Stitching together a region & another Question

[Joetropian1 1]

I recently acquired two regions: Manhattan Realigned by rebelfish and Copenhagen 2008 by foxen77. I like manhattan island, and have already begun building on it. But, i feel the region is icomplete, as it lacks a harbor. So, I downloaded Copenhagen while searching for a harbor region. I am planning on importing the cities one by one from manhattan and copenhagen, then terrafrming thenm slightly so they look like they fit together. But is there an easier way to fit the regions together than importing the cities one by one?

TY in advance,

JT1

[Vandy 110]

Hi, Joetrpian1.

This is not something I've ever tried to do.

Hmmm.  If you are using grayscale images for your maps, you could try "stitching" them together in a graphics editing program to make a composite grayscale image.  Then, create a new config.bmp file and start fresh.  Of course, this means you wouldn't have any developed cities.

I've never tried to import a city so I can't give you any advice on doing that.

Good luck and let me know how you make out with this project.  I'm interested.

Regards,

Vandy

[Joetropian1 1]

Vandy: I have inported a few cities before, but nothing on the scale Im doing. Importing takes about twice as long as saving a normal city, so not too long. About five minutes each. Im expecting to import about five dozen cities, though. Which is, of course, about five hours' work. This includes the entire Copenhagen region and almost all of the Manhattan region. I will let you know how it goes.

But theres another problem, and Ive already worked at this for two days. When I bring up the Grayscale Import Thing, and choose the image (Copenhagen.jpg) and click ok, nothing happens. Ive done this about a dozen times now, withno luck. Ive got the correct bitmap already, and im not etting a region generation error. Im simply getting no response at all. Ive tried renaming the greyscale, placing it in the region folder, placing it on the desktop, typing in the name manually, everything. I even checked Mallows tutorial (rewritten by you) and it said it might not be recognizing the image. Which I do not understand. I had this same problem (or similar perhaps) weeks ago when I downloaded the Manhattan region and I dont remember how I solved it. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

JT1

[Vandy 110]

Hi, Joetropian1.

Be sure that your grayscale image is truly a grayscale -- that is, only 256 different shades of gray.  If it anything other than that, it won't work.

Also, depending upon how large your region is, it could take an appreciable amount of time before you see anything happening.

Good luck!

Regards,

Vandy

[Joetropian1 1]

Vandy: I have successfully rendered my region after installing DX9 and SC4Terraformer. Copenhagen is working, but I have days if not weeks worht of terraforming yet. When I looked at the region, the trastion from land to water is rocky and uneven. It has random spikes sticking out of the beaches, and is very rocky. My excuse is a 'tsunami' hit it. My merging of the two regions will obviously be far from now now thaat I have all this terraforming to do!

As for how many cities, I am suspecting between 51-53 cities, most of them large. The new region will likely have 64 square tile area, or something like that, with the city and harbor somewhere in the middle, and the new tiles around it can be more suburbs. I will tell you how the terraforming goes and the importing into the new region.

JT1

[blade2k5 1,523]

Originally posted by: Joetropian1 Vandy: I have inported a few cities before, but nothing on the scale Im doing. Importing takes about twice as long as saving a normal city, so not too long. About five minutes each. Im expecting to import about five dozen cities, though. Which is, of course, about five hours' work. This includes the entire Copenhagen region and almost all of the Manhattan region. I will let you know how it goes.

But theres another problem, and Ive already worked at this for two days. When I bring up the Grayscale Import Thing, and choose the image (Copenhagen.jpg) and click ok, nothing happens. Ive done this about a dozen times now, withno luck. Ive got the correct bitmap already, and im not etting a region generation error. Im simply getting no response at all. Ive tried renaming the greyscale, placing it in the region folder, placing it on the desktop, typing in the name manually, everything. I even checked Mallows tutorial (rewritten by you) and it said it might not be recognizing the image. Which I do not understand. I had this same problem (or similar perhaps) weeks ago when I downloaded the Manhattan region and I dont remember how I solved it. Any ideas?

Thanks in advance,

JT1quote>

If you are talking about importing as in from one region to another, you can cut your importing time down by removing all other regions from your region folder but those you are working on and that will cut down the time frame quite a bit.  I do this all the time when making mini-maps from a much larger region like the recent Tokyo map pak papab2000 and I released a couple of months ago.

[Joetropian1 1]

Ok, ty blade2k5. Ill place my other regions in a completely different location, like my desktop, and run the game to see if it works faster.

JT1

PS I have finished terraforming one tile in Copenhagen. The cost was just over 1,000,000 simoleons, and it took about three hours, maybe more. I have also finished about six tiles from the manhattan region, and i have started planning how Im going to place the two regions together.

[Joetropian1 1]

OK, I have three cities done, at the cost of about 2,000,000 simoleons. Ive planned where the city and the harbor are going to be. Also, Im filling in the Manhattan Island, and wokring on how to transition the coastline around Manhattan with Copenhagen. Ill get some pics of the region later.

JT1

[Joetropian1 1]

Ok new progress: I have 12 cities finished terraforming and Ive started construction in one of the cities. In the Manhattan region I have started construction on more of the cities, and I have a base plan as to how im goign to merge the two regions.

JT1