How to make a floating region.

[CrazyBanana 0]

I've found a way to make a region that looks like it FLOATS. This WON'T require any mods or plugins, and is actually VERY simple.

1. Go into Documents/Simcity 4/regions and make a new folder (name it what you want to name your region)

2. Open the folder and make a new bitmap image (name it 'config'!)

3. Open the bitmap image with a painting program (I use Paint.net)

4. Re-size the image so that it is 24x24 pixels (I have never tried larger, but you can certainly use smaller sizes!)

5.Add in pixels that make up the region spaces. Here's a legend to what makes what:

4x4 blue pixels for a large city

2x2 green pixels for a medium city

1x1 red pixels for a small city

white pixels for nothing but air

Here's an example of what it should look like

Now, go into Simcity 4, go into 'Load Region' and click on the region you created and have fun!

[Timmystwin 201]

The pixels don't have to be green, red or blue.

They need 255 strength of just one of those colours, so a 4x4 square of 255 blue and 254 red will still render a large tile.

The same goes with the white, it only has to have 255 of more than one of the 3 colours.

(Just incase you have a few cities next to each other and want to differentiate )

[CrazyBanana 0]

The pixels don't have to be green, red or blue.

They need 255 strength of just one of those colours, so a 4x4 square of 255 blue and 254 red will still render a large tile.

The same goes with the white, it only has to have 255 of more than one of the 3 colours.

(Just incase you have a few cities next to each other and want to differentiate )

Hmmmm... Didn't know that. I'll also try and see what happens if you make the space larger then 24x24, like, 26x26 or somethin'.

[Platanero23 4]

My region is actually 72x72 (18x18 big city tiles)

[A Nonny Moose 8,261]

And just how will you make neighbour connections?

[CrazyBanana 0]

And just how will you make neighbour connections?

Easy, build a ro-, wait, but, build a trai-, no, can't do that either, well dang, you got a point.