TUTORIAL: Neighborhood Terrain Surgery
Zilla:
Yes, I'm a sinner that liikes to commit necromancy... :P
A unawesome question, but I need it comfirmed that Terrain Surgery can be performed on subhoods? Yes?
jsalemi:
Yes; it can be performed on any hood or subhood.
cassandra:
Quote from: SimsHost on 2005 August 01, 10:09:22
Is there a way to get a Sims 2 neighborhood terrain into Sim City 4 so that you can edit it? Or is it a one-way street?
SimCity is Special like that, You need to put it in the right place so it will be found. This is kinda long, but this is me trying to be clear, Sims have never been logical, ever.
1 ). Take the SC4 file you wish to modify (or mutilate in my case). Rename it something obvious or funny, makes the little bugger much easier to find in a minute.
2 ). Copy that to "My Documents\SimCity 4\Regions\Downloads\"
3 ). Boot up Sim City, select whichever region you want to use. Make sure you know what region you are in. (Sounds funny but it isn't later when you can't find the file.)
4 ). Select one of the smallest "boxes" in the region. That is the smallest sized city.
5 ). In the box that appears asking what you want to do with the city there is a computer with an arrow going into the monitor. Click it.
6 ). A box comes up asking which city you would like to import. It should have several folders with names in a list. Select Downloads.
7 ). Under downloads there should be listed all of the cities in your downloads folder, find the one you renamed earlier. This is where the renaming coming in handy, if you have 50 cities there "greenview" may not stand out. "Vlad's Vampire Ville" has a better chance of being spotted.
8 ). Select OK. It will take a few minutes to import it, you may have to select it again to open it. Can't remember, it's the middle of the night as I am writing this.
9 ). DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCIMSTANCES say yes to "reconcile edges" the game will sometimes do a pop-up box offering to do so. This will make things nice and even with the surrounding cities. The game looks at the landscape on each of the borders finds any places that do not meet up and changes the terrain of the currently selected city to match up all pretty. (This can be useful when making a group of cities that connect.) This process tends to destroy roads, landscapes, families and sometimes causes birth defects.
10 ). Do whatever surgery you like to said city. In SC4 everything is a mirrior image of what it will be in TS2. This is a real PITA, at least for me, once you get everyting built to your liking in SC4, in TS2 it looks wrong. I guess Maxis never made anything that acted quite the way it should (without lots of help from Inge, C&C, JMP, & Quaxi).
cassandra:
Also if you don't play SC4 much or need more small cities,you can modify the "config" file which dictate how many smalll/large cities are in each region. The more red in the config the more small cities, more green more bigger ones. They are placed inside the region folder, the one inside "London" dictates how the layout of the cites for that region. It's a small BMP take it into paint, paint it red. Now you have all small cities to work with.
witch:
Now that's useful information. I wanted to create a region with a lot of large cities once and never got a satisfactory one. Cheers for that Cassandra. Modern-day Cassandra brings good news. :D
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