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Tutorial Funky's Cartography Workshop 1.0

How to make maps for Cities XL

  1. The Funky Monk
    A few people have been trying to make maps so I though I would upload my old tutorials until I finish the new ones I am doing.

    For the resources(citylinks, water, agriculture) you can make them easily.

    For water, farms etc just make create a new file in a photo editor and colour it white. This will put resources everywhere. Then just import the same file into the map editor for each resource.

    For city links, create a new file, fill it in black and make the edges white.


    I'm still making the new tutorials so hopefully this will help you out for now. If you need further help just ask in the comments.


    Here are the videos.










    Happy mapping. :D

Recent Reviews

  1. Mr.X²
    Mr.X²
    5/5,
    Version: 1.0
    awesome! thanks a lot, will try
    Feb 1, 2017
  2. Palle
    Palle
    4/5,
    Version: 1.0
    Is it possible to create maps with a larger size than 10x10km?
    And where do i get this map editor? Can't find it nowhere...
    Sep 5, 2015
  3. Chris Dunaway
    Chris Dunaway
    3/5,
    Version: 1.0
    The parts of the video where you loaded up the game were black so couldn't see the map ingame.
    Feb 18, 2015
  4. lsf520wp
    lsf520wp
    5/5,
    Version: 1.0
    um...The content of the XML file affect the color of the in-game mountains.how to set it..Please forgive my English grammar
    Nov 7, 2014
    1. The Funky Monk
      Author's Response
      Don't I don't do it like that. I just create a new layer over the shadowmap and paint it light purple, then merge layers.

      It might be this line in the xml:
      <Rock>
      <RockSlope>0.816964</RockSlope>
      <RockSlopeBlending>0.131696</RockSlopeBlending>
      </Rock>
  5. moran
    moran
    5/5,
    Version: 1.0
    Yeah,I like it ,Happy mapping.
    Oct 8, 2014
  6. Anonymous
    Anonymous
    4/5,
    Version: 1.0
    good job , it's very well to see
    Oct 2, 2014