Region as single city?

[jurasiks 0]

Hello, it is possible somehow make region as one large city?

Thx.

[Wiecher 192]

yes of course it is. You can build your city tile by tile, just make sure the connections are right and the borders aren't visible due to highrises at one side and farms at the other side for example....

start with downtown somewhere in the middle of your region, and then start building the other parts like midtowns, suburbs and industries. but you must remember what the city on the other tile looks like for a smooth sprawling city

[jurasiks 0]

no... i mean to make REGION as ONE SINGLE CITY TILE.

Region = City 

[itsDeuceybaby 1]

yes ive done that before.

I just happened to be stopping by to pick up some overhanging elevated rail props from the stex and saw your post.

you made this topic at the right time.gimmie 2 mins

Edited to combine multiple postings...

-CaptCity

[jurasiks 0]

thx, how u made that? some program? i tried with scracc but he makes more that 1 city...

Is there any limit for region as city? 

[CaptCity 4,908]

If you mean can you take an existing region (with various city tiles) and make it into a single city tile - then no, that is not possible. City tiles can only be the three sizes that exist in the game.

You can make a region the same size as one city tile, but it wouldn't be very large. If that is what you want, you can modify the config file by changing all but the pixels you want to a color other than blue, green, or red. The game won't recognize other colors and leave them blank.

[jurasiks 0]

hmmm, i don't want convert anythin into region

i wants to start new city ar big region, itsDeuceybaby says above that he did that 

[itsDeuceybaby 1]

I used Microsoft paint, lmao. I cant upload the bmp for some reason so here goes how i did it.

follow these instructions exactly (i dumbed it down i dont know how much you know about it so no offense)

go into ms paint

at the bottom right of the white canvas (paint area) you should see a TINY light gray square

click the square and drag the canvas up and to the left until its so small u cant see it anymore.

go to the view bar at the top, then to zoom in the drop down menu.

select custom zoom in the sub menu. to custom. select 800%. and press ok

now recreate a really small canvas area, like 10 by 10 dots.

select the pencil tool. depending on what size city you want:

select these colors on the color chooser

small = blood red

medium = neon green

large = royal blue

now make your section. make sure the dots are touching and they add up to the correct number of dots

small = one red pencil dot.

*

meduim = 2 green dots by 2 green dots.

**

**

large = 4 blue dots by 4 blue dots.

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****

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MAKE SURE it looks like a square, obviously

now cut the canvas again so its EXACTLY the same size as the squre you just created.

now save the file as a BMP named config (config.bmp) into this folder

C:\Documents and Settings\User\My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\Whtever You Want Your Region To Be Called.

you will have to create the name of the folder or clear out the one already there with the name that you want, obviously.

now open it in SC4 and tell me if it works. I will wait for you to come back so dont take too long.

[jurasiks 0]

i tried to make that in Adobe Fireworks CS4 but it makes region with big cities.... 6x6... or 4x4

[itsDeuceybaby 1]

I used ms paint cause its a simple job and i dont want to over complicate it, but if you can do it right in an advanced graphic program then cool

if you add any more dots then 4x4 blue (one single large city in the region) then it will convert it into 4 cities, so make sure you do it EXACTLY correct

you have to really zoom in, and make sure you only have 4 rows by 4 coloums of single blue dots.

wait, you have winrar? I will upload a region with one large city for you

hold on a second

[jurasiks 0]

but that means, that max region is limited by 1 largest region?

i can't make bigger city as region? 

[itsDeuceybaby 1]

here dude unzip this archive into your regions folder.

check out the config to see exactly how i did it

then you should be able to open it in SC4

http://www.zshare.net/download/703107520e66cbd5/

if you want another size let me know.

Later:

I hope you dont mean to control multiple cities as one ubergigantic city at the same time.

if that's what you meant, then nope. the largest city you can control at one time is one large.

you can create a new region with one large city as the whole region. but thats what we are limited to.

even if your have the most advanced PC known to man right now, i doubt your cpu could handle rendering multiple cities.

[jurasiks 0]

i see, anyway thank u