mapper and just select SC4M in Step 1 and skip Step 2 about the Config.bmp. (If you have trouble I can just send you the region ready to go.)

Edit: CB found a vid which can help too. At 9:32 it covers SC4M files.

[aGotka 4]

On 3/8/2025 at 3:26 PM, CorinaMarie said:

It'll need installed using the SC4 Mapper program.

Once you have that installed, here's a guide to walk you thru it. Here's another with pics: Tutorial: Rendering a Grayscale Map using SC4 Mapper and just select SC4M in Step 1 and skip Step 2 about the Config.bmp. (If you have trouble I can just send you the region ready to go.)

Edit: CB found a vid which can help too. At 9:32 it covers SC4M files.

Since i am playing on MAC running exe files isnt possible. If you have it ready - that would be great. I remeber purchasing mac in 2011 just to be able to run simctiy properly and not i see sooo many things are complicated when you use mac

  Edited March 14, 2025 by CorinaMarie  
Moved reply outside of the quote.

[CorinaMarie 29,621]

19 hours ago, aGotka said:

If you have it ready - that would be great.

Sure thing. Just let me know once you've downloaded it so I can delete it.  (It's nearly 23 MB.)

Vilnius.zip

  Edited March 15, 2025 by CorinaMarie  
Removed file.

[aGotka 4]

10 hours ago, CorinaMarie said:

Sure thing. Just let me know once you've downloaded it so I can delete it.  (It's nearly 23 MB.)

Vilnius.zip

Thank you  I have downloaded. Unfortunate that it doesnt really show the real picture with all the lakes etc..  but thank you i will work on it. 

 

[CorinaMarie 29,621]

4 hours ago, aGotka said:

Unfortunate that it doesnt really show the real picture with all the lakes etc..

Grrr. Adjusting the landscape is out of my league.

[aGotka 4]

19 minutes ago, CorinaMarie said:

Grrr. Adjusting the landscape is out of my league.

Thats ok you have done more than enough. Great support!