Sim City 4 Region Download
In 'SimCity 4,' a city-building simulation game, you first create a region of land by terraforming and then zone your region as residential, commercial or industrial. During the game, you add zoning-appropriate features to the region and develop it.
Custom Map files for SimCity 4. Jump to content. Downloads; SimCity 4 Buildings; Maps Welcome to Simtropolis! A community dedicated to the SimCity series, Cities: Skylines and other city-building games. This Region map has been scaled to a ratio of 2.5:1 to bring up the size of the monument to better match visibility in SimCity 4,.
If you prefer to jump right into gameplay or just want a change, you can download one of the fan-created regions that are available on the internet and use it with your 'SimCity4' game. Some consist of land only, while others are partially or fully developed.
Enhance Your 'SimCity 4' Game With Fan-Created Regions
Some regions or maps come with installation instructions in a readme file that is in the download. If you download a region without instructions, try this general install information:
- Download the region or map and unzip it if it is zipped. Usually, you'll see a JPEG and a bitmap file.
- Locate the My Documents/SimCity/Regions folder on your computer and copy the downloaded, unzipped files into the folder or create a folder inside the Regions folder with the same name as the new region and copy the files into that new folder.
- Open the 'SimCity4' game.
- To import a new region, press and hold down the following keyboard combination: Shift+Alt+Ctrl+R or go to your Region list and load the new region.
- You may need to select the JPEG in the new folder.
Maxisland Region
The Maxisland region is a fully developed metropolis with three medium-sized cities that are home to an art museum, casino, courthouse, and 1.3 million sims. A single hydrogen plant powers all three cities. There is an agricultural area with farms and small towns in the North, and a bay in the South, where sims can take a cruise on a cruise ship or visit remote islands by ferry.
Maxisland is a good reference for people who are trying to build their own large regions and for people who want a fully developed new region to discover.
Rina's Ridiculous Rivers
Simcity 4 Region Downloads Terrain
Rina's Ridiculous Rivers region has water, water everywhere, but there are also rolling hills with pre-flattened terraces perfect for building. The map is basically a blank canvas, perfect for building your own community from scratch.
Boston Region
The Boston 1.0.0 region for 'SimCity 4' is a 1:1 scale map of the greater Boston, Massachusetts, area. It is completely flat, so it is ready for heavy development.
Nihon, Japan Region
The Nihon, Japan region for 'SimCity 4' is a fan favorite and highly rated downloadable region. It is a recreation of a beautiful Japanese region.
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Reykjavik Region
The Reykjavik region depicts Reykjavik city, the capital of Iceland. Released in 2003, this map has thousands of downloads to its credit and is highly ranked by users.
Male and Female Regions
You guessed it. The male and female region maps are based on the male and female gender symbols. The symbols themselves are formed of water and the rest of the maps are flat land. Use these regions to develop cities with masculine or feminine names or cities named after males or females you know.
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Detailed descriptions can be found online. Here's one as exapmle: http://www.sc4ever.com/knowledge/showarticle.cfm?id=1103
As far as I can recall, some additions to this link:
RGB values for the config.bmp don't have to be 255 only .. they can be less, so you can use that to make a kind of chess board for easier planing of city's with the same size, next to each others. Just be sure, they are - depending of their size - blue, red or green only and not mixed.
Also there is software which can create random terrain and export them as greyscale picture. A software called Terragen should be one of them, as far as I can remember.
So you can use 3rd party software to create randomized regions.
Detailed descriptions can be found online. Here's one as exapmle: http://www.sc4ever.com/knowledge/showarticle.cfm?id=1103
As far as I can recall, some additions to this link:
RGB values for the config.bmp don't have to be 255 only .. they can be less, so you can use that to make a kind of chess board for easier planing of city's with the same size, next to each others. Just be sure, they are - depending of their size - blue, red or green only and not mixed.
Also there is software which can create random terrain and export them as greyscale picture. A software called Terragen should be one of them, as far as I can remember. Is that Terragen program on the same website?
It's quite a while since I used it last time, several year's and now I'm at work with some crappy slow internet access on my notebook. So I'm afraid I can't be much assistance for now.
I have to (and will ;-)) download possible software to try again, afterwards I can say more if no one else did answer until then.
Each small city has a size of 64x64, each medium city a size of 128x128 pixels and each large city a size of 256x256 pixels in the terrain heightmap. To get the needed size of the heightmap, you need to sum up all sizes of each citys in a row and to add 1 pixel.
So TerraMaker's standard sizes already fit to be used for the SC4 heightmap import.
Once you got a terrain you like, you have to save it as a 24bit greyscale bmp-file. For some reason, SC4 doesn't load the highmaps directly saved by TerraMaker, even as the colors are already in greyscale. But the file itself seems to get saved as RGB. So I did load it in GIMP, convert it from RGB to greyscale, saving and then it should work. If you think your imported terrain ist too step, you can try to use 'curves' in GIMP to flatten the heightmap when you are already in GIMP.
You will also need to set the size of each cities in your region. Therefore you create a new bitmap where each small city is of 1x1 red pixels, each medium city is of 2x2 green pixels and each large city is of 4x4 blue pixels. This bitmap needs to be named config.bmp and needs to be in proportional size to the heightmap. That means you need to subtract 1 pixel from the side of the heightmap and divide it through 64 pixels (= size of a small city). Then simply place the red, green and blue pixels as you like. Here I have to correct my former posting, where I said the appropriate color values don't need to be 255. They must be 255, but the two values of the other colors can be used to have different kinds of the same color to get easier distinguishable cities of the same size next to each other. If none or more than only one color has a value of 255, this part of the map won't be shown in your region.
When you are finished, save your config.bmp as 24bit into a subfolder named as your Region inside the regions-folder of SC4 itself or your personal document path.
When you start SC4 now, you will be able to load your region named as your subfolder above is. You will see flat land with the city placements like in your config.bmp. If you now press [Alt]+[Ctrl]+[Shift]+[R] you will get a open-file-dialog, where you can select your saved heightmap, just anywhere saved on your computer.
After confirming, SC4 will import the heightmap and create your region. It needs some time, depending to the size of the region.
I used the software 'TerraMaker', but there is also other software like '[url=http://www.nikis.de/RanDEM]RanDEM[/url]' (German) or 'Hme - Height Map Editor' to create heightmaps. RanDEM seems to be optimized for SC4 and creates a simple config.bmp automatically, but for me it didn't work under Win7-64bit.
Hope this 'How To' can help you getting your own randomized regions.