Road Map

[lildee321 1]

Almost everyone have a map on their cj and I have wondered how do to they make those

*I am very familiar with Photoshop*

[Craig91 12]

- Open the traffic map in SC4 (I do the network specific ones).

- Take a screen picture.

- Open photoshop and paste the copied screen into a picture. Cut out all except the actual map.

- Resize the image to a nice big canvas.

- Create new layers and draw over your each network with specific colours etc.

[lildee321 1]

What do you mean by Cut out all except the actual map?

[Craig91 12]

When you copy screen while in the map menu in SC4 (using the Print Screen button) it will include a lot more than the actual map you need. Delete the areas you don't need. I hope this clears things up

[hamsterTK 93]

I've never done it that way before, but from what I know about photoshop, here is how I would try to do it:

1.Use the magic select tool with the tolerance set low(or medium or whatever grabs only that color) and use the contiguous selection button.

2. Make sure city names and boundaries are turned off as those are the same shade of white as streets.

3. go around clicking all of the streets, then all of the highways, and so forth, SEPERATELY with the ctrl button held down so you are adding to your selection.

4. Now paste each one and merge these pasted selections into their own layer(a street layer, a monorail layer, etc)

5. Use the layer blending options(stroke, fill, whatever) to give the lines of each the look you want.

6. Clean it up by rearranging what layers are top, etc.

7. Add your own spiffy text and that jazz.

Tell me if this way works.

I don't even have Photoshop personally since I was using a computer at my college, so I can't help anymore.

An even cooler idea might be to use your city map dialog from the in game as a reference and trace your own "flat" map (as opposed to the perspective shot the region transport map view is) with a free vector art program like Inkscape. Then you can choose to show more or less detail and perhaps emulate a google-style map with little road sign icons and whatever.

[Craig91 12]

Originally posted by: hamsterTK

IAn even cooler idea might be to use your city map dialog from the in game as a reference and trace your own "flat" map (as opposed to the perspective shot the region transport map view is) with a free vector art program like Inkscape. Then you can choose to show more or less detail and perhaps emulate a google-style map with little road sign icons and whatever.quote>

That's what I said...or meant

[lildee321 1]

is that the only way to make one

[lowbart 2]

Yeah, basically. I don't think there's any program that can make Googlemap/Mapquest style maps automatically, you are going to have to do a lot of tracing in Photoshop.