Simcity 4 Region and Config Creator

This is the start screen.

First you will want to start by creating your own region. Click Map -> New. You can also do this by clicking on the Toolbar (New) Icon.

Next you will be asked for the number of cities you wish to have. You can choose how many of cities by number. (small cities). You can only create a minimum of 4, and up to a max of who knows. I've done 64 with no problem, but don't forget that having 64 small cities, by 64 small cities can take up a lot of memory and space!
The other choice, "Choose City Size" means how many cities across do you want. You can have 4 medium cities, or 4 large cities. (This way you don't have to calculate it yourself).

Also, all region maps can ONLY be created by a multiple of 4. For example, 4 small cities by 8 small cities. You cannot create a region that is comprised of 6x10 small cities. Simcity 4 will not let you do this!

Once the blank map has been created, you can then begin to sculpt your region.

Here is an example of a region i decided to sculpt myself. I call this region Island.

I started by clicking on the low land (90) for the Forecolor (or left click), then clicked the fill icon, then clicked on the map. As you can see, the map was recolored to the color I wanted.

I then clicked on "Backcolor", and changed the region paint brush to 80 (Sea Level). 

This program can be maximized so you can see the entire thing on the screen.  I kept this smaller so that you can see how this program was used.

I created an Island type map, with a single sea level river running down the middle.

Next, click on Map, Save (or the Save Button) and save the map to disk. Don't forget where you saved it as you will need it later!

Next, click on the config overlay. By default, all new regions start with all small cities.

I decided to create a various amount of small, medium and large cities. You can tell by the color coding that was used. Large=Blue, Medium=Green and Small=Red. It is up to you to fill the cities right.

Large requires 4x4 (or 16) small cities, Medium requires 2x2 (or 4) small cities, and small requires, well, 1 small city.

Next, click onConfig->Save (or the Save Icon on the right side of the screen) to save the config file. Call it what you want. I called this Island_config.bmp so that I would remember which one i'm looking for. Also remember where you placed this file.

Once that is done, go into Simcity 4, and create a new region. I called it Island

Next, exit from Simcity 4, and copy the config file to the Island folder (My Documents/Simcity 4/Regions/Island).

Rename the config file to "config.bmp".

Go back into Simcity 4, and immediately you should notice your new config has been overlayed over the current region. Now, let's import!

Press Shift-Ctrl-Alt-R, and select the region you created (Island.bmp).

Simcity 4 will begin importing your region.

Once that is done, you should see the new region up.

This program is downloadable from the main page.

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