Downloading regions and play it in game/ colour

[+Guest]

Downloading new regions submitted on Simtropolis can be very awesome, but my problem is I really hate how I have to enter every city and quit and save inorder to get the colour right, SC4Mapper of course can't save the region in the right colour. And the instructions of how to install region is go through every city and quit and save.

I wondered if anyone know a tool or anything that can make it faster instead of having to go to every city and quit save just to get the colour right.

[Sky Guy 163]

sorry, I think you're out of luck. I usually just open the cities I want to develop first, and then whenever I get bored, or more motivated I open a few more. It makes it a bit easier than doing the whole thing at once. The only alternative would be to download a non-terraformer region, but then you have to wait for each city to be rendered

Sorry, thats the only advice I can offer.

  Edited August 29, 2011 by Sky Guy  

[cogeo 960]

You will eventually need to open & save all cities anyway, to add flora & fauna and get rid of the mesage asking to reconcile the city tiles edges (answer no, save the city, and do the same with the cities surrounding it). The only way to create the cities with the correct colour from the start is to use a grayscale image instead of a SC4M file, but this may be out of the question because those grayscale images are 8-bit and SC4M files 16-bit, or the map being in SC4M format anyway. All my maps have plugins that cause cities to have the correct colour when initially rendered. But as said above , you still need to open & save your cities.

[+Guest]

Thanks

sorry, I think you're out of luck. I usually just open the cities I want to develop first, and then whenever I get bored, or more motivated I open a few more. It makes it a bit easier than doing the whole thing at once. The only alternative would be to download a non-terraformer region, but then you have to wait for each city to be rendered

Sorry, thats the only advice I can offer.

[+Guest]

Thanks for replying, what is the plugin you're talking about? did you mean this plugin can correct region colour in one go?

You will eventually need to open & save all cities anyway, to add flora & fauna and get rid of the mesage asking to reconcile the city tiles edges (answer no, save the city, and do the same with the cities surrounding it). The only way to create the cities with the correct colour from the start is to use a grayscale image instead of a SC4M file, but this may be out of the question because those grayscale images are 8-bit and SC4M files 16-bit, or the map being in SC4M format anyway. All my maps have plugins that cause cities to have the correct colour when initially rendered. But as said above , you still need to open & save your cities.

[cogeo 960]

No, and you will still need to open & save each city anyway, to place flora and fauna. The plugin(s) I'm talking about (combined terrain mod and height mod) simply paint the city tiles with the same colours as the terrain mod, during the region's creation. And they only work with grayscale maps, not .SC4M files. For the latter, an approximation can be made by changing the colour ramp (height-to-colour correspondence) used by the SC4 Mapper. And I say an approximation, because SC4 terrain mods don't use just elevation, they also take into account additional factors, like slope to determine the proper colour.