Greyscales aren't rendering.

[Sursion 0]

Everytime I try and render a region (shift+ctrl+alt+R) nothing happens. It just continues showing the region view. Any help?

Using SC4 Mapper is not an option, as it's giving me the annoying "Error Saving Region" thing.

[Yarahi 1,816]

Before anything else; it might help to know what map you are trying to render

[Sursion 0]

Before anything else; it might help to know what map you are trying to render

Nothing works. I've downloaded and tried about 10 different greyscales.

If you want an example, the last one I tried was the Greater Vancouver Region map.

[Jack³ 291]

Actually I have this problem too. It worked before, but just stopped. FYI I'm on Windows 7.

  Edited October 19, 2011 by jack3oh3  

[Yarahi 1,816]

You mean this one by Motina?

Seems there is a conflict between the config.bmp and the greyscale.. Try resizing the greyscale.. If that doesn't work you might have to change the config.bmp it (not my area of expertise).

  Edited October 19, 2011 by yarahi  

[Sursion 0]

You mean this one by Motina?

Seems there is a conflict between the config.bmp and the greyscale.. Try resizing the greyscale.. If that doesn't work you might have to change the config.bmp it (not my area of expertise).

For just that map? Or for all of them? Like I said, I've tried approx. 10, and none work.

What do I have to resize to?

I'm on Windows XP. If that matters.

[tungston 19]

When you select the grayscale.jpg from the list, make sure it shows in the selection box below. If not you will need to type in the file name.

[Yarahi 1,816]

For just that map? Or for all of them? Like I said, I've tried approx. 10, and none work.

I've only tried that map and I got the "region size is incorrect. Needs to be 1025x1025" error... If you get that error on other greyscale maps, you need to resize them to.

I'm on Windows XP. If that matters.

Doesn't matter at all.. In fact the game is so old, it was made to be compatiable with WinXp.

[CaptCity 4,789]

Everytime I try and render a region (shift+ctrl+alt+R) nothing happens. It just continues showing the region view. Any help?

You mean this one by Motina?

Seems there is a conflict between the config.bmp and the greyscale.. Try resizing the greyscale.. If that doesn't work you might have to change the config.bmp it (not my area of expertise).

Not sure about the other maps you've tried, but the Vancouver map has a mis-named config file. The name of the config must be "config" or else the game won't recognize it. I renamed the config from "config1" to "config" in the Vancouver map and all it worked fine.

[Sursion 0]

When you select the grayscale.jpg from the list, make sure it shows in the selection box below. If not you will need to type in the file name.

That worked! Thank you very much for the help.

[Jack³ 291]

Well I'm just having a problem opening the render window. I press crtl-shift-r and nothing comes up. Is it alt-ctrl-shift-r?

[Yarahi 1,816]

@ jack3oh3: Yep, you need to hold down Ctrl + Alt + Shift before pressing R

  Edited October 19, 2011 by yarahi  

[Jack³ 291]

Right, that's what I thought. Now when I do that, I try to navigate to my documents folder, it just doesn't do anything. I click it, double click it, right click it, and nothing happens! Is there something else I have to do?

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

Right, that's what I thought. Now when I do that, I try to navigate to my documents folder, it just doesn't do anything. I click it, double click it, right click it, and nothing happens! Is there something else I have to do?

Hi Jack. If you really have a gray-scale map you should have a file called <mapname>.jpg and one called config.bmp in your region folder of the same name <mapname>. If you don't have this, you can't render it.

Now, CTRL+SHIFT+ALT+R should turn on the renderer. You get a dialog box. If you are on anything other than windows, you may have to locate your Documents folder, or in my case on Linux the /home/<myid> folder usually called h:, You then navigate to SimCity4/Regions/<mapname> folder and find <mapname>.jpg. Double click this, then hit OK.

If the render doesn't start it should give you an error message.

The config.bmp file, named exactly that, is related to the <mapname>.jpg file by each side of the jpg file must be 64 time the corresponding side of the config file plus 1. So if you have a config.bmp that is 16 x 20, then the .jpg must be 1025 x 1281.

I have seen somewhere that the renderer will also accept a .png file, but I've never tried that.

[Wiimeiser 444]

https://www.simtropolis.com/forum/files/file/19034-hobart/

Doesn't render for some reason.

Also when I tried Melbourne the game crashed halfway through and triggered the "reset tutorials" option