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Sc4 Auto Update City Thumbnails

#sc4-auto-update-city-thumbnails

A DLL Plugin for SimCity 4 that adds a cheat code to automate updating the city thumbnails in the region view.

The plugin can be downloaded from the Releases tab: https://github.com/0xC0000054/sc4-auto-update-city-thumbnails/releases

#System Requirements

The plugin may work on Windows 7, but I do not have the ability to test that.

#Installation

  1. Close SimCity 4.
  2. Copy SC4AutoUpdateCityThumbnails.dll and SC4AutoUpdateCityThumbnails.ini into the top-level of the Plugins folder in the SimCity 4 installation directory or Documents/SimCity 4 directory.
  3. Start SimCity 4.

#Usage

#⚠️ Warning

You should make a backup of the region/cities before running this cheat.

There is a chance the cheat will crash the game or cause other issues.

The DLL adds an AutoUpdateCityThumbnails cheat to the region view. This cheat will load each city in the region and save it to update the region view thumbnail before moving on to the next city. Due to the way SC4 works, the game must remain in focus while it loads and saves cities.

The AutoUpdateCityThumbnails cheat has the following syntax:

AutoUpdateCityThumbnails [city type]

The [city type] parameter is optional, and can be one of the values from the following table:

Name Description
all Both established (Mayor mode) and unestablished (God mode) cities are updated.
established Only established (Mayor mode) cities are updated.
unestablished Only unestablished (God mode) cities are updated.

If the [city type] parameter is omitted, the command will default to processing only unestablished (God mode) cities.

#Troubleshooting

The plugin should write a SC4AutoUpdateCityThumbnails.log file in the same folder as the plugin.
The log contains status information for the most recent run of the plugin.

#License

This project is licensed under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License version 2.1 or (at your option) any later version published by the Free Software Foundation.
See LICENSE.txt for more information.

#3rd party code

gzcom-dll - LGPL 2.1 or later License.
sc4-dll-utilities - LGPL 2.1 or later License.
SC4Fix - MIT License.
Windows Implementation Library - MIT License.

#Source Code

#Prerequisites

  • Visual Studio 2022
  • git submodule update --init

#Building the plugin

  • Open the solution in the src folder
  • Update the post build events to copy the build output to you SimCity 4 application plugins folder.
  • Build the solution

#Debugging the plugin

Visual Studio can be configured to launch SimCity 4 on the Debugging page of the project properties. I configured the debugger to launch the game in full screen with the following command line:
-intro:off -CPUcount:1 -w -CustomResolution:enabled -r1920x1080x32

You may need to adjust the resolution for your primary screen.

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