Reading files: maps and regions

[some4 0]

Hello,

Long time player here, I was wondering if anyone could direct me to more resources with regards to reading maps and regions?

I'd like to inspect individual tiles on a map:

• is it occupied?
• anything underground?
• location on grid, etc.

I'd like to do the same at a region level.

I've got the ilive_reader and guide; but before I dive-in I'd like to see if there's anything more I can read. Perhaps down to the level for an API?

Thanks in advance

 

Updating with leads:
Youtube video, SC4MAPPER from:
How to Install SimCity Regions Downloaded from Simtropolis by Rob's Red Hot Spot:
 

Tool-specific forums

Saved game thread

A wiki ():

Another update:

• If we open a .sc4 file with a Hex Editor: the first 4 byte's are 'DBPF', as in Database Packed File (DBPF) 
• These files have compression

Ok, I'm exactly where I wanted to be. Unbelievable work from this community. 

 

[nos.17 5,112]

Are you looking for something like SC4Cartographer? It's currently more or less in active development.

There are a variety of libraries for reading writing DBPF in different languages that I can point you to (I happen to be working on one myself). Most of the things about DBPF are already pretty fleshed out, but a lot of the aspects about savegame files are not, and Killeroo has filled in a lot of those gaps with what he's done so far.

 

[some4 0]

23 hours ago, nos.17 said:

Are you looking for something like SC4Cartographer? It's currently more or less in active development.

There are a variety of libraries for reading writing DBPF in different languages that I can point you to (I happen to be working on one myself). Most of the things about DBPF are already pretty fleshed out, but a lot of the aspects about savegame files are not, and Killeroo has filled in a lot of those gaps with what he's done so far.

 

Yes! I just happened to stumble across his github this morning! His work on decompression is exactly what I was looking for.

Thank you