ussoldier2002

Work in Progress? Lol sorry to bother you.

What is a WIP region?

I downloaded SC4 from Origin. The game has run fine up until lately. I had a few CTD's but nothing to irritating. Last week however my game started crashing on me right after the opening intro. The SC4 screen pops up, sits there for a but then crashes. I tried changing the processors to only 1 but the game still crashes and when I try again it is still set up on 2 processors. I am running on Windows 7 on a Walmart computer lol. I can't download anything really since I am currently deployed to Afghanistan. Anyway if you have any suggestions I would be glad to try them. Thanks in advance.

Ok, I will give it a shot tonight when I get off work. I will let you know how it goes. I hope this works. I am getting the shakes lol

Hey guys I really appreciate it. I am in the south and the guys we rip'd with said this is the safest place to be in Afghanistan but we will see come summer. Jason, when you say add to the short cut what exactly are you referring to? Do I re-name the short cut and just add -intro:off to the end? Thank you for your service as well Moose, I don't think it is an overheat problem because everything else works fine. I don't know why it all of a sudden started doing this. Also, I am not sure what you mean by checker boarded. I did do the disk clean up but not the defragmenter.

I downloaded SC4 from origin. I can not instal the BAT because it says SC4 Deluxe is not installed. Any help?

It is actually more of a favor.I have a config.bmp file. It is rather large, 112 X 81, and I need a little help. I can not get terraformer to work for the file. If anyone is interested I can e-mail you the file and show you a little of what I want and you can take it from there. Also I can not render the gray scale map so I will need you to do that too and e-mail me the region back. I can send you a little money if you want. Thank you in advance.

NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol. I think you are right. That is why I was thinking if someone had a bigger computer they could do it, render it then e-mail me the actual game file. I figured that might work. What do you think?

Thank you astronelson. Only problem is when I do the control, alt, shift, R it starts to render but after a while the game crashes to desk top. Ugh frustrating lol. I will try your suggestion tho and see how that works.

I created a HUGE region and I am going to recreate the United States and Canada. Every city with an MLB, NHL, NFL, NBA, and NCAA team will be represented. I am currently terraforming my land mass. Currently done with Hawaii and 3/4's of the way done with California. I am going to post pics of what I have done as I finish with each state. I will tell you now tho that the major cities, i.e. LA, NY, CHI, MIA are generally in their proper locations geographically but the medium size cities such as Champaign IL etc are not. Do you guys think it is a cool idea that you will want to follow or should I go away? Lol

Holy crap! So I FINALLY have the east coast terraformed. All the way from Maine down to Florida. From the coast to PA down to Alabama.Going to start on the midwest tomorrow. From New Orleans, up to St. Louis up to Minnesota east to where I finished with the eastern sea board. But damn this is an undertaking,

Here is my last entry for the night. This is Vermont. My goal is to terraform 3 to 5 states a day so I can start building within 2 weeks.

Now the state of New Hampshire

Well I FINALLY got the map the way that I want it. It is not totally accurate because I had to squeeze it some to get it to fit. Anyway I had to redo the entire map because the northeast was giving me major fits. Just terraformed Maine. Some things tho. The map is semi accurate. Cities are generally in the right location but because I had to squeeze it Nevada is really really small and located to far north. But anyway here is Maine.

Hey guys I am back. Sorry I was gone so long. Got stuck on ammo guard for 2 days almost 24 hours each. In a 48 hour period I worked, not joking, 42 hours. Anyway, I took my computer with me. I didn't get much done because I was the only one with a computer and we watched a bunch of movies. It looks like I am going to have to do all the terraforming myself. For some reason when I use a grey scale image and render it the results are all ocean. I tried a million different things and nothing worked. I am going to terraform it myself again. The eastern seaboard is almost done. I want to thank everyone so much that tried to help me out. It is much appreciated.

Oh man thank you for the gray scale image! You are my hero! I just saved it about to try it out now.

This is Southern California. Still not done but just a small preview. Ok here are the pics of California. Sorry about that earlier post.

How do I put pictures on here? I can not figure it out!

Then you will most likely not like mine either. I am not going to be totally accurate, if at all. The map is huge and gives me some problems, like loading times but it is nothing unbearable.

exactly how do you plan on doing that ? i created a region 27x27 large city tiles once and the game kept crashing b/c it was too many cities for the game to handle unless you're running a pure gaming rig (alienware or falcon northwest) Actually it is just a walmart bought computer. I think it cost me like $150 bucks.

It is actually not that hard. Open up you paint program and make the canvas as big as you want. Remember tho that if you make it to big you will have problems. Mine for example is 120 x 75 pixels. Now you can place your cities how ever you like. For large cities which are 8x8 you will use a blue color. Any blue will work as long as the blue level is 255. Just double click on the color in the pallet to see. Medium maps are green, and small maps are red. Save the file as config.bmp and move it into any region you like and there you go. Any questions feel free to ask. "That would be really cool to see... Especially a transport map with the interstates in the right places.. If that's what you're planning on doing. I hope Sim City 5 has easier terraforming tools. It's a real pain in the ass. " They won't be in the right places at all honestly. Geographically my region is waaaaaay off. Everything is kind of in the right place. I am kind of going about this as if I am God (as much as I hate to say that) and then the mayor of the US lol.

I appreciate that bud. It is going to take me forever just to terraform this thing. Browsing STEX to see if there is an easy way to do this so I can start building lol.

I would like to be able to design my own mass transit system. I.E. my own bus routes etc. I honestly want them to keep similar to SC4 but upgraded graphics etc. MUCH larger regions with easier terraforming. One thing I would love to see is a first person view so you can walk, drive, fly around your city.