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Thank Gawd, because I'm having twoubles with that whole map thing. However . . . everything I've ever learned about computers was because no one would do the job for me . Spoonfeeding people continuously only results in their needing to be . . . spoonfed continously.

Hi Mallow! Sorry, I didn't see your reply earlier. So... if I understand you correctly, you're trying to just make a flat blank region with a customized city-size configuration? Yes, exactly. But still having trouble. I shall look through the threads a bit more, to see if I can figure out where I'm messing up. Thanks, you're full of helpful goodness, and this is a great site!

Thanks for the heads up, Murakumon, that program was pretty easy. Sort of. Somewere in LD, it says something like, Do NOT click on anything but the config. file after bringing up that box by hitting ctl+alt+sht+r. However, clicking on the config file did nothing, but clicking on the jpeg rendered it just fine. But all I've got so far is a really ugly terrain with the standard size cities. *sigh* For some reason that program doesn't want to save my colored boxes as a config file, and I had to do something funky with copy/paste in order for that file to appear in the regions's folder. I'm confussed.

Mallow's instructions were extremely helpful in explaining the basics, just what I was looking for. Thanks! However . . . When I look in the region folders that came with the game, the Maxis files are in .bmp format, not .jpeg. So I went ahead and saved my new map as .bmp also. Is this a problem? Then I loaded up my new region in Rush Hour, hit ctrl+sht+alt+r, but nothing told me it was rendering. I tried saving my new map as a .jpeg (renamed the .bmp) and trying again, but nothing told me it was rendering. I made sure the file size was 16 pixels by 16 pixels, the same as maxis. Also, when I open the maxis .bmp files in my paint program, they were in color, not greyscale. So that is how I saved my my new files. What, oh Wise Ones, am I doing wrong? P.S. All I am trying to make is a really large region with one huge city area, and five smaller ones around the edges. I downloaded something like that eons ago, but searched through the entire map downloads at Simtropolis, and couldn't find it.