Map editor is not available in the beta, but it is in the full game. Only one week until the release, please be patient 
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Here's a post on my first project with the map editor. As I couldn't resist taking the largest possible map the current plan is to create two smaller sized cities on one map with some outlying villages.
The larger city in the center will be called Limoux-sur-Bulle, part of it is on an island but the center of town is alongside a smaller stream. I made these pics so you can see the immense detail you can put into it.
The larger city in the center will be called Limoux-sur-Bulle, part of it is on an island but the center of town is alongside a smaller stream. I made these pics so you can see the immense detail you can put into it.
Now I really cannot wait to get my hands on the editor for this game. I have to say this is one of THE best features for a game like this. I tip my hat to the devs and can't wait to see what everyone does with it!
What's that pretty building in the third picture, if I may ask, Mosby?
I wonder, by the way - is it possible to have other buildings than those already present perform functions of those buildings? That is - we have, in the game (I'm talking about beta right now), I think, only one model for a hotel - the one that stands to the west of the Danube, just south of Rotenturmstrasse. Would it be possible for, for example, the building I've asked about above (or any other, for that matter), to be a hotel in a user-designed city? Or can currently a cinema look only like the orange one in the north of Vienna, and the shopping centre like the one south of the northern train station or the square one on the other side of the street from Stephansdom?
I wonder, by the way - is it possible to have other buildings than those already present perform functions of those buildings? That is - we have, in the game (I'm talking about beta right now), I think, only one model for a hotel - the one that stands to the west of the Danube, just south of Rotenturmstrasse. Would it be possible for, for example, the building I've asked about above (or any other, for that matter), to be a hotel in a user-designed city? Or can currently a cinema look only like the orange one in the north of Vienna, and the shopping centre like the one south of the northern train station or the square one on the other side of the street from Stephansdom?
I'm going to take a wild stab at this, in hopes that I am proven wrong:
I don't think its possible with the default editor to change the functions of the buildings, likely it'll require you to mod/clone said building and edit its script outside of the game to fuction differently from what it normally does.
I have 3 questions:
1) Regarding bridges, can you build tram or ground-level/el rail bridges over water?
2) Can you connect to and "leech" the 'flavor' railways for your own ground-level/el rail metro lines?
3) Are there elevated rail stations?
1) Regarding bridges, can you build tram or ground-level/el rail bridges over water?
2) Can you connect to and "leech" the 'flavor' railways for your own ground-level/el rail metro lines?
3) Are there elevated rail stations?
A serious question about the map editor: Is it possible to make maps like the standard maps that progress by expanding over time?
i wonder why it was left out!!! Technical reasons or...? marketing reasons. From what i have seen in the building scripts, some of them have the year specified when it should appear ingame, like stadiums and airports for example.
If it's in the scripts, then perhaps this feature is included in that other map editor Microsoft Notepad! There could be marketing reasons why the in-game editor lacks this functionality - but I prefer to believe that the game editor is a specially-written, easy-to-use interface for us unwashed masses while the hardcore development artists at CO use something with a far steeper learning curve but more functions that's not suitable for public release. This is pure speculation - I've not used the public map editor.
Entire empires have been built using only Microsoft Notepad. That said, I'm occasionally using Notepad++ now. A notepad, with tabs, and a plugins system taken out of the Firefox browser - the most overengineered text editor ever, possibly!
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Hmm, another question about the editor. Can you specify how many people certain buildings attract / deliver. Usually the railway stations & department stores are the highest I reckon. But I would like to make other buildings (custom landmarks like, the house of Anne Frank or something) that cause a lot of tourism. Oh and I just got another one ... and can you specify which type of people it attracts?
Hmm, another question about the editor. Can you specify how many people certain buildings attract / deliver. Usually the railway stations & department stores are the highest I reckon. But I would like to make other buildings (custom landmarks like, the house of Anne Frank or something) that cause a lot of tourism. Oh and I just got another one
... and can you specify which type of people it attracts?