SimCity Societies Minimapper
About
The SCS minimapper is a small program that can extract minimaps from SimCity Societies saved games, the same as you see in the game when you load a saved game.
SCS saved games consist of three files: a .scs file and two .tga files. The two .tga combined contain the minimap for the saved game. If the tga files are available, the program combines them into a minimap image. If they’re not available, the minimapper does its best to create the minimap from the .scs file itself, but the resulting image will be of lesser quality: height variations will not show up, and not all buildings/objects may show up if the saved game contains mods.
Installation and usage
Just unzip the .exe file and run it. The program requires the .NET 2 framework to be installed. If you have SimCity Societies installed on the same computer, you already have this framework.
Download instructions
There are two versions of SCS Minimapper:
- Windows binary: this are windows programs that can be run directly on Windows, just unzip anywhere and run.
- Source code: this is the source code that you can compile yourself. The source code is released under the GPL. Compiling the source code requires Visual Studio 2005 or later; the Express edition of Visual Studio can be downloaded for free from Microsoft.
Files
| Filename | Size | Downloads | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Windows binary | |||
| SCSMinimapper-1.1.zip | 33.26 KB | 449 | 2009-08-15 |
| Source code | |||
| SCSMinimapper-1.1-src.zip | 67.74 KB | 366 | 2009-08-15 |
| Older versions | |||
| SCSMinimapper-src.zip | 69.68 KB | 358 | 2008-02-14 |
| SCSMinimapper.zip | 33.71 KB | 369 | 2008-02-14 |