big maps

[RHMgerards 7]

greetings

does anyone knows how to get big maps??? i see on pictures people who have HUGE maps. i want that to, so i can build my cities bigger. the current maps are al so small. can anyone help me???

[sim1234 62]

There are only 3 sizes of cities you can have in a region, Small,Medium and Large. You can tell what city size you have because of the file called the config which should come with every map. Red=Small Cities Green=Medium Cities Blue=Large cities. If you want large cities download and render the maps which have a totally blue config file. An example of this can be found here:

https://www.simtropolis.com/stex/index.cfm?mode=files&filetype=Map&Str=rome%20italy

[johnnyboy210 0]

yes ther is and hears how you do it go to paint program open the my documents undear sim city 4 open the regions folder undear the region you whant then in the paint go to image the go to attributes then chaige the with and height to the size you whant but not to large or it mite crash try a 20x20. one more thing if you whant large city tiles paint the hole thing blue for medems green and for small Rad. thats it.

[RHMgerards 7]

oke, i'll try it, thanx a lot

[Harlequin_666 17]

Another question is, do regions have to be square? Can the config file have black in it to have no cities in that area? I've seen regions from people here which are weird shapes, not sure if they just PhotoShop a bunch of regions together or something to get their region pic

[Tolomar 5]

regions can be of any size

 

if you put blacked out areas in the config map, or use any other colours besides red, green and blue (and correctly) you will have blank spaces in the region

 

I belive there was one city journal where the region shot actually looked like a stick fuigured man

 

not sure if colouring in the black areas later on will affect the region though...personelly never done this

 

if you want to use windows paint to create custom config maps try out this thread

https://www.simtropolis.com/idealbb/view.asp?topicID=35411&forumID=42&search=1&searchstring =

 

 

 

[ElPresidente610 0]

when you see things of that nature what you are seeing is a map that has been expanded.

 

The answer to your question is yes, you can have regions that are odd shapes.

 

Think of your region as a big square made up of 4 smaller squares.

 

If you want to expand the map into the east, then open the paint program and put a blue, green, or red square on the right part of the config file.

 

Example:

 

X = Large Blue Square

 

XX

XX

 

You start with that. But you can increase it to this if you like.

 

X

XXX

XX

  X

 

The your region has an odd shape. In the config file you would put black pixels in there.

 

However, for each addon, you are going to have to hand terraform.