Your colleagues need to inspect stores that your department granted loans to last year to see whether the loans have been well spent and if the department is accomplishing its mission of helping small businesses grow. Don't let appearances deceive you, and leave it in position, just use "." to increase the size ever so slightly until the overlay is over roads in at least two places on the map (preferably at the bottom left and bottom right.In this exercise, you are the GIS administrator for the Small Business Development Administration in the City of Paris. Play the game, overlay the.overlay ? and trace roads, then enjoy!!Įach time you load the game you may have to scale the overlay a tiny bit. If you want a real place, build a dummy village to activate the landscaping tool out of the way somewhere.
Look at them all, but I find the second most detailed one is the best.Įdit the map, add river channels in the proper place using the mod icon toggle (blue ! point), smooth the coastline etc, add trees, rocks etc. In Skylines, open the map editor, and Import Height map. Unzip the heightmap file from terrain.party in to the “.\\AppData\Local\Colossal Order\Cities_Skylines\Addons\MapEditor\Heightmaps” directory of your Skylines install. (Image Size option) Save the image as “overlay.png” in the “./common/Cities_Skylines/Files” directory of your steamapps folder. You should have a transparent image with just roads, rivers, railways and larger bodies of water (not the sea).Ĭheck the image size is exactly square and make it so if it isn’t. Use a tolerance of 0 (or 2 max) to select your areas with the Magic Wand Tool and “Contiguous” set to off (if in Photoshop) Remove all areas of the map between the roads except lakes. (May need opacity effect to see)Ĭrop the main image to match the template. Put the template in the top left hand corner and resize it PROPORTIONALLY so it covers the map area you want to use. Open the FireShot capture in Photoshop or other decent image editor, and the template. Get the Overlayer v2 mod off the workshop, and importantly get the green template image off the same page.
Install Fireshot in Google Chrome and use it to capture the entire page (after closing the menu in Google Map Customiser) and save as a. I use black for main roads (as there will be more and its easier on the eye), dark grey for highways and purple for railways, and greeny-cyan for rivers / lakes. Visit Google Map Customiser and using a dimension of 4000 x 4000, zoom to exactly the right zoom detail level for the area you want, line up the top left corner exactly with the grid on terrain party and then only use the scroll bars to navigate around.Ĭustomise the map to have high contrast rivers, roads, and transit using this tool. Terrain.party gives you a terrain height map that you download off a world map, you can zoom in or out but if you want a real scale then leave it at 18km. What I tend to use is “ terrain.party”, “Google Map Customiser”, Fireshot, and Photoshop / Gimp.
Its pretty simple to make a custom map in Cities : Skylines, but a couple of the steps are a bit fiddly (namely using the Google Map Customiser its not so intuitive).
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