Region View Subfiles
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This page pertains to the format of the Region View file within Savegame files. The TGI for this file is 0xCA027EDB, 0xCA027EE1, 0x00000000.
The Region View file has three possible versions:
- v1.9 - Pre-release
- v1.10 - Release version
- v1.13 - Rush Hour
Specification
The Region View file has the following specification, written out for version 1.13 type files.
WORD Version Major
WORD Version Minor
DWORD Tile X Location
DWORD Tile Y Location
DWORD City Size X
DWORD City Size Y
DWORD Residential Population
DWORD Commercial Population
DWORD Industrial Population
FLOAT Unknown1 (Not Present in version 1.9 or earlier)
BYTE Mayor Rating (Bars/12 bars max) (not in version 1.10 or earlier)
BYTE Star Count (As seen when looking at a city in region view) (0=1,1=2,2=3)
BYTE Tutorial Flag (If 1, map is a tutorial)
DWORD City GUID (Present in Mayor View also at offset 20)
(Getting Started tutorial has "EXIT".. inside joke?)
DWORD Unknown5 (Only seen 0's)
DWORD Unknown6 (Only seen 0's)
DWORD Unknown7 (Only seen 0's)
DWORD Unknown8 (Only seen 0's)
DWORD Unknown9 (Only seen 0's)
BYTE Mode Flag (1 = Mayor Mode, 0 = God Mode)
DWORD City Name Length
PRIOR City Name (String)
DWORD Former Name Length
PRIOR City Former Name (Non-existent in Region View, Mayor View has "New City")
DWORD Mayor Name Length
PRIOR Mayor Name (String)
DWORD Internal Description Length (Only differs in Mayor View for tutorials)
PRIOR Internal Description (String - non-existent in region, name of city/tut in mayor view)
DWORD Length
PRIOR "Jonas Sparks" (Default mayor?)(Unused)
-More Zeroes-
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown (Should be 0xFFFFFFFF)
(Occupant Group Information)
(There are three sets in all, item listing below.)
DWORD Occupant Group 1 count (Current Info)
LOOP
DWORD Occupant Group
DWORD Population
ENDLOOP
DWORD Occupant Group 2 count (Max Info)
LOOP
DWORD Occupant Group
DWORD Population
ENDLOOP
DWORD Occupant Group 3 count (Limits)
LOOP
DWORD Occupant Group
DWORD Population
ENDLOOP
DWORD Count (Always 12)
LOOP
FLOAT Unknown (Values are normally the same. Half integer range between 7 and 9.5)
ENDLOOP
DWORD Neighbor Connection Count
LOOP Neighbor Connection Count
Begin Neighbor Connection Data
WORD Version
DWORD Network Type
DWORD Connection X
DWORD Connection Y
DWORD Destination Tile X (FFFF (-1) for places off the region top and left)
DWORD Destination Tile Y (Same as above)
WORD Unknown (Usually 512)
BYTE Unknown
DWORD Exemplar Count (If this is zero, information for the next connection starts.)
LOOP Exemplar Count
DWORD Parent Cohort Type
DWORD Parent Cohort Group
DWORD Parent Cohort Instance
;I bet Maxis reads the next 4 bytes as a DWORD and picks it apart...
;Known data types are:
; 0x02 WORD
; 0x03 DWORD
; 0x09 FLOAT
BYTE Data Type
WORD Repeat1
BYTE Repeat2
IF (Repeat1)
count = Repeat1
ELSEIF (Repeat2)
count = Repeat2 (Untested, didn't come across this in the connections)
ELSE
count = 1 (No repeats, only one item of data)
LOOP count
if Data Type == 0x02
WORD Data
if Data Type == 0x03
DWORD Data
if Data Type == 0x09
FLOAT Data
ENDLOOP (Count)
ENDLOOP (Exemplar count)
ENDLOOP (Network connection count)
DWORD Unknown count
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
5 BYTES
DWORD Unknown
FLOAT Unknown
DWORD Unknown
FLOAT Unknown
DWORD Unknown count
DWORD Unknown (Incremental 1-3)
(following has 5 repeats)
DWORD Unknown
FLOAT Unknown
DWORD Unknown count (76 byte sections)
WORD Unknown (5)
FLOAT Unknown
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown (set1.5)
DWORD Unknown (set1.5)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
WORD Unknown (2)
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown count (76 byte sections)
WORD Unknown (5)
FLOAT Unknown
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown (set1)
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown (set1.5)
DWORD Unknown (set1.5)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set2)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
DWORD Unknown (set3)
WORD Unknown (2)
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Unknown
DWORD Item Count (Typically 0 in unused cities, 2 in used (Version 1.10 and up))
DWORD Unknown (Incremental Value)
DWORD Set Count (Only seen in active cities)
FLOAT Unknown
FLOAT Unknown
FLOAT Unknown
Occupant Group List
Max Res Pop R$ Max Pop R$ Cur Pop R$$ Max Pop R$$ Cur Pop R$$$ Max Pop R$$$ Cur Pop R$ Jobs R$$ Jobs R$$$ Jobs R$ Workforce EQ1 R$ Workforce EQ2 R$ Workforce EQ3 R$ Workforce EQ4 R$$ Workforce EQ1 R$$ Workforce EQ2 R$$ Workforce EQ3 R$$ Workforce EQ4 R$$$ Workforce EQ1 R$$$ Workforce EQ2 R$$$ Workforce EQ3 R$$$ Workforce EQ4 CS$ Max Jobs CS$ Cur Jobs CS$$ Max Jobs CS$$ Cur Jobs CS$$$ Max Jobs CS$$$ Cur Jobs CO$$ Max Jobs CO$$ Cur Jobs CO$$$ Max Jobs CO$$$ Cur Jobs IA Max Jobs IA Cur Jobs ID Max Jobs ID Cur Jobs IM Max Jobs IM Cur Jobs IH Max Jobs IH Cur Jobs
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